| NAME |
OCCUPATION |
SUMMARY |
BORN |
DIED |
|
Georg Agricola
|
Geologist |
Father of Minerology |
24-Mar-1490 |
21-Nov-1555 |
DEAD
|
William Buckland
|
Geologist |
Reliquiae Diluvianae |
12-Mar-1784 |
15-Aug-1856 |
DEAD
|
John William Dawson
|
Geologist |
Air Breathers of the Coal Period |
30-Oct-1820 |
20-Nov-1899 |
DEAD
|
Henry de la Beche
|
Geologist |
Created first Geologic Survey |
1796 |
13-Apr-1855 |
DEAD
|
Jean-André Deluc
|
Geologist |
Lettres... sur les montagnes |
08-Feb-1727 |
07-Nov-1817 |
DEAD
|
Gérard Paul Deshayes
|
Geologist |
Mollusques de l'Algérie |
13-May-1797 |
09-Jun-1875 |
DEAD
|
Nicolas Desmarest
|
Geologist |
Proved rocks can be igneous |
16-Sep-1725 |
28-Sep-1815 |
DEAD
|
| Geoffrey Eglinton
|
Geologist |
Molecular organic geochemistry |
01-Nov-1927 |
TBD |
|
Franz Ritter von Hauer
|
Geologist |
Geological Map of Austro-Hungary |
30-Jan-1822 |
20-Mar-1899 |
DEAD
|
René-Just Haüy
|
Geologist |
Founder of crystallography |
28-Feb-1743 |
01-Jun-1822 |
DEAD
|
| Raymond Hide
|
Geologist |
Earth's rotation |
17-May-1929 |
TBD |
|
Leonard Horner
|
Geologist |
Scottish geologist, educator |
17-Jan-1785 |
05-Mar-1864 |
DEAD
|
James Hutton
|
Geologist |
Theory of the Earth |
03-Jun-1726 |
26-Mar-1797 |
DEAD
|
Charles Lyell
|
Geologist |
Principles of Geology |
14-Nov-1797 |
22-Feb-1875 |
DEAD
|
Gideon Mantell
|
Geologist |
English paleontologist and geologist |
03-Feb-1790 |
10-Nov-1852 |
DEAD
|
Drummond Matthews
|
Geologist |
Plate tectonics |
05-Feb-1931 |
20-Jul-1997 |
DEAD
|
John Michell
|
Geologist |
Phaenomena of Earthquakes |
1724 |
21-Apr-1793 |
DEAD
|
John Wesley Powell
|
Geologist |
Exploration of the Colorado River |
24-Mar-1834 |
23-Sep-1902 |
DEAD
|
William Smith
|
Geologist |
Father of English Geology |
23-Mar-1769 |
28-Aug-1839 |
DEAD
|
Nicolaus Steno
|
Geologist |
De solido intra solidum |
10-Jan-1631 |
25-Nov-1686 |
DEAD
|
Eduard Suess
|
Geologist |
Das Antlitz der Erde |
20-Aug-1831 |
26-Apr-1914 |
DEAD
|
| James V. Taranik
|
Geologist |
Desert Research Institute |
1941 |
TBD |
|
Abraham Gottlob Werner
|
Geologist |
Neptunist school of geology |
25-Sep-1750 |
30-Jun-1817 |
DEAD
|
