Salme Nõmmik

Salme Nõmmik, née Salme Mangelson (3 March 1910 – 21 September 1988), was an Estonian economic geographer and professor.

Biography Salme Mangelson was born in Vana-Põltsamaa parish, Viljandimaa, Estonia to a school teacher mother. In 1929, she graduated from Põltsamaa University High School and in 1933 from the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Law of University of Tartu (UT), where economic geography was taught by Edgar Kant. She married in 1934 and took the name Salme Nõmmik.

Research Because of political sensitivity about the teachings of economic geography, researchers found it problematic to discuss the subject with peers in the international scientific community, especially considering the limited communications available. At that time applied research produced by the Department of Geography concerned recommendations for the optimal placement of companies based on knowledge and innovations in the administrative system. She published 120 scientific works and more than 70 scientific articles.

Personal life She was married in 1934 and had a son, physicist Riho Nõmmik, born in 1936. Salme Nõmmik died 21 September 1988, in Tartu, Estonia.

Selected works Geographical position and administrative-territorial division of the territory of the Estonian SSR. Tartu, 1961 Economic geography of the Estonian SSR I. Tartu, 1969 Towards the development of settlement systems (co-author V. Murel). UT Ed. 341 (1974) Economic geography of the Estonian SSR. Tallinn, 1979 Regional systems of settlements and complex territorial planning in the Estonian SSR (co-author V. Murel). Regional studies. Methods and analyses. Budapest, 1975 Complex methodology in the territorial study of productive forces. Yearbook of the Estonian Geographical Society 1979 (1981) Spatial laws of society and socio-economic geography. UT Ed. 577 (1981) Modern geography: theoretical issues (co-author U. Mereste). 1984 Socio-economic geography and its methods. Soviet geography today, 3. Social and economic geography. Moscow, 1984 Die sozial-ökonomische Geographie und die Untersuchung von Raum–Zeit–Gesetzen der Gesellschaft. Petermanns Geographische Mitt. 2, 1986 Socio-economic zoning (on the example of the Estonian SSR). Yearbook of the Estonian Geographical Society 22 (1987)