Helge Götrik Baklund (Oleg (Helgar) Oskarovich Backlund, Swedish Helge Götrik Backlund , September 3, 1878, Dorpat - January 29, 1958, Uppsala ) - Russian and Swedish geologist, mineralogist and petrographer .
| Helge Götrik Backlund | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Dorpat , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Uppsala , Sweden |
| A country | |
| Scientific field | Mineralogy , Petrography . |
| Place of work | |
| Alma mater | Uppsala University |
| Known as | Mineralogical and petographer |
| Awards and prizes | [d] ( 1943 ) honorary doctor |
Biography
Born in the family of astronomer Oscar Andreyevich Backlund .
In 1902, he graduated from St. Petersburg University , from 1908, having received his Ph.D. In the years 1924-1943 - Professor of Uppsala University (Sweden). In 1947 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
The main scientific works of Backlund are written in the field of petrography and tectonics of the Scandinavian countries and circumpolar regions. Revised the Archean rocks of the Baltic Shield stratigraphy and established a single cycle of gotocarellids. In 1899-1901 he was a geologist of the Russian-Swedish expedition on Svalbard , in August 1900 he made the first ascent to Newton Peak , the highest point of the Svalbard archipelago [3] . In 1904 he was a geologist on a Russian expedition to the northern part of Siberia, in 1909 - to the northern Urals, in 1911 - to Turkestan. He explored the geological structure of Altai in 1915, the Polar Urals in 1916, and northern Mongolia in 1917. In 1911–1913, being the state geologist of Argentina, he investigated tin deposits in Argentina and Bolivia.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116029641 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Backlund Helge Götrik // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 t.] / Ed. A.M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ Newtontoppen Unsolved . Norwegian Polar Institute . The appeal date is December 18, 2013.
Links
- Backlund / G.P. Homizuri // Ankylosis - Bank. - M .: The Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2005. - P. 673. - (The Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 t.] / Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004–2017, t. 2). - ISBN 5-85270-330-3 .
- An article in the Nordisk familjebok .