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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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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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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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Donald A. Swanson

Donald A. Swanson is an American volcanologist and longtime United States Geological Survey scientist whose work include...

American 20TH Century Volcanology Hawaiian Volcanoes

8.9 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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Alexander R. McBirney

Alexander R. McBirney was an American geologist and petrologist known for experimental studies of igneous rocks and fiel...

American 20TH Century Igneous Petrology Volcanology

8.7 Great

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Haraldur Sigurðsson

Haraldur Sigurðsson is an Icelandic volcanologist and geochemist whose career has focused on the physical and human cons...

20TH Century Icelandic Volcanology Tephrochronology

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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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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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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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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Herbert Harold Read

Herbert Harold Read (1889–1970) was a prominent British geologist and professor who made significant contributions to th...

20TH Century Historical British Metamorphic Petrology

8.3 Great

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Peter Francis

Peter William Francis (1944-1999) was a British volcanologist who studied active volcanoes on Earth and volcanic feature...

20TH Century British Volcanology Magmatism

8.3 Great

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George Poulett Scrope

George Poulett Scrope (1797-1876) was a British geologist and political economist who made significant contributions to...

19TH Century Historical British Volcanology

8.2 Great

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Ian Carmichael

Ian Carmichael (1930–2006) was a prominent British-American petrologist who spent his academic career at the University...

20TH Century Historical British American Igneous Petrology

8.1 Great

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Frank Alvord Perret

Frank Alvord Perret was an American inventor and volcanologist who pioneered the use of instruments to observe and measu...

American 20TH Century Historical Observation

8.1 Great

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Haroun Tazieff

Haroun Tazieff was a Polish-born French volcanologist and geologist renowned for his extensive field research on active...

20TH Century Historical Fieldwork Belgian French

7.9 Good

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Alexander McBirney

Alexander McBirney was an American volcanologist and geologist affiliated with the University of Oregon. He conducted ex...

American 20TH Century Historical Igneous Petrology

7.7 Good