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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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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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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

9.2 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

9.1 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

9.1 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 Werner Kieffer

Susan Werner Kieffer is an American geologist and geophysicist whose work examines the fluid dynamics of explosive volca...

American 20TH Century Geophysics Impact Craters

9.1 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

9.0 Excellent

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Francis Birch

American geophysicist (1903–1992) who applied high-pressure mineral physics to Earth's interior, proposing that the inne...

American 20TH Century Historical High Pressure

9.0 Excellent

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Raymond Cecil Moore

Raymond Cecil Moore was an American geologist and paleontologist who lived from 1892 to 1974. He is best known for found...

American 20TH Century Historical Paleontology

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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Edward C. Bullard

Edward Crisp Bullard (1907–1980) was a pioneering British geophysicist who made significant contributions to the underst...

20TH Century Historical British Geophysics

8.7 Great

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George Tilton

George Tilton was an American geochemist who co-developed the uranium-lead (U-Pb) geochronology technique in the 1950s....

American 20TH Century Historical Geochemistry

8.7 Great

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David Johnston

David A. Johnston (1949–1980) was an American volcanologist with the United States Geological Survey. On May 18, 1980, h...

American 20TH Century Historical Volcanology

8.6 Great

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Kenneth Hsü

Kenneth J. Hsü (1929–2023) was a Chinese-Swiss geologist who served as a professor of geology at the Swiss Federal Insti...

Mediterranean 20TH Century Historical Swiss American

8.6 Great

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Warren Hamilton

Warren Hamilton was an influential American geologist whose foundational research significantly advanced the global unde...

American 20TH Century Historical Tectonics

8.5 Great

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Paul Gast

Paul Gast was a prominent American geochemist known for his pioneering research in isotope geology. Working at Columbia...

American 20TH Century Historical Geochemistry

8.5 Great

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Freeman Gilbert

Freeman Gilbert was a prominent American geophysicist affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for much o...

American 20TH Century Historical Geophysics

8.4 Great