Waldemar Lindgren (February 14, 1860 - November 3, 1939) was a Swedish-American geologist. Lindgren was one of the founders of modern Economic geology.
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Biography
Waldemar Lindgren was born at Kalmar, in the historical province of Småland in southern Sweden, the son of Johan and Emma Lindgren. Lindgren's father was a judge and member of parliament, his mother the daughter of a clergyman. Lindgren attended the Freiberg Mining Academy, Germany, graduating as a mining engineer in 1882.
In 1884, he began a 31-year career with the U.S. Geological Survey, working on ore deposits in the Rocky Mountains. In 1905, he helped found the journal Economic Geology. In 1912, he was appointed head of the Department of Geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Lindgren was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1931. Lindgren was a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America. He has served as President of the Geological Society of America and of the Society of Economic Geologists.
Lindgren's published writings run to nearly 200 titles, not counting discussions, reviews, and more than 1,000 abstracts. Most of his publications are on the great ore deposits. Editions of Mineral Deposits, his widely-used textbook were published in 1913, 1919, 1928 and 1933. [1]
Notable publications
- The Gold Belt of the Blue Moutains of Oregon (U.S. Geological Survey. 1900)
- The water resources of Molokai, Hawaiian Islands (US Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper. 1903)
- The copper deposits of the Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona (US Geol Survey Prof. Paper. 1905)
- Geology and gold deposits of the Cripple Creek District, Colorado. (Lindgren, W., & Ransome, F. L. USGS Prof. Paper. 1906)
- The ore deposits of New Mexico (Lindgren, W., Graton, L. C., Schrader, F. C., & Hill, J. M. USGS Prof. Paper. 1910)
- The Tertiary Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California (USGS Prof. Paper 73. 1911)
- Mineral Deposits (New York, McGraw-Hill. 1913) Online (1913) edition.
References
External links
- Memorial from American Mineralogist
- Brief bio, National Mining Hall of Fame
- Biographical sketch from Dictionary of American Biography
- Lindgren at Freiberg Mining Academy, from SEG Newsletter, accessed 1/17/08
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