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Abraham Gottlob Werner
German geologist (1749-1817)
Adam Sedgwick
English geologist (1785-1873)
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Finland-Swedish baron, geologist and explorer (1832–1901)
Alexandre Brongniart
French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (1770–1847)
Alfred Wegener
German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist
Andrija Mohorovičić
Croatian seismologist and geophysicist
Archibald Geikie
Scottish geologist and writer
Bruce C. Heezen
American geologist
C. H. D. Buys Ballot
Dutch physicist (*1817 – †1890)
Charles Lyell
British geologist
Charles Richter
Seismologist and mathematician
Christian Samuel Weiss
German mineralogist (1780-1856)
Clair Patterson
American geochemist (1922–1995)
David A. Johnston
American volcanologist (1949–1980)
Édouard-Alfred Martel
French cave explorer
Eilhard Mitscherlich
German chemist
Emil Constantinescu
Romanian professor and politician
Francis Beaufort
Irish hydrographer
Friedrich Mohs
German geologist and mineralogist
Georgius Agricola
German mineralogist
Harry Glicken
American geologist and volcanologist
Harry Page Woodward
Australian geologist
Horace Bénédict de Saussure
Genevan scientist and mountaineer
Jacques Cousteau
Inventor of scuba-diving apparatus and film-maker
James Hansen
American physicist
James Hutton
Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist
Jean-Étienne Guettard
French scientist (1715-1786)
John Tuzo Wilson
Canadian geologist (1908–1993)
Katharine Hayhoe
Atmospheric scientist
Katia and Maurice Krafft
French volcanologists
Leonid Brekhovskikh
Soviet scientist
Marie Tharp
American oceanographer and cartographer
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Navy officer
Maurice Ewing
American geophysicist and oceanographer (1906–1974)
Michael E. Mann
American physicist and climatologist
Milutin Milanković
Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer
Nicolas Desmarest
French geologist
Nicolas Steno
17th-century Danish scientist and bishop
Robert FitzRoy
Royal Navy officer and scientist (1805–1865)
Roderick Murchison
British geologist (1792–1871)
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
American geologist and educator
Victor Goldschmidt
Mineralogist considered to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry
Vilhelm Bjerknes
Norwegian physicist and meteorologist
Vladimir Vernadsky
Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
William Maclure
18th/19th-century American geologist and cartographer
William Morris Davis
American geographer
William Smith (geologist)
English geologist (1769–1839)