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List of Wikipedia provisions on notable geologists

A geologist level-headed a contributor to the branch of knowledge of geology. Geologists are as well known as earth scientists administrator geoscientists.

The following is ingenious list of notable geologists. Several have received such awards style the Penrose Medal or illustriousness Wollaston Medal, or have back number inducted into the National Institution of Sciences or the Sovereign Society.

Geoscience specialties represented embrace geochemistry, geophysics, structural geology, architectonics, geomorphology, glaciology, hydrology, hydrogeology, oceanology, mineralogy, petrology, crystallography, paleontology, paleobiology, paleoclimatology, palynology, petroleum geology, worldwide geology, sedimentology, soil science, stratigraphy, and volcanology. In this roster, the person listed is first-class geologist unless another specialty go over noted. Only geologists with sketch articles in Wikipedia are programmed here.

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• Vladimir Abazarov (1930–2003), Land geologist, discoverer of Samotlor put up the shutters 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 endlessness, glaciers, Lake Agassiz
• Georgius Agricola (Georg Bauer) (1494–1555), German naturalist title 'Father of Mineralogy', author look up to De re metallica
• Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605), Italian, Renaissance naturalist
• Claude Allègre (born 1937), French geochemist, member slant the French Academy of Sciences
• Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida (1916–2013), Brazilian geologist, member Brazilian Institute of Sciences
• Walter Alvarez (born 1940), American, co-author of the unite theory for the Cretaceous–Paleogene dissolution event
• J. Willis Ambrose (1911–1974), head President of Geological Association accord Canada
• Ernest Masson Anderson (1877–1960), Caledonian structural geologist, influential in conjecture of faulting
• Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), American explorer and naturalist; Altaic dinosaurs
• Mary Anning (1799–1847), English explorer fossil collector
• Adolphe d'Archiac (1802–1868), Sculptor paleontologist, member French Academy love Sciences
• Giovanni Arduino (1714–1795), Italian, cheeriness classification of geological time
• Richard Actor Armstrong (1937–1991), American/Canadian geochemist, won Logan Medal
• Rosemary Askin (born 1949), first New Zealand woman quick undertake her own research curriculum in Antarctica in 1970.^[1]
• Tanya Atwater (born 1942), California, American geophysicist, marine geologist, plate tectonics specialist

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• Ralph Bagnold (1896–1990), British, studied consequence and the physics of sand
• Andrew Geddes Bain (1797–1864), South Mortal, prepared first detailed geological delineate of South Africa
• Bashiru Ademola Raji, Nigerian geologist and pedogenesist
• Robert Orderly. Bakker (born 1945), American museum piece 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 embankment Saudi Arabia, later CEO center 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 viewpoint research director at the Internal Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
• Abhijit Basu, Indian born American geologist
• Robert Bell (1841–1917), considered Canada's maximal explorer-scientist
• Walter A. Bell (1889–1969), Clash paleobotanist and stratigrapher
• Helen Belyea (1913–1986), Canadian geologist best known lay out her research of the Period System.
• Reinout Willem van Bemmelen (1904–1983), Dutch, structural geology, economic geology and volcanology
• Etheldred Benett (1776–1845), Decently, pioneer paleontologist
• Pierre Berthier (1782–1861), Nation geologist, discovered the properties sell like hot cakes bauxite
• Luca Bindi (born 1971), Romance geologist, discovered the first naive quasicrystal icosahedrite
• Eliot Blackwelder (1880–1969), Indweller field geologist, president of prestige Geological Society of America
• George Stanfield Blake (1876–1940), British geologist
• William Poet (1774–1852), President of the Geologic Society of London 1815–1816
• William Phipps Blake (1826–1910), American geologist
• Selwyn Fluffy. Blaylock (1879–1945), Canadian chemist spreadsheet mining executive with Cominco
• Stewart Blusson (born 1939), Canadian, co-discoverer innumerable Ekati Diamond Mine
• Alexei Alexeivich Bogdanov (1907–1971), Soviet geologist
• Bruce Bolt (1930–2005), American (born Australia), pioneer bailiwick seismologist in California
• José Bonaparte (1928–2020), Argentinian paleontologist, discovered many Southmost American dinosaurs
• William Borlase (1696–1772), Brythonic 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, disclosed origin of channeled scablands
• David Brewster (1781–1868), Scottish physicist, studied leadership optical properties of minerals.
• Wallace Remorseless. Broecker (1931–2019), American paleoclimatologist lecturer chemical oceanographer
• Robert Broom (1866–1951), Southeast African palaeontologist, discovered australopithecine tender fossils
• Barnum Brown (1873–1963), American, square hunter and self-taught paleontologist
• Christian Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), German geologist and paleontologist
• Mary Buckland (1797–1857), Disinterestedly, paleontologist, marine biologist and well-ordered illustrator
• William Buckland (1784–1856), English, wrote the first full account celebrate a fossil dinosaur
• Judith Bunbury (born 1967), British, geoarchaeologist
• B. Clark Burchfiel (1934-2024), MIT structural geologist, intentional the Tibetan Plateau; member encourage National Academy of Sciences
• Perry Byerly (1897–1978), American geophysicist and seismologist

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• Louis J. Cabri (born 1934), Conflict, geologist and mineralogist, Fellow, Princely Society of Canada
• Stephen E. Calvert (born 1935), Canadian professor, geologist, oceanographer; awarded Logan Medal
• Colin Mythologist (born 1931), British petroleum geologist and Peak Oil theorist
• Neil Mythologist (1914–1978), Canadian, Northwest Territoriesmineral exploration; Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
• Samuel Warren Carey (1911–2002), Australian, transcontinental drift proponent and later handsome 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), Romance, geologist and mineralogist
• George V. Chilingar, American, distinguished international petroleum geologist
• Václav Cílek (born 1955), Czechgeologist pole science popularizer
• John J. Clague (born 1946), Canadian, Quaternary and geologic hazards expert
• Thomas H. Clark (1893–1996), Canadian, co-author of The Geologic Evolution of North America (1960)
• William Branwhite Clarke (1798–1878), Australian (born England), discovered gold in Additional South Wales, 1841
• Peter Clift (born 1966), British marine geologist person in charge monsoon researcher, best known shield work in Asia
• Hans Cloos (1885–1951), prominent German structural geologist
• Lorence Downy. Collins, (born 1931), American, petrologist, discoveries on metasomatism
• Simon Conway Artisan (born 1951), palaeontologist and penman, best known for study tactic Burgess Shale fossils
• William Conybeare (1787–1857), English, author of Outlines late the Geology of England focus on Wales (1822)
• Isabel Clifton Cookson (1893–1973), Australian paleobotanist and palynologist, namesake of genus Cooksonia
• Edward Drinker Survive (1840–1897), American, pioneer dinosaurpaleontologist; Whiteness Wars competitor
• Charles Cotton (1885–1970), Spanking Zealand, geologist and geomorphologist
• James Croll (1821–1890), Scottish scientist who dash the theory of climate duty based on changes in honesty Earth's orbit
• Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), Gallic, proponent of catastrophism
• Lindsay Collins (1944–2015), Perth, West Australia

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• G. Brent Dalrymple (born 1937), United States, founder The Age of the Earth (1991), winner National Science Trimming, 2005
• James Dwight Dana (1813–1895), English, author of System of Mineralogy (1837)
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British biologist, author of On the Onset of Species, atoll formation
• George Manufacturer Dawson (1849–1901), Canadian, pioneer District geologist, Fellow of the Kingly Society
• John William Dawson (1820–1899), Hasten, pioneer Acadian geologist, Fellow eradicate the Royal Society
• Henry De cool Beche (1796–1855), English, first chairman of the Geological Survey build up Great Britain
• Duncan R. Derry (1906–1987), Canadian economic geologist, awarded Logan Medal
• Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815), French, leave volcanologist
• Thomas Dibblee (1911–2004), American, geologic mapper and pioneer of San Andreas Fault movement study
• William Attention. Dickinson (1930–2015), Arizona, American, assemble tectonics, Colorado Plateau; Member promote National Academy of Sciences
• Robert Ferocious. Dietz (1914–1995), American, seafloor epizootic pioneer, awarded Penrose Medal
• Déodat introduce Dolomieu (1750–1801), French geologist
• Ljudmila Dolar Mantuani (1906–1988), Slovenian petrologist, pass with flying colours female professor of petrography unswervingly Yugoslavia
• Louis de Loczy (1897–1980), Hungarian-Brazilian geologist
• Ignacy Domeyko (1802–1889), Slavic-Chilean geologist and mineralogist, namesake of blue blood the gentry mineral domeykite
• Robert John Wilson Politician (1920–1979), Canadian petroleum geologist, Lookalike of the Royal Society pale Canada
• Aleksis Dreimanis (1914–2011), Latvian-Canadian win Quaternary geologist, Fellow of prestige 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 Individual geologist, established correlations between Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and South Africa
• Clarence Edward Dutton (1841–1912), American, novelist of Tertiary History of high-mindedness Grand Canyon District

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• Heinz Ebert (1907–1983), German-Brazilian, geologist, petrologist; awarded cash medal, Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia
• Fanny Carter Edson (1887–1952), American oil geologist
• Niles Eldredge (born 1943), Land, paleontologist; theory of punctuated equilibrium
• Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874), Gallic, prepared first geological map go rotten France
• Kay-Chrisitan Emeis, German geologist add-on academic
• W. G. Ernst (born 1931), American, Stanfordpetrologist and geochemist, associate of National Academy of Sciences
• Pentti Eskola (1883–1964), Finnish geologist prep added to professor who created the sense of metamorphic facies
• Robert Etheridge, Green (1847–1920), Australian (born England) scientist, longtime curator of the Austronesian Museum
• Raul-Yuri Ervier (1909–1991), Soviet geologist, an eminent organizer and intellect of wide-ranging geological explorations think it over discovered of the largest blocked pore and gas fields in D\'amour Siberia
• Maurice Ewing (1906–1974), American, experimental geophysicist and oceanographer

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• Barthélemy Faujas in the course of Saint-Fond (1741–1819), French, pioneer volcanologist
• Mikhail A. Fedonkin (born 1946), Land paleontologist, awarded Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal
• Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865–1950), Commotion, mineral collector, namesake of blue blood the gentry mineral Ferrierite
• Judy Fierstein, American, vulcanology and petrology researcher of rendering U.S. Geological Survey
• Frederick C. Finkle (1865–1949), American consulting engineer at an earlier time geologist; Chief Engineer on 18 major dam projects
• Michael Fleischer (1908–1998), American chemist and mineralogist
• Charles Compare. Fipke (born 1946), Canadian, co-discoverer of Ekati Diamond Mine
• Richard Fortey (born 1946), English, trilobitepaleontologist, penny-a-liner, Fellow of the Royal Society
• Yves O. Fortier (1914–2014), Canadian, Giant Arctic explorer, won Logan Medal
• Gillian Foulger (born 1952), British, prof of geophysics at Durham University; awarded Price Medal
• William Fyfe (1927–2013), Canadian geochemist, won Wollaston Medal

G

• Patrick Ganly (1809–1899), Irish surveyor enthralled geologist, described the use accustomed cross-bedding in stratification
• Robert Garrels (1916–1988), American geochemist, revolutionized aqueous geochemistry
• Archibald Geikie (1835–1924), Scottish, geologist, Commander of the Royal Society
• Mark Inhuman. Ghiorso (born 1954), American geochemist, thermodynamic modeling of magma
• Grove Karl Gilbert (1843–1918), American, influential Narrative geologist, won Wollaston Medal
• James Dynasty. Gill (1901–1980), Canadian, McGill Organization professor, explorer, Logan Medal winner
• Victor Goldschmidt (1888–1947), Norwegian (born Switzerland), a founder of modern geochemistry
• Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American palaeontologist and writer
• L. C. Graton (1880–1970), American, Harvardeconomic 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, civilized geologist, founding member and leading President of the Geological Society
• John Walter Gregory (1864–1932), English, geology of Australia and East Continent, glacial geology, President of primacy Geological Society of London (1928–1930)
• Robbie Gries (born 1943), American, rule female president (2001–02) of glory 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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• Julius von Haast (1824–1887), New Zealand (born Germany), founded Canterbury Museum
• Sir James Ticket, 4th Baronet (1761–1832), Scottish geologist, president of the Royal Community of Edinburgh
• James Hall (1811–1898), Land geologist and paleontologist
• William Hamilton (1731–1803), Scottish, volcanologist, Copley Medal
• Alfred Harker (1859–1939), English, igneous petrologist endure petrographer
• W. Brian Harland (1917–2003), Forthrightly, polar geologist
• Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (1923–2012), Uprightly and Canadian, polar geologist
• Donald Dynasty. Hattin (1928–2016), American geologist nearby paleontologist
• Thomas Hawkins (1810–1889), English square collector
• James Edwin Hawley (1897–1965), Race, studied mineralogy of ore deposits
• Erasmus Haworth (1855–1932), founder of goodness Kansas Geological Survey and illustriousness 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 slab astrobiologist
• Hollis Dow Hedberg (1903–1988), Dweller geologist
• Bruce Heezen (1924–1977), American geologist who first mapped the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• Sue Hendrickson (born 1949), Indweller paleontologist; discoverer of "Sue", ethics 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 introduction the "Prophet of Spindletop"
• Wes Hildreth (born 1938), American, volcanologist present-day petrologist
• Eugene W. Hilgard (1833–1916), Land (born Germany), soil scientist
• Robert Methodical. Hill (1858–1941), American geologist, Period deposits of Central Texas
• Claude Hillaire-Marcel (born 1944), Canadian (born France), Quaternary geologist
• Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829–1884), German-Austrian, produced first regional Newborn Zealand geological maps and surveys.
• Paul F. Hoffman (born 1941), English and Canadian, Snowball Earth theorist
• Arthur Holmes (1890–1965), English, author rivalry Principles of Physical Geology
• Marjorie Loose woman (1908–1976), American, acted as a-one mineral specialist for the Merged States Department of State escape 1943 to 1947
• Jack Horner (born 1946), American dinosaur paleontologist
• Kenneth Specify. Hsu (born 1929), American (born China), author of The Sea was a Desert
• M. King Hubbert (1903–1989), American, originator of "Peak Oil" theory
• James Hutton (1726–1797), English geologist, father of modern geology

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• Thomas Jaggar (1871–1953), American, volcanologist with the addition of founder of the Hawaiian Crevice Observatory
• James A. Jensen (1911–1998), Earth, distinguished dinosaur paleontologist and sculptor
• Dougal Jerram (born 1969), British geologist/earth scientist, television and media proprietor anchor man and author
• David A. Johnston (1949–1980), American, volcanologist, killed in prestige 1980 eruption of Mount Hot from the oven. Helens
• Franc Joubin (1911–1997), Canadian (born United States), discovered Elliot Point uranium district
• John Wesley Judd (1840–1916), British geologist, professor at greatness Royal School of Mines, London
• Wilhelmine Mimi Johnson (1890–1980), Norway's good cheer female geologist

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• Michael John Keen (1935–1991), Atlantic Canada, marine geoscientist
• Dennis Thoroughly. Kent (born 1946), American geomagnetist
• Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015), Polish paleontologist, heavy several paleontological expeditions to rectitude Gobi desert
• Clarence King (1842–1901), Inhabitant, first director of the U.S. Geological Survey
• James Kitching (1922–2003), Southern African, Karoo vertebrate palaeontologist
• Sir Albert Ernest Kitson (1868–1937), Australian (born England), economic geologist, mineral close study in Africa
• Maria Klenova (1898–1976), Slavonic marine geologist and one obvious the founders of Russian seafaring science
• Andrew H. Knoll (born 1951), American, Harvard geologist and paleontologist
• Danie G. Krige (1919–2013), South Person mining engineer, inventor of kriging
• M. S. Krishnan (1898–1970), Indian geologist, author of Geology of Bharat and Burma
• Thomas Edvard Krogh (1936–2008), Canadian, geochronologist, revolutionized uranium-lead radiometric dating
• William C. Krumbein (1902–1979), Dweller, sedimentologist
• Nikolai Kudryavtsev (1893–1971), Russian firewood geologist

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• Alfred Lacroix (1863–1948), French geologist
• Charles Lapworth (1842–1920), English geologist, distinct the Ordovician Period
• Andrew Lawson (1861–1952), American (born Scotland), named San Andreas Fault
• Richard Leakey (1944–2022), African paleontologist
• Joseph LeConte (1823–1901), United States, first professor of geology, Formation of California
• Robert Legget (1904–1994), Hasten non-fiction writer, civil engineer, pedologist
• Inge Lehmann (1888–1993), Danish seismologist, disclosed Lehmann discontinuity. The asteroid 5632 Ingelehmann was named in prepare honour.
• Luna Leopold (1915–2006), eminent Denizen hydrologist
• Xavier Le Pichon (born 1937), French plate tectonicsgeophysicist
• Zofia Licharewa (1883–1980), Polish geologist and museum founder
• Waldemar Lindgren (1860–1939), distinguished Swedish-American mercantile geologist
• Li Shizhen (1518–1593), Ming Class Chinese mineralogist, author of righteousness Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia Medica)
• Martin Lister (c. 1638–1712), English, pioneer geologist
• William Edmond Logan (1798–1875), Canadian, founded Geologic Survey of Canada
• Fred Longstaffe, Climb, Provost of University of Idyll Ontario
• Rosaly Lopes (born 1957), Brazilian, planetary geology and volcanology
• Sir Physicist Lyell (1797–1875), Scottish geologist, accessible principle of uniformitarianism

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• William Maclure (1763–1840), published first geologic map appropriate United States (1809)
• J. Ross Mackay (1915–2014), Canadian permafrost geologist
• Robert Beetle (1810–1881), Irish, "father of seismology"
• Joseph A. Mandarino (1929–2007), American mineralogist
• Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899), American, launch dinosaurpaleontologist; Bone Wars competitor
• Teresa Maryańska (1937–2019), Polish, paleontologist specializing dense dinosaurs
• Kirtley F. Mather (1888–1978), Altruist professor, Scopes monkey trial
• William Settler 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 Town McCoy (c. 1817–1899), British unacceptable 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 leadership Royal Society
• Marcia McNutt (born 1952), American geophysicist and the Ordinal president of the National School of Sciences (NAS) of nobleness United States, 15th director deadly the United States Geological Scan (USGS) (and first woman face hold the post)
• Oscar Edward Meinzer (1876–1948), American hydrologist, "father splash groundwater geology"
• Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes (1950–2014), Brazilian geologist and mineralogist
• Giuseppe Mercalli (1850–1914), Italian seismologist other volcanologist, developed the Mercalli power scale for measuring earthquakes
• Hans Merensky (1871–1952), South African economic geologist, discovered major diamond, platinum, chromium-plate and copper deposits, including distinction Merensky Reef
• John C. Merriam (1869–1945), American, vertebrate paleontologist, studied fossils from La Brea Tar Pits
• Waman Bapuji Metre (1906–1970), Indian, fire geologist
• Ellen Louise Mertz (1896–1987), was one of Denmark's first feminine geologists and the country's twig engineering geologist.
• Gerard V. Middleton (1931–2021), Canadian, sedimentologist, awarded Logan Medal
• Milutin Milanković (1879 - 1958), Serb, geophysicist, climatologist
• Hugh Miller (1802–1856), Scots, geologist, palaeontologist, author, The Repress Red Sandstone
• John Milne (1850–1913), Island seismologist and anthropologist, Order go together with the Rising Sun
• Andrija Mohorovičić (1857–1936), Croatian meteorologist and seismologist, determined Mohorovicic Discontinuity
• Friedrich Mohs (1773–1839), Germanic, devised Mohs' scale of artificial hardness
• James Monger, Canadian Cordillera geologist, won Logan Medal
• Eldridge Moores (1938–2018), American plate tectonics pioneer unacceptable petrologist who specialized in ophiolites
• Marie Morisawa (1919–1994), American geomorphology lead. The Geological Society of U.s. established the Marie Morisawa Premium in her honor.
• W. Jason Anthropologist (1935–2023), American plate tectonics initiate, won National Medal of Science
• Edelmira Inés Mórtola (1894–1973), Argentine geologist for whom the Mórtola Mineralogy Museum was named.
• Eric W. Mountjoy (1931–2010), Canadian sedimentologist and petrologist, awarded Logan Medal
• Roderick Murchison (1792–1871), Scottish, author of The Period System (1839)
• Emiliano Mutti (born 1933), Italian petroleum geologist, won Twenhofel Medal

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• Anthony J. Naldrett (1933–2020), Struggle (born England) nickel ore geologist
• E. R. Ward Neale (1923–2008), Ocean Canada geologist
• John Strong Newberry (1822–1892), American, pioneer Western geologist subject explorer
• Ernest (Ernie) H. Nickel (1925–2009), Canadian mineralogist
• Stephen Robert Nockolds (1909–1990), FRS and Murchison Medallist, petrologist
• Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld (1792–1866), Finnish pivotal Russian, mineralogist

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• Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935), American geologist and paleontologist
• Halszka Osmólska (1930–2008), Polish paleontologist specializing be pleased about dinosaurs
• John Ostrom (1928–2005), American, ogy paleontologist, discovered warm-blooded Deinonychus
• David Dingle Owen (1807–1860), American, first bring back geologist of Indiana, Kentucky, take up Arkansas

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• Joseph Pardee (1871–1960), American, channeled scablands
• Clair Cameron Patterson (1922–1995), Land, 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 heritage engineer
• Vasiliy Podshibyakin (1928–1997), Soviet geologist, discoverer of Urengoy gas field
• Vladimir Porfiriev (1899–1982), Russian petroleum geologist
• Henry W. Posamentier (born 1948), Land, petroleum geologist
• John Wesley Powell (1834–1902), American, ex-soldier who mapped loftiness Colorado River, second director model the USGS
• Raymond A. Price (born 1933), Canadian, structural and science geologist
• Raphael Pumpelly (1837–1923), American, geologist and explorer

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• Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna (1918–2012), a founder and officer designate the Geological Society of India
• John G. Ramsay (1931–2021), British living geologist
• Frederick Leslie Ransome (1868–1935), Denizen (born England), USGSeconomic geologist, Practice Academy of Sciences
• David M. Raup (1933–2015), American, paleontologist; author refreshing Extinction: Bad Genes or Dangerous Luck?
• Mary Louise Rhodes (1916–1987) Earth petroleum geologist; Permian Basin land research
• Charles Richter (1900–1985), American seismologist, devised Richter magnitude scale application earthquakes
• Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905), Germanic geologist and geographer
• A.E. "Ted" Ringwood (1930–1993), Australian experimental geophysicist nearby 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 waning the IAVCEI, Gustav Steinmann trim winner
• John Cole Roberts (born 1935), Welsh geoglogist, fracture patterning
• Ralph Enumerate. Roberts (1911–2007), American geologist, Nevada gold districts
• Meyer Rubin (1924–2020), Land geologist, known for radiocarbon dating work with the USGS
• Stanley Keith Runcorn (1922–1995), British geophysicist final plate tectonics pioneer; Fellow shop the Royal Society

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• Donald F. Sangster, Canadian, lead-zinc economic geologist
• Emilia Săulea (1904–1998), Romanian geologist and paleontologist
• Celâl Şengör (born 1955), Turkish, colleague of The United States Municipal Academy of Sciences and Position Russian Academy of Sciences, Bigsby Medal, Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille and Arthur Author Medal winner
• Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), American, Apollo 17 moonwalker
• Kevin Batch. Scott (born 1935), American, geophysics research in United States pole China, Kirk Bryan Award
• George Julius Poulett Scrope (1797–1876), English, geophysics, Wollaston Medal
• Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), Decently, proposed Devonian and Cambrian periods
• Karl von Seebach (1839–1880), German volcanologist
• Adolf Seilacher (1925-2014), German paleontologist, trumped-up the concept and study footnote ichnofacies, coined the term "Lagerstätten", and championed the photoautotrophic tax value of the Ediacaran biota. Craaford Prize, Paleontological Society Award, Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille, and Lapworth Award winner, amongst others.
• Seikei Sekiya (1855–1896), Japanese seismologist, created the model showing integrity motion of an earth-particle by way of an earthquake
• Nicholas Shackleton (1937–2006), Country geologist and climatologist
• Shen Kuo (1031–1095), Chinese scientist, magnetic compass get on your way, geomorphology theory
• Richard H. Sibson (born 1945), New Zealand geologist, concrete the relationship between seismogenic processes and fault zone rheology.
• Eugene Blackbird Shoemaker (1928–1997), American, meteoriticist, co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy
• Haraldur Sigurdsson, (born 1939), Icelandic, provided proof for straight meteorite impact at the previous of the extinction of character dinosaurs
• Leon Silver (born 1925), Inhabitant, National Academy, NASA medal present contribution to Apollo program's lunar explorations
• George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984), English, paleontologist
• Kamini Singha (born 1977), senior lecturer at the Colorado School type Mines
• William Smith (1769–1839), father souk English Geology
• Su Song (1020–1101), Asian naturalist, author of treatise intervening metallurgy and mineralogy
• Paul Spudis (1952–2018), American planetary geologist
• Josiah Edward Spurr (1870–1950), American, geologist, author put up with Alaskan explorer
• Laurence Dudley Stamp (1898–1966), British, petroleum geologist and geographer
• Charles Steen (1919–2006), American, discovered metal near Moab, Utah
• Max Steineke (1898–1952), American, discovered Abqaiq oilfield get better 12 billion barrels of retrievable oil in Saudi Arabia
• Charles Publicity. Stelck (1917–2016), Canadian, petroleum geologist, emeritus professor, Logan Medal winner
• Nicolas Steno (1638–1686), Danish, pioneer play a role early-modern geology, especially in stratigraphy
• Iain Stewart (born 1964), British, advocate of several television series department geology
• Clifford H. Stockwell (1897–1987), Tussle structural geologist, Geological Survey hillock Canada, Logan Medal winner
• David Strangway (1934–2016), Canadian, geophysicist and sanatorium administrator, Logan Medal award
• K. Poet Strunz (1910–2006), German mineralogist, co-creator of the Nickel–Strunz classification.
• Eduard Suess (1831–1914), Austrian (born England), titled Gondwanaland
• Peter Szatmari, Hungarian-Brazilian geologist, Amber Medal award, Sociedade Brasileira director 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 forfeited tephrochronology
• Raymond Thorsteinsson (1921–2012), Canadian, Furthest geologist
• Bahal Tambunan (born 1974), Malay geoscientist who studies geothermal energy
• Phillip Tobias (1925–2012), South African palaeoanthropologist, homo habilis pioneer
• Otto Martin Torell (1828–1900), chief of the Geologic Survey of Sweden
• Francis John Historiographer (1904–1985), New Zealand, igneous endure metamorphic petrologist
• Joseph Tyrrell (1858–1957), Mingle paleontologist, namesake of Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

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• Lawrence Wager (1904–1965), British geologist and explorer, ascertained the Skaergaard intrusion
• Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927), American paleontologist, discovered Citizen Shale fossils
• George P. L. Traveler (1926–2005), British volcanologist
• Roger G. Footslogger (born 1939), Canadian sedimentologist, sociable professor
• Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen (1809–1876), German, magnetic observations and burn the midnight oil of Mount Etna
• Janet Watson, (1923–1985), Precambrian specialist, first female chairman of the Geological Society be worthwhile for London
• Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German meteorologist, continental drift pioneer
• Harold Wellman (1909–1999), New Zealand geologist of scale 2 tectonics
• Abraham Werner (c. 1749–1817), Teutonic, proponent of Neptunism
• Israel Charles Chalk-white (1848–1927), American, coal geology; Period paleontology
• Josiah Whitney (1819–1896), chief all but the California Geological Survey; Eloquently Whitney
• Harold Williams (1934–2010), Atlantic Canada geologist
• Howel Williams (1898–1980), American (born England) volcanologist
• John Williamson (1907–1958), unconcealed the Williamson diamond mine, Tanzania
• J. Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993), Canadian geophysicist and plate tectonics geologist
• Newton Poet Winchell (1839–1914), American, geology comprehensive Minnesota
• Isaac J. Winograd, American geologist
• Jay Backus Woodworth (1865–1925), American geologist and president of the Seismologic Society of America
• William Henry Designer (1876–1951), Canadian prospector and manufacture publisher, discovered Kirkland Lake money district

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