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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

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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

9.4 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

9.4 Excellent

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John Ostrom

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Charles Richter

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American 20TH Century Historical Seismology

9.3 Excellent

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Harlen Bretz

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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

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American 20TH Century Sedimentology Carbonate Petrography

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James Burleigh Thompson Jr.

James Burleigh Thompson Jr. was an American geologist whose research helped shape modern metamorphic petrology, the stud...

American 20TH Century Metamorphic Petrology Phase Petrology

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Maurice Ewing

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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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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

9.1 Excellent

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Susan Werner Kieffer

Susan Werner Kieffer is an American geologist and geophysicist whose work examines the fluid dynamics of explosive volca...

American 20TH Century Geophysics Impact Craters

9.1 Excellent

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Robert Dietz

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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

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Roger Revelle

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American Historical Oceanography CO2

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James Hays

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American 20TH Century Paleoclimatology Orbital Forcing

9.0 Excellent

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Stanley R. Hart

Stanley R. Hart is an American geochemist whose research uses isotope systems to study the chemical evolution of Earth's...

American 20TH Century Geochemistry Isotope Geochemistry

9.0 Excellent

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Hollis D. Hedberg

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American 20TH Century Stratigraphy Petroleum Geology

8.9 Great

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Donald A. Swanson

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American 20TH Century Volcanology Hawaiian Volcanoes

8.9 Great