Geologists' Biographies

Enjoy your geologists now, because you won't recognize them once they're history.

David Johnston lived and died to save people from volcanoes.

What ways have you memorialized geologic colleagues who have died?

There's a certain class of Earth scientist so important that if you mentioned just their last names to a group of well-educated geologists, everyone would nod in recognition. Who are those guys?

Fifteen of the great achievers memorialized in London's Westminster Abbey are geologists or people closely related to geoscience.

Twelve personal questions about great figures in geology.

A cavalcade of about 100 geophysicists, actual and honorary, starting with Aristotle.