swap_horiz William Compston Alternatives

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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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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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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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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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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

9.4 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

9.4 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

9.4 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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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 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

9.3 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

9.1 Excellent

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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

8.7 Great

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Ian Williams

Ian Williams is an Australian geologist known for co-developing the Sensitive High-Resolution Ion Microprobe (SHRIMP) at...

Contemporary Australian Geochronology Shrimp

8.6 Great

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Stephen Moorbath

Stephen Moorbath was a British geologist and geochronologist who spent his academic career at Oxford University. He pion...

20TH Century Historical British Geochronology

8.6 Great

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Richard Armstrong

Richard Lee Armstrong was an American geologist and isotope geochemist recognized for his contributions to understanding...

American 20TH Century Historical Geochronology

8.2 Great

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Joseph Wooden

Joseph Wooden was an American geologist who worked for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and directed the SHRIM...

American Contemporary Usgs Geochronology

8.1 Great

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Patrick Hurley

Patrick Hurley was an American geologist and geochronologist who spent a significant portion of his career at the Massac...

American 20TH Century Historical Radiometric Dating

7.9 Good