Scientists: Earth Sciences
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
Notable Scientists: Earth Sciences
Geologists, geographers, naturalists, oceanographers, and paleontologists
Geologists
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- Agassiz, Louis
- Brongniart, Alexandre
- Buch, Christian Leopold, Freiherr von
- Buckland, William
- Burnet, Thomas
- Dana, James Dwight
- Deluc, Jean André
- Dutton, Clarence Edward
- Fuchs, Sir Vivian Ernest
- Gilbert, Grove Karl
- Godwin-Austen, Henry Haversham
- Guettard, Jean-Étienne
- Holmes, William Henry
- Hopkins, William
- Hutton, James
- Karpinsky, Alexander Petrovich
- Logan, Sir William Edmond
- Lyell, Sir Charles
- Marbut, Curtis Fletcher
- Mawson, Sir Douglas
- Milne, John
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey
- Nordenskjöld, Nils Adolf Erik, Baron
- Powell, John Wesley
- Richthofen, Ferdinand, Baron von
- Rogers, William Barton
- Sedgwick, Adam
- Smith, William
- Suess, Eduard
- Wegener, Alfred Lothar
- Werner, Abraham Gottlob
- Winthrop, John
Geographers
- Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'
- Barrow, Sir John
- Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
- Blanchard, Raoul
- Blunt, George William
- Bowman, Isaiah
- Brigham, Albert Perry
- David, T. W. E.
- Davidson, George
- Delisle, Guillaume
- Evans, Lewis
- Everest, Sir George
- Fenneman, Nevin M.
- Gannett, Henry
- Hakluyt, Richard
- Haushofer, Karl
- Hettner, Alfred
- Idrisi
- Koch, Lauge
- Markham, Sir Clements Robert
- Mawson, Sir Douglas
- Mercator, Gerardus
- Olney, Jesse
- Ortelius, Abraham
- Penck, Albrecht
- Pomponius Mela
- Przhevalsky, Nikolai Mikhailovich
- Ptolemy
- Ratzel, Friedrich
- Rennell, James
- Richthofen, Ferdinand, Baron von
- Ritter, Karl
- Scoresby, William
- Semple, Ellen Churchill
- Strabo
- Thompson, David
- Varenius, Bernhardus
- Waldseemüller, Martin
- Yaqut al-Hamawi
Meteorologists
- Abbe, Cleveland
- Bjerknes, Vilhelm Frimann Koren
- Buys Ballot, Christoph Heinrich Diedrich
- Espy, James Pollard
- Glaisher, James
- Marvin, Charles Frederick
Naturalists
- Agassiz, Alexander
- Aldrovandi, Ulisse
- Andrews, Roy Chapman
- Banks, Sir Joseph
- Bartram, William
- Bates, Henry Walter
- Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de
- Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron
- Darwin, Charles Robert
- Forster, Johann Reinhold
- Grinnell, George Bird
- Humboldt, Alexander, Freiherr von
- Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de
- Leeuwenhoek, Antony van
- Muir, John
- Mutis, José Celestino
- Pinchot, Gifford
- Pliny the Elder
- Ray, John
- Redi, Francesco
- Say, Thomas
- Swammerdam, Jan
- Thomson, Sir Charles Wyville
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- Willughby, Francis
Oceanographers
Paleontologists
- Andrews, Roy Chapman
- Cope, Edward Drinker
- Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert, Baron
- Hall, James
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield
- Simpson, George Gaylord
- Stopes, Marie Carmichael
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
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