Wilhelmine Mimi Johnson

Mimi Johnson (left), Endre Berner (centre), Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (right). Geological Museum, Oslo, 1915 Wilhelmine Mimi Johnson, also known as Mimi Johnson, (born 1 August 1890 in Tynset Municipality, died 12 January 1980 in Skedsmo Municipality) was Norway's first female geologist and a photographer. Later she became a physician.

Life and work Johnson was born 1 August 1890 to solicitor Sam Johnson and Elise Johnson (née Holmboe).

She entered the mining degree program at the University of Oslo at 17, becoming the youngest student and the only woman in the program. Her father had encouraged her course of study because the mining field was booming at the time. though later her presence in the photos caused some archivists to ask if she was the photographer's wife.

In 1930, she left geology to become a physician. She graduated medical school and ran her own medical practice in Lillestrøm from 1940 to 1975.

Personal life In 1920 was married briefly to the merchant Eivind Høst. Although they divorced in 1924, Johnson was sometimes known thereafter as Mimi Johnson Høst.