Hugh Miller

Hugh Miller

male, deceased (1856)
theories of evolution, evangelical christian, The Testimony of the Rocks, Footprints of the Creator, The Cruise of the Betsey, The Old Red Sandstone…Geologist
Hugh Miller (1802 - 1856) was a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer and an evangelical Christian. Born in Cromarty, he had an ordinary parish...
Harrison Schmitt

Harrison Schmitt

male, 74 years old
astronaut, U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductee, New Mexico Republican, walked on the moon, Geologist, twelfth person
Dr. Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is a retired geologist, astronaut and former U.S. senator from New Mexico. He is the twelfth...
William Buckland

William Buckland

male, deceased (1856)
Fellow of the Royal Society, Geologist, English palaeontologist, paleontology, English, Old Earth creationism
William Buckland (Axminster, 12 March, 1784 - 24 August, 1856) was an English geologist and palaeontologist, who wrote the first full account of a...
Ian Plimer

Ian Plimer

male
Allen Roberts, global warming skeptic, Answers in Genesis, Ian R. Plimer, greenhouse skeptic, Australian Skeptic…Geologist
Ian R. Plimer is an Australian geologist and academic. He has published over 120 academic papers and six popular books. Plimer is currently...
Walter Alvarez

Walter Alvarez

male, 69 years old
Luis Alvarez, iridium, Princeton University, Helen Michel, planetary science, University of California, Berkeley…Geologist
Walter Alvarez (born 1940), son of Nobel Prize winning physicist Luis Alvarez, is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the...

James Hall

male, deceased (1898)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, Geologist, Paleontologist, American, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty, stratigraphy
James Hall (September 12, 1811-August 7, 1898) was an American geologist and paleontologist. He was a noted authority on stratigraphy and had an...
Farouk El-Baz

Farouk El-Baz

male, 71 years old (Laconia, New Hampshire, United States)
University of Missouri–Columbia alumni, Boston University, Dr. Farouk El-Baz, Egyptian families, University of Missouri–Rolla alumni, Ain Shams university…Geologist
Dr. Farouk El-Baz is an Egyptian American scientist who worked with NASA to assist in the planning of scientific exploration of the Moon, including...
Clarence King

Clarence King

male, deceased (1901)
Henry Adams, Yale University alumni, death by tuberculosis, Sierra Nevada, united states geological survey, mountaineer…Geologist
Clarence King (January 6,1842 - December 24,1901) was an American geologist and mountaineer. He was the first director of the United States...

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

male, 77 years old (California, United States)
Basin and Range, I-80, road cut, Princeton University, Beyond Oil - The view from Hubbert's peak, Hubbert peak…Geologist
Kenneth S. Deffeyes is a geologist who worked with M. King Hubbert of Hubbert's peak fame, at the Shell Oil Company research laboratory in Houston,...
Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson

male, deceased (1958)
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, new hebrides, Geologist, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Explorer of Antarctica, Knights Bachelor
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS (May 5 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian Antarctic explorer and geologist. With Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Sc...