List of geologists
A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology.The following is a list of famous geologists
- Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806-1886)
- Louis Agassiz : (1807-1873) work on ice ages, glaciers.
- Walter Alvarez (b. 1940)
- Mary Anning
- Adolphe d'Archiac (1802-1868)
- Giovanni Arduino : (1714-1795) first classification of geological time.
- Etheldred Benett
- Pierre Berthier : discovered the properties of Bauxite
- Norman L. Bowen (1887-1956)
- John C. Branner
- William Conybeare (1787-1857)
- James Dwight Dana (1813 - 1895)
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901)
- Sir John William Dawson (1820-1899)
- Arthur L. Day
- Henry De la Beche (1796-1855)
- Nicolas Desmarest (1725-1815)
- Robert Dietz
- Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont (1798-1874)
- Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865-1950)
- Julius von Haast (1824 - 1887)
- Harry Hess (1906-1969)
- Arthur Holmes (1890-1965)
- M. King Hubbert (1903-1989)
- James Hutton : (1726-1797). father of modern geology
- Danie G. Krige inventor of kriging.
- William Edmond Logan (1798-1875)
- Sir Charles Lyell
- William Maclure (1763 - 1840)
- Frederick Mohs
- W. Jason Morgan
- Roderick Murchison
- R.A.F. Penrose, Jr
- John Phillips : (1800-1874)
- Charles Richter
- Harrison Schmitt : Apollo_17 moonwalker.
- Adam Sedgwick
- William Smith
- Nicolas Steno : (1638-1686) pioneer in early-modern geology
- Edward Suess
- Alfred Wegener
- Josiah Whitney : (1819-1896) chief of the California Geological Survey
- J. Tuzo Wilson
- Harry M. Woodward: (c.1938) did work with respect to the Old Faithful Geyser