swap_horiz Stephen Moorbath Alternatives

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Arthur Holmes

Arthur Holmes was a British geologist whose work fundamentally changed our understanding of Earth’s history. He develope...

Historical United Kingdom Radiometric Dating Mantle Convection

9.8 Brilliant

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J. Tuzo Wilson

John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) was a Canadian geophysicist who made significant contributions to the theory of plate tecto...

Canadian 20TH Century Historical Plate Tectonics

9.7 Brilliant

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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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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt

Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was a Norwegian mineralogist and geologist who is widely regarded as the founder of modern geo...

Norwegian 20TH Century Historical Geochemistry

9.5 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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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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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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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

9.2 Excellent

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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

9.2 Excellent

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William Compston

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

Australian 20TH Century Geochronology Shrimp

9.2 Excellent

15

Harold Jeffreys

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

20TH Century Historical British Seismology

8.7 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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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

8.3 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

8.2 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

7.9 Good