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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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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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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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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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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 Brantley

Susan Brantley is an American geologist and geochemist whose research focuses on chemical weathering, mineral reactions,...

American 21ST Century Geochemistry Environmental Geology

9.1 Excellent

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Margaret Kivelson

Margaret G. Kivelson is an American space physicist whose research concerns magnetospheric plasmas, planetary magnetic f...

American 21ST Century Planetary Science Space Physics

9.1 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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James W. Head

James W. Head is an American planetary geologist and professor emeritus at Brown University whose research examines plan...

American 21ST Century Planetary Geology Mars Volcanism

8.9 Great

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Bruce Heezen

Bruce Heezen (1924–1977) was an American oceanographer and marine geologist who worked at Columbia University's Lamont G...

American 20TH Century Historical Marine Geology

8.8 Great

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David R. Montgomery

David R. Montgomery is an American geomorphologist whose research examines how erosion, soil formation, agriculture, and...

American 21ST Century Soil Science Geomorphology

8.8 Great

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James Kennett

James Kennett is a New Zealand-born marine geologist widely recognized for helping to establish the field of paleoceanog...

American Contemporary Marine Geology Paleoclimatology

8.7 Great

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Robert D. Ballard

Robert D. Ballard is an American marine geologist and oceanographer whose research and expeditions use underwater techno...

American 21ST Century Marine Geology Deep Sea Exploration

8.7 Great

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Steven M. Stanley

Steven M. Stanley is an American geologist and paleobiologist whose research examined macroevolution, biodiversity, and...

American 21ST Century Paleontology Macroevolution

8.6 Great

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James P. M. Syvitski

James P. M. Syvitski is a Canadian-American geologist whose research focuses on sediment transport, sedimentary systems,...

American 21ST Century Oceanography Sedimentology

8.4 Great

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Ellen Stofan

Ellen Stofan is an American planetary geologist whose research examines the geology of Venus, Mars, Titan, and Earth. At...

American 21ST Century Planetary Geology Venus Geology

8.3 Great

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Kathryn Sullivan

Kathryn Sullivan is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut who made significant contributions t...

Modern USA Oceanography Astronaut

7.9 Good

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William Ryan

William B.F. Ryan is an American marine geologist associated with Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory...

American Contemporary Mediterranean Marine Geology

7.8 Good

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Dragoslav Ninkovich

Dragoslav Ninkovich was a marine geologist associated with Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He ma...

American 20TH Century Volcanology Marine Geology

7.6 Good