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Eskola married in 1914. His wife Mandi Wiiro suffered from a long illness before passing. Their son Matti (1916–1941) predeceased them, as he was killed during World War II on the Russian front and all that was returned to his parents was a purse which contained apple seeds that he collected to plant
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whose work he read when he was just 23. He began to think of the origin and formation of the granites and gneisses and came up with a method to classify the formation under different pressure and temperature conditions resulting in varying chemical equilibria being achieved.
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Eskola also discussed philosophy in a book on world outlook and corresponded with philosophers Rolf Arnkil and Sigfrid Sirenius.
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in 1906 and received a doctorate in 1914 with a dissertation on the petrology of the Orijärvi Region. Eskola was a student of
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who specialised in the petrology of granites and developed the concept of
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Eskola was born in Lellainen, the son of a farmer. He graduated from the
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Eskola's major work on metamorphism was influenced by the work of
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in their family farm, which Eskola planted in memory of his son.
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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
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Pentti Eskola (athlete)

Honkilahti
Helsinki
University of Helsinki
Metamorphic facies
Penrose Medal
Vetlesen Prize
Wollaston Medal
Petrology
Finnish
geologist
metamorphic facies
Wollaston Medal
Vetlesen Prize
state funeral
eskolaite
University of Helsinki
Wilhelm Ramsay
eclogites
J.J. Sederholm
Lamont-Doherty The Vetlesen Prize
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Wayback Machine
"Chapter 17: History of Finnish bedrock research"
ISBN
9780080457598
"Principles of Classification and Norm Calculations of Metamorphic Rocks"
doi
10.1086/626570

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