James Dwight Dana

James Dwight Dana

male, deceased (1895)
James Dwight Dana (February 12 1813-April 14 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. He made important studies of...
Friedrich Mohs

Friedrich Mohs

male, deceased (1839)
Friedrich Mohs (January 29, 1773 - September 29, 1839) was a German geologist/mineralogist. Mohs, born in Gernrode, Germany, studied chemistry,...
Edward Salisbury Dana

Edward Salisbury Dana

male, deceased (1935)
Edward Salisbury Dana (November 16 1849-June 16 1935) was an American mineralogist and physicist. He made important contributions to the study of...
James Smithson

James Smithson

male, deceased (1829)
James Smithson, F.R.S., M.A. (1765 - June 27, 1829) was a British mineralogist and chemist noted for having left a bequest in his will to the...
Benjamin Silliman

Benjamin Silliman

male, deceased (1864)
Benjamin Silliman (8 August 1779 - 24 November 1864) was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science (at Yale University),...
Leonid Kulik

Leonid Kulik

male, deceased (1942)
Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik (Russian: Леонид Алексеевич Кулик, August 19, 1883, Tartu-April 24, 1942) was a Russian mineralogist who is noted for his...
Arthur Aikin

Arthur Aikin

male, deceased (1854)
Arthur Aikin (May 19, 1773 - April 15, 1854), English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer, was born in Warrington, Lancashire. He was the...

René Just Haüy

male, deceased (1822)
René Just Haüy was a French mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame.
Vladimir Vernadsky

Vladimir Vernadsky

male, deceased (1945)
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (January 6 1945) was a Russian-Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist whose ideas of noosphere were an important...
George Frederick Kunz

George Frederick Kunz

male, deceased (1932)
George Frederick Kunz was an American mineralogist.