- Charles Lyell
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, KT, (November 14, 1797 - February 22, 1875) was a Scottish lawyer, geologist, and populariser of uniformitarianism. Charles Lyell was born in Kinnordy, Angus, the eldest of ten children. Lyell's father, also named Charles, was a lawyer and botanist of minor repute and first exposed the younger Charles to the study of nature. Charles spent much of his childhood at the family’s other home, Bartley Lodge in the New Forest, England, … - Colin Campbell
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 2007. The consequences of this are uncertain but drastic, due to the world's dependence on fossil fuels for the vast majority of its energy. His theories have received wide attention, but are disputed by some in the oil industry and have not significantly changed U.S. governmental energy policies at this time. - James Hutton
James Hutton (3 June 1726 O.S. (14 June 1726 N.S.), Edinburgh, Scotland - 26 March 1797) was a Scottish geologist, noted for formulating uniformitarianism and the Plutonist School of thought. He is considered the father of modern geology. - William Smith
William Smith (March 23 1769 - August 28 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geologic map. He is known as the "Father of English Geology", however recognition was slow in coming. His work was plagiarised, he was financially ruined, and he spent time in debtors' prison. The genteel practitioners of the new science of geology and founders of the geological societies snubbed the low-born Smith. - John Muir
John Muir was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read by millions and are still popular today. His direct activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. - Alfred Wegener
Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German interdisciplinary scientist and meteorologist, who became famous for his theory of continental drift ("die Verschiebung der Kontinente" in his words). - Louis Agassiz
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists. - Adam Sedgwick
Adam Sedgwick (March 22nd, 1785-January 27, 1873) was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale and later the Cambrian period. The latter proposal was based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata. Sedgwick was born in Dent, Yorkshire, the third child of an Anglican vicar. He was educated at Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Cambridge. - John Wesley Powell
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 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first passage through the Grand Canyon. - John Morris
John Morris (1810 - 1886) was an English geologist. Morris was professor of geology at University College, London from 1854 to 1877. He was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1876. - Hugh Miller
Hugh Miller (1802 - 1856) was a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer and an evangelical Christian. Born in Cromarty, he had an ordinary parish school education, but soon showed a remarkable love of reading and power of story-telling. At 17 he was apprenticed to a stonemason, and his work in quarries, together with rambles among the rocks of his native shore, led him to the study of geology. In 1829 he published a volume of poems, … - Harrison Schmitt
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 and one of the last two people to walk on the moon. Harrison Schmitt is also credited with taking the photograph of the earth called "Blue Moon". - William Buckland
William Buckland (Axminster, 12 March, 1784 - 24 August, 1856) was an English geologist and palaeontologist, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur. He was a proponent of Old Earth creationism and Flood geology, who later became convinced by the glaciation theory of Louis Agassiz. - Ian Plimer
Ian R. Plimer is an Australian geologist and academic. He has published over 120 academic papers and six popular books. Plimer is currently Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide. He was previously a Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is also a prominent member of the Australian Skeptics. He was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2004. - Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez (born 1940), son of Nobel Prize winning physicist Luis Alvarez, is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. Born in Berkeley, California, he earned his B.A. in geology in 1962 from Carleton College in Minnesota and Ph.D. in geology from Princeton University in 1967. His grandfather is the famed physician Walter C. Alvarez and his great-grandfather Luis F. Alvarez, who worked as a doctor in Hawaii, … - James Hall
James Hall (September 12, 1811-August 7, 1898) was an American geologist and paleontologist. He was a noted authority on stratigraphy and had an influential role in the development of American paleontology. - Farouk El-Baz
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 the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography. Currently, Dr. El-Baz is Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, Boston MA, U.S.A. He is Adjunct Professor of Geology at the Faculty of Science, … - Clarence King
Clarence King (January 6,1842 - December 24,1901) was an American geologist and mountaineer. He was the first director of the United States Geological Survey, from 1879-1881. Clarence King was noted for his exploration of the Sierra Nevada. He was born in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1862, King graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College with a Ph.B. in chemistry. While at Yale, he studied with James Dwight Dana. - Kenneth S. Deffeyes
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, Texas. In 1967 he began teaching at Princeton University, where he is now Professor Emeritus. In John McPhee's 1981 book "Basin and Range" (about the origin of Basin and Range topography), Prof. Deffeyes helps explain geological science to McPhee through explaining road cuts associated with Interstate highway I-80. - Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS (May 5 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian Antarctic explorer and geologist. With Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. - John Stevens Henslow
John Stevens Henslow (February 6, 1796 - May 16, 1861) was an English botanist and geologist. Henslow was born at Rochester, the son of a solicitor John Prentis Henslow, who was the son of Sir John Henslow. He and was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge where he graduated as 16th wrangler in 1818, the year in which Adam Sedgwick became Woodwardian Professor of Geology. Henslow developed a passion for natural history which largely influenced his career, … - David Deming
David Deming is an associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He graduated from Indiana University in 1983 with a BS degree in geology, and received a Ph.D in geophysics from the University of Utah in 1988. Prior to his arrival at the University of Oklahoma in 1992, Deming held a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the U.S. Geological Survey in California. - Tim Patterson
R. Timothy Patterson, Ph.D., is a professor of geology, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University as well as Director of the Ottawa Geoscience Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow in the School of Geography, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He holds a B.Sc. in Biology, B.A. in Geology, both from Dalhousie University, Halifax, … - John Phillips
John Phillips was an English geologist. Philips was born at Marden in Wiltshire. His father belonged to an old Welsh family, but settled in England as an officer of excise and married the sister of William Smith, known as the “Father of English Geology." When both parents died when he was a child, Phillips came under the charge of his uncle William Smith. - Jeremy Leggett
Jeremy Leggett is a former geologist, turned environmentalist, turned social entrepreneur and author. He has written several books including Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis (Portobello, 2005: also published in the US as The Empty Tank) and The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era (Penguin, 1999). These books examined the issues of oil depletion and global warming. - Roderick Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison KCB FRS (19 February, 1792 - 22 October, 1871), was an influential Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system. - Arthur Holmes
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 uranium-lead radiometric dating specifically designed to measure the age of a rock during his undergraduate studies. His result was 370 Ma for a Devonian rock from Norway. He graduated in 1910, and the result was published 1911, after he already travelled to Mozambique for six months to prospect for minerals. - John Evans
Sir John Evans was an English archaeologist and geologist. John Evans was the son of the Rev. Dr A. B. Evans, headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, and was born at Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire. He was for many years head of the extensive paper manufactory of Messrs John Dickinson at Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, but was especially distinguished as an antiquary and numismatist, that is, a collector of ancient objects and coins. - Paul F. Hoffman
Paul F. Hoffman is a Canadian geologist and the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He specializes in the Precambrian era and is widely known for his theory of the Snowball Earth about phenomena that occurred in the Neoproterozoic era, co-published with Daniel P. Schrag. He received the B.Sc. from McMaster University in 1964, the M.Sc. from Johns Hopkins University in 1965, and was awarded a Ph.D. by Johns Hopkins University in 1970. - Jim Berkland
Jim Berkland, is a controversial retired geologist who worked many years for the U.S. Geological Survey. He was also the first County Geologist for Santa Clara County (in northern California) and was in that position for 21 years. He has published over 50 scientific papers. He has been a popular guest on many network news programs and talk shows on the subject of earthquake prediction. Mr. Berkland claims he has developed a method for predicting earthquakes, … - Wibjorn Karlen
Wibjorn Karlen, Ph.D, is a professor emeritus of physical geography and quaternary geology at Stockholm University. Karlen is a global warming skeptic, and claims: "One of the big problems with trying to determine long-term temperature changes, is that weather records only go back to about 1860. By relying on statistical reconstruction of the last 1000 years, using only the temperature patterns of the last 140 years instead of actual temperature readings, … - Abraham Gottlob Werner
Abraham Gottlob Werner (September 25, 1749 - June 30, 1817), was a German geologist who set out a controversial theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and coined the now obsolete word Neptunism. - Lonnie Thompson
Lonnie Thompson (b.1948), is a glaciologist and Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University. He has achieved global recognition for drilling ice cores from mountain glaciers and ice caps in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. He and his wife, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, run the ice core paleoclimatology research group at the Byrd Polar Research Center. - Archibald Geikie
Sir Archibald Geikie, OM, PRS (December 28, 1835 - November 10, 1924), Scottish geologist, was born at Edinburgh. The elder brother of James Geikie, he was educated at the high school and University of Edinburgh, and in 1855 was appointed an assistant on the Geological Survey. Wielding the pen with no less facility than the hammer, he inaugurated his long list of works with "The Story of a Boulder; or, Gleanings from the Note-Book of a Geologist" (1858). - John Hickenlooper
John Wright Hickenlooper (born February 7, 1952) is Mayor of the City and County of Denver, Colorado. He was born in Narberth, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Before becoming mayor in June 2003 he was a geologist turned entrepreneur: in addition to being very successful with real estate, he is also the owner of several popular restaurants, including Denver's first brewpub, the Wynkoop Brewing Company. - Edward Forbes
Edward Forbes was a British naturalist. - James Dwight Dana
James Dwight Dana (February 12 1813-April 14 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. He made important studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans. - Robert Jameson
Professor Robert Jameson (1774-1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist, born in Leith, near Edinburgh, in July 1774. As Regius Professor at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, Jameson is notable for his advanced scholarship in natural history, his superb museum collection, and his tuition of Charles Darwin. Darwin attended Robert Jameson's natural history course at the University of Edinburgh in his teenage years, … - James Hector
Sir James Hector (March 16, 1834-November 06, 1907) was a Scottish geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist. He went on to have a lengthy career as a government employed man of science in New Zealand, and during this period he dominated the Colony's scientific institutions in a way that no single man has since. He attended the Edinburgh Academy. At 14, he began articling as an actuary at his father's office. - Phil Christensen
Dr. Phil Christensen, Ph.D., is a geologist and Mars scientist. Read how the young grad student, who sat in the back of the room watching Mars scientists vote on Viking landing sites in 1976, became the Principal Investigator for four instruments at Mars (2 in orbit and two more roving around on the surface of the planet).
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