Waldemar Christofer Brøgger (geologist)

Waldemar Christofer Brøgger ForMemRS[1] FRSE (10 November 1851 – 17 February 1940) was a Norwegian geologist and mineralogist. His research on Permian igneous rocks (286 to 245 million years ago) of the Oslo district greatly advanced petrologic theory on the formation of rocks.

Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
Brøgger in 1922
Born10 November 1851 (1851-11-10)
Oslo
Died17 February 1940 (1940-02-18) (aged 88)
Oslo
NationalityNorwegian
Known forFormation of rocks
AwardsMurchison Medal (1891)
Wollaston Medal (1911)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fieldsgeology
InstitutionsUniversity of Stockholm
Doctoral studentsVictor Moritz Goldschmidt

Life

He was born and died in Oslo, Norway, then called Christiania. He attended the Cathedral School in Oslo before studying at Oslo University.[2]

He was professor of mineralogy and geology from 1881 to 1890 in the University of Stockholm, and from 1890 to 1916 was Professor of Mineralogy and Palaeontology in the University of Christiania. He also became rector and president of the senate of the royal university of Christiania.[3]

His observations on the igneous rocks of South Tyrol compared with those of Christiania afford much information on the relations of the granitic and basic rocks. The subject of the differentiation of rock-types in the process of solidification as plutonic or volcanic rocks from a particular magma received much attention from him. He dealt also with the Palaeozoic rocks of Norway, and with the late glacial and post-glacial changes of sea level in the Christiania region.[3]

He is credited for proposing that pegmatites form through the interaction of silicate melt and supercritical water. Credit for this discovery is often given to Richard H. Jahns.[4]

He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1890 and a fellow of the Royal Society.[1] The honorary degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Heidelberg and that of LL.D. by the University of Glasgow in 1901.[5] He was awarded the Murchison Medal in 1891 and the Wollaston Medal in 1911, both by the Geological Society of London.[3]

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References
  1. Tilley, C. E. (1941). "Waldemar Christofer Brogger. 1851-1940". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 503–526. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0018.
  2. http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
  3. Chisholm 1911.
  4. London, David (1 March 2005). "Granitic pegmatites: an assessment of current concepts and directions for the future". Lithos. 80 (1–4): 281–303. Bibcode:2005Litho..80..281L. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2004.02.009.
  5. "Glasgow University jubilee". The Times (36481). London. 14 June 1901. p. 10.

Attribution:

Academic offices
Preceded by
first rector		 Rectors of the University of Oslo
1907–1911		 Succeeded by
Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne
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