Howel Williams

male
Howel Williams (1898-1980) was a noted American geologist and volcanologist. He was born of Welsh parents in Liverpool, England, on October 12,...
Henry Clifton Sorby

Henry Clifton Sorby

male, deceased (1908)
Henry Clifton Sorby (May 10, 1826 - March 9, 1908), English microscopist and geologist, was born at Woodbourne near Sheffield in Yorkshire. He...
Ferdinand Zirkel

Ferdinand Zirkel

male, deceased (1912)
Ferdinand Zirkel (March 20, 1838 - June 12, 1912), a German geologist and petrographer, was born at Bonn. He was educated in his native town, and...

Alfred Harker

male, deceased (1939)
Alfred Harker (February 19, 1859 - July 28, 1939), FRS was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography. He...
Charles R. van Hise

Charles R. van Hise

male, deceased (1918)
Charles Richard Van Hise was an academic and president of the University of Wisconsin from 1903 to 1918. Van Hise was born in Fulton, Wisconsin. He...
Lucien Cayeux

Lucien Cayeux

male, deceased (1944)
Lucien Cayeux was a French was a sedimentary petrographer. In 1902 he joins the "l'Ecole des Mines" and becomes a professor of geology. In 1912 he...
Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg

Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg

male, deceased (1927)
Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg was an Austrian mineralogist. He was born 19 April 1836 in Littau bei Olmütz and studied at the University of V...

Orville Adalbert Derby

male, deceased (1915)
Orville Adalbert Derby was an American geologist who worked in Brazil. Derby studied geology at the Cornell University, obtaining his degree in...

Emil Cohen

male, deceased (1905)
Emil Cohen (1842-1905) was a German mineralogist, born in Jutland. He studied in the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg and from 1867 to 1872...
Alphonse Francois Renard

Alphonse Francois Renard

male, deceased (1903)
Alphonse Francois Renard (1842 - 1903), Belgian geologist and petrographer, was born at Ronse, in East Flanders, on 27 September 1842. He was...