swap_horiz Alexander Fersman Alternatives

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J. Tuzo Wilson

John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) was a Canadian geophysicist who made significant contributions to the theory of plate tecto...

Canadian 20TH Century Historical Plate Tectonics

9.7 Brilliant

2

Victor Goldschmidt

Victor Goldschmidt was a Norwegian geologist whose work fundamentally shaped geochemistry. He pioneered the study of ele...

Pioneer Crystallography Historical Norway

9.5 Brilliant

3

Harry Hess

Harry Hammond Hess (1906–1969) was an American geologist and a professor at Princeton University. He served as an office...

American 20TH Century Historical Plate Tectonics

9.5 Brilliant

4

Victor Moritz Goldschmidt

Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was a Norwegian mineralogist and geologist who is widely regarded as the founder of modern geo...

Norwegian 20TH Century Historical Geochemistry

9.5 Brilliant

5

George Agricola

Georgius Agricola (1494–1555) was a German scholar, physician, and metallurgist whose works established the foundations...

German Historical 16TH Century Mineralogy

9.4 Excellent

6

Fred Vine

Fred Vine was a British marine geologist and geophysicist who made significant contributions to the modern understanding...

20TH Century Historical British Seafloor Spreading

9.4 Excellent

7

James Dwight Dana

James Dwight Dana (1813-1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist who made significant contributions...

American 19TH Century Historical Mineralogy

9.4 Excellent

8

John Ostrom

John Ostrom (1928–2005) was an American paleontologist whose work fundamentally altered modern paleontology and evolutio...

American 20TH Century Historical Theropods

9.3 Excellent

9

Charles Richter

Charles Francis Richter was an American seismologist and physicist who spent most of his career at the California Instit...

American 20TH Century Historical Seismology

9.3 Excellent

10

Harlen Bretz

Harlen Bretz was an American geologist whose fieldwork in the early 20th century led to a radical theory about the forma...

American 20TH Century Historical Geomorphology

9.3 Excellent

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Nicholas Shackleton

Nicholas Shackleton was a British geologist and paleoclimatologist who pioneered the use of oxygen isotope analysis in m...

20TH Century Historical British Paleoclimatology

9.3 Excellent

12

Adam Dziewonski

Adam Dziewonski (1936–2016) was a Polish-American seismologist who made fundamental contributions to the understanding o...

20TH Century Historical Seismology Polish American

9.2 Excellent

13

Don Anderson

Don L. Anderson was an American geophysicist and seismologist who served as a professor at the California Institute of T...

American 20TH Century Historical Geophysics

9.2 Excellent

14

George Tilton

George Tilton was an American geochemist who co-developed the uranium-lead (U-Pb) geochronology technique in the 1950s....

American 20TH Century Historical Geochemistry

8.7 Great

15

Paul Gast

Paul Gast was a prominent American geochemist known for his pioneering research in isotope geology. Working at Columbia...

American 20TH Century Historical Geochemistry

8.5 Great

16

Tom Barth

Tom Fredrik Wilhelm Barth (1899–1971) was a Norwegian petrologist and geophysicist recognized for his extensive research...

Norwegian 20TH Century Historical Mineralogy

8.5 Great

17

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (1847–1931) was an American chemist and geologist widely recognized as a founder of the field...

American 19TH Century Historical Geochemistry

8.3 Great

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William Hillebrand

William F. Hillebrand (1853–1925) was an American geologist and chemist who worked for the United States Geological Surv...

American 19TH Century Historical Geochemistry

8.0 Great

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Esper Larsen

Esper Larsen Jr. was an American petrologist and geologist prominent in the early 20th century, affiliated with the Univ...

American 20TH Century Historical Mineralogy

7.5 Good

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Esper Larsen Jr.

Esper Larsen Jr. was an American mineralogist and petrologist who lived from 1879 to 1961. He was affiliated with Harvar...

American 20TH Century Historical Mineralogy

7.2 Good