GEOLOGIST

Pentti Eskola

1883 - 1964

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Pentti Elias Eskola (8 January 1883 – 6 December 1964) was a Finnish geologist who specialised in the petrology of granites and developed the concept of metamorphic facies. He won the Wollaston Medal in 1958, the Vetlesen Prize in 1964, and was given a state funeral upon his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pentti Eskola has received more than 19,401 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Pentti Eskola is the 58th most popular geologist (down from 40th in 2019), the 292nd most popular biography from Finland (down from 192nd in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Pentti Eskola ranks 58 out of 90. Before him are Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Ferdinand Zirkel, Harry Rosenbusch, Oskar Lenz, Hugo Benioff, and Joseph Thomson. After him are James Hall, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Archibald Geikie, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, Robert Jameson, and Maria Klenova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Pentti Eskola ranks 213. Before him are Baltasar Brum, Ford Sterling, František Drtikol, Mikhail Gnessin, Pencho Zlatev, and Károly Kós. After him are Charles Sheeler, Abdul Muis, Edith Clarke, Maude Fealy, Erik Granfelt, and Käthe Kruse. Among people deceased in 1964, Pentti Eskola ranks 159. Before him are Paul A. Baran, Arpenik Nalbandyan, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Lillian Copeland, Cecília Meireles, and Karl Johan Svensson. After him are Luiz Gervazoni, Sakari Tuomioja, Lars Christensen, Guru Dutt, William Garbutt, and Georg Jacoby.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Pentti Eskola ranks 292 out of 751. Before him are Viljo Heino (1914), Pauli Nevala (1940), Pekka Vasala (1948), Olavi Virta (1915), Rosa Liksom (1958), and Jorma Kinnunen (1941). After him are Emppu Vuorinen (1978), Sakari Tuomioja (1911), Matti Sippala (1908), Mr Lordi (1974), Oskari Tokoi (1873), and Julius Saaristo (1891).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Finland

Among geologists born in Finland, Pentti Eskola ranks 1. 

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