The Most Famous
GEOLOGISTS from Estonia
This page contains a list of the greatest Estonian Geologists. The pantheon dataset contains 59 Geologists, 1 of which were born in Estonia. This makes Estonia the birth place of the 17th most number of Geologists behind Latvia and Finland.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Estonian Geologists of all time. This list of famous Estonian Geologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1832 - 1908)
With an HPI of 46.92, Carl Friedrich Schmidt is the most famous Estonian Geologist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Carl Friedrich Schmidt (Russian: Фёдор Богданович Шмидт, Fyodor Bogdanovich Schmidt; also known as Friedrich Schmidt; 27 January [O.S. 15 January] 1832 in Kaisma, Livonia – 21 November [O.S. 8 November] 1908 in Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic German geologist and botanist in the Russian Empire. He is acknowledged as the founder of Estonian geology. In the mid-19th century, he researched Estonian oil shale, kukersite, and named it after Kuckers. Main papers of Friedrich Schmidt research the stratigraphy and fauna of Lower Palaeozoic rocks in Estonia and the neighboring areas. In 1885 he became academician of St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. He won the Wollaston Medal, awarded by the Geological Society of London, in 1902. Friedrich Schmidt was the first European to "discover" the Sakhalin Fir on the Russian island of Sakhalin in 1866, but he did not introduce it to Europe. The Schmidt Peninsula (Sakhalin) was named after him.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as geologists born between 1832 and 1832. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased geologists include Carl Friedrich Schmidt.
