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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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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

9.44 Excellent

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James Dwight Dana

James Dwight Dana (1813-1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist whose research extended from volcani...

American 19TH Century Historical Mineralogy

9.43 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

9.42 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

9.38 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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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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Susan Brantley

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

American 21ST Century Geochemistry Environmental Geology

9.08 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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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

9.06 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

8.91 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

8.82 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

8.75 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

8.73 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

8.62 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

8.36 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

8.35 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

8.31 Great

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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

7.84 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

7.63 Good