Arvid Gustaf Högbom was a Swedish

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, althoug ...

. He was a professor of mineralogy and geology at

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Biography

Arvid Högbom was born at Vännäs in

Västerbotten County Västerbotten County ( sv, Västerbottens län) is a county or ''län'' in the north of Sweden. It shares the borders with the counties of Västernorrland, Jämtland, and Norrbotten, as well as the Norwegian county of Nordland and the Gulf of Bo ...

, Sweden. Högbom was a student at

earning a

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in 1880 and a Licentiate in philosophy in 1884. In 1885, he defended his doctorate thesis; '' Iakttagelser rörande Jemtlands glaciala geologi med inledande öfversigt af berggrunden'' ( Stockholm. 1885). He appointed lecturer at Uppsala in 1885. In 1891 he joined the staff of the

University of Stockholm Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, soci ...

, but returned to Uppsala University in 1896 as professor of geology and mineralogy, occupying the chair until his retirement in 1922. He became a member of the

Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala The Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten i Uppsala), is the oldest of the royal academies in Sweden, having been founded in 1710. The society has, by royal decree of 1906, 50 Swedish fellows and 100 foreign. ...

in 1898, of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry ( sv, Kungliga Skogs- och Lantbruksakademien), formerly the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture (''Kungl. Lantbruksakademien''), founded in 1813 at the initiative of Crown Prince Charles, is on ...

in 1913 and of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg in 1921. He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1905 and

Royal Physiographic Society in Lund The Royal Physiographic Society in Lund ( sv, Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund), is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden. It was founded in Lund, on December 2, 1772, and received a Royal Charter by Gustav III, on March 6, 1778.

in 1920. Högbom became known as a geologist with magmatic differentiation, which he studied in the iron ore area of

Gällivare Gällivare (; fi, Jällivaara; se, Jiellevárri or ; smj, Jiellevárre or ; fit, Jellivaara) is a locality and the seat of Gällivare Municipality in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 8,449 inhabitants in 2010. The town wa ...

in Norrbotten County. Högbom was the first to identify the Sub-Cambrian peneplain in a 1910 publication. He coined the term Subjotnian in 1910. Högbomite (later renamed to magnesiohögbomite-2N2S), högbomite group, högbomite supergroup was named in his honour. He is credited with having made the first ever estimate of the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere from the combustion of fossil fuels.

Selected works

*''Glaciala och petrografiska iakttagelser i Jämtlands län'' (1885) *''Vägledning vid geologiska exkursioner i Upsala omgifningar'' (1891) *''Om postarkeiska eruptiver i det svensk-finska urberget'' (1893) *''Geologisk beskrifning öfver Jämtlands län'' (1894) *''Om Ragundadalens geologi'' (1899) *''Sur la tectonique et l’orographie de la Scandinavie'' (1902) *''Studien in nordschwedischen Drumlinslandschaften'' (1905)

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