彭蒂·埃斯科拉1883—1964

埃斯科拉出生在洪基拉赫蒂，是一个农民的儿子。他于1906年毕业于赫尔辛基大学，并于1914年获得博士学位，论文题目是奥里耶尔维地区的岩石学。埃斯科拉是威廉·拉姆齐的学生。他于1920-21年访问了挪威和美国，他在华盛顿特区的地球物理实验室工作，并在加拿大地质调查局工作，期间他考究了榴辉岩。他于1922年成为芬兰调查局的地质学家，并于1924年加入赫尔辛基大学担任地质学教授，一直工作到1954年。

埃斯科拉关于变质作用的主要工作受到他在23岁时阅读的雅各布·塞德霍尔姆的著作。他开始思考花岗岩和片麻岩的起源和形成，并想出了一种方法，可以在不同的压力和温度条件下对地层进行分类，从而实现不同的化学平衡。

埃斯科拉于1914年结婚。他的妻子曼迪·维罗（Mandi Wiiro）在去世前长期患病。他们的儿子马蒂（Matti，1916-1941）因在二战期间在俄罗斯前线阵亡所以先于他们去世，归还给父母的遗物只有一个钱包，里面装着他收集来种在他们家庭农场的苹果种子，埃斯科拉为纪念儿子而种植。

他的女儿派韦泰尔（Päivätär）成为了一名化学老师。

埃斯科拉还在一本关于世界观的书中讨论了哲学，并与哲学家罗尔夫·阿恩基尔（Rolf Arnkil）和西格弗里德·西雷纽斯（Sigfrid Sirenius）通信。

Pentti Elias Eskola (8 January 1883 – 6 December 1964) was a Finnish geologist who specialised in the petrology of granites and developed the concept of metamorphic facies. He won the Wollaston Medal in 1958, the Vetlesen Prize in 1964, and was given a state funeral upon his death. The mineral eskolaite is named in his honor.

Eskola was born in Lellainen, the son of a farmer. He graduated from the University of Helsinki in 1906 and received a doctorate in 1914 with a dissertation on the petrology of the Orijärvi Region. Eskola was a student of Wilhelm Ramsay. He visited Norway and the US in 1920–21 working at the Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and with the Geological Survey of Canada during which time he examined eclogites. He became a geologist for the Finnish Survey in 1922 and joined as a professor of geology at Helsinki in 1924 working there until 1954.

Eskola's major work on metamorphism was influenced by the work of J.J. Sederholm whose work he read when he was just 23. He began to think of the origin and formation of the granites and gneisses and came up with a method to classify the formation under different pressure and temperature conditions resulting in varying chemical equilibria being achieved.

Eskola married in 1914. His wife Mandi Wiiro suffered from a long illness before passing. Their son Matti (1916–1941) predeceased them, as he was killed during World War II on the Russian front and all that was returned to his parents was a purse which contained apple seeds that he collected to plant in their family farm, which Eskola planted in memory of his son.

His daughter Päivätär became a chemistry teacher.

Eskola also discussed philosophy in a book on world outlook and corresponded with philosophers Rolf Arnkil and Sigfrid Sirenius.