The following is a list of

notable Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibi ...

mineralogists and other people who made notable contributions to mineralogy. Included are winners of major mineralogy awards such as the

Dana Medal The Dana Medal, established in 1998, is awarded by the Mineralogical Society of America and is named in honor of the contributions made by James Dwight Dana (1813–1895) and Edward Salisbury Dana (1849–1935) to the science of mineralogy. It recog ...

and the

Roebling Medal The Roebling Medal is the highest award of the Mineralogical Society of America for scientific eminence as represented primarily by scientific publication of outstanding original research in mineralogy. The award is named for Colonel Washington ...

. Mineralogy is a subject of

geology Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Ea ...

specializing in the scientific study of chemistry,

crystal structure In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of the ordered arrangement of atoms, ions or molecules in a crystalline material. Ordered structures occur from the intrinsic nature of the constituent particles to form symmetric patterns ...

, and physical (including

optical Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultravio ...

) properties of

mineral In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid chemical compound with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.John P. Rafferty, ed. (2 ...

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* Joan Abella (born 1968) *

Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (11 December 18061 July 1886) was a German mineralogist and geologist. Full member of St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (hon. member since 1866). Biography He was born in Berlin and educated at the local universit ...

(1806–1886) *

Johan Afzelius Johan Afzelius (13 June 1753 in Larv – 20 May 1837 in Uppsala) was a Swedish chemist and notable as the doctoral advisor of one of the founders of modern chemistry, Jöns Jacob Berzelius. He was the brother of botanist Adam Afzelius and physi ...

(1753–1837) *

Stuart Olof Agrell Stuart Olof Agrell (5 March 1913 – 29 January 1996) was an optical mineralogist and collaborator applying the electron microprobe to petrology. His involvement in the Apollo program brought him to the attention of the British media and public. ...

(1913–1996) *

Georgius Agricola Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Pawer or Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire ...

(1494–1555) – author of '' De re metallica'' *

Arthur Aikin Arthur Aikin (19 May 177315 April 1854) was an English chemist, mineralogy, mineralogist and scientific writer, and was a founding member of the Chemical Society (now the Royal Society of Chemistry). He first became its treasurer in 1841, and la ...

(1773–1854) * Thomas Allan (1777–1833) * François Alluaud (1778–1866) * Charles Anderson (1876–1944) *

José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

(1763–1838) *

Matthias Joseph Anker Matthias Joseph Anker (6 May 1771 – 3 April 1843) was an Austrian mineralogist and geologist born in Graz. Some sources place his birth date as 1 May 1772.

* William Babington (1756–1833) *

Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli (1 September 1800, in Milan – 15 November 1874, in Pavia) was an Italian naturalist. He became a professor of mineralogy and zoology at the University of Pavia in 1851, and was appointed professor of comp ...

(1800–1874) * Andrew Ketcham Barnett (1852–1914) * Hilary Bauerman (1835–1909) *

Lewis Caleb Beck Lewis Caleb Beck (4 October 1798 Schenectady – 20 April 1853 Albany, New York) was an American physician, botanist, chemist, and mineralogist. Biography He graduated from Union College in 1815 with a Master of Arts. He then studied medicine, ...

(1798–1853) *

Friedrich Johann Karl Becke Friedrich Johann Karl Becke (31 December 1855, in Prague – 18 June 1931, in Vienna) was an Austrian mineralogist and petrographer. Biography After studying at the University of Vienna, where he specialized in the natural sciences, he became the ...

(1855–1931) * Nikolay Belov (1891–1982) *

Torbern Bergman Torbern Olaf (Olof) Bergman (''KVO'') (20 March 17358 July 1784) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 ''Dissertation on Elective Attractions'', containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Bergman was the ...

(1735–1784) – Related forms of calcite to cleavage. * Martine Bertereau (1600–1642) * Émile Bertrand (1844–1909) *

Marcel Alexandre Bertrand Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (2 July 1847 – 13 February 1907) was a French geologist born in Paris. He was the son of mathematician Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900), and son-in-law to physicist Éleuthère Mascart (1837-1908). He st ...

(1847–1907) * Friedrich Martin Berwerth (1850–1918) * Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848) * François Sulpice Beudant (1787–1850) *

Johannes Martin Bijvoet Johannes Martin Bijvoet (23 January 1892, Amsterdam – 4 March 1980, Winterswijk) was a Dutch chemist and crystallographer at the van 't Hoff Laboratory at Utrecht University. He is famous for devising a method of establishing the absolute con ...

(1892–1980) *

Luca Bindi Luca Bindi (born 1971) is an Italian geologist. He holds the Chair of Mineralogy and Crystallography and is the Head of the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Florence. He is also a research associate at the Istituto di Geoscienze e ...

(born 1971) *

Maynard Bixby Maynard Bixby (June 28, 1853 – February 18, 1935) was an American mineralogist and mineral collector. Early life Bixby was born in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania and graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1876. He worked for a tim ...

(1853–1935) * Harald Bjørlykke (1901–1968) *

William Phipps Blake William Phipps Blake (June 1, 1826 – May 22, 1910) was an American geologist, mining consultant, and educator. Among his best known contributions include being the first college trained chemist to work full-time for a United States chemical ...

(1826–1910) * Johann Reinhard Blum (1802–1883) * Hendrik Enno Boeke (1881–1918) *

Anselmus de Boodt Anselmus de Boodt or Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt (Bruges, 1550 - Bruges, 21 June 1632) was a Flemish humanist, mineralogist, physician and naturalist. Along with the German known as Georgius Agricola, de Boodt was responsible for establishing m ...

(1550–1632) *

Ignaz von Born Ignaz Edler von Born, also known as Ignatius von Born ( hu, Born Ignác, ro, Ignațiu von Born, cs, Ignác Born) (26 December 1742 in Alba Iulia, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Habsburg monarchy – 24 July 1791 in Vienna), was a miner ...

(1742–1791) *

Jacques Louis, Comte de Bournon Jacques-Louis, Comte de Bournon FRS, FGS (21 January 1751 – 24 August 1825) was a French soldier and mineralogist who came to England after the French Revolution. He gained prominence in the scientific community, being elected a fellow of ...

(1751–1825) * Norman L. Bowen (1887–1956) – known for Bowen's reaction series * Stanley Bowie (1917–2008) *

William Lawrence Bragg Sir William Lawrence Bragg, (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structu ...

(1890–1971) – known for Bragg's law of diffraction and ''Atomic Structures of Minerals'' *

Georg Brandt Georg Brandt (26 June 1694 – 29 April 1768) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who discovered cobalt (c. 1735). He was the first person to discover a metal unknown in ancient times. He is also known for exposing fraudulent alchemists operatin ...

(1694–1768) *

Auguste Bravais Auguste Bravais (; 23 August 1811, Annonay, Ardèche – 30 March 1863, Le Chesnay, France) was a French physicist known for his work in crystallography, the conception of Bravais lattices, and the formulation of Bravais law. Bravais also studied ...

(1811–1863) * August Breithaupt (1791–1873) * Vesselina Breskovska (1928–1997) * Aristides Brezina (1848–1909) * A. J. M. Brochant de Villiers (1772–1840) * Waldemar Christofer Brøgger (1851–1940) * Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847) *

Henry James Brooke Henry James Brooke (1771–1857) was an English crystallography, crystallographer. Life Brooke was the son of a broadcloth manufacturer, born in Exeter on 25 May 1771. He studied for the bar, but went into business in the Spanish wool trade, Sout ...

(1771–1857) *

Archibald Bruce Archibald Bruce may refer to: * Archibald Bruce (writer), Scottish theological writer * Archibald Bruce (mineralogist) Archibald Bruce (February 1777 – February 22, 1818) was an American physician and mineralogist. Biography Bruce was bor ...

(1777–1818) *

Franz Ernst Brückmann Franz Ernst Brückmann (27 September 169721 March 1753) was a German mineralogist born at Marienthal near Helmstedt. Having qualified as a physician in 1721, he practised at Braunschweig and afterwards at Wolfenbüttel (from 1728). In 1747 he wa ...

(1697–1753) *

Morten Thrane Brünnich Morten Thrane Brünnich (30 September 1737 – 19 September 1827) was a Danish zoologist and mineralogist. Biography Brünnich was born in Copenhagen, the son of a portrait painter. He studied oriental languages and theology, but soon became ...

(1737–1827) *

George Jarvis Brush George Jarvis Brush (December 15, 1831 – February 5, 1912) was an American mineralogist and academic administrator who spent most of his career at Yale University in the Sheffield Scientific School. Career Brush was born in Brooklyn, New York o ...

(1831–1912) * Arthur Francis Buddington (1890–1980) * Martin Julian Buerger (1903–1986) * Richard Büttner (1858–1927)

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* Louis J. Cabri (born 1934) *

Frédéric Cailliaud Frédéric Cailliaud (9 June 1787 – 1 May 1869) was a French naturalist, mineralogist and conchologist. He was born, and died, in Nantes, where he was the curator of the Natural History Museum of Nantes from 1836 to 1869. He travelled in E ...

(1787–1869) * Joseph Campbell (1856–1933) * Franz Ludwig von Cancrin (1738–1812) * Ian S. E. Carmichael (1930–2011) * George Washington Carpenter (1802–1860) * Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois (1820–1886) * Maurice Chaper (1834–1896) *

Edward Daniel Clarke Edward Daniel Clarke (5 June 17699 March 1822) was an English clergyman, naturalist, mineralogist, and traveller. Life Edward Daniel Clarke was born at Willingdon, Sussex, and educated first at Uckfield School"Anthony Saunders, D.D." in Ma ...

(1769–1822) *

John George Children John George Children FRS FRSE FLS PRES (18 May 1777 – 1 January 1852 in Halstead, Kent) was a British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist. He invented a method to extract silver from ore without the need for mercury. He was a friend of Sir ...

(1777–1852) * Charles L. Christ (1916–1980) * Hartvig Caspar Christie (1826–1873) *

Jean de Chastelet Jean du Chatelet, also known as Baron de Beausoleil and Auffembach (1578, Brabant – c. 1645, The Bastille, Paris), was a mineralogist, mining engineer and dowser. Life After an early career as a soldier, du Chatelet became enthused with the ...

(1578–1645) *

Parker Cleaveland Parker Cleaveland (January 1, 1780 – August 15, 1858) was an American geologist and mineralogist, born in Rowley, Massachusetts. He was identified with the early progress of the natural sciences. After having attending the Dummer Academy in B ...

(1780–1858) *

Enrico Clerici Enrico Clerici (15 October 1862 – 26 August 1938) was an Italian mineralogist and geologist. From 1903 on he worked at the University of Rome. He published in 1907 the composition of a solution with a density of 4.25 g/cm3 at 20 °C, to dete ...

(1862–1938) *

Emil Cohen Emil Wilhelm Cohen (12 October 1842 – 13 April 1905) was a German mineralogist and petrographer, born in Jutland. Professional life Cohen studied at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg and from 1867 to 1872 was a mineralogy assistant ...

(1842–1905) *

Joseph Henry Collins Joseph Henry Collins FGS, (16 March 1841 – 12 April 1916) was a British mining engineer, mineralogist and geologist. He died at his home, Crinnis House, near St Austell, on 12 April 1916 and is buried in Campdowns cemetery, Charlestown.''Tra ...

(1841–1916) * Arthur Connell (1794–1863) * Douglas Saxon "Doug" Coombs (1924–2016) * Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777–1861) *

Hubert Curien Hubert Curien (30 October 1924 – 6 February 2005) was a French physicist and a key figure in European science politics, as the President of CERN Council (1994–1996), the first chairman of the European Space Agency (ESA) (1981–1984), and s ...

(1924–2005)

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* Antonio D'Achiardi (1839–1902) * Tellef Dahll (1825–1893) * Alexis Damour (1808–1902) *

Edward Salisbury Dana Edward Salisbury Dana (November 16, 1849 – June 16, 1935) was an American mineralogist and physicist. He made important contributions to the study of minerals, especially in the field of crystallography. Life and career E. S. Dana was born in ...

(1849–1935) *

James Dwight Dana James Dwight Dana FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continent ...

(1813–1895) *

James Freeman Dana James Freeman Dana (born in Amherst, New Hampshire, 23 September 1793; died in New York City, 14 April 1827) was an American chemist. Biography He graduated from Harvard in 1813, and from the medical school in 1817. He studied with Dr. John G ...

(1793–1827) *

Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (29 May 1716 – 1 January 1800) was a French naturalist and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers''. Biography Daubenton was born at Montbard, Côte-d' ...

(1716–1800) *

William Alexander Deer William Alexander (Alex) Deer FRS (26 October 1910 – 8 February 2009) was a distinguished British geologist, petrologist and mineralogist. Biography Alex Deer was born in Rusholme, Manchester, the son of William Deer. He attended Manchester Ce ...

(1910–2009) *

Jean-Claude Delamétherie Jean-Claude Delamétherie (also ''de La Métherie'', ''de Lamétherie'', 4 September 1743 – 1 July 1817) was a French mineralogist, geologist and paleontologist. Career Delamétherie was born in La Clayette. He edited ''Journal de physiq ...

(1743–1817) *

Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse (3 February 181724 March 1881) was a French geologist and mineralogist. He is credited for inventing the Delesse principle in stereology. Education and career Delesse was born at Metz. At the age of twenty ...

(1817–1881) * Alfred Des Cloizeaux (1817–1897) *

Ignacy Domeyko Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko, pseudonym: ''Żegota'' ( es, Ignacio Domeyko, ; 31 July 1802 – 23 January 1889) was a Polish geologist, mineralogist, educator, and founder of the University of Santiago, in Chile. Domeyko spent most of his life, and ...

(1802–1889) * Armand Petit-Dufrénoy (1792–1857)

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* Harry von Eckermann (1886–1969) *

Thomas Egleston Thomas Egleston (December 9, 1832 – January 15, 1900) was an American engineer who helped found Columbia University's School of Mines, now the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. Throughout his lifetime, Egleston publis ...

(1832–1897) * Wilhelm Eitel (1891–1979) *

Wolf von Engelhardt Wolf Jürgen Baron von Engelhardt (9 February 1910, Tartu – 4 December 2008, Tübingen) was a German geologist and mineralogist. Baron von Engelhardt was a descendant of a Baltic German noble family Engelhardt. Biography In the years ...

(1910–2008) * Otto Erdmannsdörffer (1876–1955) * Gundolf Ernst (1930–2002) * W. Gary Ernst (born 1931) *

Berend George Escher Berend George Escher (4 April 1885 – 11 October 1967) was a Dutch geologist. Escher had a broad interest, but his research was mainly on crystallography, mineralogy and volcanology. He was a pioneer in experimental geology. He was a half- ...

(1885–1967) *

Jens Esmark Jens Esmark (31 January 1763 – 26 January 1839) was a Danish-Norwegian professor of mineralogy who contributed to many of the initial discoveries and conceptual analyses of glaciers, specifically the concept that glaciers had covered larger ...

(1763–1839) *

Morten Thrane Esmark Hans Morten Thrane Esmark (21 August 1801 – 24 April 1882) was a Norwegian priest and mineralogist. He is most noted for first locating the mineral thorite. Biography Morten Thrane Esmark was born at Kongsberg in Buskerud, Norway as a son of ...

(1801–1882) * Rodney C. Ewing (born 1946)

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Evgraf Fedorov Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov (russian: Евгра́ф Степа́нович Фёдоров, – 21 May 1919) was a Russian mathematician, crystallographer and mineralogist. Fedorov was born in the Russian city of Orenburg. His father was a top ...

(1853–1919) * Walter Frederick Ferrier (1865–1950) * Aleksandr Evgen’evich Fersman (1883–1945) * João da Silva Feijó (1760–1824) * Leopold Heinrich Fischer (1817–1886) * John Flett (1869–1947) * Walter Flight (1841–1885) * Gustaf Flink (1848–1931) * David Forbes (1828–1876) *

Johan Georg Forchhammer Johan Georg Forchhammer (26 July 1794 – 14 December 1865) was a Danish mineralogist and geologist. Early life and education Forchhammer was born at Husum, Schleswig. He studied at the universities of Kiel and Copenhagen from 1815 to 1818. ...

(1794–1865) * Adolarius Jacob Forster (1739–1806) * Westgarth Forster (1772–1835) * William F. Foshag (1894–1956) *

Clement le Neve Foster Sir Clement le Neve Foster (23 March 1841 – 19 April 1904) was an English geologist and mineralogist. Life and work Le Neve Foster was born in Camberwell, the second son of Peter le Neve Foster (for many years secretary of the Society of Ar ...

(1841–1904) * Samuel Fowler (1779–1844) *

Robert Were Fox the Younger Robert Were Fox FRS (26 April 1789 – 25 July 1877) was a British geologist, natural philosopher and inventor. He is known mainly for his work on the temperature of the earth and his construction of a compass to measure magnetic dip at sea. ...

(1789–1877) *

Friedrich August Frenzel Friedrich August Frenzel (24 May 1842 – 27 August 1902) was a German mineralogist. He was born in a miner's family in Freiberg, Saxony. In 1861 he was awarded a scholarship which enabled him to study mineralogy at Bergakademie Freiberg. There h ...

(1842–1902) *

Charles Friedel Charles Friedel (; 12 March 1832 – 20 April 1899) was a French chemist and mineralogist. Life A native of Strasbourg, France, he was a student of Louis Pasteur at the Sorbonne. In 1876, he became a professor of chemistry and mineralogy at t ...

(1832–1899) * Georges Friedel (1865–1933) * Günther Friedrich (1929–2014) *

Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs (15 May 1774 – 5 March 1856) was a German chemist and mineralogist, and royal Bavarian privy councillor. Biography He was born at Mattenzell, near Falkenstein in the Bavarian Forest. In 1807 he became professor of ...

(1774–1856) * William Fyfe (1927–2013)

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Johan Gadolin Johan Gadolin (5 June 176015 August 1852) was a Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist. Gadolin discovered a " new earth" containing the first rare-earth compound yttrium, which was later determined to be a chemical element. He is also ...

(1760–1852) *

Johan Gottlieb Gahn Johan Gottlieb Gahn (19 August 1745 – 8 December 1818) was a Swedish chemist and metallurgist who isolated manganese in 1774. Gahn studied in Uppsala 1762 – 1770 and became acquainted with chemists Torbern Bergman and Carl Wilhelm Scheele. 177 ...

(1745–1818) – developed blowpipe technique for identifying minerals. * Robert Garrels (1916–1988) * Kurt von Gehlen (1927–1995) * Johann Carl Gehler (1732–1796) *

Eugen Geinitz Franz Eugen Geinitz (15 February 1854, Dresden – 9 March 1925, Rostock) was a German geologist and mineralogist best known for his geological studies of the Mecklenburg region. He was the son of geologist Hanns Bruno Geinitz. Biography In ...

(1854–1925) *

Hanns Bruno Geinitz Hanns Bruno Geinitz (16 October 1814 – 28 January 1900) was a German geologist, born at Altenburg, the capital of Saxe-Altenburg. He was educated at the universities of Berlin and Jena, and gained the foundations of his geological knowledge ...

(1814–1900) *

Frederick Augustus Genth Frederick Augustus Ludwig Karl Wilhelm Genth (May 17, 1820 – February 2, 1893) was a German-American chemist, specializing in analytical chemistry and mineralogy. Biography Frederick Augustus Genth was born in Wächtersbach, Hesse-Cassel on ...

(1820–1893) *

Ernst Friedrich Germar Ernst Friedrich Germar (3 November 1786 – 8 July 1853) was a German professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at Halle. As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera. ...

(1786–1853) * George Gibbs (1777–1834) * Heinrich Girard (1814–1878) *

Ernst Friedrich Glocker Ernst Friedrich Glocker (1 May 1793 – 18 July 1858) was a German mineralogist, geologist and paleontologist. Biography From 1810 he studied theology, philosophy and sciences at the University of Tübingen, and afterwards continued his educatio ...

(1793–1858) *

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as t ...

(1749–1832) *

Georg August Goldfuss Georg August Goldfuss (Goldfuß, 18 April 1782 – 2 October 1848) was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and botanist. Goldfuss was born at Thurnau near Bayreuth. He was educated at Erlangen, where he graduated PhD in 1804 and became profes ...

(1782–1848) * Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (1853–1933) – crystal chemistry and geochemistry. * Julian Royce Goldsmith (1918–1999) * Claude-Henri Gorceix (1842–1919) * Wilhelm Joseph Grailich (1829–1859) *

William Gregor William Gregor (25 December 1761 – 11 June 1817) was an English clergyman and mineralogist who discovered the elemental metal titanium. Early years He was born at the Trewarthenick Estate in Cornwall, the son of Francis Gregor and Mary Co ...

(1761–1817) * James Gregory (1832–1899) *

Ralph Early Grim Ralph Early Grim (February 25, 1902 – August 19, 1989) was an American geologist and scientist, often referred to as the "Father of Mineralogy" because he made many discoveries during his investigations of clay materials. He was one of the most ...

(1902–1989) * Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth (1843–1927) – established relations between crystal form and structure. *

Jean-Étienne Guettard Jean-Étienne Guettard (22 September 1715 – 7 January 1786), French naturalist and mineralogist, was born at Étampes, near Paris. In boyhood, he gained a knowledge of plants from his grandfather, who was an apothecary, and later he qualif ...

(1715–1786)

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* Paula Hahn-Weinheimer (1917–2002) *

Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (or Wilhelm von Haidinger, or most often Wilhelm Haidinger) (5 February 179519 March 1871) was an Austrian mineralogist. Early life Haidinger's father was the mineralogist Karl Haidinger (1756–1797), who died w ...

(1795–1871) *

Axel Hamberg Axel Hamberg (17 January 1863 – 28 June 1933) was a Swedish mineralogist, geographer and explorer. Biography Hamberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the son of Nils Peter Hamberg (1815-1902) and Emma Augusta Christina Härnström (18 ...

(1863–1933) *

Peggy-Kay Hamilton Peggy-Kay Hamilton (1922–1959) was born in Illinois in 1922 and was an American Research Associate in Mineralogy in the Department of Geology at Columbia University. One of Hamilton's first research breakthroughs was developing Research Project ...

(1922–1959) *

Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann (22 February 1782, Hannover – 26 December 1859, Göttingen) was a German mineralogist. Biography He was born in Hannover and educated in Göttingen, where he obtained a PhD. Two years after making a geological t ...

(1782–1859) *

Paul Hautefeuille Paul Gabriel Hautefeuille (2 December 1836 in Étampes – 8 December 1902 in Paris) was a French mineralogist and chemist. Biography From 1855 he studied at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris. Later on, by way of a recom ...

(1836–1902) *

René Just Haüy René Just Haüy () FRS MWS FRSE (28 February 1743 – 1 June 1822) was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. Due to his innovative work on crystal structure and hi ...

(1743–1822) – discovered the law of rational indices. * Frank C. Hawthorne (born 1946) *

Robert Hazen Robert Miller Hazen (born November 1, 1948) is an American mineralogist and astrobiologist. He is a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George ...

(born 1948) * Matthew Forster Heddle (1828–1897) *

Johann F. C. Hessel Johann Friedrich Christian Hessel (27 April 1796 – 3 June 1872) was a German physician (MD, University of Würzburg, 1817) and professor of mineralogy (PhD, University of Heidelberg, 1821) at the University of Marburg. Contributions to Mineral ...

(1796–1872) *

John Henry Heuland John Henry Heuland (March 21, 1778 Bayreuth – November 16, 1856 Hastings) was a German born (Johann Heinrich) English mineralogist and dealer. He was a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. His collection is held by the Natural History Mu ...

(1778–1856) * Carl Hintze (1851–1916) * Thorstein Hiortdahl (1839–1925) * Marjorie Hooker (1908–1976) * Warren D. Huff *

Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, ...

(1769–1859) * Arthur Hutchinson (1866–1937)

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Robert Jameson Robert Jameson Robert Jameson FRS FRSE (11 July 1774 – 19 April 1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist. As Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, developing his predecessor John ...

(1774–1854) *

M. Qasim Jan M. Qasim Jan (born 10 January 1944) is a geologist and research scientist from Pakistan. He has been the vice-chancellor of three Pakistani universities. His research has been in geology, mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, and tectonics. He ...

(born 1944) * William W. Jefferis (1820–1906)

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* Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky (1846–1936) *

Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten (5 April 1768 – 20 May 1810) was a German mineralogist. Among the most notable of Karsten's writings is a mineralogy book published in 1789 when he was only 21 years old. In later years Karsten held senior governme ...

(1768–1810) * Karl Johann Bernhard Karsten (1782–1853) * Friedrich Katzer (1861–1925) *

Gustav Adolph Kenngott Gustav Adolph Kenngott (January 6, 1818 – March 7, 1897) was a German mineralogist. Biography Kenngott was born in Breslau. After being employed in the Hofmineralien-Cabinett at Vienna. From 1857 to 1893 he was also full professor of miner ...

(1818–1897) *

Friedrich Klockmann Friedrich Klockmann (12 April 1858, Schwerin – 17 November 1937, Aachen) was a German geologist and mineralogist. He studied geology and mineralogy at the Clausthal University of Technology, Bergakademie in Clausthal and at the University of Ros ...

(1858–1937) *

Adolf Knop Adolf Knop (12 January 1828, in Altenau – 27 December 1893, in Karlsruhe) was a German geologist and mineralogist. He studied mathematics and sciences at the University of Göttingen, where he was a pupil of chemist Friedrich Wohler and ...

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Adolph Knopf Adolph Knopf (December 2, 1882 – November 23, 1966) was an American geologist. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, he held professional appointments at the United States Geological Survey, Yale University, and Stanford University ...

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Wolfgang Franz von Kobell Wolfgang Xavier Franz Ritter von Kobell (19 July 180311 November 1882) was a German mineralogist and writer of short stories and poems in Bavarian dialect. Biography Kobell was born in Munich, Bavaria (where he also died), son of the painter ...

(1803–1882) * Rudolf Koechlin (1862–1939) * Nikolay Koksharov (1818–1893) * Johann Heinrich Kopp (1777–1858) *

Ivan Kostov Nikolov Ivan Kostov Nikolov ( Bulgarian: Иван Костов Николов) (December 24, 1913 (O.S.) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria – March 31, 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian geologist, mineralogist and crystallographer.via http://www.geology.bas. ...

(1913–2004) * Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau (1867–1900) * Adam August Krantz (1808–1872) *

Edward Henry Kraus Edward Henry Kraus (1875–1973) was a Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Michigan and also served as Dean of the Summer Session, 1915–1933, Dean of the College of Pharmacy, 1923–1933, and Dean of the College of Literature, Science an ...

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József Sándor Krenner József Sándor Krenner or Joseph Krenner (3 March 1839 – 6 January 1920) was a Hungarian mineralogist. He discovered several new minerals. Krenner was born in Buda and studied at the University of Pest, Vienna and Tübingen mineralogy and geolo ...

(1839–1920) * Leonid Kulik (1883–1942) *

George Frederick Kunz George Frederick Kunz (September 29, 1856 – June 29, 1932) was an American mineralogist and mineral collector. Biography Kunz was born in Manhattan, New York City, USA, and began an interest in minerals at a very young age. By his teens, ...

(1856–1932) * Nikolai Semenovich Kurnakov (1860–1941) * Johann Gottlob von Kurr (1798–1870)

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Antoine Lacroix Antoine François Alfred Lacroix (4 February 186312 March 1948) was a French mineralogist and geologist. He was born in Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire. Education Lacroix completed a D. s Sc. in Paris in 1889, as student of Ferdinand André Fouqué. F ...

(1863–1948) * Arnold von Lasaulx (1839–1886) * André Laugier (1770–1832) * Gillet de Laumont (1747–1834) *

Fritz Laves Fritz Henning Emil Paul Berndt Laves (27 February 1906 – 12 August 1978) was a German crystallographer who served as the president of the German Mineralogical Society from 1956 to 1958. He is the namesake of Laves phases and the Laves tiling ...

(1906–1978) * Johann Gottlieb Lehmann (1719–1767) *

Oskar Lenz Oskar Lenz (13 April 1848 in Leipzig – 1 March 1925 in Sooß) was a German-Austrian geologist and mineralogist born in Leipzig. In 1870, he earned his doctorate in mineralogy and geology at the University of Leipzig. In 1872, he joined as a v ...

(1848–1925) * Gustav von Leonhard (1816–1878) *

Karl Cäsar von Leonhard Karl Cäsar von Leonhard (12 September 1779 in Rumpenheim – 23 January 1862 in Heidelberg) was a German mineralogist and geologist. His son, Gustav von Leonhard, was also a mineralogist. From 1797 he studied at the universities of Marburg and ...

(1779–1862) * William Garrow Lettsom (1805–1887) * Armand Lévy (1795–1841) * William Lewis (1847–1926) *

Li Shizhen Li Shizhen (July 3, 1518 – 1593), courtesy name Dongbi, was a Chinese acupuncturist, herbalist, naturalist, pharmacologist, physician, and writer of the Ming dynasty. He is the author of a 27-year work, found in the ''Compendium o ...

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Henry Carvill Lewis Henry Carvill Lewis (November 16, 1853 – July 21, 1888) was an American geologist and mineralogist. Career Lewis was born in Philadelphia on November 16, 1853, and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Masters of Arts ...

(1853–1888) * Theodor Liebisch (1852–1922) *

Gottlob Linck Gottlob Eduard Linck (20 February 1858, Ötisheim – 22 December 1947, Jena) was a German mineralogist. From 1879, he studied at the polytechnic college in Stuttgart, followed by classes at the Universities of Strasbourg and Tübingen. In 1888 ...

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Carl von Linné Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

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Henri Longchambon Henri Longchambon (27 July 1896 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme – 20 March 1969 in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre) was a French politician and scientist. Early life Henri Longchambon was born on 27 July 1896 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. His father, who ...

(1896–1969) * Karl August Lossen (1841–1893)

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* Felix Karl Ludwig Machatschki (1895–1970) * George Mackenzie (1780–1848) *

Ernest-François Mallard Ernest-François Mallard (4 February 1833 – 6 July 1894) was a French mineralogist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He is also notable for his work with Henri Louis Le Chatelier in combustion as applied to mining safety.< ...

(1833–1894) *

Joseph A. Mandarino Joseph (Joe) Anthony Mandarino Order of Canada, OC, Royal Society of Canada, FRSC (20 April 1929 in Chicago, Illinois – 19 September 2007) was an American-Canadian mineralogist and crystallography, crystallographer. Early life and education J ...

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Ho-Kwang Mao Ho-Kwang (Dave) Mao (; born June 18, 1941) is a Chinese-American geologist. He is the director of the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research in Shanghai, China. He was a staff scientist at Geophysical Laboratory of the ...

(born 1941) * Brian Harold Mason (1917–2009) *

Johannes Mathesius Johannes Mathesius (June 24, 1504 – October 7, 1565), also called Johann Mathesius or John Mathesius, was a German minister and a Lutheran reformer. He is best known for his compilation of Martin Luther's '' Table Talk'', or notes taken of ...

(1504–1565) * Charles-Victor Mauguin (1878–1958) *

John Mawe John Mawe (1764 – 26 October 1829) was a British mineralogist who became known for his practical approach to the discipline. Biography Mawe was born in Derby in 1764 to Samuel Maw(e). His mother died when he was ten and he was raised by his fat ...

(1764–1829) * Sarah Mawe (1767–1846) *

Marshall McDonald Marshall McDonald (October 18, 1835 – September 1, 1895) was an American engineer, geologist, mineralogist, pisciculturist, and fisheries scientist. McDonald served as the commissioner of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries ...

(1835–1895) * Helen Megaw (1907–2002) – first woman to receive the

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Mineralogical Society of America The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) is a scientific membership organization. MSA was founded in 1919 for the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology, and promotion of their uses in other sciences, industr ...

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Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini (30 July 1811, Padua – 29 January 1889, Pisa) was an Italian botanist, geologist and paleontologist. Biography Meneghini became interested in science under his school teacher Pietro Melo. Follow ...

(1811–1889) * Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes (1950–2014) * Ludwig Meyn (1820–1878) *

Auguste Michel-Lévy Auguste Michel-Lévy (7 August 184427 September 1911) was a French geologist. He was born in Paris. Biography He became inspector-general of mines, and director of the Geological Survey of France. He was distinguished for his researches on extru ...

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Henry Alexander Miers Sir Henry Alexander Miers, FRS (25 May 1858 – 10 December 1942) was a British mineralogist and crystallographer. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the ...

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William Hallowes Miller Prof William Hallowes Miller FRS HFRSE LLD DCL (6 April 180120 May 1880) was a Welsh mineralogist and laid the foundations of modern crystallography. Miller indices are named after him, the method having been described in his ''Treatise on Cry ...

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Stanley Robert Mitchell Stanley Robert Mitchell (12 February 1881 – 22 March 1963) was an Australian commercial metallurgist as well as an amateur mineralogist and ethnologist. Early years Mitchell was born in St Kilda, Victoria, the oldest of eight siblings. His ...

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Eilhard Mitscherlich Eilhard Mitscherlich (; 7 January 179428 August 1863) was a German chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his discovery of the phenomenon of crystallographic isomorphism in 1819. Early life and work Mitscherlich was born at Neuende ...

(1794–1863) *

Friedrich Mohs Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs (; 29 January 1773 – 29 September 1839) was a German chemist and mineralogist. He was the creator of the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. Mohs also introduced a classification of the crystal forms in crystal syst ...

(1773–1839) *

Jean-André Mongez Jean-André Mongez (21 November 1750 – May 1788) was a French priest and mineralogist. He is presumed to have died at Vanikoro, on the La Pérouse expedition. Life Mongez was born in Lyon. He joined the canons regulars of Sainte-Genevièv ...

(1750–1788) * Otto Mügge (1858–1932)

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Alexandra Navrotsky Alexandra Navrotsky (born 20 June 1943 in New York City) is a physical chemist in the field of nanogeoscience. She is an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Philosophical Society (APS). She w ...

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Franz Ernst Neumann Franz Ernst Neumann (11 September 1798 – 23 May 1895) was a German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician. Biography Neumann was born in Joachimsthal, Margraviate of Brandenburg, near Berlin. In 1815 he interrupted his studies at Berlin to ...

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Ernest Henry Nickel Ernest (Ernie) Henry Nickel (born Ernst Heinrich Nickel on 31 August 1925 in Louth, Ontario, died on 18 July 2009) was a mineralogist from Canada who emigrated to Australia. He is best known as an editor of the ninth edition of the Nickel-Strun ...

(1925–2009) * James Nicol (1810–1879) *

Paul Niggli Paul Niggli (26 June 1888 – 13 January 1953) was a Swiss crystallographer, mineralogist, and petrologist who was a leader in the field of X-ray crystallography. Education and career Niggli was born in Zofingen and studied at the Swiss Fed ...

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William Niven William Niven (2 October 1850 – 2 June 1937) was a mineralogist and archeologist noted for his discovery of the minerals yttrialite, thorogummite, aguilarite and nivenite (named after him), as well as a set of controversial tablets. Ori ...

(1850–1937) * Johann Jakob Nöggerath (1788–1877) *

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (18 November 183212 August 1901) was a Finland-Swedish aristocrat, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the Fenno-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists and held the title of a friher ...

(1832–1901) *

Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld Nils Gustaf Nordenskiöld (October 12, 1792 – February 2, 1866) was a Finnish mineralogist and traveller. He was the father of mineralogist and polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld. Life Nordenskiöld was born on October 12, 1792, in M ...

(1792–1866) * George Lorenzo Noyes (1863–1945)

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Adolf Pabst Adolf Pabst (30 November 1899, Chicago – 3 April 1990, Berkeley, California) was an American mineralogist and geologist. Biography Pabst received in 1925 his bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois and in 1928 his Ph.D. in geology an ...

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Charles Palache Charles Palache (July 18, 1869 – December 5, 1954) was an American mineralogist and crystallographer. In his time, he was one of the most important mineralogists in the United States. Background Charles Palache came from the Pallache family ...

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Pierre Bernard Palassou Pierre Bernard Palassou (9 June 1745, Oloron-Sainte-Marie – 9 April 1830, Ogenne-Camptort) was a French naturalist known for pioneer geological and mineralogical studies of the Pyrénées. He was a correspondent member of the Académie des scie ...

(1745–1830) * Eugène Louis Melchior Patrin (1742–1815) * Linus Carl Pauling (1901–1994) * Lev Perovski (1792–1856) * Carlo Perrier (1886–1948) *

Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy (5 September 1792 – 20 March 1857) was a French geologist and mineralogist. Life He was born at Sevran, in the ''département'' of Seine-et-Oise. After leaving the Imperial Lyceum in 1811, he studied until 1 ...

(1792–1857) *

William Phillips William Phillips may refer to: Entertainment * William Phillips (editor) (1907–2002), American editor and co-founder of ''Partisan Review'' * William T. Phillips (1863–1937), American author * William Phillips (director), Canadian film-make ...

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William Pinch William "Bill" Wallace Pinch (August 15, 1940 – April 1, 2017) was a mineralogist from Rochester, New York. The Mineralogical Association of Canada Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, cr ...

(1940–2017) * Félix Pisani (1831–1920) *

Pliny Pliny may refer to: People * Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE), ancient Roman nobleman, scientist, historian, and author of ''Naturalis Historia'' (''Pliny's Natural History'') * Pliny the Younger (died 113), ancient Roman statesman, orator, w ...

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Erika Pohl-Ströher Erika Pohl-Ströher (18 January 1919 - 18 December 2016) was a German business executive, heiress, and collector of minerals and German folk art. She was resident in Switzerland for much of her life. Life Pohl-Stroher was born on 18 January 191 ...

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Petru Poni Petru Poni (4 January 1841 – 2 April 1925) was a Moldavian (later Romanian) chemist and mineralogist. Born into a family of ''răzeși'' (free peasants) in Săcărești, Iași County, he attended primary school in Târgu Frumos. In 1852, he enr ...

(1841–1925) * Alexander Postels (1801–1871) * George Thurland Prior (1862–1936)

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Paul Ramdohr Paul A. Ramdohr (1 January 1890 in Überlingen – 8 March 1985 in Hohensachsen/ Weinheim), was a German mineralogist, ore deposit-researcher and a pioneer of ore microscopy. Life After attending school at the "Alten Gymnasium" of Darmstadt ...

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Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1 April 1813 – 28 December 1899) was a German mineralogist from Berlin, Prussia. Life After an apprenticeship in pharmacy, he studied chemistry and crystallography at the University of Berlin, where his inf ...

(1813–1899) * Philip Rashleigh (1729–1811) *

Gerhard vom Rath Gerhard vom Rath (20 August 1830 – 23 April 1888), was a German mineralogist, born at Duisburg in Prussia. Biography Rath was educated at Cologne, at Bonn University, and finally at Berlin, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1853. In 1856 he became ...

(1830–1888) * Karl Georg von Raumer (1783–1865) *

Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein Franz-Joseph Müller, Freiherr von Reichenstein or Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1 July 1740 or 4 October 1742 – 12 October 1825 or 1826) was an Austrian mineralogist and mining engineer. Müller held several positions in the Habsburg m ...

(1740–1825/1826) * Adolf Remelé (1839–1915) * Alphonse Francois Renard (1842–1903) *

Anders Jahan Retzius Anders Jahan Retzius (3 October 1742 – 6 October 1821) was a Swedish chemist, botanist and entomologist. Biography Born in Kristianstad, he matriculated at Lund University in 1758, where he graduated as a filosofie magister in 1766. He also ...

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Franz Ambrosius Reuss Franz Ambrosius Reuss (3 October 1761, Prague – 9 September 1830, Bilin) was a Czech geologist, mineralogist and balneologist. He was the father of geologist August Emanuel von Reuss. He studied medicine in Prague and obtained his medical d ...

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Friedrich Rinne Friedrich Wilhelm Berthold Rinne (16 March 1863 in Osterode am Harz – 12 March 1933 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German mineralogist, crystallography, crystallographer and petrographer. Biography From 1880 he studied natural sciences at the ...

(1863–1933) * Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle (1736–1790) * Alexander Rose (1781–1860) *

Gustav Rose Prof Gustavus ("Gustav") Rose FRSFor HFRSE (18 March 1798 – 15 July 1873) was a German mineralogist who was a native of Berlin. He was President of the German Geological Society from 1863 to 1873. Life He was born in Berlin the son of pharmaco ...

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Harry Rosenbusch (Karl) Heinrich/Harry (Ferdinand) Rosenbusch (24 June 1836 – 20 January 1914) was a German petrographer. Harry Rosenbusch was born in Einbeck. He taught at Heidelberg University (1877–1908), where he founded the ''Mineralogisches-geologische ...

(1836–1914) * Karl Rössler (1788–1863) * George R. Rossman (born 1944) * Justus Ludwig Adolf Roth (1818–1892) * François Michel de Rozière (1775–1842) * Frank Rutley (1842–1904)

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* Alexander Sadebeck (1843–1879) *

Naima Sahlbom Naima Sahlbom (15 May 1871 – 29 March 1957) was a Swedes, Swedish chemist, mineralogy, mineralogist, and Peace movement, peace activist. She is considered to be one of Sweden's most notable women chemists of the late 19th and early 20th century. ...

(1871–1957) * Adolf Schenck (1857–1936) *

Ernst Erhard Schmid Ernst Erhard Friedrich Wilhelm Schmid (22 May 1815 in Hildburghausen – 16 February 1885 in Jena) was a German paleontologist. He was the son of law professor Karl Ernst Schmid (1774–1852). He studied natural sciences at the universities o ...

(1815–1885) * Hans Schneiderhöhn (1887–1962) * Frank Charles Schrader (1860–1944) * Albrecht Schrauf (1837–1897) *

Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers (15 August 1775 – 21 May 1852) was an Austrian naturalist who was a native of Pressburg, Hungary, Habsburg Empire (today Bratislava, Slovakia). In 1847, an uncommon iron-nickel-phosphide ((Fe,Ni)3P) miner ...

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Alexander von Schrenk Alexander Gustav von Schrenk (4 February 1816 – 25 June 1876) was a Russian naturalist born near Tula in what was then the Russian Empire. He was a brother to zoologist Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894). From 1834 to 1837, he studied science ...

(1816–1876) * Werner Schreyer (1930–2006) *

John Scouler John Scouler (31 December 1804 – 13 November 1871) was a Scottish naturalist. Life Scouler, the son of a calico-printer, was born in Glasgow on 31 December 1804. He received the rudiments of his education at Kilbarchan, but was sent very earl ...

(1804–1871) * Arthur Edmund Seaman (1858–1937) *

Friedrich Seifert Friedrich Alfred Seifert (born 8 May 1941) is a German mineralogist and geophysicist. He is the founding director of Bayerisches Geoinstitut at University of Bayreuth. A silicate mineral, seifertite, is named after him. Life and work Seifert was b ...

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Quintino Sella Quintino Sella (; 7 July 1827 – 14 March 1884) was an Italian politician, economist and mountaineer. Biography Sella was born at Sella di Mosso, in the Province of Biella. After studying engineering at Turin, he was sent in 1843 to study mi ...

(1827–1884) * Henri Hureau de Sénarmont (1808–1862) *

Arthur Moritz Schoenflies Arthur Moritz Schoenflies (; 17 April 1853 – 27 May 1928), sometimes written as Schönflies, was a German mathematician, known for his contributions to the application of group theory to crystallography, and for work in topology. Schoenflies ...

(1853–1928) * Werner Schreyer (1930–2006) * Anton Schrötter von Kristelli (1802–1875) * Carl Schulz (1851–1944) * Vasily Severgin (1765–1826) *

Sjur Aasmundsen Sexe Sjur Aasmundsen Sexe (14 August 1808 – 17 February 1888) was a Norwegian mineralogist and educator. Biography Sexe was from Ullensvang parish in Hordaland, Norway. He was the son of Aamund Sjursen Sexe (1769–1864) and Brita Torsteinsdatt ...

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Vladimir Shcherbina Vladimir Vital'evich Shcherbina (1907–1978) was a prominent Soviet geochemist and mineralogist. He was a student of Alexander Fersman. In 1931, he led a team from the USSR Academy of Sciences in the mineralogical examination of the Lovozero ...

(1907–1978) * Shen Kuo (1031–1095) *

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Benjamin Silliman Benjamin Silliman (August 8, 1779 – November 24, 1864) was an early American chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to use the process of fractional distillation ...

(1779–1864) * Vittorio Simonelli (1860–1929) * Edward Sydney Simpson (1875–1939) * John Sinkankas (1915–2002) *

Hjalmar Sjögren Sten Anders Hjalmar Sjögren (13 June 1856, Färnebo, Värmland – 23 March 1922, Stockholm) was a Swedish geologist and mineralogist. Biography Sten Anders Hjalmar Sjögren became associate professor of mineralogy and geology at Uppsala Uni ...

(1856–1922) * Herbert Smith (1872–1953) * James Smithson (c. 1765 – 1829) * Vladimir Stepanovich Sobolev (1908–1982) * Su Song (1020–1101) *

James Sowerby James Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist. Contributions to published works, such as ''A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland'' or ''English Botany'', include his detailed and app ...

(1757–1822) *

James De Carle Sowerby James De Carle Sowerby (5 June 1787 – 26 August 1871) was a British mineralogist, botanist, and illustrator. He received an education in chemistry. Sowerby was born in London, the son of botanical artist James Sowerby (1757–1822), and hi ...

(1787–1871) * Leonard James Spencer (1870–1959) * Harold Robert Steacy (1923–2012) *

Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner (20 December 1840, Dresden – 25 February 1895, Wiesbaden) was a German geologist. From 1859 to 1864 he was a student at the Bergakademie Freiberg, an institute where he later served as inspector. From 1871 to 1874 he ...

(1840–1895) *

Nicolas Steno Niels Steensen ( da, Niels Steensen; Latinized to ''Nicolaus Steno'' or ''Nicolaus Stenonius''; 1 January 1638 – 25 November 1686Clifford H. Stockwell (1897–1987) *

Karl Hugo Strunz Karl Hugo Strunz (24 February 1910 – 19 April 2006) was a German mineralogist. He is best known for creating the Nickel-Strunz classification, the ninth edition of which was published together with Ernest Henry Nickel. Biography Strunz was bor ...

(1910–2006) * Lars Fredrik Svanberg (1805–1878) * George Shirley Switzer (1915–2008)

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* James Tennant (1808–1881) *

Thomas Thomson Thomas Thomson may refer to: * Tom Thomson (1877–1917), Canadian painter * Thomas Thomson (apothecary) (died 1572), Scottish apothecary * Thomas Thomson (advocate) (1768–1852), Scottish lawyer * Thomas Thomson (botanist) (1817–1878), Scottis ...

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Cecil Edgar Tilley Cecil Edgar Tilley Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS HonFRSE Geological Society, PGS (14 May 1894 – 24 January 1973) was an Australian-UK, British petrologist and geologist. Life He was born in Unley, Adelaide, the youngest child of John Thoma ...

(1894–1973) * Haldor Topsøe (1842–1935) *

Franz Toula Franz Toula (20 December 1845 in Vienna – 3 January 1920 in Vienna) was an Austrian geologist, mineralogist and paleontologist. Beginning in 1863 he studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna (later on, known as ''Technische Hochschule Wien ...

(1845–1920) * Hermann Traube (1860–1913) * Gerard Troost (1776–1850) * Gustav Tschermak (1836–1927) *

Michael Tuomey Michael Tuomey (September 29, 1805 – March 30, 1857) was the State Geologist of South Carolina from 1844 to 1847, and the first State Geologist of Alabama, appointed in 1848 and serving until his death. His early descriptions and maps of the Bi ...

(1805–1857) * Francis John Turner (1904–1985)

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* Johann Christoph Ullmann (1771–1821)

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* Charles-Louis-Joseph-Xavier de la Vallée-Poussin (1827–1903) * William Sansom Vaux (1811–1882) *

August Ferdinand von Veltheim August Ferdinand von Veltheim (18 September 1741 Harbke – 2 October 1801. Braunschweig) was a German mineralogist and geologist, and came from the aristocratic family of Veltheim. He was known as August Ferdinand Graf von Veltheim from 1798 ...

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Vladimir Vernadsky Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (russian: link=no, Влади́мир Ива́нович Верна́дский) or Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky ( uk, Володи́мир Іва́нович Верна́дський; – 6 January 1945) was ...

(1863–1945) * Johann Karl Wilhelm Voigt (1752–1821) *

Otto Volger Georg Heinrich Otto Volger (30 January 1822 – 18 October 1897) was a German geologist from Lüneburg. He was the founder and first chairman of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, which he led from 1859 to 1882. Life Volger was born to , a teac ...

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Friedrich Walchner Friedrich August Walchner (2 September 1799 – 17 February 1865) was a German geologist, chemist and mineralogist. Life Walchner was born in Meersburg. He studied in Göttingen and at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. In 1817 he joine ...

(1799–1865) * John Walker (1730–1803) *

Johan Gottschalk Wallerius Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (11 July 1709 – 16 November 1785) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist. Biography Wallerius was born at Stora Mellösa in Närke (now Örebro County), Sweden. He was a son of provost Erik Nilsson Wallerius and hi ...

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Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen Wolfgang Sartorius Freiherr von Waltershausen (17 December 180916 March 1876) was a German geologist. Life and work Waltershausen was born at Göttingen and educated at this city's university. There he devoted his attention to physical and natur ...

(1809–1876) * Bertram Eugene Warren (1902–1991) * Alice Mary Dowse Weeks (1909–1988) * Ernst Weinschenk (1865–1921) * Christian Ernst Weiss (1833–1890) *

Christian Samuel Weiss Christian Samuel Weiss (26 February 1780 – 1 October 1856) was a German mineralogist born in Leipzig. Following graduation, he worked as a physics instructor in Leipzig from 1803 until 1808. and in the meantime, conducted geological studies of ...

(1780–1856) *

Abraham Gottlob Werner Abraham Gottlob Werner (; 25 September 174930 June 1817) was a German geologist who set out an early theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust and propounded a history of the Earth that came to be known as Neptunism. While most tenet ...

(1750–1817) *

Frank T. M. White Frank Thomas Matthews White (1909–1971) was an Australian mining and metallurgical engineer and mineral science educator. His career included appointments in Australia, Fiji, Malaya, and Canada. An examination of White's career reveals steady ...

(1909–1971) * Carl Ernst Arthur Wichmann (1851–1927) *

William Hyde Wollaston William Hyde Wollaston (; 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable ingot ...

(1766–1828) * Bernard John Wood (born 19??) *

Peter Woulfe Peter Woulfe (1727–1803) was an Anglo-Irish chemist and mineralogist. He first had the idea that wolframite might contain a previously undiscovered element (tungsten). In 1771, Woulfe reported the formation of a yellow dye when indigo was tr ...

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Peter John Wyllie Peter John Wyllie (born 8 February 1930, in London, England) is a British petrologist and academic. He was Professor of Geology at the California Institute of Technology from 1983 until his retirement in 1999. Prior to this, he held positions at ...

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Philip James Yorke Philip James Yorke (13 October 1799 – 14 December 1874) was a British Army officer, scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society. Yorke was a founder of the Chemical Society in the United Kingdom. Life Yorke was born on 13 October 1799, the eldes ...

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* Ferruccio Zambonini (1880–1932) * Josef Zemann (1923–2022) * E-An Zen (1928–2014) * Gustav Anton Zeuner (1828–1907) * Franz Xaver Zippe (1791–1863) * Ferdinand Zirkel (1838–1912) *

Sigmund Zois Sigmund Zois Freiherr von Edelstein, usually referred as Sigmund Zois ( sl, Žiga Zois, formerly Slovenized as ''Cojs'' or ''Cojz''; ) (23 November 1747 – 10 November 1819) was a Carniolan nobleman, natural scientist and patron of the arts. He ...

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