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A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology.Geologists are also known as earth scientists or geoscientists.. The following is a list of notable geologists. Many have received such awards as the Penrose Medal or the Wollaston Medal, or have been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences or the Royal Society.
David McCurdy Baird. Neil Banerjee. Alan Mara Bateman. Robert Bell (Canadian geologist) John Jeremiah Bigsby. Selwyn G. Blaylock. Stewart Blusson. Charles Barrington Brown. Everend Lester Bruce.
David Deming (born 1954), an American geologist and geophysicist, is an associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. He graduated from North Central High School in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1972. He then attended Indiana University Bloomington, graduating in 1983 with a BS degree in geology, and received a Ph ...
Harrison Hagan " Jack " Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon. [ 3]
Bob White (geophysicist) Errol White. Talbot Whitehead. Alwyn Williams (geologist) David Williams (geologist, born 1898) Leonard Johnston Wills. Categories: 20th-century geologists. 20th-century British earth scientists.
William 'Strata' Smith (23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first detailed, nationwide geological map of any country. [1] At the time his map was first published he was overlooked by the scientific community; his relatively humble education and family connections prevented him from mixing ...
The history of paleontology traces the history of the effort to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the fossil record left behind by living organisms. Since it is concerned with understanding living organisms of the past, paleontology can be considered to be a field of biology, but its historical development has been closely tied to geology and the effort to understand the ...
William Maclure. Peter Macnair (geologist) William John McCallien. William Ramsay McNab. Robert McQuillin. James Stuart Menteath. Hugh Miller. Hugh Miller the younger. David Milne-Home.