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Notable Scientists: Earth Sciences

Geologists, geographers, naturalists, oceanographers, and paleontologists

Geologists

• Agassiz, Louis
• Brongniart, Alexandre
• Buch, Christian Leopold, Freiherr von
• Buckland, William
• Burnet, Thomas
• Dana, James Dwight
• Deluc, Jean André
• Dutton, Clarence Edward
• Fuchs, Sir Vivian Ernest
• Gilbert, Grove Karl
• Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham
• Guettard, Jean-Étienne
• Holmes, William Henry
• Hopkins, William
• Hutton, James
• Karpinsky, Alexander Petrovich
• Logan, Sir William Edmond
• Lyell, Sir Charles
• Marbut, Curtis Fletcher
• Mawson, Sir Douglas
• Milne, John
• Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey
• Nordenskjöld, Nils Adolf Erik, Baron
• Powell, John Wesley
• Richthofen, Ferdinand, Baron von
• Rogers, William Barton
• Sedgwick, Adam
• Smith, William
• Suess, Eduard
• Wegener, Alfred Lothar
• Werner, Abraham Gottlob
• Winthrop, John

Geographers

• Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'
• Barrow, Sir John
• Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
• Blanchard, Raoul
• Blunt, George William
• Bowman, Isaiah
• Brigham, Albert Perry
• David, T. W. E.
• Davidson, George
• Delisle, Guillaume
• Evans, Lewis
• Everest, Sir George
• Fenneman, Nevin M.
• Gannett, Henry
• Hakluyt, Richard
• Haushofer, Karl
• Hettner, Alfred
• Idrisi
• Koch, Lauge
• Markham, Sir Clements Robert
• Mawson, Sir Douglas
• Mercator, Gerardus
• Olney, Jesse
• Ortelius, Abraham
• Penck, Albrecht
• Pomponius Mela
• Przhevalsky, Nikolai Mikhailovich
• Ptolemy
• Ratzel, Friedrich
• Rennell, James
• Richthofen, Ferdinand, Baron von
• Ritter, Karl
• Scoresby, William
• Semple, Ellen Churchill
• Strabo
• Thompson, David
• Varenius, Bernhardus
• Waldseemüller, Martin
• Yaqut al-Hamawi

Meteorologists

• Abbe, Cleveland
• Bjerknes, Vilhelm Frimann Koren
• Buys Ballot, Christoph Heinrich Diedrich
• Espy, James Pollard
• Glaisher, James
• Marvin, Charles Frederick

Naturalists

• Agassiz, Alexander
• Aldrovandi, Ulisse
• Andrews, Roy Chapman
• Banks, Sir Joseph
• Bartram, William
• Bates, Henry Walter
• Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de
• Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron
• Darwin, Charles Robert
• Forster, Johann Reinhold
• Grinnell, George Bird
• Humboldt, Alexander, Freiherr von
• Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de
• Leeuwenhoek, Antony van
• Muir, John
• Mutis, José Celestino
• Pinchot, Gifford
• Pliny the Elder
• Ray, John
• Redi, Francesco
• Say, Thomas
• Swammerdam, Jan
• Thomson, Sir Charles Wyville
• Wallace, Alfred Russel
• Willughby, Francis

Oceanographers

• Ballard, Robert
• Cousteau, Jacques Yves
• Ewing, William Maurice
• Rennell, James

Paleontologists

• Andrews, Roy Chapman
• Cope, Edward Drinker
• Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron
• Hall, James
• Osborn, Henry Fairfield
• Simpson, George Gaylord
• Stopes, Marie Carmichael
• Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

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