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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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James Dwight Dana

James Dwight Dana (1813-1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist who made significant contributions...

American 19TH Century Historical Mineralogy

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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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

9.2 Excellent

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Robert L. Folk

Robert L. Folk was an American geologist and sedimentary petrologist whose work gave geologists practical systems for cl...

American 20TH Century Sedimentology Carbonate Petrography

9.2 Excellent

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Gerald Wasserburg

Gerald J. Wasserburg (1927–2016) was an American geochemist at the California Institute of Technology who specialized in...

American Historical Geochronology Isotope Geochemistry

9.1 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

9.1 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

9.1 Excellent

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Robert Dietz

Robert Dietz (1914–1995) was an American geologist and oceanographer recognized for his contributions to marine geology...

American 20TH Century Historical Seafloor Spreading

9.0 Excellent

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Francis Birch

American geophysicist (1903–1992) who applied high-pressure mineral physics to Earth's interior, proposing that the inne...

American 20TH Century Historical High Pressure

9.0 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

9.0 Excellent

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Alexander du Toit

Alexander du Toit (1878–1948) was a prominent South African geologist recognized for his significant contributions to th...

20TH Century Historical South African Tectonics

9.0 Excellent

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Warren Hamilton

Warren Hamilton was an influential American geologist whose foundational research significantly advanced the global unde...

American 20TH Century Historical Tectonics

8.5 Great

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Robert Folk

Robert L. Folk was an American sedimentologist and petrologist who taught at the University of Texas at Austin. He devel...

American 20TH Century Historical Sedimentology

8.4 Great

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Frank Bursley Taylor

Frank Bursley Taylor was an American geologist who advanced an early theory of continental displacement in 1910, before...

American 20TH Century Historical Tectonics

8.3 Great

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Raymond Siever

Raymond Siever was an American geologist who spent his academic career at Harvard University as a professor of geology....

American Education 20TH Century Historical

8.3 Great

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Francis Pettijohn

Francis J. Pettijohn was an American sedimentologist and a prominent professor of geology at Johns Hopkins University. H...

American 20TH Century Historical Sedimentology

8.2 Great

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William Krumbein

William Christian Krumbein (1902–1979) was an American geologist who pioneered the application of quantitative and stati...

American 20TH Century Historical Sedimentology

8.2 Great