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FAMOUS AND NOTABLE EARTH SCIENTISTS Flashcards

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Proposed Neptunism origin of rocks and ore deposits

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Abraham Werner

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Named the divisions of Pangaea into Laurasia and Gondwanaland

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Alexander du Toit

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Proposed the model for the Earth’s, Homogeneous accretion

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Alfred Edward Ringwood

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Developed the bivariate Harker diagrams in 1909 for discriminating silicates with major or minor oxide compounds

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Alfred Harker

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Along with Arthur Holmes, developed the Continental Drift Theory

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Alfred Wegener

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Identified the Mohorovicic Discontinuity between the crust and mantle

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Andrija Mohorovicic

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Invented the artificial coral reefs

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Angel Alcala

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Along with Robert Wilson, first observed the cosmic wave background radiation

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Arno Penzias

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Invented the contact goniometer which is used to measure the interfacial angle of crystals

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Amould Carangeot

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Known as the “Father of Geothermal Energy Development” in the Philippines

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Arturo Alcaraz

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Developed the Michel-Levy color chart for thin sections under the microscope

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Auguste Michel-Lévy

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Along with Frascatus and Thomas Norton, believed that rays from heavenly bodies influenced mineralization

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Aurelio Augurelli

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Grouped the minerals as stones, sulfur minerals, metals, and salts

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Avicenna

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Known as the “Founding Father of Paleontology”

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Baron Georges Cuvier

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Proposed the principle of Catastrophism

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Baron Georges Cuvier

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Categorized 16 mineral groups as metals, stones and earth

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Baron Georges Cuvier

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Along with Alexandre Brongniart, established the basic principle of biostratigraphy, such as the stratigraphic succession of earth layers

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Baron Georges Cuvier

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Developed the chemical classification of minerals, along with his students

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Baron Jons Jacob Berzelius

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Identified the Gutenberg Discontinuity between the mantle and core

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Beno Gutenberg

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Proposed that veins are open fissures filled with minerals leached from the adjacent country rock

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Carl Abraham Gerhard

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Developed the first scale for relative mineral hardness in 1824, the Mohs Scale of Hardness

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Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs

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Pioneer of nuclear studies in the Philippines

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Carlo Arcilla

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Developed the Richter magnitude scale

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Charles Francis Richter

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Named the Ordovician period

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Charles Lapworth

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Popularized the principle of Uniformitarianism

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Charles Lyell

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Proposed the Law of Inclusion in Stratigraphy

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Charles Lyell

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Embellished the principle of Law of Cross-cutting Relationship

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Charles Lyell

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Along with Udden, developed the Wentworth-Udden grade scale for sediment grain sizes

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Chester K. Wentworth

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Developed the Mohr Circle

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Christian Otto Mohr

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Developed the Weiss parameters to describe crystal faces or planes and axes

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Christian Samuel Weiss

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Justified The Big Bang Theory by observing the Universe’s expansion

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Edwin Hubble

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First proposed the idea for the Nebular Hypothesis

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Emanual Swedenborg

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Together with Schoenflies and Barlov, developed the foundation of X-Ray crystallography founded on theories for the internal symmetry and order within minerals

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Evgraf Fedorov

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Introduced the process of “Gahrung” and “Faulniss” or Metamorphism and Weathering, respectively

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Fried, Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra

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Identified the six metamorphic zones named after him, the Barrovian zones

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George Barrow

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Developed the Alry’s Hypothesis in isostasy

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Sir George Biddell Airy

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37
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First proposed The Big Bang Theory

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Sir George Biddell Airy

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38
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Known as the Father of Economic Geology

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Georgius Agricola

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Published De Re Metallica Libri XII, the first systematic treatise on mining and smelting

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Georgius Agricola

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Developed the Mercalli intensity scale for measuring the relative strength of an earthquake

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Giuseppe Mercalli

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Developed Wellman’s method in measuring strain in rocks

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Harold Wellman

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42
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Developed the Theory of Seafloor Spreading

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Harry Hess

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Developed the Hjulström’s diagram for sediment entrainment, transportation and deposition

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Henning Filip Hjulström

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Developed Darcy’s Law in 1856, a method to determine permeability

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Henry Darcy

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Along with his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, published the English Translation of De Re Metallica Libri XII in 1912

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Herbert Hoover

46
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Noted the occurrence of Gold in quartz veins

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Herodotus

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Developed and published the theory on the Nebular Hypothesis in Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens in 1755

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Immanuel Kant

48
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Identified the Lehmann Discontinuity between the outer and inner core

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Inge Lehmann

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Observed the early evolution of Tetrapods in Valentia Island

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Iwan Stossel

50
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James Hutton

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Known as the “Father of Modern Geology”

51
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Formulated the principle of Uniformitarianism

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James Hutton

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Proposed Plutonism Origin of rocks

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James Hutton

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Formulated the principle of the Law of Cross-cutting Relationship

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James Hutton

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Introduced the idea that mineral veins are injected into the fissures they occupy in a molten state

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James Hutton

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Developed the idea of Catastrophism

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James Ussher

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First proposed the idea of the Oort Cloud in 1950

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Jan Oort

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Affirmed Steno’s work on the crystals’ angles, formulating the Law of the Consistency of Interfacial Angles

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Jean-Baptistie Louis Rome de Isle

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Along with Nicolas Desmarest, made the first geologic maps

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Jean-Etienne Guettard

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First observed the volcanic origins of some of the parts of France

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Jean-Etienne Guettard

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Believed in The Golden Tree, where minerals are thought to be branches from a tree within the Earth

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Johann Gottlob Lehmann

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Dismissed the idea that planets influenced mineralization

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Johann Joachin Becher

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Developed the Pratt’s Theory in isostasy

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John Henry Pratt

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Known as the “Father of Philippine Geology”

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Jose Feliciano

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Formulated the Gibbs’ Phase rule in 1928 to govern the number of phases in equilibrium

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Josiah Willard Gibbs

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The first animal in space

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Laika

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Established five rules, the Pauling’s rules, for cation-anion relationships

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Linus Pauling

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Initiated the immersion method for optical mineralogy, and had the mineral Cordierite named after him

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Louis Cordier

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Created the first detailed map of the ocean floor.

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Marie Tharp

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Suggested the idea for X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)

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Max Von Laue

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First man to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 11

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Neil Armstrong

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Developed three basic principles in Stratigraphy: Law of Original Horizontality, Law of Superposition, and Law of Lateral Continuity

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Nicolas Steno

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First established the Law of Cross-cutting Relationship

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Nicolas Steno

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Observed constant angles between corresponding faces of crystals

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Norman L. Bowen

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Known as the “Father of Modern Petrology

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Nicolas Steno

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Early proponent in fractional crystallization and developed the Bowen’s Reaction Series in 1910

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Norman L. Bowen

76
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Formulated the Reynolds’ number to describe fluid flow

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Osborne Reynolds

77
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First predicted the cosmic wave background radiation

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Ralph Asher Alpher

78
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Handled the 1990 Luzon Earthquake and the 1991 Pinatubo Eruption

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Raymundo Santiago Punongbayan

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Discovered soft-bodied impressions of animals during the Avalon Explosion

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Reginald Claude Sprigg

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Observed crystals to have been built by smaller identical building blocks called integral molecules, and developed the Theory of Rational Indices for Crystal Faces

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Rene J. Hauy

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Made the first 24-hour weather forecast on August 1, 1861

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Robert Fitzroy

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Established the Hooke’s Law for the elastic relationship of rocks, naming an elastic behavior as Hookean behavior after him

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Robert Hooke

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Developed the Dunham’s classification in 1962 recognizing six major varieties of carbonate rocks

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Robert J. Dunham

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Developed the Folk’s classification in 1959 recognizing four major types of grains or allochems in carbonate rocks

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Robert L. Folk

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Known as the “Father of Philippine Stratigraphy”

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Rolando Peña

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Established the Goldich’s rules and Goldich’s series, an inverted Bowen’s series, in 1938 for mineral stability

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Samuel S. Goldich

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Introduced the idea of magmatic segregation to form minerals

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Scipione Breislak

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Hypothesized land formation through in and marine fossils, soil erosion, and Hypothesized land deposition of silt

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Shen Kuo

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Interpretation of fossils

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Theophrastus

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First written work on minerals

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Theophrastus

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Proposed that Metals and Gurare made due to the interaction of “seeds” and water

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Thomas Sherley

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Developed the Young’s modulus of elasticity describing the stress-strain relationship of materials

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Thomas Young

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Wrote the earliest book on ore deposits

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Ulrich Rulein von Kalbe

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Described the inclined seismic zone, independently along with Kiyoo Wadati, called the Wadati-Benioff Zone

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Victor Hugo Benioff

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Proposed The Planetesimal Theory in 1941

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Viktor Safronov

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Published the book Mineral Deposits and made the Lindgren classification of deposits

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Waldemar Lindgren

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Formulated the Snell’s law the relationship of the angle of incidence and angle of reflection

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Willebrord Snellius

98
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Developed the Miller indices for crystallographic planes

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William Hallowes Miller

99
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Together with William Lawrence Bragg, wrote the earliest publication on crystal structure determinations

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Sir William Henry Bragg

100
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Invented the reflecting goniometer which allows highly accurate or precise measurements of the position of crystal faces, and had the mineral Wollastonite named after him

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William Hyde Wollaston

101
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Proposed the Davisian geomorphology or Davis’ Theory

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William Morris Davis

102
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Developed the Cycle of the Erasion Model

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William Morris Davis

103
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Invented the polarizing microscope

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William Nicol

104
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Known as the “Father of English Geology

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William Smith

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Established Law of Faunal Succession

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William Smith

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Coined the term Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism

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William Whewell

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