Historical listing

Listing of Geologists and
Geological Institutions
History of Geology
James S. Aber

Categories
Ancient, Medieval,
Renaissance--part I European 18th
Century--part II
European 19th-20th
Centuries--part III American 18th-20th
Centuries--part IV
Kansan 19th-20th
Centuries--part V Geological
Institutions--part VI

Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance

Pythagores (about 530 BC).

Democritus of Abdera (about 490 BC).

Aristotle (384-322 BC).

Theophrastus (368-284 BC).

Eratosthenes (276-195 BC).

Titus Lecretius Carus (99-55 BC).

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2 BC-AD 65).

Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79).

Claudius Ptolomaeus (Ptolomy, AD 100-170).

al-Biruni (973-1050).
Avicenna (Ibn Sina, 980-1037).
Albertus Magnus (1193-1280).
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
Nicholas Copernicus (1453-1543).
Geogius Agricola (Georg Bauer, 1495-1555).
Bernard Palissy (1510-1581).
William Gilbert (1540-1603).
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).
René Descartes (1596-1650).
John Ray (1627-1705).
Thomas Burnet (1632-1715).
Robert Hooke (1635-1703).
Nicolaus Steno (Nils Steensen, 1638-1686).
Isaac Newton (1642-1727).
Benoit de Maillet (1656-1728).
Edward Lhwyd (1660-1709).
John Woodward (1665-1728).
Jacob Scheuchzer (1672-1733).

European 18th Century

Anton-Lazara Moro (1687-1764).

Pierre Bouguer (1698-1758).

Guillaume-François Rouelle (1703-1770).

George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788).

Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné, 1707-1778).

Mikhail V. Lomonosov (1711-1765).
Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795).
Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715-1786).
Johan Gottlob Lehmann (1719-1767).
Georg Christian Füchsel (1722-1773).
Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789).
John Michell (1724-1793).
Nicholaus Desmarest (1725-1815).
James Hutton (1726-1797).
Torbern Bergman (1735-1784).
Rudolph Erich Raspe (1737-1794).
Horace Benedicte de Saussure (1740-1799).
Jean B.P.A. de Monet de Lamarck (1744-1829).
John Playfair (1748-1819).
Deodat de Gratet de Dolomieu (1750-1801).
Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817).
Jean-Louis Giraud Soulavie (1752-1813).
Abbé Rene-Just Haüy (late 1700s).
James Hall (1761-1832).

European 19th-20th Centuries

William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828).

Robert Bakewell (1769-1843).

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832).

William Smith (1769-1839).

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).
Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847).
Friedrich Mohs (1773-1839).
Robert Jameson (1774-1854).
Georges Bellas Greenough (1778-1855).
William Buckland (1784-1856).
Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873).
William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857).
Roderick Murchison (1792-1871).
George Julius Poulett Scrope (1797-1876).
Charles Lyell (1797-1875).
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873).
Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
Robert Mallet (1810-1881).
Lord Kelvin, later Baron Kelvin (Wm. Thompson, 1824-1907).
Eduard Suess (1831-1914).
Archibald Geikie (1835-1924).
Charles Lapworth (1842-1920).
John Milne (1850-1913).
Evgraf Stepanovich Fyodorov (also Fedorov, 1853-1919).
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930).
Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934).
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930).
Inge Lehmann (1888-1993).
Beno Gutenberg (1889-1960)
Arthur Holmes (1890-1965).
Björn Kurtén (1924-1988).
Alexander Ainemer (1930s?-2001).
Nicholas J. Shackleton (1937-2006).

American (U.S. & Canadian) 18th-20th Centuries

Johann David Schopf (1752-1800).

William Maclure (1763-1840).
Amos Eaton (1776-1842).
Benjamin Sillman (1779-1864).
Lardner Vanuxem (1792-1848).
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864).
William Edmond Logan (1798-1875).
Ebenezer Emmons (1799-1863).
Leo Lesquereux (1806-1889).
David Dale Owen (1807-1860).
Douglas Houghton (1809-1845).
Henry D. and William B. Rogers (brothers, early 1800s).
James Hall (1811-1898).
James Dwight Dana (1813-1895).
John Charles Fremont (1813-1890).
Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-1896).
Alexander Winchell (1824-1891).
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829-1887).
Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899).
Ferdinand Zirkel (1832-1912).
John Wesley Powell (1834-1902).
Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897).
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841-1906).
Clarence Dutton (1841-1912).
Clarence Rivers King (1842-1901).
George M. Wheeler (1842-1905).
Grove Karl Gilbert (1843-1918).
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843-1928).
William Morris Davis (1850-1934).
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927).
Frank Bursley Taylor (1860-1938).
Florence Bascom (1862-1945).
Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Jr. (1863-1931).
J. Tuzo Wilson (1908-1993).
Konrad B. Krauskopf (1911-2003).
Marie Tharp (1920-2006).
Larry D. Agenbroad (1933-2015).
William Watt Hutchinson (1935-1987).

Kansan 19th-20th Centuries

Benjamin Franklin Mudge (1817-1879).

George Clinton Swallow (1817-1899).

Robert Hay (1835-1895).

Francis Huntington Snow (1840-1908).

Bernard Bryan Smyth (1843-1913).

James Edward Todd (1846-1922).

Lyman C. Wooster (1849-1947).
Orestes Hawley St. John (late 1800s).
Samual Wendell Williston (1851-1918).
Erasmus Haworth (1855-1932).
Charles H. Sternberg (father, 1850-1943, and sons).
Francis Whittemore Cragin (1858-1937).
Raymond Cecil Moore (1892-1974).
Walter Henry Schoewe (1891-1966).
Hollis Dow Hedberg (1903-1988).
Claude William Hibbard (1905-1973).
Frank C. Foley (1906-1985).
John Chapman Fyre (1912-1982).
William W. Hambleton (1921-2012).
Daniel F. Merriam (1927-2017).

Geological Institutions

Jardin du Roi and Cabinet du Roi, 1600s, Paris. Became Jardin des Plantes and Museum d'Historie Naturelle in 1793.

The Royal Society, 1662, London.

American Philosophical Society, 1743, Philadelphia.

Geological Society, 1807, London.

Association of American Geologists, 1840, Philadelphia. Became American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1847.

Geological Survey of Canada, 1842, Montreal. Later moved to Ottawa in 1881.
Smithsonian Institution, 1846, Washington, D.C.
Kansas Geological Survey, 1864, 1865. Permanently established in 1889 at Lawrence, Kansas.
Kansas Natural History Society, 1868. Became the Kansas Academy of Science in 1871.
U.S. Geological Survey, 1879, Washington, D.C. See USGS Circular 1341 (long pdf file).
Geological Society of America, 1888, New York. Later moved to Boulder, Colorado in 1967.

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