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J. Tuzo Wilson

John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) was a Canadian geophysicist who made significant contributions to the theory of plate tecto...

Canadian 20TH Century Historical Plate Tectonics

9.7 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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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt

Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was a Norwegian mineralogist and geologist who is widely regarded as the founder of modern geo...

Norwegian 20TH Century Historical Geochemistry

9.5 Brilliant

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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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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

9.4 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

9.4 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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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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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

9.2 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

9.0 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

8.2 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

8.1 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

8.0 Great

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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

7.3 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

6.9 Fair