Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen

[1][2] He was known for his refinement of George Biddell Airy and John Henry Pratt's theories of isostasy into his own, the Heiskanen hypothesis.

[3][4] With Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, he wrote the textbook The Earth and its Gravity Field (1958),[5][6] and in 1960 a paper by Heiskanen, "The latest achievements of physical geodesy" was discussed in the scientific literature.

Born c. 23 July 1895[a] in Kangaslampi, Finland, he grew up on a small farm.

[15] A book, Surveyor of the Globe, was written as a biography of Heiskanen by Juhani A. Kakkuri [fi] and published in 2008 and 2017.

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