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.

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

Ernst Louis Kalkowsky
Germany
GermanyGerman geologist

Anthony R. Barringer
Canada
CanadaCanadian and American geophysicist

Dmitriy Golubyatnikov
Soviet oil geologist

Gustav Tschermak
Austria
AustriaMineralogist, petrologist.

Christian Keferstein
Germany
GermanyGerman geologist.

Siguang Li
China
ChinaEminent Chinese geologist

German Abich
Germany
GermanyGerman geologist, naturalist and traveler

Wilhelm Jordan
Germany
GermanyGerman surveyor.

Nathaniel Shaler
USA
USAAmerican paleontologist and geologist, author of a number of articles and works on the scientific and theological aspects and consequences of the theory of evolution.

Alexander Nastenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian geologist and entrepreneur

Fridolin Sandberger
Germany
GermanyGerman geologist and mineralogist.

Debapriya Rakshit
The geologist who discovered the emerald crystal "Inkalamu"

Petr Kayukov
Soviet hydrogeologist

Alfred Ritman
Switzerland
SwitzerlandAn outstanding volcanologist who laid the foundations of modern volcanology.

Valeriy Gubin
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian geologist and geographer, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Professor

Hatten Yoder
USA
USAA famous American petrologist.

Osvald Heer
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss geologist, paleobotanist, entomologist, botanist

Georgiy Afanasyev
Russian geologist and petrographer

Eduard Suess
Austria
AustriaAustrian geologist and public figure

Boris Beder
Honored geologist of Uzbekistan, discoverer of Tashkent mineral water

Francois De Loys
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss petroleum geologist

Giorgi Dzotsenidze
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian scientist-geologist, statesman, party figure

Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch geologist

Francois Bordes
France
FranceFrench scientist, geologist and archaeologist

Wallace Broecker
USA
USAAmerican geologist and climatologist

Hans Brand
Germany
GermanyGerman geologist

Friedrich August Quenstedt
Germany
GermanyGerman geologist and mineralogist.

Robert Ballard
USA
USAA research geologist who discovered the sunken Titanic in 1985.

German Fogelzang
Germany
GermanyGerman mineralogist and petrologist

Emil Cohen
Germany
GermanyGerman geologist and mineralogist

Stepan Batischev-Tarasov
Soviet engineer-geologist

Anatoliy Betehtin
Russian geologist and mineralogist

Rene Just Hauy
France
FranceFrench mineralogist, founder of scientific crystallography.

Ernest Gofman
Estonia
EstoniaFamous geologist.

Fernand Petzl
France
FranceFrench speleologist and founder of the company producing caving and mountaineering equipment Petzl.

Suren Ayvazyan
Armenia
ArmeniaArmenian geologist and public figure

Ivan Mushketov
Russia
RussiaAn outstanding Russian scientist - geologist and geographer, professor at St. Petersburg University

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

Vitold Zglenitskiy
Poland
PolandPolish and Russian geologist

Gustav Koenigswald
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch paleontologist, geologist and anthropologist.

Vasiliy Kurdukov
Russia
RussiaHydrologist found water supply sources for Almaty and Shymkent.

James Hutton
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish geologist

Karl Seebach
Germany
GermanyGerman geologist.

Archibald Geikie
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish geologist

Gerard Jacob De Geer
Sweden
SwedenSwedish geologist and geographer

Garun Taziev
France
FranceFrench volcanologist.

Farid Dadashev
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani scientist, doctor of geological and mineral sciences, professor

Ferdinand Senft
Germany
GermanyGerman geologist.

Habib Abdullaev
Uzbekistan
UzbekistanSoviet 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).