Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell

male, deceased (1875)
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, KT, (November 14, 1797 - February 22, 1875) was a Scottish lawyer, geologist, and populariser of uniformitarianism....

Colin Campbell

male, 78 years old
Colin J. Campbell, Ph.D., (born in Berlin, Germany in 1931) is a retired British petroleum geologist who predicts that oil production will peak by...
James Hutton

James Hutton

male, deceased (1797)
James Hutton (3 June 1726 O.S. (14 June 1726 N.S.), Edinburgh, Scotland - 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, noted for formulating...
William Smith

William Smith

male, deceased (1839)
William Smith (March 23 1769 - August 28 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geologic map. He is known as...
John Muir

John Muir

male, deceased (1914)
John Muir was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife,...
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...
Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz

male, deceased (1873)
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and...
Adam Sedgwick

Adam Sedgwick

male, deceased (1873)
Adam Sedgwick (March 22nd, 1785-January 27, 1873) was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological...
John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell

male, deceased (1902)
John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, and explorer of the American West. He is famous for the...

John Morris

male, deceased (1886)
John Morris (1810 - 1886) was an English geologist. Morris was professor of geology at University College, London from 1854 to 1877. He was awarded...