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David Walker (geologist)
David Walker is an American experimental petrologist, Higgins Professor Emeritus at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, known for experiments on lunar samples, planetary interiors, and the Walker-type multi-anvil apparatus.
Derek Vance
Derek Vance is an Irish isotope geochemist, Professor of Geochemistry at ETH Zurich since 2012 and a Fellow of the Royal Society elected in 2023.
Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo is an American isotope geochemist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for neodymium isotope studies of the crust and mantle.
Douglas Coombs
Douglas Saxon Coombs (1924–2016) was a New Zealand geologist at the University of Otago who established how rocks change chemically when buried, now called low-grade metamorphism, and named the zeolite facies.
E-An Zen
E-an Zen (1928–2014) was an American geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, best known for settling the Taconic rocks debate and helping found igneous geobarometry; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
E. Bruce Watson
E. Bruce Watson is an American experimental geochemist and Institute Professor Emeritus at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, known for the Ti-in-zircon thermometer and studies of element diffusion in the Earth's crust and mantle.
Edward M. Stolper
Edward M. Stolper, born 1952, is an American igneous petrologist and geochemist at Caltech, provost from 2007 to 2017, known for recognizing shergottite meteorites as martian basalts.
Edwin Roedder
Edwin Woods Roedder (1919–2006) was an American geochemist at the U.S. Geological Survey who pioneered fluid inclusion research on ore deposits, winning the Roebling and Penrose medals.
Egon T. Degens
Egon Theodor Degens (1928–1989) was a German geologist and geochemist who led the 1965 Red Sea expedition that discovered the first sea-floor hydrothermal ore deposits and made the first detailed study of the anoxic Black Sea.
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (1887–1973) was a Romanian chemical engineer who became the first woman to obtain an engineering title in Romania and the first female engineering graduate in Germany.
Éric H. Oelkers
Éric H. Oelkers is a geochemist who co-directed the CarbFix carbon-storage project from 2006 to 2020 and works on storing carbon dioxide as carbonate minerals in basalt.
Eric J. Essene
Eric J. Essene (1939–2010) was an American metamorphic petrologist who spent 40 years at the University of Michigan making geologic thermometry and barometry quantitative and critically evaluated.
Esper S. Larsen, Jr.
Esper S. Larsen, Jr. (1879–1961) was an American petrologist at Harvard and the U.S. Geological Survey known for optical mineral determination and the lead-alpha method of dating rocks.
Everett L. Shock
Everett L. Shock is an American geochemist, a professor at Arizona State University since 2002, known for thermodynamic modeling of hydrothermal systems and the energetics of microbial metabolism.
Ferdinand Zirkel
Ferdinand Zirkel (1838–1912) was a German mineralogist and petrographer who established thin-section microscopy as petrography's principal method, and professor of mineralogy at Leipzig from 1870 to 1909.
Francis Albarède
Francis Albarède (born 1947) is a French isotope geochemist, professor emeritus at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, known for pioneering metal isotope analysis in geochemistry, archaeology, and medicine.
Francis John Turner
Francis John Turner (1904–1985) was a New Zealand-born metamorphic petrologist, professor of geology at Berkeley, and pioneer of structural petrology elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Francis R. Boyd
Francis R. Boyd, known to colleagues as Joe, was an American experimental petrologist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory who developed the pyroxene geotherm for reading the mantle's thermal structure.
Frank M. Richter
Frank M. Richter (Frank Morris Richter) is an American geophysicist and experimental petrologist at the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Frederick A. Frey
Frederick A. Frey (1938–2021) was an American geochemist and MIT professor emeritus, a pioneer of trace element geochemistry of Earth's mantle who received the N.L. Bowen Award in 1986.
Gideon Henderson
Gideon Henderson is a British isotope geochemist and Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford who uses radioactive isotopes to date past climate events, and served as Defra Chief Scientific Adviser from 2019 to 2025.
Graham Pearson
D. Graham Pearson, born 1965, is a British isotope geochemist at the University of Alberta known for using diamonds and mantle xenoliths to study the continental mantle.
Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff
Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff (1860–1942) was a Dutch geologist who first described the Bushveld Complex in South Africa and led pioneering expeditions to Borneo and Timor.
H.W. Nesbitt
H.W. Nesbitt, or H. Wayne Nesbitt, is a Canadian geochemist and Royal Society of Canada fellow at Western University known for work on continental weathering and rare earth elements.
Hans P. Eugster
Hans P. Eugster (Hans-Peter Eugster, 1925–1987) was a Swiss-born American experimental petrologist and geochemist at Johns Hopkins University, known for the oxygen buffer technique and saline lake geochemistry.
Harmon Craig
Harmon Craig (1926–2003) was an American isotope geochemist who spent his career at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, pioneering carbon isotope and radiocarbon studies of the global carbon cycle.
Harrison Brown
Harrison Brown (1917–1986) was an American geochemist who developed the plutonium isolation process for the Manhattan Project, then used meteorites to date the Earth at 4.5 billion years.
Harry Rosenbusch
Harry Rosenbusch (1836–1914) was a German petrographer and mineralogist, professor at Strasbourg and then Heidelberg from 1878 to 1908, whose Mikroskopische Physiographie established thin-section microscopy of rocks.
Hatten Yoder
Hatten Yoder (1921–2003) was an American experimental petrologist who spent fifty-five years at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, directing it from 1971 to 1986, and whose basalt-melting experiments established how magmas form in the mantle.
Heinrich Holland
Heinrich Dieter Holland (1927–2012) was a German-born American geochemist at Princeton and Harvard who established the Great Oxidation Event, the rise of atmospheric oxygen about 2.3 billion years ago.