swap_horiz Gerald Bond Alternatives

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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

9.45 Excellent

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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

9.43 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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Maurice Ewing

Maurice Ewing was an American geophysicist and oceanographer who founded the Lamont Geological Observatory at Columbia U...

American 20TH Century Historical Geophysics

9.12 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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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

9.05 Excellent

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James Hays

James Hays is an American paleoclimatologist and oceanographer known for his research on deep-sea sediment cores. He was...

American 20TH Century Paleoclimatology Orbital Forcing

9.02 Excellent

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Willi Dansgaard

Willi Dansgaard (1922–2011) was a Danish paleoclimatologist who pioneered the use of oxygen isotope analysis in ice core...

Danish Climate Historical Paleoclimatology

9.00 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

8.95 Great

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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

8.95 Great

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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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Eunice Newton Foote

Eunice Newton Foote was an American scientist whose 1856 experiments examined how gases respond to solar heating. Using...

American 19TH Century Paleoclimatology Greenhouse Effect

8.92 Great

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Raymond Cecil Moore

Raymond Cecil Moore was an American geologist and paleontologist who lived from 1892 to 1974. He is best known for found...

American 20TH Century Historical Paleontology

8.85 Great

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Bruce Heezen

Bruce Heezen (1924–1977) was an American oceanographer and marine geologist who worked at Columbia University's Lamont G...

American 20TH Century Historical Marine Geology

8.75 Great

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James Kennett

James Kennett is a New Zealand-born marine geologist widely recognized for helping to establish the field of paleoceanog...

American Contemporary Marine Geology Paleoclimatology

8.73 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

8.72 Great