swap_horiz Willi Dansgaard Alternatives

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Niels Steno

Niels Steno (1638-1686) brought the habits of an anatomist to questions about the Earth's history. The Danish scholar's...

Danish Historical Paleontology 17TH Century

9.75 Brilliant

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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George Agricola

Georgius Agricola (1494-1555), the German scholar also known as Georg Bauer, combined medical training with close attent...

German Historical 16TH Century Mineralogy

9.35 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

9.34 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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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

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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

9.25 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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René Just Haüy

René Just Haüy (1743–1822) was a French mineralogist whose work laid the foundation for modern crystallography. He disco...

18TH Century French Crystallography Historical

9.21 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

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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

9.15 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

9.08 Excellent

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Roger Revelle

Roger Revelle (1909–1991) was a prominent American oceanographer who served as the director of the Scripps Institution o...

American Historical Oceanography CO2

8.95 Great

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Hans Oeschger

Hans Oeschger was a Swiss physicist and pioneer in paleoclimatology who spent his career at the University of Bern. He c...

Swiss Historical Carbon Paleoclimatology

8.45 Great

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William Ruddiman

William F. Ruddiman is an American paleoclimatologist and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is best k...

American Contemporary Climate Paleoclimatology

8.28 Great

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Gerald Bond

Gerard C. Bond (1940–2005) was an American paleoclimatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory....

American Historical Paleoclimatology Ocean Sediments

7.60 Good