List of geologists

A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology.

The following is a list of famous geologists

• Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806-1886)
• Louis Agassiz : (1807-1873) work on ice ages, glaciers.
• Walter Alvarez (b. 1940)
• Mary Anning
• Adolphe d'Archiac (1802-1868)
• Giovanni Arduino : (1714-1795) first classification of geological time.
• Etheldred Benett
• Pierre Berthier : discovered the properties of Bauxite
• Norman L. Bowen (1887-1956)
• John C. Branner
• J. Harlan Bretz
• William Conybeare (1787-1857)
• James Dwight Dana (1813 - 1895)
• Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
• George Mercer Dawson (1849-1901)
• Sir John William Dawson (1820-1899)
• Arthur L. Day
• Henry De la Beche (1796-1855)
• Nicolas Desmarest (1725-1815)
• Robert Dietz
• Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont (1798-1874)
• Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865-1950)
• Julius von Haast (1824 - 1887)
• W. Brian Harland (1917 - 2003)
• Harry Hess (1906-1969)
• Arthur Holmes (1890-1965)
• M. King Hubbert (1903-1989)
• James Hutton : (1726-1797). father of modern geology
• Danie G. Krige inventor of kriging.
• William Edmond Logan (1798-1875)
• Sir Charles Lyell
• William Maclure (1763 - 1840)
• Frederick Mohs
• W. Jason Morgan
• Roderick Murchison
• Jospeph Pardee
• R.A.F. Penrose, Jr.
• John Phillips : (1800-1874)
• Charles Richter
• Harrison Schmitt : Apollo_17 moonwalker.
• Adam Sedgwick
• William Smith
• Nicolas Steno : (1638-1686) pioneer in early-modern geology
• Edward Suess
• Alfred Wegener
• Josiah Whitney : (1819-1896) chief of the California Geological Survey
• J. Tuzo Wilson
• Harry M. Woodward: (c.1938) did work with respect to the Old Faithful Geyser