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The Life and Times of Lawrence Wager

wager-1_sm.jpg: L.R. Wager: Explorer, Mountaineer, Geologist
L.R. Wager: Explorer, Mountaineer, Geologist

Lawrence Wager - "Bill" to his friends - was by any measure one of the most important geologists of his time. His discovery and studies of the Skaergaard Intrusion of East Greenland were a landmark contribution to igneous petrology, and his work, together with that of his students and colleagues contributed to some of the most basic concepts of magmatic differentiation.
- Alexander R. McBirney, University of Oregon

by G. P. Glasby
Department of Geochemistry, GZG
Goldschmidtstrasse 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany