Education
In 1905 he became the first Icelander to graduate with a Doctor of Philosophy in geology.
non-fiction writer geologist philosopher
In 1905 he became the first Icelander to graduate with a Doctor of Philosophy in geology.
He conducted extensive research on the geology of Iceland from 1898 to 1910. In 1919, Helgi started publishing Nýall, a collection of essays outlining his theories on what he referred to as astrobiology. Most centrally, he held that the spirits contacted in séances and in dreams were not immaterial beings but material beings living on other planets.