swap_horiz Stephen Moorbath 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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

9.35 Excellent

6

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

7

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 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

9.31 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

10

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

13

William Compston

William Compston is an Australian geophysicist renowned for his work in geochronology at the Australian National Univers...

Australian 20TH Century Geochronology Shrimp

9.18 Excellent

14

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

15

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

8.72 Great

16

Harold Jeffreys

Sir Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989) was a highly influential British mathematician, statistician, and geophysicist whose wor...

20TH Century Historical British Seismology

8.70 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

8.70 Great

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Herbert Harold Read

Herbert Harold Read (1889–1970) was a prominent British geologist and professor who made significant contributions to th...

20TH Century Historical British Metamorphic Petrology

8.31 Great

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Richard Armstrong

Richard Lee Armstrong was an American geologist and isotope geochemist recognized for his contributions to understanding...

American 20TH Century Historical Geochronology

8.20 Great

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Patrick Hurley

Patrick Hurley was an American geologist and geochronologist who spent a significant portion of his career at the Massac...

American 20TH Century Historical Radiometric Dating

7.85 Good