Geologist

Explore the world of renowned geologists, including their groundbreaking discoveries and contributions to the field of Earth sciences. From William Smith to Marie Tharp, get insights into their remarkable careers and the impact they have had on our understanding of the planet.

Alfred Lothar Wegener

German geologist and meteorologist

Francois Bordes

French scientist, geologist and archaeologist

Anatoliy Betehtin

Russian geologist and mineralogist

Dmitriy Golubyatnikov

Soviet oil geologist

French volcanologist.

Gustav Tschermak

Mineralogist, petrologist.

German geologist and mineralogist

Scientist, oil geologist, professor

Eminent Chinese geologist

Ferdinand Senft

German geologist.

An outstanding volcanologist who laid the foundations of modern volcanology.

Gustav Koenigswald

Dutch paleontologist, geologist and anthropologist.

Joachim Barrande

French paleontologist and geologist

Angelo Heilprin

American geologist, paleontologist, naturalist, explorer, artist and mountaineer

Nikolay Bezborodko

Soviet Ukrainian geologist, mineralogist, petrographer, Doctor of Sciences (1935), professor.

Soviet hydrogeologist

Fridolin Sandberger

German geologist and mineralogist.

Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Dutch geologist

French mineralogist, founder of scientific crystallography.

Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich Konrad Keilhack

German geologist

Vasiliy Kurdukov

Hydrologist found water supply sources for Almaty and Shymkent.

Nathaniel Shaler

American paleontologist and geologist, author of a number of articles and works on the scientific and theological aspects and consequences of the theory of evolution.

Habib Abdullaev

Soviet Uzbek geologist, academician (since 1947) and president (1956-1962) of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR. Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1958).

German geologist

Giorgi Dzotsenidze

Georgian scientist-geologist, statesman, party figure

Theodor Kjerulf

Norwegian geologist and poet.

Stepan Batischev-Tarasov

Soviet engineer-geologist

Gerard Jacob De Geer

Swedish geologist and geographer

Azerbaijani scientist, doctor of geological and mineral sciences, professor

English scientist, geologist, mining engineer, publicist and teacher

Anthony R. Barringer

Canadian and American geophysicist

German geologist, naturalist and traveler

Georgiy Afanasyev

Russian geologist and petrographer

Aytmuhamed Abdullin

Prospecting geologist, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Professor (1973), Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1979).

Ignatsy Domeyko

An outstanding geologist, mineralogist, geographer and ethnologist, long-time rector of the University of Chile and member of many scientific societies.

Roderick Murchison

English geologist

Friedrich August Quenstedt

German geologist and mineralogist.

Ernst Louis Kalkowsky

German geologist

Gasan Abdulali Ahmedov

Azerbaijani Soviet scientist, geologist

German Fogelzang

German mineralogist and petrologist

Christian Keferstein

German geologist.

Russian geologist and paleontologist

Alexander Nastenko

Ukrainian geologist and entrepreneur

French speleologist and founder of the company producing caving and mountaineering equipment Petzl.

Famous geologist.

Scottish geologist

Giovanni Brokki

Italian mineralogist.

Austrian geologist and public figure

Vitold Zglenitskiy

Polish and Russian geologist