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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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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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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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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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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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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 Kasting

James Kasting is an American geoscientist and astrobiologist who serves as a professor at Pennsylvania State University....

American Contemporary Planetary Science Habitability

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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Kathryn D. Sullivan

Kathryn D. Sullivan is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut. During Space Shuttle Challenger...

American 21ST Century Oceanography Marine Geology

8.4 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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Michael Drake

Michael Drake (1946–2011) was an American planetary scientist and cosmochemist who served as the director of the Univers...

American 20TH Century Historical Planetary Science

7.8 Good