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J. Tuzo Wilson

Canadian geophysicist John Tuzo Wilson (1908-1993) helped turn continental drift into a more complete account of how the...

Canadian 20TH Century Historical Plate Tectonics

9.65 Brilliant

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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt

Norwegian mineralogist and geologist Victor Moritz Goldschmidt helped establish modern geochemistry and crystal chemistr...

Norwegian 20TH Century Historical Geochemistry

9.52 Brilliant

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Harry Hess

Harry Hammond Hess (1906-1969) was an American geologist and Princeton University professor whose work helped explain th...

American 20TH Century Historical Plate Tectonics

9.45 Excellent

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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

9.44 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

9.42 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

9.38 Excellent

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Fred Vine

British marine geologist and geophysicist Fred Vine helped turn seafloor spreading into a theory supported by measurable...

20TH Century Historical British Seafloor Spreading

9.36 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

9.35 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

9.34 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

9.31 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

9.31 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

9.25 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

9.25 Excellent

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Norman Bowen

Norman L. Bowen (1887–1956) was a Canadian geologist whose experimental work established the foundational principles of...

Canadian 20TH Century Historical Igneous Petrology

9.20 Excellent

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Lawrence Morley

Lawrence Morley was a Canadian geophysicist whose 1963 research on marine magnetic anomalies provided foundational evide...

Canadian 20TH Century Historical Seafloor Spreading

9.01 Excellent

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Gerald Middleton

Gerald Middleton (1925–2015) was a Canadian geologist who helped establish sedimentology as a distinct discipline within...

Education Canadian 20TH Century Sedimentology

8.19 Great

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Richard Flint

Richard Foster Flint was a prominent 20th-century American geologist and professor at Yale University. He specialized in...

American 20TH Century Historical Quaternary

8.11 Great

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Alice E. Wilson

Alice Evelyn Wilson (1881-1964) was a Canadian geologist and paleontologist associated with the Geological Survey of Can...

Canadian 20TH Century Paleontology Ordovician

7.98 Good

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Maynard Malcolm Miller

Maynard Malcolm Miller was an American geologist, glaciologist, and mountaineer known for his extensive research on clim...

American 20TH Century Historical Alaska

7.32 Good

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William Herbert Hobbs

William Herbert Hobbs was an American geologist who lived from 1864 to 1953 and spent much of his academic career at the...

American 20TH Century Historical Glaciology

6.88 Fair