LISTS

See also Paleontoligists.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Louis Agassiz	Paleontologist	28-May-1807	14-Dec-1873	Ichthyologist at Harvard
Georg Agricola	Geologist	24-Mar-1490	21-Nov-1555	Father of Minerology
Emile Argand	Geologist	6-Jan-1879	14-Sep-1940	Theory of embryotectonics
William Buckland	Geologist	12-Mar-1784	15-Aug-1856	Reliquiae Diluvianae
Edward Bullard	Physicist	21-Sep-1907	3-Apr-1980	Continental drift, magnetic fields
Per Theodor Cleve	Chemist	10-Feb-1840	18-Jun-1905	Discovered holmium (Ho) and thulium (Tm)
James Dwight Dana	Geologist	12-Feb-1813	14-Apr-1895	Manual of Geology
John William Dawson	Geologist	30-Oct-1820	20-Nov-1899	Air Breathers of the Coal Period
Henry de la Beche	Geologist	1796	13-Apr-1855	Created first Geologic Survey
Jean-André Deluc	Geologist	8-Feb-1727	7-Nov-1817	Lettres... sur les montagnes
Gérard Paul Deshayes	Geologist	13-May-1797	9-Jun-1875	Mollusques de l'Algérie
Nicolas Desmarest	Geologist	16-Sep-1725	28-Sep-1815	Proved rocks can be igneous
Geoffrey Eglinton	Geologist	1-Nov-1927		Molecular organic geochemistry
Franz Ritter von Hauer	Geologist	30-Jan-1822	20-Mar-1899	Geological Map of Austro-Hungary
René-Just Haüy	Geologist	28-Feb-1743	1-Jun-1822	Founder of crystallography
Arthur Holmes	Geologist	14-Jan-1890	20-Sep-1965	Father of the geological timescale
Herbert Hoover	Head of State	10-Aug-1874	20-Oct-1964	31st US President, 1929-33
Lou Hoover	First Lady	29-Mar-1874	7-Jan-1944	Wife of US President Herbert Hoover
Leonard Horner	Geologist	17-Jan-1785	5-Mar-1864	Scottish geologist, educator
James Hutton	Geologist	3-Jun-1726	26-Mar-1797	Theory of the Earth
Charles Lyell	Geologist	14-Nov-1797	22-Feb-1875	Principles of Geology
Gideon Mantell	Geologist	3-Feb-1790	10-Nov-1852	English paleontologist and geologist
Drummond Matthews	Geologist	5-Feb-1931	20-Jul-1997	Plate tectonics
John Michell	Geologist	1724	21-Apr-1793	Phaenomena of Earthquakes
Friedrich Mohs	Geologist	29-Jan-1773	29-Sep-1839	Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness
John Wesley Powell	Geologist	24-Mar-1834	23-Sep-1902	Exploration of the Colorado River
William Smith	Geologist	23-Mar-1769	28-Aug-1839	Father of English Geology
Nicolaus Steno	Geologist	10-Jan-1631	25-Nov-1686	De solido intra solidum
Eduard Suess	Geologist	20-Aug-1831	26-Apr-1914	Das Antlitz der Erde
James V. Taranik	Geologist	23-Apr-1940	21-Jun-2011	Desert Research Institute
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	Philosopher	1-May-1881	10-Apr-1955	The Phenomenon of Man
Herbert Hall Turner	Astronomer	13-Aug-1861	20-Aug-1930	Stellar positions
Lester Frank Ward	Sociologist	18-Jun-1841	18-Apr-1913	Dynamic Sociology
Abraham Gottlob Werner	Geologist	25-Sep-1750	30-Jun-1817	Neptunist school of geology

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