Wilhelmine Mimi Johnson

[3] As Norway's first female geologist,[3] she worked closely for several years with two of the most prominent professors at the University of Oslo, Waldemar Christofer Brøgger and Victor Moritz Goldschmidt.

During the summer of 1912, Johnson was named an assistant to Brøgger who was mapping the Kristiania field near Oslo, but the experience proved costly because Brøgger's expensive choices for the team's boarding and dining on field trips were a drain on her limited income.

[3] In the summer of 1913, she worked for Goldschmidt doing fieldwork south of Røros and was part of the team that excavated a field of fossil plants.

[2] Johnson was employed by the Geological Survey of Norway and was, among other things, one of the first people to take pictures inside the mines at Kongsberg,[4] though later her presence in the photos caused some archivists to ask if she was the photographer's wife.

[2] In 1917, Johnson became the conservator at the Geological Museum in Tøyen where she was paid half the standard wage and told it was because, "…in women's hours you can iron your own blouses and cook your own food.