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Finnish geologist (1839–1909)
Fredrik Johan Wiik, also known as F.J. Wiik, (16 December 1839 in
Helsinki – 15 June 1909 in Helsinki) was a
Finnish
geologist and
mineralogist; in 1877, he was named the first professor of geology and mineralogy at the
Imperial Alexander University of Finland,
[1] where his students included
Jakob Sederholm
[2] and
Wilhelm Ramsay.
[3] He was also the first scientist in Finland to use a
petrographic microscope.
Wiik died in 1909, on a geological expedition; his body was found clutching his
geologist's hammer.
[4]
The mineral
wiikite is named for him.
Personal life
Wiik was the son of noted Finnish architect
Jean Wik.
[5]
References
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Finnish Museum of Natural History 2004/2005 Yearbook
Archived 2007-06-25 at the
Wayback Machine (requires Acrobat Reader)
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100 years of migmatite - In Sederholms footsteps
Archived 2017-08-12 at the
Wayback Machine, 33 IGC Excursion No. 16, August 16–21, 2008; at the
International Union of Geological Sciences; retrieved August 30, 2013
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^ Haapala, I. (2005). "Chapter 17: History of Finnish bedrock research". In Lehtinen, Martti; Nurmi, Pekka A.; Rämö, Tapani (eds.).
Precambrian Geology of Finland. Amsterdam:
Elsevier. pp. 683–701.
ISBN
9780080457598.
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WIIK, Fredrik Johan: The Mineralogical Record
Archived 2016-03-03 at the
Wayback Machine, at Curtis Schuh's Biobibliography of Mineralogy
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Suomen elämäkerrasto, 1955 edition. by Ilmari Heikinheimo; published by Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, 1955. (page 822)