Axel Hamberg

Axel Hamberg
Axel Hamberg ca. 1910
Born (1863-01-17)17 January 1863
Klara Församling, Stockholm, Sweden
Died 28 June 1933(1933-06-28) (aged 70)
Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality Swedish
Scientific career
Fields Geography
Institutions

Axel Hamberg (17 January 1863 – 28 June 1933) was a Swedish mineralogist, geographer, explorer, photographer and professor in geography at the University of Uppsala 1907-1928.[1]

Awards and honors

He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1905.

The Spitsbergen glacier Hambergbreen is named after him.[2]

The Bjørnøya mountain of Hambergfjellet is named after him.[3]

The Hamberg Glacier of South Georgia is named after him.[4]

The mineral hambergite was named after him in 1890.[5][6][7]

Axel Hamberg on a field trip with students, 1904

References

  1. ↑ "Axel Hamberg". Axel Hamberg (in Swedish). Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "Hambergbreen (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Hambergfjellet (Svalbard)". Norwegian Polar Institute. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  4. ↑ United States Geological Survey (January 7, 2012). "Antarctica Feature Detail". Geographic Names Information System. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  5. ↑ Brögger, W.C. (1890). "Die mineralien der syenitpegmatitgänge der südnorwegischen augit- und nephelinsyenite, 16. Hambergit". Zeitschrift für Kristallographie. 16: 65–67.
  6. ↑ "Hambergite". MinDat.org. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  7. ↑ Henriksen, Petter (ed.). "hambergitt". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 7 January 2012.


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