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Nicolas Steno

Nicolas Steno was a pioneering 17th-century Danish geologist whose work significantly advanced our understanding of Eart...

Pioneer Crystallography Historical Paleontology

9.9 Brilliant

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Niels Steno

Niels Steno (1638–1686) was a Danish anatomist and geologist who established foundational principles of stratigraphy. In...

Danish Historical Paleontology 17TH Century

9.8 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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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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Henry Clifton Sorby

Henry Clifton Sorby (1826-1908) was an English geologist and microscopist whose work connected geological observation wi...

19TH Century British Microscopy Petrology

9.3 Excellent

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Andrew Ramsay

Andrew Crombie Ramsay was a 19th-century Scottish geologist who served as director of the Geological Survey of Great Bri...

19TH Century Historical British Stratigraphy

8.4 Great

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William Daniel Conybeare

William Daniel Conybeare was an English geologist, paleontologist, and Anglican clergyman whose work helped develop the...

18TH Century British Paleontology Stratigraphy

8.4 Great

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Philip Allen

Philip Allen is a British geologist and academic recognized for his extensive contributions to the fields of sedimentolo...

Contemporary Education British Sedimentology

8.3 Great

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Alex Halliday

Alex Halliday is a British geochemist known for his research using isotopic methods to study planetary accretion, the ea...

Contemporary British Planetary Isotope Geochemistry

8.2 Great

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William Conybeare

William Daniel Conybeare was a 19th-century British geologist, paleontologist, and clergyman recognized for his foundati...

19TH Century Historical British Paleontology

8.2 Great

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Douglas Erwin

Douglas Erwin is an American paleobiologist and curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He is wid...

American Contemporary Paleontology Cambrian

8.1 Great

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Timothy Lenton

Timothy Lenton is a British Earth system scientist at the University of Exeter, specializing in the study of climate tip...

Contemporary British Paleoclimatology Earth System Science

8.1 Great

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Joseph Beete Jukes

Joseph Beete Jukes was an Irish geologist who served as the director of the Geological Survey of Newfoundland in 1839. H...

19TH Century Historical British Ireland

8.0 Great

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Lee Kump

American geochemist at Penn State known for research on ocean anoxic events and hydrogen sulfide outgassing as drivers o...

American Contemporary Biogeochemistry Paleoclimatology

7.9 Good

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Jan Zalasiewicz

Jan Zalasiewicz is a British geologist, palaeontologist, and professor at the University of Leicester. He is best known...

Contemporary British Paleontology Stratigraphy

7.6 Good

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Richard Twitchett

Richard Twitchett is a British paleontologist and geologist who conducts research at the Natural History Museum, London....

Contemporary British Stratigraphy Mass Extinctions

7.6 Good

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Michael Rampino

Michael Rampino is an American geologist and paleontologist who serves as a professor at New York University. His resear...

American Contemporary Impacts Mass Extinctions

7.2 Good

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Peter Sheehan

Peter M. Sheehan (1941–2015) was an American paleontologist and geologist who spent much of his career as a curator at t...

American Contemporary Paleontology Ordovician

7.2 Good