Ebba Hult de Geer

Ebba Hult de Geer (2 June 1882-28 July 1969) was a Swedish geologist known for her development of the geochronology of Sweden.

[1] Ebba Hult was born at Rödeby parish in Blekinge, Sweden.

She was a research assistant and secretary working with her husband, Gerard de Geer (1858-1943) who she married in 1908.

In 1924 De Geer retired from teaching and became the founder-director of the Geochronological Institute at Stockholm University.

Following her husband's death in 1943, Hult became leader of Stockholm University Geochronological Institute.

Ebba Hult De Geer (third from left) on a 1920 expedition to North America, with (left to right) Ragnar Lidén , Gerard De Geer , and Ernst Antevs