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List of Wikipedia articles on notable geologists
A
geologist is a contributor to the science of
geology . Geologists are also known as
earth scientists or geoscientists.
The following is a list of
notable geologists. Many have received such awards as the
Penrose Medal or the
Wollaston Medal , or have been inducted into the
National Academy of Sciences or the
Royal Society .
Geoscience specialties represented include
geochemistry ,
geophysics ,
structural geology ,
tectonics ,
geomorphology ,
glaciology ,
hydrology ,
hydrogeology ,
oceanography ,
mineralogy ,
petrology ,
crystallography ,
paleontology ,
paleobotany ,
paleoclimatology ,
palynology ,
petroleum geology ,
planetary geology ,
sedimentology ,
soil science ,
stratigraphy , and
volcanology . In this list, the person listed is a geologist unless another specialty is noted. Only geologists with biographical articles in Wikipedia are listed here.
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Louis Agassiz
Vladimir Abazarov (1930–2003), Soviet
geologist , discoverer of
Samotlor oil field
Aziz Ab'Saber (1924–2012), Brazilian
geomorphologist , member
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806–1886), German
mineralogist
Louis Agassiz (1807–1873), Swiss-American geologist, work on
ice ages ,
glaciers ,
Lake Agassiz
Georgius Agricola (Georg Bauer) (1494–1555), German naturalist and 'Father of
Mineralogy ', author of
De re metallica
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605), Italian,
Renaissance naturalist
Claude Allègre (born 1937), French
geochemist , member of the
French Academy of Sciences
Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida (1916–2013), Brazilian geologist, member
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Walter Alvarez (born 1940), American, co-author of the impact theory for the
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
J. Willis Ambrose (1911–1974), first President of
Geological Association of Canada
Ernest Masson Anderson (1877–1960), Scottish structural geologist, influential in theory of
faulting
Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), American explorer and naturalist; Mongolian dinosaurs
Mary Anning (1799–1847), English pioneer fossil collector
Adolphe d'Archiac (1802–1868), French
paleontologist , member
French Academy of Sciences
Giovanni Arduino (1714–1795), Italian, first classification of
geological time
Richard Lee Armstrong (1937–1991), American/Canadian
geochemist , won
Logan Medal
Rosemary Askin (born 1949), first
New Zealand woman to undertake her own research program in Antarctica in 1970.
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Tanya Atwater (born 1942), California, American
geophysicist , marine geologist,
plate tectonics specialist
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Florence Bascom , 1893
Andrew Geddes Bain (1797–1864), South African, prepared first detailed geological map of
South Africa
Bashiru Ademola Raji , Nigerian geologist and
pedogenesist
Robert T. Bakker (born 1945), American dinosaur
paleontologist ; author,
The Dinosaur Heresies
Octávio Barbosa (1907–1997), Brazilian field geologist and prospector; Gold Medal,
Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia
Thomas Barger (1909–1986), American, pioneered oil exploration in
Saudi Arabia , later CEO of
Aramco
Anthony R. Barringer (1925–2009), Canadian/American
geophysicist and inventor
Charles Barrois (1851–1939), French
geologist and
paleontologist
Florence Bascom (1862–1945), American, first woman geologist at the
US Geological Survey
Éliane Basse (1899–1985), French geologist and research director at the
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Abhijit Basu , Indian born American geologist
Robert Bell (1841–1917), considered Canada's greatest explorer-scientist
Walter A. Bell (1889–1969), Canadian
paleobotanist and
stratigrapher
Helen Belyea (1913–1986), Canadian
geologist best known for her research of the
Devonian System .
Reinout Willem van Bemmelen (1904–1983), Dutch, structural geology, economic geology and volcanology
Etheldred Benett (1776–1845), English, pioneer
paleontologist
Pierre Berthier (1782–1861), French geologist, discovered the properties of
bauxite
Luca Bindi (born 1971), Italian geologist, discovered the first natural quasicrystal
icosahedrite
Eliot Blackwelder (1880–1969), American field geologist, president of the
Geological Society of America
William Blake (1774–1852), President of the Geological Society of London 1815–1816
William Phipps Blake (1826–1910), American geologist
Selwyn G. Blaylock (1879–1945), Canadian chemist and mining executive with
Cominco
Stewart Blusson (born 1939), Canadian, co-discoverer of
Ekati Diamond Mine
Alexei Alexeivich Bogdanov (1907–1971), Soviet geologist
Bruce Bolt (1930–2005), American (born Australia), pioneer engineering
seismologist in California
José Bonaparte (1928–2020), Argentinian
paleontologist , discovered many South American dinosaurs
William Borlase (1696–1772), Cornish natural historian, studied the minerals of Cornwall
Norman L. Bowen (1887–1956), Canadian, pioneer experimental
petrologist
Scipione Breislak (1748–1826), Italian mineralogist and geologist, pioneer of
volcanic gas collection
J Harlen Bretz (1882–1981), American, discovered origin of
channeled scablands
David Brewster (1781–1868), Scottish physicist, studied the optical properties of minerals.
Wallace S. Broecker (1931–2019), American
paleoclimatologist and
chemical oceanographer
Robert Broom (1866–1951), South African
palaeontologist , discovered
australopithecine hominid fossils
Barnum Brown (1873–1963), American,
dinosaur hunter and self-taught
paleontologist
Christian Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), German
geologist and
paleontologist
Mary Buckland (1797–1857), English,
paleontologist ,
marine biologist and
scientific illustrator
William Buckland (1784–1856), English, wrote the first full account of a fossil
dinosaur
Judith Bunbury (born 1967), British, geoarchaeologist
B. Clark Burchfiel (born 1934),
MIT structural geologist, currently studying
Tibetan plateau ; member of
National Academy of Sciences
Perry Byerly (1897–1978), American geophysicist and seismologist
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Edward Drinker Cope
Louis J. Cabri (born 1934), Canadian, geologist and mineralogist, Fellow,
Royal Society of Canada
Stephen E. Calvert (born 1935), Canadian professor, geologist, oceanographer; awarded
Logan Medal
Colin Campbell (born 1931), British
petroleum geologist and
Peak Oil theorist
Neil Campbell (1914–1978), Canadian,
Northwest Territories
mineral exploration ; Fellow,
Royal Society of Canada
Samuel Warren Carey (1911–2002), Australian,
continental drift proponent and later developed
Expanding Earth hypothesis
Petr Černý (1934–2018), Czech/Canadian mineralogist, won
Logan Medal ; Fellow,
Royal Society of Canada
Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820–1886), French, geologist and mineralogist
George V. Chilingar , American, distinguished international
petroleum geologist
Václav Cílek (born 1955),
Czech
geologist and science popularizer
John J. Clague (born 1946), Canadian, Quaternary and geological hazards expert
Thomas H. Clark (1893–1996), Canadian, co-author of The Geological Evolution of North America (1960)
William Branwhite Clarke (1798–1878), Australian (born England), discovered
gold in
New South Wales , 1841
Peter Clift (born 1966), British marine geologist and monsoon researcher, best known for work in Asia
Hans Cloos (1885–1951), prominent German structural geologist
Lorence G. Collins , (born 1931), American,
petrologist , discoveries on
metasomatism
Simon Conway Morris (born 1951),
palaeontologist and writer, best known for study of
Burgess Shale fossils
William Conybeare (1787–1857), English, author of Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
Isabel Clifton Cookson (1893–1973), Australian
paleobotanist and
palynologist , namesake of genus
Cooksonia
Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897), American, pioneer
dinosaur
paleontologist ;
Bone Wars competitor
Charles Cotton (1885–1970), New Zealand, geologist and
geomorphologist
James Croll (1821–1890), Scottish scientist who developed the theory of climate change based on changes in the Earth's orbit
Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French, proponent of
catastrophism
Lindsay Collins (1944–2015), Perth, West Australia
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Charles Darwin , c.1860
Ljudmila Dolar Mantuani (1906-1988) first female professor of petrography in Yugoslavia
G. Brent Dalrymple (born 1937), United States, author
The Age of the Earth (1991), winner National Science Medal, 2005
James Dwight Dana (1813–1895), American, author of System of Mineralogy (1837)
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist, author of
On the Origin of Species
George Mercer Dawson (1849–1901), Canadian, pioneer
Yukon geologist,
Fellow of the Royal Society
John William Dawson (1820–1899), Canadian, pioneer
Acadian geologist,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Henry De la Beche (1796–1855), English, first director of the
Geological Survey of Great Britain
Duncan R. Derry (1906–1987), Canadian
economic geologist , awarded
Logan Medal
Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815), French, pioneer
volcanologist
Thomas Dibblee (1911–2004), American, geological mapper and pioneer of
San Andreas Fault movement study
William R. Dickinson (1930–2015), Arizona, American,
plate tectonics ,
Colorado Plateau ; Member of
National Academy of Sciences
Robert S. Dietz (1914–1995), American,
seafloor spreading pioneer, awarded
Penrose Medal
Déodat de Dolomieu (1750–1801), French geologist
Ljudmila Dolar Mantuani (1906-1988), Slovenian
petrologist , first female professor of petrography in Yugoslavia
Louis de Loczy (1897–1980), Hungarian-Brazilian geologist
Ignacy Domeyko (1802–1889), Slavic-Chilean
geologist and
mineralogist , namesake of the mineral
domeykite
Robert John Wilson Douglas (1920–1979), Canadian
petroleum geologist , Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada
Aleksis Dreimanis (1914–2011),
Latvian-Canadian award-winning
Quaternary geologist, Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada
Hugo Dummett (1940–2002), South African mineral-exploration geologist, co-discoverer of
Ekati Diamond Mine
Alexander du Toit (1878–1948), South African geologist, established correlations between Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and South Africa
Clarence Edward Dutton (1841–1912), American, author of Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District
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Heinz Ebert (1907–1983), German-Brazilian,
geologist ,
petrologist ; awarded gold medal,
Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia
Fanny Carter Edson (1887–1952), American
petroleum geologist
Niles Eldredge (born 1943), American,
paleontologist ; theory of
punctuated equilibrium
Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874), French, prepared first geological map of France
W. G. Ernst (born 1931), American,
Stanford
petrologist and
geochemist , member of
National Academy of Sciences
Pentti Eskola (1883–1964), Finnish
geologist and professor who created the concept of
metamorphic facies
Robert Etheridge, Junior (1847–1920), Australian (born England)
paleontologist , longtime curator of the
Australian Museum
Raul-Yuri Ervier (1909–1991), Soviet
geologist , an eminent organizer and head of wide-ranging geological explorations that discovered of the largest oil and gas fields in Western Siberia
Maurice Ewing (1906–1974), American, pioneering
geophysicist and
oceanographer
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Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741–1819), French, pioneer
volcanologist
Mikhail A. Fedonkin (born 1946), Russian
paleontologist , awarded
Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal
Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865–1950), Canadian,
mineral collector, namesake of the mineral
Ferrierite
Judy Fierstein , American, volcanology and petrology researcher of the
U.S. Geological Survey
Frederick C. Finkle (1865–1949), American consulting engineer and geologist; Chief Engineer on 18 major dam projects
Michael Fleischer (1908–1998), American chemist and mineralogist
Charles E. Fipke (born 1946), Canadian, co-discoverer of
Ekati Diamond Mine
Richard Fortey (born 1946), English,
trilobite
paleontologist , author,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Yves O. Fortier (1914–2014), Canadian, High
Arctic explorer, won
Logan Medal
Gillian Foulger (born 1952), British, professor of geophysics at
Durham University ; awarded
Price Medal
William Fyfe (1927–2013), Canadian
geochemist , won
Wollaston Medal
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Grove Karl Gilbert
Patrick Ganly (1809–1899), Irish surveyor and geologist, described the use of cross-bedding in stratification
Robert Garrels (1916–1988), American
geochemist , revolutionized aqueous
geochemistry
Archibald Geikie (1835–1924), Scottish, geologist, President of the
Royal Society
Mark S. Ghiorso (born 1954), American geochemist, thermodynamic modeling of magma
Grove Karl Gilbert (1843–1918), American, influential Western geologist, won
Wollaston Medal
James E. Gill (1901–1980), Canadian,
McGill University professor, explorer,
Logan Medal winner
Victor Goldschmidt (1888–1947), Norwegian (born Switzerland), a founder of modern
geochemistry
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American
paleontologist and writer
L. C. Graton (1880–1970), American,
Harvard
economic geologist , awarded
Penrose Gold Medal
Alexander Henry Green (1832–1896), English, surveyed
Derbyshire and
Yorkshire ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
George Bellas Greenough (1778–1855), English, gentlemanly geologist, founding member and first President of the
Geological Society
John Walter Gregory (1864–1932), English, geology of Australia and East Africa, glacial geology, President of the Geological Society of London (1928–1930)
Robbie Gries (born 1943), American, first female president (2001–02) of the
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Djalma Guimarães (1894–1973), Brazilian geochemist and mineralogist in
Minas Gerais
Henry C. Gunning (1901–1991), Canadian (born Northern Ireland),
British Columbia geologist,
Logan Medal winner
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James Hutton
Jack Horner , 2012
Julius von Haast (1824–1887), New Zealand (born Germany), founded
Canterbury Museum
Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet (1761–1832), Scottish geologist, president of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
James Hall (1811–1898), American geologist and
paleontologist
William Hamilton (1731–1803), Scottish, volcanologist,
Copley Medal
Alfred Harker (1859–1939), English, igneous petrologist and
petrographer
W. Brian Harland (1917–2003), English, polar geologist
Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (1923–2012), English and Canadian, polar geologist
Donald E. Hattin (1928–2016), American geologist and paleontologist
Thomas Hawkins (1810–1889), English fossil collector
James Edwin Hawley (1897–1965), Canadian, studied
mineralogy of
ore deposits
Erasmus Haworth (1855–1932), founder of the
Kansas Geological Survey and the first state geologist of Kansas
Frank Hawthorne (born 1946), Canadian
mineralogist and
crystallographer
Richard L. Hay (1929–2006), American geologist
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829–1887), American, pioneer Western geologist
Robert Hazen (born 1948), American, mineralogist and astrobiologist
Hollis Dow Hedberg (1903–1988), American geologist
Bruce Heezen (1924–1977), American geologist who first mapped the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Sue Hendrickson (born 1949), American
paleontologist ; discoverer of "Sue", the largest
Tyrannosaurus rex ever found
Harry Hammond Hess (1906–1969), American geologist and
oceanographer
Henry Hicks (1837–1899),
FRS , President of the
Geological Society
Pattillo Higgins (1863–1955), American, known as the "Prophet of
Spindletop "
Wes Hildreth (born 1938), American, volcanologist and petrologist
Eugene W. Hilgard (1833–1916), American (born Germany), soil scientist
Robert T. Hill (1858–1941), American geologist, Cretaceous deposits of Central Texas
Claude Hillaire-Marcel (born 1944), Canadian (born France), Quaternary geologist
Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829–1884), German-Austrian, produced first regional New Zealand geological maps and surveys.
Paul F. Hoffman (born 1941), American and Canadian,
Snowball Earth theorist
Arthur Holmes (1890–1965), English, author of Principles of Physical Geology
Marjorie Hooker (1908–1976), American, acted as a mineral specialist for the
United States Department of State from 1943 to 1947
Jack Horner (born 1946), American dinosaur
paleontologist
Kenneth J. Hsu (born 1929), American (born China), author of The Mediterranean was a Desert
M. King Hubbert (1903–1989), American, originator of "
Peak Oil " theory
James Hutton (1726–1797), Scottish geologist, father of modern geology
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David A. Johnston at
Mount St. Helens , 5-17-1980
Thomas Jaggar (1871–1953), American, volcanologist and founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
James A. Jensen (1911–1998), American, distinguished dinosaur
paleontologist and sculptor
Dougal Jerram (born 1969), British geologist/earth scientist, television and media presenter and author
David A. Johnston (1949–1980), American, volcanologist, killed in the
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
Franc Joubin (1911–1997), Canadian (born United States), discovered
Elliot Lake uranium district
John Wesley Judd (1840–1916), British geologist, professor at the
Royal School of Mines , London
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Clarence King , circa 1875
Michael John Keen (1935–1991),
Atlantic Canada , marine geoscientist
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015), Polish
paleontologist , led several paleontological expeditions to the Gobi desert
Clarence King (1842–1901), American, first director of the
U.S. Geological Survey
James Kitching (1922–2003), South African,
Karoo vertebrate
palaeontologist
Sir
Albert Ernest Kitson (1868–1937), Australian (born England),
economic geologist , mineral exploration in Africa
Maria Klenova (1898–1976), Russian marine geologist and one of the founders of Russian marine science
Andrew H. Knoll (born 1951), American,
Harvard geologist and
paleontologist
Alan S. Kornacki (born 1952), American,
Harvard
meteoriticist and geochemist for
Royal Dutch Shell
Danie G. Krige (1919–2013), South African
mining engineer , inventor of
kriging
M. S. Krishnan (1898–1970), Indian geologist, author of Geology of India and Burma
Thomas Edvard Krogh (1936–2008), Canadian,
geochronologist , revolutionized uranium-lead
radiometric dating
William C. Krumbein (1902–1979), American,
sedimentologist
Nikolai Kudryavtsev (1893–1971), Russian
petroleum geologist
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Joseph LeConte
Charles Lapworth (1842–1920), English geologist, defined the
Ordovician Period
Andrew Lawson (1861–1952), American (born Scotland), named
San Andreas fault
Richard Leakey (1944–2022), Kenyan
paleontologist
Joseph LeConte (1823–1901), United States, first professor of geology,
University of California
Robert Legget (1904–1994), Canadian non-fiction writer,
civil engineer ,
pedologist
Inge Lehmann (1888–1993), Danish
seismologist , discovered
Lehmann discontinuity . The asteroid
5632 Ingelehmann was named in her honour.
Luna Leopold (1915–2006), eminent American
hydrologist
Xavier Le Pichon (born 1937), French
plate tectonics
geophysicist
Zofia Licharewa (1883–1980), Polish geologist and museum founder
Waldemar Lindgren (1860–1939), distinguished Swedish-American
economic geologist
Li Shizhen (1518–1593), Ming Dynasty Chinese
mineralogist , author of the Ben Cao Gang Mu (
Compendium of Materia Medica )
Martin Lister (c. 1638–1712), English, pioneer geologist
William Edmond Logan (1798–1875), Canadian, founded
Geological Survey of Canada
Fred Longstaffe , Canadian, Provost of
University of Western Ontario
Rosaly Lopes (born 1957), Brazilian, planetary geology and volcanology
Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875), Scottish geologist, popularized principle of
uniformitarianism
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Andrija Mohorovičić , c.1880
Oscar Edward Meinzer
William Maclure (1763–1840), published first
geologic map of United States (1809)
J. Ross Mackay (1915–2014), Canadian
permafrost geologist
Robert Mallet (1810–1881), Irish, "father of
seismology "
Joseph A. Mandarino (1929–2007), American mineralogist
Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899), American, pioneer
dinosaur
paleontologist ;
Bone Wars competitor
Teresa Maryańska (1937–2019), Polish,
paleontologist specializing in
dinosaurs
Kirtley F. Mather (1888–1978), Harvard professor,
Scopes monkey trial
William Williams Mather (1804–1859), professor, de facto state geologist of Ohio
Drummond Matthews (1931–1997), British marine geologist,
geophysicist ,
plate tectonics pioneer
Sir Douglas Mawson (1882–1958), Australian
Antarctic explorer
Sir
Frederick McCoy (c. 1817–1899), British and Australian
palaeontologist and museum director
Edith Merritt McKee (1918–2006), American geologist
Dan McKenzie (born 1942), British
geophysicist ,
plate tectonics pioneer
Digby McLaren (1919–2004), Canadian
paleontologist ,
Fellow of the Royal Society
Marcia McNutt (born 1952), American
geophysicist and the 22nd president of the
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the
United States , 15th director of the
United States Geological Survey (USGS) (and first woman to hold the post)
Oscar Edward Meinzer (1876–1948), American
hydrologist , "father of groundwater geology"
Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes (1950–2014), Brazilian
geologist and
mineralogist
Giuseppe Mercalli (1850–1914), Italian
seismologist and
volcanologist , developed the
Mercalli intensity scale for measuring
earthquakes
Hans Merensky (1871–1952), South African
economic geologist , discovered major diamond, platinum, chrome and copper deposits, including the
Merensky Reef
John C. Merriam (1869–1945), American, vertebrate
paleontologist , studied fossils from
La Brea Tar Pits
Waman Bapuji Metre (1906–1970), Indian,
petroleum geologist
Ellen Louise Mertz (1896–1987), was one of Denmark's first female geologists and the country's first
engineering geologist .
Gerard V. Middleton (1931–2021), Canadian, sedimentologist, awarded
Logan Medal
Hugh Miller (1802–1856), Scottish, geologist, palaeontologist, author, The Old Red Sandstone
John Milne (1850–1913), British seismologist and anthropologist,
Order of the Rising Sun
Andrija Mohorovičić (1857–1936), Croatian
meteorologist and
seismologist , discovered
Mohorovicic Discontinuity
Friedrich Mohs (1773–1839), German, devised
Mohs' scale of mineral hardness
James Monger , Canadian
Cordillera geologist, won
Logan Medal
Eldridge Moores (1938–2018), American
plate tectonics pioneer and petrologist who specialized in
ophiolites
Marie Morisawa (1919–1994), American
geomorphology pioneer. The
Geological Society of America established the Marie Morisawa Award in her honor.
W. Jason Morgan (1935–2023), American
plate tectonics pioneer, won
National Medal of Science
Eric W. Mountjoy (1931–2010), Canadian sedimentologist and petrologist, awarded
Logan Medal
Roderick Murchison (1792–1871), Scottish, author of The Silurian System (1839)
Emiliano Mutti (born 1933), Italian
petroleum geologist , won
Twenhofel Medal
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John Strong Newberry
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Joseph Pardee (1871–1960), American,
channeled scablands
Clair Cameron Patterson (1922–1995), American, geochemist, fought
lead poisoning
R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. (1863–1931), American, mining geologist,
Penrose Medal
Francis J. Pettijohn (1904–1999), American, sedimentologist
John Phillips (1800–1874),
Yorkshire geologist
John Arthur Phillips (1822–1887), FRS, Cornish geologist, metallurgist and mining engineer
Vasiliy Podshibyakin (1928–1997), Soviet
geologist , discoverer of
Urengoy gas field
Vladimir Porfiriev (1899–1982), Russian
petroleum geologist
Henry W. Posamentier (born 1948), American, petroleum geologist
John Wesley Powell (1834–1902), American, ex-soldier who mapped the
Colorado River , second director of the
USGS
Raymond A. Price (born 1933), Canadian, structural and tectonic geologist
Raphael Pumpelly (1837–1923), American, geologist and explorer
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Charles Richter , c.1971
Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna (1918–2012), a founder and officer of the
Geological Society of India
Frederick Leslie Ransome (1868–1935), American (born England),
USGS
economic geologist ,
National Academy of Sciences
David M. Raup (1933–2015), American,
paleontologist ; author of Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?
Mary Louise Rhodes (1916–1987) American
petroleum geologist ; Permian Basin field research
Charles Richter (1900–1985), American seismologist, devised
Richter magnitude scale for earthquakes
Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905), German geologist and geographer
A.E. "Ted" Ringwood (1930–1993), Australian experimental geophysicist and geochemist,
Wollaston Medal winner
Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), Spanish–Mexican
mineralogist , discoverer of
vanadium
Alfred Rittmann (1893–1980), Swiss volcanologist, three-time president of the
IAVCEI , Gustav Steinmann medal winner
Ralph J. Roberts (1911–2007), American geologist,
Nevada gold districts
Meyer Rubin (1924-2020), American geologist, known for
radiocarbon dating work with the
USGS
Stanley Keith Runcorn (1922–1995), British geophysicist and
plate tectonics pioneer;
Fellow of the Royal Society
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William Smith , father of English geology
Donald F. Sangster , Canadian, lead-zinc
economic geologist
Emilia Săulea (1904–1998), Romanian geologist and paleontologist
Celâl Şengör (born 1955), Turkish, member of The United States National Academy of Sciences and The Russian Academy of Sciences, Bigsby Medal, Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille and Arthur Holmes Medal winner
Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), American,
Apollo 17 moonwalker
Kevin M. Scott (born 1935), American, volcanology research in United States and China,
Kirk Bryan Award
George Julius Poulett Scrope (1797–1876), English, volcanology, Wollaston Medal
Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), English, proposed
Devonian and
Cambrian periods
Karl von Seebach (1839–1880), German volcanologist
Seikei Sekiya (1855–1896), Japanese seismologist, created the model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an
earthquake
Nicholas Shackleton (1937–2006), British geologist and
climatologist
Shen Kuo (1031–1095), Chinese scientist, magnetic
compass pioneer,
geomorphology theory
Richard H. Sibson (born 1945), New Zealand geologist, defined the relationship between seismogenic processes and fault zone rheology.
Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928–1997), American, meteoriticist, co-discovered
Comet Shoemaker-Levy
Haraldur Sigurdsson , (born 1939), Icelandic, provided proof for a
meteorite impact at the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs
Leon Silver (born 1925), American, National Academy,
NASA medal for contribution to
Apollo program 's lunar explorations
George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984), American,
paleontologist
Kamini Singha (born 1977), professor at the
Colorado School of Mines
William Smith (1769–1839), father of English Geology
Su Song (1020–1101), Chinese naturalist, author of treatise on
metallurgy and
mineralogy
Paul Spudis (1952–2018), American planetary geologist
Josiah Edward Spurr (1870–1950), American, geologist, author and Alaskan explorer
Laurence Dudley Stamp (1898–1966), British, petroleum geologist and geographer
Charles Steen (1919–2006), American, discovered
uranium near
Moab, Utah
Max Steineke (1898–1952), American, discovered Abqaiq oilfield with 12 billion barrels of recoverable oil in
Saudi Arabia
Charles R. Stelck (1917–2016), Canadian,
petroleum geologist , emeritus professor,
Logan Medal winner
Nicolas Steno (1638–1686), Danish, pioneer in early-modern geology, especially in
stratigraphy
Iain Stewart (born 1964), British, presenter of several television series on geology
Clifford H. Stockwell (1897–1987), Canadian structural geologist,
Geological Survey of Canada ,
Logan Medal winner
David Strangway (1934–2016), Canadian,
geophysicist and university administrator,
Logan Medal award
K. Hugo Strunz (1910–2006), German mineralogist, co-creator of the
Nickel–Strunz classification .
Eduard Suess (1831–1914), Austrian (born England), named
Gondwanaland
Peter Szatmari , Hungarian-Brazilian geologist, Gold Medal award,
Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), French
paleontologist and philosopher, co-discovered
Peking man
Karl von Terzaghi (1883–1963), geologist and civil engineer, "father of soil mechanics"
Marie Tharp (1920–2006), co-discoverer of the
Mid-Oceanic Ridge
Lonnie Thompson (born 1948), American,
glaciologist and ice-core
climatologist
Sigurdur Thorarinsson (1912–1983), Icelandic, pioneered the field of
tephrochronology
Raymond Thorsteinsson (1921-2012), Canadian, Arctic geologist
Bahal Tambunan (born 1974), Indonesian geoscientist who studies
geothermal energy
Phillip Tobias (1925–2012), South African
palaeoanthropologist ,
homo habilis pioneer
Otto Martin Torell (1828–1900), chief of the Geological Survey of Sweden
Francis John Turner (1904–1985), New Zealand, igneous and metamorphic
petrologist
Joseph Tyrrell (1858–1957), Canadian
paleontologist , namesake of
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
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Alfred Wegener , c.1925
Lawrence Wager (1904–1965), British geologist and explorer, discovered the
Skaergaard intrusion
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927), American
paleontologist , discovered
Burgess Shale fossils
Roger G. Walker (born 1939), Canadian sedimentologist, emeritus professor
Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen (1809–1876), German, magnetic observations and study of
Mount Etna
Janet Watson , (1923–1985),
Precambrian specialist, first female president of the
Geological Society of London
Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German
meteorologist ,
continental drift pioneer
Harold Wellman (1909–1999), New Zealand geologist of
plate tectonics
Abraham Werner (c. 1749–1817), German, proponent of
Neptunism
Israel Charles White (1848–1927), American, coal geology; Permian paleontology
Josiah Whitney (1819–1896), chief of the
California Geological Survey ;
Mount Whitney
Harold Williams (1934–2010),
Atlantic Canada geologist
Howel Williams (1898–1980), American (born England)
volcanologist
John Williamson (1907–1958), discovered the
Williamson diamond mine , Tanzania
J. Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993), Canadian
geophysicist and
plate tectonics geologist
Newton Horace Winchell (1839–1914), American,
geology of Minnesota
Jay Backus Woodworth (1865–1925), American geologist and president of the
Seismological Society of America
William Henry Wright (1876–1951), Canadian
prospector and newspaper publisher, discovered
Kirkland Lake gold district
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