| Geologists Name |
During |
Nationality |
Known for |
| Alfred Wegener |
1880-1930 |
German |
most notable for his theory of continental drift |
| Charles Walcott |
1850-1927 |
United States |
his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils |
| Nicolas Steno |
1638-1686 |
Danish |
pioneer in both anatomy and geology. |
| Andrija Mohorovičić |
1857-1936 |
Volosko near Opatija |
notable Croatian meteorologist and seismologist |
| Giuseppe Mercalli |
1850-1914 |
Italian |
Worked professor of the Natural Sciences at the seminary of Milan |
| Harry Hess |
1906-1969 |
United States |
one of the "founding fathers" of the unifying theory of plate tectonics |
| James Dana |
1813-1895 |
United States |
His important studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity |
| John Horne |
1736-1812 |
British |
The Petition of an Englishman |
| Ben Peach |
1842-1926 |
British |
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1892 |
| Charles Lapworth |
1842-1920 |
British |
his pioneering work and contributions to geology |
| William Conybeare |
1787-1857 |
British |
Won Wollaston medal in 1844 |
| Henry De la Beche |
1796-1855 |
British |
English geologist who helped pioneer early survey methods. |
| Adam Sedgwick |
1785-1873 |
British |
Classification of Cambrian rocks |
| Charles Darwin |
1809-1882 |
British |
The Voyage of the Beagle On The Origin of Species Natural selection |
| Charles Lyell |
1797-1875 |
British |
Uniformitarianism |
| Louis Agassiz |
1807-1873 |
Switzerland |
Won Wollaston medal in 1836 for his work on fossil ichthyology |
| William Buckland |
1784-1856 |
British |
great scientific work Reliquiæ Diluvianæ |
| Richard Owen |
1804-1892 |
United Kingdom |
British Museum of Natural History |
| Gideon Mantell |
1790-1852 |
England |
He is credited with discovering the first fossils identified as originating from a dinosaur |
| Jake Hancock |
1924-2004 |
British |
Geology of the Cretaceous, appreciation of Wine |
| Arthur Holmes |
1890-1965 |
British |
performed the first uranium-lead radiometric dating |
| William Smith |
1769-1839 |
English |
geological map |
| James Hutton |
1726-1797 |
Scottish |
Plutonic geology, Deep time |
| Mary Anning |
1799-1849 |
British |
Fossil collecting |
