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Born March 16, 1794 • Hamburg • Germany
Died November 21, 1881 (aged 87) • Vienna • Austria
Subjects Of Study geology
Suess, Eduard
Eduard Suess
Austrian geologist
William Maclure
American geologist
François-Emile Matthes
American geologist
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Dorothy Hill
Dorothy Hill
Australian geologist
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American paleontologist
Grove Karl Gilbert, 1891
Grove Karl Gilbert
American geologist
Abraham Werner
Abraham Gottlob Werner
German geologist
Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez
American geologist
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée
French geochemist

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