You went to haut ecole?
Somehow I thot you were self-uneducated, like myself.
I couldn't get past grade four, because me pappy was in grade
five.
Know any of these guys?
* Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806 - 1886), German mineralogist
* Louis Agassiz (1807 - 1873), Swiss-American geologist, work on ice ages, glaciers, Lake Agassiz
* Georgius Agricola (Georg Bauer) (1494 - 1555), German naturalist and 'Father of Mineralogy', author of De re metallica
* Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522 - 1605), Italy, Renaissance naturalist
* Claude Allègre (b. 1937), prize-winning French geochemist
* Walter Alvarez (b. 1940), USA, author of T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
* Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960), American explorer and naturalist; Mongolian dinosaurs
* Mary Anning (1799 - 1847), England, pioneer fossil collector
* Adolphe d'Archiac (1802 - 1868), prize-winning French paleontologist
* Giovanni Arduino (1714 - 1795), Italian, first classification of geological time
* Richard Lee Armstrong (1937-1991), American/Canadian geochemist
* Tanya Atwater, California, USA geophysicist, marine geologist, plate tectonics specialist
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* Andrew Geddes Bain (1797-1864), South Africa, prepared first detailed geological map of South Africa
* Robert T. Bakker (b. 1945), American dinosaur paleontologist; author, The Dinosaur Heresies
* Anthony R. Barringer (b. 1925), Canadian/American geophysicist and inventor
* Florence Bascom (1862-1945), USA, first woman geologist at the US Geological Survey
* Robert Bell, (1841 - 1917), considered Canada’s greatest explorer-scientist
* Walter A. Bell (1889 - 1969), Canadian paleobotanist and stratigrapher
* Etheldred Benett, (1776 - 1845), England, pioneer paleontologist
* Pierre Berthier (1782 - 1861), French geologist, discovered the properties of bauxite
* Stewart Blusson (born 1939), Canada, co-discoverer of Ekati Diamond Mine
* Bruce Bolt (1930 - 2005), USA (born Australia), pioneer engineering seismologist in California
* Norman L. Bowen (1887 - 1956), Canada, pioneer experimental petrologist
* J. Harlen Bretz (1882 - 1981), USA, discovered origin of channeled scablands
* Wallace S. Broecker (born 1931), American paleoclimatologist and chemical oceanographer
* Robert Broom (1866 - 1951), South African palaeontologist, discovered australopithecine hominid fossils
* Barnum Brown (1873-1963), USA, famous dinosaur hunter and self-taught paleontologist
* William Buckland (1784 - 1856), England, wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur
* B. Clark Burchfiel, USA, MIT structural geologist, currently studying Tibetan plateau
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* Stephen E. Calvert, Canadian professor, geologist, oceanographer
* Colin Campbell (born 1931), British petroleum geologist and Peak Oil theorist
* Neil Campbell (1914-1978), Canada, Northwest Territories mineral exploration
* Petr Cerny, Czech/Canadian mineralogist
* Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820 - 1886), France, geologist and mineralogist
* George V. Chilingar, USA, distinguished international petroleum geologist
* John J. Clague, Canada, Quaternary and geological hazards expert
* Thomas H. Clark (1893 - 1996), Canada, co-author of The Geological Evolution of North America (1960)
* William Branwhite Clarke (1798 - 1878), Australia (born England), discovered gold in New South Wales, 1841
* Hans Cloos (1885 - 1951), prominent German structural geologist
* Simon Conway Morris (born 1951), palaeontologist and writer
* William Conybeare (1787 - 1857), England, author of Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
* Isabel Clifton Cookson (1893 - 1973), prize-winning Australian paleobotanist and palynologist
* Edward Drinker Cope (1840 - 1897), USA, pioneer dinosaur paleontologist; Bone Wars competitor
* Charles Cotton (1885 - 1970), New Zealand, geologist and geomorphologist
* Georges Cuvier (1769 - 1832), France, proponent of catastrophism
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* James Dwight Dana (1813 - 1895), USA, author of System of Mineralogy (1837)
* Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882), British naturalist, author of On the Origin of Species
* George Mercer Dawson (1849 - 1901), Canada, pioneer Yukon geologist
* John William Dawson (1820 - 1899), Canada, pioneer Acadian geologist
* Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt (1920 - 1998), Belgium geologist, discoverer of the Ishango bone in 1960
* Henry De la Beche (1796 - 1855), England, first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain
* Duncan R. Derry (1906 – 1987), Canadian economic geologist
* Nicolas Desmarest (1725 - 1815), France, pioneer volcanologist
* William R. Dickinson (b. 1930), Arizona, USA, plate tectonics, Colorado Plateau
* Robert S. Dietz (1914 - 1995), USA, seafloor spreading pioneer
* Robert John Wilson Douglas (1920 – 1979), Canadian petroleum geologist
* Aleksis Dreimanis (b. 1914), Latvia & Canada, award-winning Quaternary geologist
* Clarence Edward Dutton (1841 - 1912), USA, author of Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District
E
* Niles Eldredge (b.1943), American paleontologist; theory of punctuated equilibrium
* Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798 - 1874), France, prepared first geological map of France
* W. G. Ernst (b. 1931), USA, Stanford petrologist and geochemist
* Robert Etheridge, Junior (1847 - 1920), Australian (born England) paleontologist, longtime curator of the Australian Museum
* Maurice Ewing (1906 - 1974), USA, pioneering geophysicist and oceanographer
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* Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741 - 1819), France, pioneer volcanologist
* Mikhail A. Fedonkin (b. 1946), awarding winning Russian paleontologist
* Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865 - 1950), Canada, mineral collector
* Chuck Fipke, Canada, co-discoverer of Ekati Diamond Mine
* Richard Fortey (b. 1946), England, trilobite paleontologist, author
* Yves O. Fortier (b. 1914), Canada, High Arctic explorer
* William Fyfe (b. 1927, New Zealand), Canada, geochemist
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* Hubert Gabrielse, prize-winning Canadian geologist
* Robert Garrels (1916 - 1988), American geochemist, revolutionized aqueous geochemistry
* Grove Karl Gilbert (1843 - 1918), USA, influential Western geologist
* James E. Gill (1901 – 1980), Canada, McGill University professor, explorer
* Victor Goldschmidt (1888 - 1947), Norway (born Switzerland), a founder of modern geochemistry
* John Gosse, Canadian geomorphologist
* Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002), American paleontologist and writer
* L.C. Graton (1880 - 1970), USA, Harvard economic geologist
* Alexander Henry Green (1832 - 1896), England, surveyed Derbyshire and Yorkshire
* Henry C. Gunning (1901 - 1991), Canada (born Northern Ireland), British Columbia geologist
H
* Julius von Haast (1824 - 1887), New Zealand (born Germany), founded Canterbury Museum
* Sir James Hall (1761 - 1832), Scottish geologist, president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
* James Hall (1811-1898), USA, influential geologist and paleontologist
* W. Brian Harland (1917 - 2003), England, polar geologist
* Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (b. 1923), England and Canada, polar geologist
* James Edwin Hawley (1897 - 1965), Canada, studied mineralogy of ore deposits
* Frank Hawthorne (b. 1968), Canadian mineralogist and crystallographer
* Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829 - 1887), USA, pioneer Western geologist
* Sue Hendrickson (b.1949), American paleontologist; discoverer of "Sue", the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found
* Harry Hess (1906 - 1969), USA geologist and oceanographer
* Pattillo Higgins (1863 - 1955), USA, known as the "Prophet of Spindletop"
* Eugene W. Hilgard (1833 - 1916), USA (born Germany), soil scientist
* Claude Hillaire-Marcel, Canada (born France), Quaternary geologist
* Paul F. Hoffman, USA & Canada, Snowball Earth theorist
* Arthur Holmes (1890 - 1965), England, author of Principles of Physical Geology
* Jack Horner (b. 1946), famous American dinosaur paleontologist; MacArthur Fellowship winner
* Kenneth J. Hsu (b. 1929), USA (born China), author of The Mediterranean was a Desert
* M. King Hubbert (1903 - 1989), USA, originator of "Peak Oil" theory
* James Hutton (1726 - 1797), Scottish geologist, father of modern geology
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* Edward A. Irving (b. 1927), Canadian, used paleomagnetism to support continental drift theory
J
* James A. Jensen (1911-1998), USA, distinguished dinosaur paleontologist and sculptor
K
* Michael John Keen (1935 - 1991), Atlantic Canada, award-winning marine geoscientist
* Clarence King (1893 - 1971), USA, first director of the U.S. Geological Survey
* James Kitching (1922 – 2003), South Africa, Karoo vertebrate palaeontologist
* Sir Albert Ernest Kitson, (1868-1937), Australian (born England) economic geologist, mineral exploration in Africa
* Andrew H. Knoll, (b. 1951), USA, Harvard geologist and paleontologist
* Danie G. Krige, South African mining engineer, inventor of kriging
* Thomas Edvard Krogh, Canada, geochronologist, revolutionized uranium-lead radiometric dating
* William C. Krumbein, (1902 - 1979), USA, distinguished sedimentologist
* Nikolai Kudryavtsev (1893 - 1971), Russian petroleum geologist
L
* Andrew Lawson (1861 - 1952), USA (born Scotland), named San Andreas fault
* Joseph LeConte (1823 - 1901), USA, first professor of geology, University of California
* Robert Legget (1904 - 1994), Canadian non-fiction writer, civil engineer, pedologist
* Inge Lehmann (1888 - 1993), Danish seismologist, discovered Lehmann discontinuity
* Luna Leopold (1915 - 2006), eminent American hydrologist
* Xavier Le Pichon (b. 1937), French plate tectonics geophysicist
* Waldemar Lindgren (1860 - 1939), distinguished Swedish-American economic geologist
* Li Shizhen (1518 - 1593), Ming Dynasty Chinese mineralogist, author of the Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia Medica)
* Martin Lister (c.1638 - 1712), England, pioneer geologist
* William Edmond Logan (1798 - 1875), Canada, founded Geological Survey of Canada
* Fred Longstaffe, Canada, Provost of University of Western Ontario
* Sir Charles Lyell (1797 - 1875), Scottish geologist, popularized principle of uniformitarianism
M
* William Maclure (1763 - 1840), published first geologic map of USA (1809)
* J. Ross Mackay (b. 1915), Canadian permafrost geologist
* Othniel Charles Marsh, (1831 - 1899), USA, pioneer dinosaur paleontologist; Bone Wars competitor
* Sir Douglas Mawson (1882 - 1958), Australian Antarctic explorer
* Sir Frederick McCoy (1817? - 1899), British and Australian palaeontologist and museum director
* Dan McKenzie (b. 1942), UK geophysicist, plate tectonics pioneer
* Digby McLaren (1919 – 2004), Canadian paleontologist
* Giuseppe Mercalli (1850 - 1914), Italian seismologist and volcanologist, developed Mercalli scale for measuring earthquakes
* Hans Merensky (1871 - 1952), South African economic geologist, discovered major diamond, platinum, chrome and copper deposits, including the Merensky Reef
* John C. Merriam (1869 - 1945), USA, vertebrate paleontologist, studied fossils from La Brea Tar Pits
* Waman Bapuji Metre (1906 - 1970), India, petroleum geologist
* Gerard V. Middleton (b. 1931), Canada, sedimentologist
* Andrija Mohorovicic (1857 - 1936), Croatian meteorologist and seismologist, discovered Mohorovicic Discontinuity
* Friedrich Mohs (1773 - 1839), Germany, devised Mohs' scale of mineral hardness
* James Monger, Canadian Cordillera geologist
* W. Jason Morgan (b. 1935), American plate tectonics pioneer
* Eric W. Mountjoy, Canadian sedimentologist and petrologist
* Roderick Murchison (1792 - 1871), Scotland, author of The Silurian System (1839)
* Emiliano Mutti (b. 1933), Italian petroleum geologist
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* Anthony J. Naldrett, Canadian (born England) nickel ore geologist
* E. R. Ward Neale (b. 1923), Atlantic Canada geologist
* John Strong Newberry (1822 - 1892), USA, pioneer Western geologist and explorer
* Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld (1792 – 1866), Finland and Russia, mineralogist
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* John Ostrom (1928 - 2005), American dinosaur paleontologist, discovered warm-blooded Deinonychus
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* Joseph Pardee (1871 - 1960), USA, channeled scablands
* Clair Cameron Patterson (1922 - 1995), USA, geochemist, fought lead poisoning
* R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. (1863 - 1931), USA, mining geologist, Penrose Medal
* John Phillips (1800 - 1874), Yorkshire geologist
* Vladimir Porfiriev (1899 - 1982), Russian petroleum geologist
* John Wesley Powell (1834 - 1902), USA, ex-soldier who mapped the Colorado River, second director of the USGS.
* Raymond A. Price (b. 1933) Canadian structural and tectonic geologist
* Raphael Pumpelly (1837 - 1923), USA, geologist and explorer
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* Frederick Leslie Ransome (1868 - 1935), USA (born England), prolific USGS economic geologist
* David M. Raup, USA, mass-extinction paleontologist; author of Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?
* Charles Richter (1900 - 1985), American seismologist, devised Richter magnitude scale for earthquakes
* Ferdinand Baron Von Richthofen (1833 - 1905), German geologist and geographer
S
* Donald F. Sangster, Canada, prize-winning lead-zinc economic geologist
* Harrison Schmitt (b. 1935), USA, Apollo 17 moonwalker
* Adam Sedgwick (1785 - 1873), England, proposed Devonian and Cambrian periods
* Nicholas Shackleton (1937 - 2006), British geologist and climatologist
* Shen Kuo (1031 - 1095), Chinese polymath scientist, magnetic compass pioneer, geomorphology theory
* Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928 - 1997), USA, meteoriticist, co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy
* George Gaylord Simpson (1902 - 1984), USA, eminent paleontologist
* William Smith (1769 - 1839), father of English Geology
* Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (1842 - 1915), English archaeologist, geologist and photographer
* Charles Steen (1919 - 2006), USA, discovered uranium near Moab, Utah
* Nicolas Steno (1638 - 1686), Denmark, pioneer in early-modern geology
* Clifford H. Stockwell, Canadian structural geologist, Geological Survey of Canada
* David Strangway, Canada, geophysicist and university administrator
* Charles R. Stelck (born 1917), Canada, petroleum geologist, emeritus professor
* Su Song (1020 - 1101), Chinese naturalist and polymath, author of treatise on metallurgy and mineralogy
* Eduard Suess (1831 - 1914), Austria (born England), named Gondwanaland
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* Marie Tharp (1920 - 2006), co-discoverer of the Mid-Oceanic Ridge
* Lonnie Thompson (b. 1948), USA, glaciologist and ice-core climatologist
* Raymond Thorsteinsson (born c. 1930), Canada, prize-winning Arctic geologist
* Phillip Tobias (b. 1925), South African palaeoanthropologist, homo habilis pioneer
* Otto Martin Torell (1828 - 1900), chief of the Geological Survey of Sweden
* Joseph Tyrrell (1858 - 1957), Canadian paleontologist, namesake of Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
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* Warren Upham (1850 - 1934), USA, studied glacial Lake Agassiz
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* Charles-Louis-Joseph-Xavier de la Vallée-Poussin (1827-1903), Belgian geologist and minerologist
* Jan Veizer, Canadian isotope geochemist
* Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (1887 - 1966), Dutch geophysicist and gravimetric geodesist
* Vladimir Vernadsky (1863 - 1945), pioneer Russian geochemist and biogeochemist
* Fred Vine (born 1939), British marine geologist, geophysicist, plate tectonics pioneer
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* Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850 - 1927), American paleontologist, discovered Burgess Shale fossils
* Roger G. Walker, prize-winning Canadian sedimentologist, emeritus professor
* Alfred Wegener (1880 - 1930), German meteorologist, continental drift pioneer
* Abraham Werner (1749? - 1817), Germany, proponent of Neptunism
* Josiah Whitney (1819 - 1896), chief of the California Geological Survey; Mt. Whitney
* Harold Williams (b. 1934), 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), USA, geology of Minnesota
* William Henry Wright, (1876 – 1951), Canadian prospector and newspaper publisher, discovered Kirkland Lake gold district
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