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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Louis Agassiz
Paleontologist
28-May-1807 14-Dec-1873 Ichthyologist at Harvard
Georg Agricola
Geologist
24-Mar-1490 21-Nov-1555 Father of Minerology
Emile Argand
Geologist
6-Jan-1879 14-Sep-1940 Theory of embryotectonics
William Buckland
Geologist
12-Mar-1784 15-Aug-1856 Reliquiae Diluvianae
Edward Bullard
Physicist
21-Sep-1907 3-Apr-1980 Continental drift, magnetic fields
Per Theodor Cleve
Chemist
10-Feb-1840 18-Jun-1905 Discovered holmium (Ho) and thulium (Tm)
James Dwight Dana
Geologist
12-Feb-1813 14-Apr-1895 Manual of Geology
John William Dawson
Geologist
30-Oct-1820 20-Nov-1899 Air Breathers of the Coal Period
Henry de la Beche
Geologist
1796 13-Apr-1855 Created first Geologic Survey
Jean-André Deluc
Geologist
8-Feb-1727 7-Nov-1817 Lettres... sur les montagnes
Gérard Paul Deshayes
Geologist
13-May-1797 9-Jun-1875 Mollusques de l'Algérie
Nicolas Desmarest
Geologist
16-Sep-1725 28-Sep-1815 Proved rocks can be igneous
Geoffrey Eglinton
Geologist
1-Nov-1927   Molecular organic geochemistry
Franz Ritter von Hauer
Geologist
30-Jan-1822 20-Mar-1899 Geological Map of Austro-Hungary
René-Just Haüy
Geologist
28-Feb-1743 1-Jun-1822 Founder of crystallography
Arthur Holmes
Geologist
14-Jan-1890 20-Sep-1965 Father of the geological timescale
Herbert Hoover
Head of State
10-Aug-1874 20-Oct-1964 31st US President, 1929-33
Lou Hoover
First Lady
29-Mar-1874 7-Jan-1944 Wife of US President Herbert Hoover
Leonard Horner
Geologist
17-Jan-1785 5-Mar-1864 Scottish geologist, educator
James Hutton
Geologist
3-Jun-1726 26-Mar-1797 Theory of the Earth
Charles Lyell
Geologist
14-Nov-1797 22-Feb-1875 Principles of Geology
Gideon Mantell
Geologist
3-Feb-1790 10-Nov-1852 English paleontologist and geologist
Drummond Matthews
Geologist
5-Feb-1931 20-Jul-1997 Plate tectonics
John Michell
Geologist
1724 21-Apr-1793 Phaenomena of Earthquakes
Friedrich Mohs
Geologist
29-Jan-1773 29-Sep-1839 Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness
John Wesley Powell
Geologist
24-Mar-1834 23-Sep-1902 Exploration of the Colorado River
William Smith
Geologist
23-Mar-1769 28-Aug-1839 Father of English Geology
Nicolaus Steno
Geologist
10-Jan-1631 25-Nov-1686 De solido intra solidum
Eduard Suess
Geologist
20-Aug-1831 26-Apr-1914 Das Antlitz der Erde
James V. Taranik
Geologist
23-Apr-1940 21-Jun-2011 Desert Research Institute
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Philosopher
1-May-1881 10-Apr-1955 The Phenomenon of Man
Herbert Hall Turner
Astronomer
13-Aug-1861 20-Aug-1930 Stellar positions
Lester Frank Ward
Sociologist
18-Jun-1841 18-Apr-1913 Dynamic Sociology
Abraham Gottlob Werner
Geologist
25-Sep-1750 30-Jun-1817 Neptunist school of geology



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