swap_horiz Hollis D. Hedberg Alternatives

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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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William Maurice Ewing

William Maurice Ewing (1906-1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer whose research helped establish modern...

American 20TH Century Oceanography Seismic Refraction

9.4 Excellent

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John Suppe

John Suppe is an American structural geologist whose work focuses on the deformation of the Earth’s crust, especially th...

American 20TH Century Structural Geology Fault Bend Folding

9.4 Excellent

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J. John Sepkoski Jr.

J. John Sepkoski Jr. (1948-1999) was an American paleontologist whose research used large fossil databases to study the...

American 20TH Century Extinction Paleontology

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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Li Siguang

Li Siguang was a Chinese geologist and one of the principal founders of geomechanics in China. His geological-mechanics...

20TH Century Chinese Petroleum Geology Geomechanics

9.2 Excellent

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Robert L. Folk

Robert L. Folk was an American geologist and sedimentary petrologist whose work gave geologists practical systems for cl...

American 20TH Century Sedimentology Carbonate Petrography

9.2 Excellent

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James Burleigh Thompson Jr.

James Burleigh Thompson Jr. was an American geologist whose research helped shape modern metamorphic petrology, the stud...

American 20TH Century Metamorphic Petrology Phase Petrology

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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Walter Pitman

Walter Pitman was an American geophysicist and marine geologist whose research at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty G...

American 20TH Century Seafloor Spreading Paleomagnetism

9.1 Excellent

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Susan Werner Kieffer

Susan Werner Kieffer is an American geologist and geophysicist whose work examines the fluid dynamics of explosive volca...

American 20TH Century Geophysics Impact Craters

9.1 Excellent

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James Hays

James Hays is an American paleoclimatologist and oceanographer known for his research on deep-sea sediment cores. He was...

American 20TH Century Paleoclimatology Orbital Forcing

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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Wallace E. Pratt

Wallace E. Pratt (1885-1981) was an American petroleum geologist who helped make geological analysis a routine part of o...

American 20TH Century Petroleum Geology Oil Exploration

8.3 Great

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Chester Longwell

Chester R. Longwell (1887–1975) was an American geologist who spent his academic career at Yale University. He specializ...

American 20TH Century Historical Stratigraphy

7.9 Good