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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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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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Samuel Bowring

Samuel Bowring was an American geologist who served as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spec...

American Contemporary Precambrian Geochronology

9.09 Excellent

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Al Hofmann

Al Hofmann is a prominent geochemist known for his extensive research into the chemical composition and evolution of the...

Contemporary Geochemistry Isotopes American German

8.93 Great

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Ho-kwang Mao

Ho-kwang Mao is a Chinese-American geophysicist and mineralogist known for his foundational contributions to the field o...

Contemporary High Pressure Chinese American Mineral Physics

8.90 Great

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Christian Chopin

Christian Chopin is a French geologist and metamorphic petrologist whose 1984 discovery of coesite in the Dora Maira mas...

French Contemporary Metamorphic Petrology Ultra High Pressure

8.88 Great

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Bernard Chouet

Bernard Chouet is a Swiss-American seismologist who worked with the United States Geological Survey (USGS). He is best k...

Contemporary Seismology Swiss American Usgs

8.87 Great

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David Catling

David Catling is a professor of astrobiology and earth and space sciences at the University of Washington. His research...

Contemporary Mars Geochemistry Astrobiology

8.41 Great

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David Stevenson

David J. Stevenson is a British-American planetary scientist and the George van Osdahl Professor of Planetary Science at...

Contemporary Core Planetary Science British American

8.15 Great

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Thorne Lay

Thorne Lay is an American seismologist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who specializes in dee...

American Contemporary Seismology Mantle

8.05 Great

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Gregory Beroza

Gregory Beroza is an American seismologist at Stanford University who researches earthquake physics and seismic hazard a...

American Contemporary Machine Learning Seismology

8.05 Great

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Thomas Jordan

Thomas Jordan is an American geophysicist at the University of Southern California who served as the director of the Sou...

American Contemporary Seismology Earth Structure

7.95 Good

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Kip Hodges

Kip Hodges is an American geologist and geochronologist known for applying thermochronology to Himalayan tectonics. A fo...

American Contemporary Himalayan Tectonics

7.95 Good

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Yehuda Ben-Zion

Yehuda Ben-Zion is an Israeli-American geophysicist and seismologist at the University of Southern California. He is kno...

Contemporary Seismology Earthquake Israeli American

7.95 Good

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Clark Burchfiel

American structural geologist known for his research on thrust belt tectonics in the western United States and significa...

American Contemporary Himalayan Tectonics

7.90 Good

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Emile Okal

Emile Okal is a French-American seismologist and professor at Northwestern University. His research specializes in tsuna...

Contemporary Seismology Earthquake French American

7.75 Good

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Lucile Jones

Lucile M. Jones is an American seismologist who spent decades working with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) an...

American Contemporary Seismology Usgs

7.55 Good

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Susan Hough

Susan Hough is an American seismologist working with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) who specializes in earth...

American Contemporary Seismology Usgs

7.45 Good

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Elizabeth Cochran

Elizabeth Cochran is an American seismologist and geophysicist who works with the United States Geological Survey (USGS)...

American Contemporary Seismology Usgs

7.05 Good

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James Whitcomb

James H. Whitcomb is an American geophysicist and seismologist who conducted significant research at institutions includ...

American Contemporary Geophysics Seismology

6.95 Fair