swap_horiz Willi Dansgaard Alternatives

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Nicolas Steno

Nicolas Steno was a pioneering 17th-century Danish geologist whose work significantly advanced our understanding of Eart...

Pioneer Crystallography Historical Paleontology

9.9 Brilliant

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Arthur Holmes

Arthur Holmes was a British geologist whose work fundamentally changed our understanding of Earth’s history. He develope...

Historical United Kingdom Radiometric Dating Mantle Convection

9.8 Brilliant

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Niels Steno

Niels Steno (1638–1686) was a Danish anatomist and geologist who established foundational principles of stratigraphy. In...

Danish Historical Paleontology 17TH Century

9.8 Brilliant

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J. Tuzo Wilson

John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) was a Canadian geophysicist who made significant contributions to the theory of plate tecto...

Canadian 20TH Century Historical Plate Tectonics

9.7 Brilliant

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Victor Goldschmidt

Victor Goldschmidt was a Norwegian geologist whose work fundamentally shaped geochemistry. He pioneered the study of ele...

Pioneer Crystallography Historical Norway

9.5 Brilliant

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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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Victor Moritz Goldschmidt

Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was a Norwegian mineralogist and geologist who is widely regarded as the founder of modern geo...

Norwegian 20TH Century Historical Geochemistry

9.5 Brilliant

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John Tuzo Wilson

John Tuzo Wilson was a Canadian geologist whose research fundamentally shaped our understanding of Earth’s structure. He...

Canada Historical Plate Tectonics Geophysics

9.4 Excellent

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George Agricola

Georgius Agricola (1494–1555) was a German scholar, physician, and metallurgist whose works established the foundations...

German Historical 16TH Century Mineralogy

9.4 Excellent

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Fred Vine

Fred Vine was a British marine geologist and geophysicist who made significant contributions to the modern understanding...

20TH Century Historical British Seafloor Spreading

9.4 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

9.4 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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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

9.3 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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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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Hans Oeschger

Hans Oeschger was a Swiss physicist and pioneer in paleoclimatology who spent his career at the University of Bern. He c...

Swiss Historical Carbon Paleoclimatology

8.5 Great

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William Ruddiman

William F. Ruddiman is an American paleoclimatologist and professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is best k...

American Contemporary Climate Paleoclimatology

8.3 Great

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Gerald Bond

Gerard C. Bond (1940–2005) was an American paleoclimatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory....

American Historical Paleoclimatology Ocean Sediments

7.6 Good