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| List of geologists | 5/5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geologists | reference | science, encyclopedia | 2026-05-05T08:09:09.988703+00:00 | kb-cron |
Donald F. Sangster, Canadian, lead-zinc economic geologist Emilia Săulea (1904–1998), Romanian geologist and paleontologist Celâl Şengör (born 1955), Turkish, member of The United States National Academy of Sciences and The Russian Academy of Sciences, Bigsby Medal, Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille and Arthur Holmes Medal winner Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), American, Apollo 17 astronaut, walked on the Moon Kevin M. Scott (born 1935), American, volcanology research in United States and China, Kirk Bryan Award George Julius Poulett Scrope (1797–1876), English, volcanology, Wollaston Medal Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), English, proposed Devonian and Cambrian periods Karl von Seebach (1839–1880), German volcanologist Adolf Seilacher (1925-2014), German paleontologist, invented the concept and study of ichnofacies, coined the term "Lagerstätten", and championed the photoautotrophic view of the Ediacaran biota. Craaford Prize, Paleontological Society Award, Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille, and Lapworth Award winner, among others. Seikei Sekiya (1855–1896), Japanese seismologist, created the model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake Nicholas Shackleton (1937–2006), British geologist and climatologist Shen Kuo (1031–1095), Chinese scientist, magnetic compass pioneer, geomorphology theory Richard H. Sibson (born 1945), New Zealand geologist, defined the relationship between seismogenic processes and fault zone rheology. Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928–1997), American, meteoriticist, co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy Haraldur Sigurdsson, (born 1939), Icelandic, provided proof for a meteorite impact at the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs Leon Silver (1925–2022), American, National Academy, NASA medal for contribution to Apollo program's lunar explorations George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984), American, paleontologist Kamini Singha (born 1977), professor at the Colorado School of Mines H. Catherine W. Skinner (1931-2025), mineralogist, specialist in medical geology, editor of Dana's New Mineralogy 8th edition. William Smith (1769–1839), father of English Geology Su Song (1020–1101), Chinese naturalist, author of treatise on metallurgy and mineralogy Paul Spudis (1952–2018), American planetary geologist Josiah Edward Spurr (1870–1950), American, geologist, author and Alaskan explorer Laurence Dudley Stamp (1898–1966), British, petroleum geologist and geographer Charles Steen (1919–2006), American, discovered uranium near Moab, Utah Max Steineke (1898–1952), American, discovered Abqaiq oilfield with 12 billion barrels of recoverable oil in Saudi Arabia Charles R. Stelck (1917–2016), Canadian, petroleum geologist, emeritus professor, Logan Medal winner Nicolas Steno (1638–1686), Danish, pioneer in early-modern geology, especially in stratigraphy Iain Stewart (born 1964), British, presenter of several television series on geology Clifford H. Stockwell (1897–1987), Canadian structural geologist, Geological Survey of Canada, Logan Medal winner David Strangway (1934–2016), Canadian, geophysicist and university administrator, Logan Medal award K. Hugo Strunz (1910–2006), German mineralogist, co-creator of the Nickel–Strunz classification. Eduard Suess (1831–1914), Austrian (born England), named Gondwanaland Peter Szatmari, Hungarian-Brazilian geologist, Gold Medal award, Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia
== T == Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), French paleontologist and philosopher, co-discovered Peking Man Karl von Terzaghi (1883–1963), geologist and civil engineer, "father of soil mechanics" Marie Tharp (1920–2006), co-discoverer of the Mid-Oceanic Ridge Lonnie Thompson (born 1948), American, glaciologist and ice-core climatologist Sigurdur Thorarinsson (1912–1983), Icelandic, pioneered the field of tephrochronology Raymond Thorsteinsson (1921–2012), Canadian, Arctic geologist Bahal Tambunan (born 1974), Indonesian geoscientist who studies geothermal energy Phillip Tobias (1925–2012), South African palaeoanthropologist, homo habilis pioneer Otto Martin Torell (1828–1900), chief of the Geological Survey of Sweden Francis John Turner (1904–1985), New Zealand, igneous and metamorphic petrologist Joseph Tyrrell (1858–1957), Canadian paleontologist, namesake of Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
== U == Warren Upham (1850–1934), American, studied glacial Lake Agassiz David Ure (1749–1798), Scottish, known as "the father of Scottish palaeontology"
== V == Charles-Louis-Joseph-Xavier de la Vallée-Poussin (1827–1903), Belgian geologist and mineralogist Jan Veizer (born 1941), Canadian isotope geochemist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (1887–1966), Dutch geophysicist and gravimetric geodesist Rogier Verbeek (1845–1926), Dutch geologist and nature scientist Vladimir Vernadsky (1863–1945), pioneer Russian geochemist and biogeochemist Fred Vine (1939–2024), British marine geologist, geophysicist, plate tectonics pioneer
== W ==
Lawrence Wager (1904–1965), British geologist and explorer, discovered the Skaergaard intrusion Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927), American paleontologist, discovered Burgess Shale fossils George P. L. Walker (1926–2005), British volcanologist Roger G. Walker (born 1939), Canadian sedimentologist, emeritus professor Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen (1809–1876), German, magnetic observations and study of Mount Etna Janet Watson, (1923–1985), Precambrian specialist, first female president of the Geological Society of London Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German meteorologist, continental drift pioneer Harold Wellman (1909–1999), New Zealand geologist of plate tectonics Abraham Werner (c. 1749–1817), German, proponent of Neptunism Israel Charles White (1848–1927), American, coal geology; Permian paleontology Josiah Whitney (1819–1896), chief of the California Geological Survey; Mount Whitney Harry B. Whittington (1916-2010), British palaeontologist, worked on Burgess Shale biota, professor at Cambridge Harold Williams (1934–2010), Atlantic Canada geologist Howel Williams (1898–1980), American (born England) volcanologist John Williamson (1907–1958), discovered the Williamson diamond mine, Tanzania J. Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993), Canadian geophysicist and plate tectonics geologist Newton Horace Winchell (1839–1914), American, geology of Minnesota Isaac J. Winograd, American geologist Jay Backus Woodworth (1865–1925), American geologist and president of the Seismological Society of America William Henry Wright (1876–1951), Canadian prospector and newspaper publisher, discovered Kirkland Lake gold district
== Y == Eiju Yatsu (1920–2016), Japanese, geomorphologist Ivan Yefremov (1907–1972), Soviet paleontologist and originator of taphonomy Sorojon Yusufova (1910–1966), Tajik geologist, first person to publish a textbook in the Tajik language
== Z == Peter Ziegler (1928–2013), Swiss petroleum geologist, researched on plate reconstructions and paleogeographies Mary Lou Zoback (born 1952), American geophysicist who led the world stress map project of the International Lithosphere Program
== See also == List of geophysicists List of mineralogists List of paleontologists List of Russian geologists
== References ==