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Arthur Holmes

Arthur Holmes was a British geologist whose work fundamentally changed our understanding of Earth’s history. He develope...

Historical United Kingdom Radiometric Dating Mantle Convection

9.8 Brilliant

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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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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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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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Samuel Bowring

Samuel Bowring was an American geologist who served as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spec...

American Contemporary Precambrian Geochronology

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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Roger Revelle

Roger Revelle (1909–1991) was a prominent American oceanographer who served as the director of the Scripps Institution o...

American Historical Oceanography CO2

9.0 Excellent

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Stanley R. Hart

Stanley R. Hart is an American geochemist whose research uses isotope systems to study the chemical evolution of Earth's...

American 20TH Century Geochemistry Isotope Geochemistry

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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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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Sam Bowring

Sam Bowring is an American geologist and geochronologist who served as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Tec...

American Historical Precambrian Geochronology

8.6 Great

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Richard Armstrong

Richard Lee Armstrong was an American geologist and isotope geochemist recognized for his contributions to understanding...

American 20TH Century Historical Geochronology

8.2 Great

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Patrick Hurley

Patrick Hurley was an American geologist and geochronologist who spent a significant portion of his career at the Massac...

American 20TH Century Historical Radiometric Dating

7.9 Good

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Michael Drake

Michael Drake (1946–2011) was an American planetary scientist and cosmochemist who served as the director of the Univers...

American 20TH Century Historical Planetary Science

7.8 Good