Hans Ramberg

Hans Ramberg was a Norwegian Swedish geologist born April 15, 1917, in Trondheim, Norway, who died June 7, 1998, in Uppsala, Sweden, and who earned his PhD from the University of Oslo in 1946 before working at the University of Chicago from 1948 to 1961, the Carnegie Institution Geophysical Laboratory from 1952 to 1955, the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto from 1960 to 1961, and the University of Uppsala from 1961 to 1982, where he established the Hans Ramberg Laboratory. He pioneered tectonic modeling using centrifuge technology, simulating a variety of tectonic processes and authoring Gravity, Deformation and the Earth Crust; the mineral rambergite is named in his honor. He was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1967, received the Celsius Gold Medal in 1969, the Wollaston Medal in 1972, the Arthur L. Day Medal in 1976, the Bjorken Prize in 1980, and the Arthur Holmes Medal in 1983.