Wilhelm Ramsay


Wilhelm Ramsay was a Finland Swede geologist. He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1914 and in 1915 was accepted into the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund.
He coined the terms Fennoscandia and Postjotnian. Ramsay also coined the term ijolite.
Together with Jakob Sederholm, Ramsay was a student of Fredrik Johan Wiik. Pentti Eskola was a student of Ramsay.