List of geologists
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A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology.
The following is a list of famous geologists
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[edit] A
- 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), Germany, author of De re metallica
- Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605), Italy, naturalist
- Walter Alvarez (b. 1940), USA, author of T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
- Mary Anning (1799-1847), England, pioneer fossil collector
- Adolphe d'Archiac (1802-1868), France
- Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795), Italian, first classification of geological time
[edit] B
- Walter A. Bell (1889-1969), Canada
- V.V. Beloussov, Russia
- Etheldred Benett, {1776-1845), England, pioneer paleontologist
- Pierre Berthier, French geologist, discovered the properties of Bauxite
- Stewart Blusson, co-discoverer of Ekati Diamond Mine, Canada
- Norman L. Bowen (1887-1956), Canada, pioneer experimental petrologist
- John C. Branner (1782-1861), USA
- J. Harlen Bretz (1882-1981), USA, discovered origin of channeled scablands
- William Buckland (1784-1856), England, wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur
[edit] C
- George V. Chilingar, USA, petroleum geologist
- William Branwhite Clarke (1798-1878), Australia (born England)
- Hans Cloos (1885-1951, prominent German structural geologist
- William Conybeare (1787-1857), England, author of Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
- Charles Cotton (1885-1970), New Zealand, geologist and geomorphologist
- Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), France, proponent of catastrophism
[edit] D
- James Dwight Dana (1813-1895), USA, author of System of Mineralogy (1837)
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist.
- George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901), western Canada
- John William Dawson (1820-1899), eastern Canada
- Arthur L. Day (1869-1960), USA
- Henry De la Beche (1796-1855), England, first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain
- Duncan R. Derry (1906–1987), Canadian economic geologist
- Nicolas Desmarest (1725-1815), France, pioneer volcanologist
- Robert S. Dietz (1914-1995), USA, seafloor spreading pioneer
- Clarence Edward Dutton, USA, author of Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District
[edit] E
- Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798-1874), France, prepared first geological map of France
- Maurice Ewing (1906-1974), USA, pioneering geophysicist and oceanographer
[edit] F
- Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819), France
- William Fyfe (born 1927, New Zealand), Canada, eminent geochemist
- Chuck Fipke, Canada, co-discoverer of Ekati Diamond Mine
- Richard Fortey (born 1946), England, eminent trilobite paleontologist and writer
- Yves O. Fortier (born 1914), Canada
- Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865-1950), Canada, tireless mineral collector
[edit] G
- Robert Garrels (1916-1988), American geochemist, revolutionized aqueous geochemistry
- Grove Karl Gilbert (1843-1918), USA, influential Western geologist
- James E. Gill (1901 – 1980), Canadian, McGill University professor, explorer
- Victor Goldschmidt (1888-1947), Norway (born Switzerland), a founder of modern geochemistry
- John Gosse, Canadian geomorphologist
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), famous American paleontologist and writer
- L.C. Graton (1880-19??), distinguished American economic geologist
- Alexander Henry Green (1832-1896), England
- Henry C. Gunning (1901 - 1991), Canadian, Gunningite was named after him
[edit] H
- Julius von Haast (1824-1887), New Zealand (born Germany)
- Sir James Hall (1761-1832), Scottish geologist
- W. Brian Harland (1917 - 2003), England, polar geologist
- James Edwin Hawley (1897 - 1965), Canada (Hawleyite)
- Frank Hawthorne (1968 - ), Canadian mineralogist and crystallographer
- Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (1923- ), England and Canada, polar geologist
- Harry Hess (1906-1969), American geologist and oceanographer
- Pattillo Higgins (1863-1955), USA, known as the "Prophet of Spindletop"
- Eugene W. Hilgard (1833 - 1916), USA (born Germany), eminent soil scientist
- Claude Hillaire-Marcel, Canada (born France), Quaternary geologist
- Paul F. Hoffman, USA & Canada, Snowball Earth theorist
- Kenneth J. Hsu (born 1929), USA (born China), author of The Mediterranean was a Desert
- Arthur Holmes (1890-1965), England, author of Principles of Physical Geology
- M. King Hubbert (1903-1989), USA, originator of "Peak Oil" theory
- James Hutton (1726-1797), Scottish geologist, father of modern geology
- Syed Hamidullah (1953-2005), Pakistan
[edit] K
- Danie G. Krige, South African mining engineer, inventor of kriging.
- Nikolai Kudryavtsev (1893 - 1971), Russian petroleum geologist
- Clarence King (1893 - 1971), USA, first director of the U.S. Geological Survey
[edit] L
- Andrew Lawson (1861 - 1952), USA (born Scotland), named San Andreas fault
- Joseph LeConte (1823 - 1901), first professor of geology, University of California, USA
- Luna Leopold (1915-2006, prominent USA hydrologist
- Xavier Le Pichon (born 1937), French plate tectonics geophysicist
- Waldemar Lindgren (1860-1939, Swedish-American economic geologist
- Martin Lister (c.1638 - 1712), England, pioneer geologist
- William Edmond Logan (1798-1875), Canada, founded Geological Survey of Canada
- Fred Longstaffe, Provost of University of Western Ontario, Canada
- Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Scottish geologist, popularized principle of uniformitarianism
[edit] M
- William Maclure (1763-1840), published first geologic map of USA (1809)
- J. Ross Mackay (born 1915), Canadian permafrost geologist
- Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958), Australian Antarctic explorer
- Dan McKenzie (1942 - ), UK geophysicist
- Digby McLaren (1919 – 2004), Canadian paleontologist
- Waman Bapuji Metre (1906-1970), India, eminent petroleum geologist
- Friedrich Mohs (1773-1839), Germany, devised Mohs' scale of mineral hardness
- James Monger, Canadian Cordillera geologist
- W. Jason Morgan (born1935), American plate tectonics pioneer
- Roderick Murchison (1792 -1871), Scotland, author of The Silurian System (1839)
- Emiliano Mutti (born 1933), Italian petroleum geologist
[edit] N
- E.R. Ward Neale (born 1923), Atlantic Canada geologist
[edit] P
- Joseph Pardee, (1871 - 1960), USA, channeled scablands
- Clair Cameron Patterson (1922 - 1995), USA geochemist, fought lead poisoning
- R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. (1863-1931), USA mining geologist, Penrose Medal
- John Phillips (1800-1874), Yorkshire geologist
- Wallace S. Pitcher (1919-2004), UK, expert on Andean granites
- Vladimir Porfiriev (1899-1982), Russian petroleum geologist
- John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), USA, ex-soldier who mapped the Colorado River.
- Raphael Pumpelly (1837-1923), USA, colorful geologist and explorer
[edit] R
- Charles Richter (1900-1985) , American seismologist, devised Richter magnitude scale for earthquakes
- Ferdinand Baron Von Richthofen 1833-1905, German geologist and geographer
[edit] S
- Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), USA, Apollo 17 moonwalker.
- Adam Sedgwick (1785- 1873), England, proposed Devonian and Cambrian periods
- Nicholas Shackleton (1937 - 2006), British geologist and climatologist
- Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928-1997), USA, meteoriticist, co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy
- George Gaylord Simpson (1902 - 1984), USA, paleontologist
- William Smith (1769-1839), father of English Geology
- Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (1842 - 1915), English archaeologist, geologist and photographer
- Nicolas Steno (1638-1686), Denmark, pioneer in early-modern geology
- Clifford H. Stockwell, Canada
- Eduard Suess (1831-1914), Austria (born England), named Gondwanaland
[edit] T
- Otto Martin Torell (1828 - 1900), chief of the Geological Survey of Sweden
[edit] U
- Warren Upham (1850 - 1934), USA, studied glacial Lake Agassiz
[edit] V
- Jan Veizer, Canadian isotope geochemist
- Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945), pioneer Russian geochemist and biogeochemist
[edit] W
- Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927, American paleontologist, discovered Burgess Shale fossils
- Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), German meteorologist, continental drift pioneer
- Abraham Werner (1749? - 1817), Germany, proponent of Neptunism
- Josiah Whitney (1819-1896), chief of the California Geological Survey; Mt. Whitney
- Harold Williams (1934 - ), Atlantic Canada geologist
- John Williamson (1907-1958), discovered the Williamson diamond mine, Tanzania
- J. Tuzo Wilson (1908-1913), prominent Canadian geophysicist and plate tectonics geologist
- Newton Horace Winchell, (1839-1914), USA, geology of Minnesota
- Harry M. Woodward, USA, studied Old Faithful Geyser
