swap_horiz Lawrence Morley Alternatives

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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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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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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 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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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

9.22 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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Adam Dziewonski

Adam Dziewonski (1936–2016) was a Polish-American seismologist who made fundamental contributions to the understanding o...

20TH Century Historical Seismology Polish American

9.15 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

9.12 Excellent

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Motonori Matuyama

Motonori Matuyama (1884–1958) was a Japanese geophysicist and professor at Kyoto University whose research provided earl...

Japanese 20TH Century Historical Paleomagnetism

9.10 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

9.08 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

9.07 Excellent

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Pentti Eskola

Pentti Eskola (1883–1964) was a Finnish geologist and professor at the University of Helsinki. He introduced the concept...

20TH Century Historical Finnish Metamorphic Petrology

9.06 Excellent

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Walter Elsasser

Walter M. Elsasser (1904–1991) was a German-born physicist who made foundational contributions to geophysics through his...

20TH Century Historical Geophysics German American

9.05 Excellent

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Alexander du Toit

Alexander du Toit (1878–1948) was a prominent South African geologist recognized for his significant contributions to th...

20TH Century Historical South African Tectonics

9.03 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

8.95 Great

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Richard Doell

Richard Doell (1923–2009) was an American paleomagnetist who worked for the United States Geological Survey. Alongside c...

American 20TH Century Historical Paleomagnetism

8.10 Great