Harry von Eckermann
Claes Walther Harry von Eckermann (born November 5, 1886 in Stockholm ; † May 20, 1969 ) was a Swedish mineralogist and entrepreneur.
Eckermann came from a wealthy Swedish family (wood, paper and steel industries). He studied mining and metallurgy at the Royal Technical University of Stockholm , graduating as a metallurgist in 1909. He then worked at US Steel in the USA as a metallurgist. In 1912 he returned to Sweden and joined the Ljusne-Woxna Gesellschaft, a company in the woodworking industry, of which he became president in 1919. In 1925 he built the first modern plywood factory in Sweden. He was also interested in mineralogy and petrography and studied at Stockholm University, where he received his doctorate in 1922 on skarn minerals, which were formed by metasomatosis of Precambrian limestones. In the 1920s he built a railway on the Gulf of Bothnia , where he also examined the local geology, for example in Alnön . He is particularly well-known for his research on these carbonatites (first described by Arvid Gustaf Högbom in 1895 ). Eventually he withdrew completely from industry and devoted himself to research, first in a private laboratory in Stockholm and then in Edeby on his estate.
In addition to his research, the administration of his estate also took up much of his time. In particular, he researched the Precambrian stratigraphy of the central region of Norrland , supported by the fact that state road construction programs there in the 1930s yielded many new information. He also had access to the data of a company that was drilling for Sövit (a carbonatite) for use in cement, and later work for a hydroelectric power station at Bergeforsen and construction projects on Alnön produced further fresh information.
Honors and memberships
In 1966 he became an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland .
The mineral Eckermannit , described by Olge J. Adamson in 1942, is named after him, an alkali amphibolite from the type locality Norra Kär in southern Sweden, which Eckermann also researched.
He was an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olge J. Adamson: Eckermannite, a new alkali amphibole. Preliminary note , in: Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar , Volume 64 (1942), pp. 329–334 ( PDF 434.3 kB )
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| SURNAME | Eckermann, Harry von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1969 |