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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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William Maurice Ewing

William Maurice Ewing (1906-1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer whose research helped establish modern...

American 20TH Century Oceanography Seismic Refraction

9.44 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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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

9.42 Excellent

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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

9.38 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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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

9.35 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 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

9.31 Excellent

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Henry Clifton Sorby

Henry Clifton Sorby (1826-1908) was an English geologist and microscopist whose work connected geological observation wi...

19TH Century British Microscopy Petrology

9.28 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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Henry Darcy

Henry Darcy was a French geologist whose work significantly advanced the understanding of groundwater movement. In 1856,...

France Fluid Mechanics Historical Hydrogeology

8.28 Great

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John A. Cherry

John A. Cherry is a Canadian hydrogeologist recognized for his foundational contributions to the study of groundwater fl...

Modern Canada Sedimentology Hydrogeology

7.18 Good

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R. Allan Freeze

R. Allan Freeze is an American hydrogeologist who co-authored the influential 1979 textbook "Groundwater" with John A. C...

Modern Canada Hydrogeology Groundwater Flow

7.13 Good

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Mary P. Anderson

Mary P. Anderson is an American hydrogeologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recognized for her...

Modern USA Hydrogeology Groundwater Modeling

7.08 Good