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.

Gustav Koenigswald

Dutch paleontologist, geologist and anthropologist.

Scottish geologist

Giorgi Dzotsenidze

Georgian scientist-geologist, statesman, party figure

Giovanni Brokki

Italian mineralogist.

Theodor Kjerulf

Norwegian geologist and poet.

Eminent Chinese geologist

German geologist.

Gerard Jacob De Geer

Swedish geologist and geographer

Ernst Louis Kalkowsky

German geologist

A famous American petrologist.

Austrian geologist and public figure

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

English scientist, geologist, mining engineer, publicist and teacher

Honored geologist of Uzbekistan, discoverer of Tashkent mineral water

Belarusian geologist and geographer, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Professor

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).

Stepan Batischev-Tarasov

Soviet engineer-geologist

Azerbaijani scientist, doctor of geological and mineral sciences, professor

Roderick Murchison

English geologist

Armenian geologist and public figure

Austro-German scientist

German geologist.

German surveyor.

Mir-Ali Qashkay

Azerbaijani and Soviet geologist

An outstanding volcanologist who laid the foundations of modern volcanology.

Joachim Barrande

French paleontologist and geologist

Christian Keferstein

German geologist.

Anatoliy Betehtin

Russian geologist and mineralogist

Soviet geologist

Ferdinand Senft

German geologist.

German geologist and mineralogist

Alfred Lothar Wegener

German geologist and meteorologist

Candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences (1969), Doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences (1988). Professor of the Department of Dynamic Geology of the Geological Faculty (1989).

Georgiy Afanasyev

Russian geologist and petrographer

Ignatsy Domeyko

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

George Mercer Dawson

Canadian geologist and geographer

Russian geologist and paleontologist

German geologist

Famous geologist.

German Fogelzang

German mineralogist and petrologist

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.

Dmitriy Golubyatnikov

Soviet oil geologist

Francois De Loys

Swiss petroleum geologist

Francois Bordes

French scientist, geologist and archaeologist

Nikolay Bezborodko

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

German geologist and mineralogist.

French volcanologist.

Angelo Heilprin

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

Debapriya Rakshit

The geologist who discovered the emerald crystal "Inkalamu"