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The people who studied, measured and mapped the physical earth: geologists, oceanographers, meteorologists, seismologists, volcanologists, geophysicists, climatologists, mineralogists, hydrologists, geochronologists and geochemists, from James Hutton and Charles Lyell in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to today's working climate and ocean scientists. Grouped here by primary documented field. Belongs here: a real, named individual whose defining work is an earth-science discipline this atlas covers. Does not belong here: an organization or institution, held under a separate type where this atlas defines one, or a person whose defining field belongs to a different atlas entirely, such as biology or pure mathematics, even where their career touched earth science in passing.

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Abraham Gottlob Werner

Mineralogist

Adam Sedgwick

Geologist

Albert Kitson

Geologist

Alexander Fersman

Mineralogist

Alexandre Brongniart

Geologist

Alfred Lacroix

Mineralogist

Alfred O. C. Nier

Geochronologist

Alfred Rittmann

Volcanologist

Alfred Wegener

Geophysicist

Allan Cox

Geophysicist

Alwyn Williams

Geologist

Andrija Mohorovicic

Seismologist

Anselmus de Boodt

Mineralogist

Anthony Hallam

Geologist

Arthur Holmes

Geochronologist

Arthur Lakes

Geologist

Auguste Piccard

Oceanographer

Beno Gutenberg

Seismologist

Bertram Boltwood

Geochronologist

Boris Golitsyn

Seismologist

Bruce Charles Heezen

Oceanographer

Carl-Gustaf Rossby

Meteorologist

Cesare Emiliani

Oceanographer

Charles David Keeling

Climatologist

Charles Kenneth Leith

Geologist

Charles Lapworth

Geologist

Charles Lyell

Geologist

Charles Palache

Mineralogist

Charles Richter

Seismologist

Charles Vernon Theis

Hydrologist

Charles Wyville Thomson

Oceanographer

Clair Patterson

Geochronologist

Clarence Dutton

Geologist

Claude Allègre

Geochemist

Claude Lorius

Climatologist

Cleveland Abbe

Meteorologist

Columbus O'Donnell Iselin

Oceanographer

D. N. Wadia

Geologist

Dan McKenzie

Geophysicist

Don Walsh

Oceanographer

Drummond Matthews

Geophysicist

Eduard Suess

Geologist

Edward Bullard

Geophysicist

Edward Norton Lorenz

Meteorologist

Emil Wiechert

Geophysicist

Esper S. Larsen Jr.

Mineralogist

Eugene Shoemaker

Geologist

Eunice Newton Foote

Climatologist

F. Sherwood Rowland

Meteorologist

Florence Bascom

Geologist

Francis Beaufort

Meteorologist

Francis Birch

Geophysicist

Frank Perret

Volcanologist

Frank Press

Geophysicist

Fred Vine

Geophysicist

Frederick William Shotton

Geologist

Fridtjof Nansen

Oceanographer

Friedrich Mohs

Mineralogist

G. Brent Dalrymple

Geochronologist

George P. L. Walker

Volcanologist

Georges Cuvier

Geologist

Gerta Keller

Geologist

Gilbert F. White

Hydrologist

Gilbert Walker

Meteorologist

Gillian Foulger

Geophysicist

Giuseppe Mercalli

Volcanologist

Grove Karl Gilbert

Geologist

Gunter Faure

Geochemist

Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg

Mineralogist

Guy Stewart Callendar

Climatologist

Hans Cloos

Geologist

Harald Sverdrup

Oceanographer

Haraldur Sigurðsson

Volcanologist

Harmon Craig

Geochemist

Harold Jeffreys

Geophysicist

Haroun Tazieff

Volcanologist

Harry Fielding Reid

Seismologist

Harry Hess

Geologist

Heinrich D. Holland

Geochemist

Henry Bryant Bigelow

Oceanographer

Henry Stommel

Oceanographer

Hiroo Kanamori

Seismologist

Hubert Lamb

Climatologist

Hugo Benioff

Seismologist

Inge Lehmann

Seismologist

J. S. Lee

Geologist

Jacob Bjerknes

Meteorologist

Jacques Cousteau

Oceanographer

James Croll

Climatologist

James Dwight Dana

Mineralogist

James Hall

Geologist

James Hansen

Climatologist

James Hutton

Geologist

Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont

Geologist

Jenny Anne Barretto

Geologist

Joanne Simpson

Meteorologist

Joe Farman

Geophysicist

Johann Leonard Hoffmann

Geologist

John Frederick Dewey

Geologist

John Milne

Seismologist
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