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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

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George Patrick Leonard Walker

George Patrick Leonard Walker (1926-2005) was a British volcanologist who studied how explosive eruptions produce, trans...

20TH Century British Volcanology Pyroclastic Rocks

9.4 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

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John F. Dewey

John F. Dewey is a British structural geologist whose research addresses plate tectonics, mountain building, and the def...

20TH Century British Tectonics Structural Geology

9.3 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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Susan Brantley

Susan Brantley is an American geologist and geochemist whose research focuses on chemical weathering, mineral reactions,...

American 21ST Century Geochemistry Environmental Geology

9.1 Excellent

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Margaret Kivelson

Margaret G. Kivelson is an American space physicist whose research concerns magnetospheric plasmas, planetary magnetic f...

American 21ST Century Planetary Science Space Physics

9.1 Excellent

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Francis Birch

American geophysicist (1903–1992) who applied high-pressure mineral physics to Earth's interior, proposing that the inne...

American 20TH Century Historical High Pressure

9.0 Excellent

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Ho-kwang Mao

Ho-kwang Mao is a Chinese-American geophysicist and mineralogist known for his foundational contributions to the field o...

Contemporary High Pressure Chinese American Mineral Physics

8.9 Great

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James W. Head

James W. Head is an American planetary geologist and professor emeritus at Brown University whose research examines plan...

American 21ST Century Planetary Geology Mars Volcanism

8.9 Great

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Ian S. E. Carmichael

Ian S. E. Carmichael was a British-born American igneous petrologist and volcanologist who taught at the University of C...

20TH Century British Igneous Petrology Volcanology

8.9 Great

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David R. Montgomery

David R. Montgomery is an American geomorphologist whose research examines how erosion, soil formation, agriculture, and...

American 21ST Century Soil Science Geomorphology

8.8 Great

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Harold Jeffreys

Sir Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989) was a highly influential British mathematician, statistician, and geophysicist whose wor...

20TH Century Historical British Seismology

8.7 Great

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Edward C. Bullard

Edward Crisp Bullard (1907–1980) was a pioneering British geophysicist who made significant contributions to the underst...

20TH Century Historical British Geophysics

8.7 Great

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Harry Whittington

Harry Blackmore Whittington (1916–2010) was a prominent British paleontologist at the University of Cambridge. From the...

Historical British Paleontology Cambrian

8.7 Great

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Robert D. Ballard

Robert D. Ballard is an American marine geologist and oceanographer whose research and expeditions use underwater techno...

American 21ST Century Marine Geology Deep Sea Exploration

8.7 Great

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Andrew D. Miall

Andrew D. Miall is a Canadian geologist and sedimentologist whose work focuses on how rivers and other flowing-water sys...

Canadian 21ST Century Sedimentology Basin Analysis

8.7 Great

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Stephen Moorbath

Stephen Moorbath was a British geologist and geochronologist who spent his academic career at Oxford University. He pion...

20TH Century Historical British Geochronology

8.6 Great

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Steven M. Stanley

Steven M. Stanley is an American geologist and paleobiologist whose research examined macroevolution, biodiversity, and...

American 21ST Century Paleontology Macroevolution

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