The Most Famous
Geologists from Denmark
This page contains a list of the greatest Danish Geologists. The pantheon dataset contains 90 Geologists, 2 of which were born in Denmark. This makes Denmark the birth place of the 8th most number of Geologists behind Canada and Switzerland.
Top 2 Danish Geologists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Danish Geologists of all time. This list of famous Danish Geologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Nicolas Steno
1638 - 1686
HPI 73.3546 langsNicolas Steno was a Danish anatomist and geologist who is most famous for his work on the structure of the human skull.
- #2
Inge Lehmann
1888 - 1993
HPI 72.2156 langsInger Lehmann was a Danish seismologist who discovered that the Earth has a solid inner core.
