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David Bercovici
David Bercovici is a geophysicist, the Frederick William Beinecke Professor at Yale University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, known for grain-damage theory of plate boundaries.
David Griggs (geophysicist)
David Tressel Griggs (1911–1974) was an American geophysicist who pioneered the experimental study of rock deformation, discovered hydrolytic weakening, and was professor of geophysics at UCLA from 1948 until his death.
David L. Kohlstedt
David L. Kohlstedt is an American experimental geophysicist at the University of Minnesota whose laboratory studies of rock deformation established the physical basis for modeling mantle flow.
David R. Shelly
David R. Shelly is an American seismologist at the USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center in Golden, Colorado, known for studies of tectonic tremor and earthquake swarms.
Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent, born 1946 in Prague, is an American paleomagnetist at Lamont-Doherty and Rutgers known for geomagnetic polarity reversals, magnetostratigraphy, and calibrating the geologic time scale.
Don L. Anderson
Don L. Anderson (Don Lynn Anderson, 1933–2014) was an American geophysicist and seismologist at Caltech who co-developed PREM, the most widely used model of the Earth's interior.
Donald L. Turcotte
Donald L. Turcotte (1932–2025) was an American geophysicist at Cornell University who applied aeronautical engineering methods to mantle convection, plate tectonics, and earthquake statistics, and wrote the standard textbook Geodynamics.
Donald V. Helmberger
Donald V. Helmberger (1938–2020) was an American seismologist at Caltech whose synthetic seismogram methods underpinned four decades of waveform modeling, and who co-discovered ultra-low velocity zones.
Donald W. Forsyth
Donald W. Forsyth is an American marine geophysicist and seismologist at Brown University who studies seafloor formation at mid-ocean ridges; he coordinated the MELT Experiment and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
Douglas Wiens
Douglas A. Wiens is an American seismologist, the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, known for studying deep earthquakes and Antarctic seismology.
Drummond Matthews
Drummond Matthews (Drummond Hoyle Matthews) was a British marine geophysicist who with Fred Vine proposed in 1963 how magnetic stripes on the ocean floor record spreading.
Edward A. Irving
Edward A. Irving, known as Ted, was a Canadian geophysicist (1927–2014) who used paleomagnetism to prove continental drift, earning the Wollaston Medal and the Order of Canada.
Edward Bullard
Sir Edward Bullard (1907–1980) was a British geophysicist whose work on the Earth's magnetic field, heat flow, and the 1965 computer fit of Atlantic continents helped establish plate tectonics.
Edward J. Garnero
Edward J. Garnero is an American seismologist and Arizona State University professor who studies Earth's deep interior, known for work on the core–mantle boundary and ultra-low velocity zones.
Eileen Martin
Eileen Martin is a computational geophysicist and associate professor at Colorado School of Mines who develops fiber-optic seismic sensing algorithms and won a 2025 PECASE.
Elizabeth S. Cochran
Elizabeth S. Cochran is an American seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Science Center in Pasadena, known for work on induced earthquakes and early warning.
Emily E. Brodsky
Emily E. Brodsky is an American earthquake physicist and professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, known for work on earthquake triggering and fault-zone stresses.
Enders A. Robinson
Enders A. Robinson, full name Enders Anthony Robinson, was an American geophysicist known as the father of digital geophysics, who pioneered digital seismic data processing for oil exploration.
Enders Anthony Robinson
Enders Anthony Robinson was an American geophysicist who pioneered digital seismic data processing, establishing predictive deconvolution for oil exploration, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Erin Wirth Moriarty
Erin Wirth Moriarty, also known as Erin Wirth, is a USGS research geophysicist in Seattle who simulates Cascadia earthquake ground motions and received the 2025 PECASE award.
Ernest Harry Vestine
Ernest Harry Vestine (1906–1968) was a Canadian-American geophysicist who showed that Earth's magnetic field arises from fluid circulation in the core, working at the Carnegie Institution and RAND.
Francis Birch (geophysicist)
Francis Birch (1903–1992) was an American Harvard geophysicist whose high-pressure measurements of Earth's interior materials produced Earth models that remain the basis of most published since.
Frank Press
Frank Press (1924–2020) was an American geophysicist who first measured the Earth's free oscillations, advised President Carter on science, and led the National Academy of Sciences.
Friedrich Hermann Busse
Friedrich Hermann Busse (born 1936) is a German physicist known for work on rotating convection, dynamo theory, and the geodynamo model called the Busse balloon.
Fusakichi Ōmori
Fusakichi Ōmori (大森房吉, 1868–1923) was a Japanese seismologist, professor at Tokyo Imperial University, who formulated the 1894 aftershock decay law and designed the Omori seismometer.
Gavin Hayes
Gavin Hayes is an American seismologist and geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, known for the Slab2 model of subduction zones and the 2012 PECASE award.
George Edward Backus
George Edward Backus, born 1930 in Chicago, is an American geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography known for the Backus–Gilbert inversion method and dynamo theory of Earth's magnetic field.
George Helffrich
George Helffrich is a seismologist who studies the Earth's deep interior, known for Nature papers on outer-core stratification and inner-core anisotropy, most recently at the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo.
George Plafker
George Plafker was an American geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who showed that the world's largest earthquakes result from huge slip on subduction megathrusts.
Göran Ekström
Göran Ekström is a Swedish seismologist at Columbia University who leads the Global CMT Project and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.