Alfred Wegener

Alfred Wegener

male, deceased (1930)
Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German interdisciplinary scientist and meteorologist, who became famous for his theory of continental drift ("die...
Russell Banks

Russell Banks

male, 69 years old
Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. He is president of the International...
Arthur Holmes

Arthur Holmes

male, deceased (1965)
Arthur Holmes (January 14 1890 - September 20 1965) was a British geologist. As a child he lived in Low Fell, Gateshead. He performed the first...

Frank Bursley Taylor

male, deceased (1938)
Frank Bursley Taylor, [b. 1860, d. 1938] was a wealthy amateur American geologist, a specialist in the glacial geology of the Great Lakes, and...
Marie Tharp

Marie Tharp

female, deceased (2006)
Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920 - August 23, 2006) was a geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, along with her colleague Bruce Heezen,...

Drummond Matthews

male, deceased (1997)
Drummond Hoyle Matthews (5 February, 1931 - 20 July, 1997) was a British marine geologist and geophysicist and a key contributor to the theory of...

Antonio Snider-Pellegrini

male
Antonio Snider-Pellegrini was a nineteenth century French geographer and scientist who theorized about the possibility of continental drift,...
Alex du Toit

Alex du Toit

male, deceased (1948)
Alexander Logie du Toit (1878-1948) was a geologist from South Africa, and an early supporter of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift....
Samuel Warren Carey

Samuel Warren Carey

male, deceased (2002)
Samuel Warren Carey <small>AO</small> (* November 1, 1911 in Campbelltown; † March 20, 2002 in Hobart) was an Australian geologist who was an ea...
Roberto Mantovani

Roberto Mantovani

male, deceased (1933)
Roberto Mantovani was an violinist and scientist from Italy. His father, Timoteo, died six months after his birth. His mother, Luigia Ferrari,...