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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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Maurice Ewing

Maurice Ewing was an American geophysicist and oceanographer who founded the Lamont Geological Observatory at Columbia U...

American 20TH Century Historical Geophysics

9.1 Excellent

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John Imbrie

John Imbrie was an American paleoceanographer who significantly advanced the understanding of Earth's climate history. H...

American 20TH Century Historical Paleoclimatology

9.1 Excellent

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Robert Dietz

Robert Dietz (1914–1995) was an American geologist and oceanographer recognized for his contributions to marine geology...

American 20TH Century Historical Seafloor Spreading

9.0 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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Alexander du Toit

Alexander du Toit (1878–1948) was a prominent South African geologist recognized for his significant contributions to th...

20TH Century Historical South African Tectonics

9.0 Excellent

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Raymond Cecil Moore

Raymond Cecil Moore was an American geologist and paleontologist who lived from 1892 to 1974. He is best known for found...

American 20TH Century Historical Paleontology

8.9 Great

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Émile Argand

Émile Argand was a Swiss geologist who notably advanced early theories of mountain building and continental drift. He is...

Swiss 20TH Century Historical Tectonics

8.9 Great

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Bruce Heezen

Bruce Heezen (1924–1977) was an American oceanographer and marine geologist who worked at Columbia University's Lamont G...

American 20TH Century Historical Marine Geology

8.8 Great

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Warren B. Hamilton

Warren B. Hamilton is an American geologist whose work brings together observations from geology, geophysics, and planet...

American 20TH Century Tectonics Regional Geology

8.8 Great

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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

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David Johnston

David A. Johnston (1949–1980) was an American volcanologist with the United States Geological Survey. On May 18, 1980, h...

American 20TH Century Historical Volcanology

8.6 Great

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Thomas Alfred Jaggar

Thomas Alfred Jaggar was an American volcanologist who founded the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in 1912, establishing th...

American Hawaii 20TH Century Historical

8.5 Great

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Warren Hamilton

Warren Hamilton was an influential American geologist whose foundational research significantly advanced the global unde...

American 20TH Century Historical Tectonics

8.5 Great

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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

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E-an Zen

E-an Zen (1928–2014) was a Taiwanese-American geologist who served as a senior research geologist with the United States...

American 20TH Century Historical Usgs

8.5 Great