swap_horiz Auguste Daubrée Alternatives

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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

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Henry Clifton Sorby

Henry Clifton Sorby (1826-1908) was an English geologist and microscopist whose work connected geological observation wi...

19TH Century British Microscopy Petrology

9.3 Excellent

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René Just Haüy

René Just Haüy (1743–1822) was a French mineralogist whose work laid the foundation for modern crystallography. He disco...

18TH Century French Crystallography Historical

9.2 Excellent

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Christian Chopin

Christian Chopin is a French geologist and metamorphic petrologist whose 1984 discovery of coesite in the Dora Maira mas...

French Contemporary Metamorphic Petrology Ultra High Pressure

8.9 Great

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Eunice Newton Foote

Eunice Newton Foote was an American scientist whose 1856 experiments examined how gases respond to solar heating. Using...

American 19TH Century Paleoclimatology Greenhouse Effect

8.9 Great

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William Edmond Logan

William Edmond Logan was a Canadian-born geologist who founded the Geological Survey of Canada in 1842 and became its fi...

Geology Canadian 19TH Century Gsc Founder

8.9 Great

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Alcide d'Orbigny

Alcide d'Orbigny was a French naturalist and paleontologist whose work on foraminifera helped establish micropaleontolog...

French 19TH Century Paleontology Stratigraphy

8.9 Great

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James Hall

James Hall was an American paleontologist and geologist who lived from 1811 to 1898. He served as the New York State Pal...

American 19TH Century Historical Paleontology

8.7 Great

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Clarence Edward Dutton

Clarence Edward Dutton (1841–1912) was an American geologist and U.S. Army officer who served with the United States Geo...

American 19TH Century Historical Geomorphology

8.7 Great

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Emil Wiechert

Emil Wiechert (1861–1928) was a German physicist and geophysicist recognized as a pioneer of modern seismology. In 1897,...

German 19TH Century Historical Seismology

8.6 Great

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Joseph Tyrrell

Joseph Burr Tyrrell was a Canadian geologist, paleontologist, and explorer associated with the Geological Survey of Cana...

Canadian 19TH Century Paleontology Coal Geology

8.6 Great

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Claude J. Allègre

Claude J. Allègre was a French geochemist whose scientific work used isotope measurements to study Earth’s mantle, crust...

French 20TH Century Geochemistry Isotope Geology

8.6 Great

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Joachim Barrande

Joachim Barrande was a French geologist and paleontologist who carried out most of his major research in Bohemia, then p...

French 19TH Century Paleontology Trilobites

8.6 Great

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George Julius Poulett Scrope

George Julius Poulett Scrope was an English geologist and politician whose work helped advance the study of volcanoes an...

19TH Century British Volcanology Magmatism

8.6 Great

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Tannatt William Edgeworth David

Tannatt William Edgeworth David was a Welsh-Australian geologist who investigated the geology of New South Wales, includ...

Geology 19TH Century Antarctic Exploration British Australian

8.5 Great

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Marcel Bertrand

Marcel Bertrand (1847–1907) was a French geologist whose work fundamentally advanced the understanding of mountain build...

French 19TH Century Historical Tectonics

8.4 Great

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William Barton Rogers

William Barton Rogers (1804-1882) was an American geologist, physicist, and educator. He taught at the College of Willia...

American Geology 19TH Century Mit Founder

8.2 Great

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Léonce Élie de Beaumont

Léonce Élie de Beaumont was a prominent 19th-century French geologist who served as the permanent secretary of the Frenc...

French 19TH Century Historical Tectonics

7.6 Good

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John William Dawson

Sir John William Dawson was a prominent 19th-century Canadian geologist, paleontologist, and academic administrator. Ser...

Geology Canadian 19TH Century Historical

7.6 Good

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Alexander Winchell

Alexander Winchell was an American geologist and educator who lived from 1824 to 1891. He taught at the University of Mi...

American Geology 19TH Century Paleontology

6.4 Fair