WALDEMAR LINDGREN

'Waldemar Lindgren' (February 14 1860-November 3 1939) was a Swedish-American economic geologist. He attended the Freiberg Mining Academy, Germany from 1878-82, graduating as a mining engineer. In 1884 he began a 31-year career with the U.S. Geological Survey, working on ore deposits in the Rocky Mountains. In 1905 he helped found the journal Economic Geology. In 1912, he was appointed head of the Department of Geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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