The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Earth Sciences,
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David J. Stevenson
#26768
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (76 years)
David John Stevenson is a professor of planetary science at Caltech. Originally from New Zealand, he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, where he proposed a model for the interior of Jupiter. He is well known for applying fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics to understand the internal structure and evolution of planets and moons.
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Andrew Goudie
#37551
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (79 years)
Andrew Shaw Goudie is a geographer at the University of Oxford specialising in desert geomorphology, dust storms, weathering, and climatic change in the tropics. He is also known for his teaching and best-selling textbooks on human impacts on the environment. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of forty-one books and more than two hundred papers published in learned journals. He combines research and some teaching with administrative roles.
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Robert E. Dickinson
#37249
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (84 years)
Robert Earl Dickinson is an American meteorologist and geoscientist. Dickinson studied chemistry and physics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree completed in 1961. As a graduate student, he studied meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1962 and Ph.D. in 1966. After being a researcher at MIT, he joined in 1968 the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. There, he co-created the Roble–Dickinson–Ridley, the first general circulation model of the thermosphere; eventually, he became in 1975 head of the climate division and in 1981 Deputy Director of the Climate and Global Dynamics Division.
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Åke Sundborg
#38464
Overall Influence
1921 - 2007 (86 years)
Åke Sundborg was a Swedish geographer and geomorphologist known for his contributions to the hydrology and geomorphological dynamics of rivers. He was active at Uppsala University where he studied under the supervision of Filip Hjulström eventually succeeding him on the chair of physical geography. Besides his studies of rivers Sundborg made contributions on the climate of cities, the distribution of loess and the sedimentation of reservoirs and lakes. He studied rivers in Sweden as well as various large rivers in Africa and Asia.
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Horace R. Byers
#35403
Overall Influence
1906 - 1998 (92 years)
Horace Robert Byers was an American meteorologist who pioneered in aviation meteorology, synoptic weather analysis , severe convective storms, cloud physics, and weather modification. Byers is most well known for his work as director of U.S. Weather Bureau's Thunderstorm Project in which, among other things, the modern cell morphology and life cycle of a thunderstorm were established. He is also known for his professional involvement with Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby and Tetsuya Theodore Fujita.
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Katherine McKittrick
#21566
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (54 years)
Katherine McKittrick is a Canadian professor and academic, writer, and editor. She is a professor in Gender studies at Queen's University. She is an academic and writer whose work focuses on black studies, cultural geography, anti-colonial and diaspora studies, with an emphasis on the ways in which liberation emerges in black creative texts . While many scholars have researched the areas of North American, European, Caribbean, and African black geographies, McKittrick was the first scholar to put forth the interdisciplinary possibilities of black and black feminist geography, with an emphasis ...
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William Ruddiman
#22717
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (81 years)
William F. Ruddiman is a palaeoclimatologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. Ruddiman earned an undergraduate degree in geology in 1964 at Williams College, and a Ph.D. in marine geology from Columbia University in 1969. Ruddiman worked at the US Naval Oceanographic Office from 1969 to 1976, and at Columbia's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory from 1976 to 1991. He moved to Virginia in 1991, serving as a professor in Environmental Sciences. Ruddiman's research interests center on climate change over several time scales. He is a Fellow of both the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union.
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Roger Wakimoto
#47497
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Roger M. Wakimoto is an atmospheric scientist specializing in research on mesoscale meteorology, particularly severe convective storms and radar meteorology. A former director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research , Wakimoto in November 2012 was appointed as assistant director of the Directorate for Geosciences of the National Science Foundation .
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Johannes Weertman
#51897
Overall Influence
1925 - 2018 (93 years)
Johannes Weertman was an American materials scientist and geophysicist. Biography Born in 1925 in Fairfield, Alabama, Weertman served in the United States Marine Corps for three years. He then received from Carnegie Institute of Technology his bachelor's degree in 1948 and his Ph.D. in physics in 1951 under the supervision of James Koehler. As a postdoc Weertman was a Fulbright Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Beginning in 1952 he was at the US Naval Research Laboratory. At Northwestern University he became in 1959 an associate professor and then a full professor; in 1963 he became there a professor of geophysics and from 1968 Walter P.
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Preston Cloud
#23547
Overall Influence
1912 - 1991 (79 years)
Preston Ercelle Cloud, Jr. was an American earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist. He served in the United States Navy , and led several field explorations of the U.S. Geological Survey. In academia, he was a member of the faculty of Harvard University, University of Minnesota, University of California, Los Angeles, and lastly University of California, Santa Barbara. He was best known for his work on the geologic time scale and the origin of life on Earth, and as a pioneering ecologist and environmentalist. His works on the significance of Cambrian fossils in the 1940...
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Gordon McBean
#33284
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (24 years)
Gordon McBean, , is a Canadian climatologist who serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. He is a professor at the University of Western Ontario and Chair for Policy in the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. Previously he was the Assistant Deputy Minister of Meteorological Service of Canada.
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Volli Kalm
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Overall Influence
1953 - 2017 (64 years)
Volli Kalm was an Estonian geologist who, from 1 July 2012 to his death on 23 December 2017, was the rector of the University of Tartu. Education and academic degrees Kalm graduated from Vändra Secondary School in 1971 and began studying geology at the University of Tartu, graduating in 1976. From 1980 to 1984, he was a graduate student at the Institute of Geology at the Estonian Academy of Sciences, defending his degree in geology with a dissertation "Formation, composition and use of glaciofluvial deposits in Estonia" in 1984. Between 1988 and 1989, he was a postdoctoral student at the Dep...
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Ron Johnston
#41675
Overall Influence
1941 - 2020 (79 years)
Ronald John Johnston, OBE, FAcSS, FBA was a British geographer, known for elaborating his discipline's foundations, particularly its history and nature, and for his contributions to urban social geography and electoral geography. His broad scope is illustrated by the fact that he made extensive use of quantitative methods, while critically dealing with subjects of social and political relevance. Johnston authored or co-authored more than 50 books and 800 papers, and edited or co-edited a further more than 40 books . He edited The Dictionary of Human Geography and for the first four editions w...
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Tanya Atwater
#15274
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (82 years)
Tanya Atwater is an American geophysicist and marine geologist who specializes in plate tectonics. She is particularly renowned for her early research on the plate tectonic history of western North America.
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Waleed Abdalati
#16447
Overall Influence
Waleed Abdalati held the position of NASA Chief Scientist from 3 January 2011 through December 2012. Abdalati was named to this position on 13 December 2010 by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Abdalati previously served NASA as Head of Cryospheric Sciences at Goddard Space Flight Center between January 2004 and June 2008.
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Gill Valentine
#16834
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (59 years)
Gill Valentine is a British geographer, currently Professor of Geography and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sheffield. She is a member of the university's executive board and has chaired the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
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Benjamin K. Sovacool
#13209
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (45 years)
Benjamin K. Sovacool is an American academic who is director of the Institute for Global Sustainability at Boston University as well as Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University. He was formerly Director of the Danish Center for Energy Technology at the Department of Business Development and Technology and a professor of social sciences at Aarhus University. He is also professor of energy policy at the University of Sussex, where he formerly directed the Center on Innovation and Energy Demand and the Sussex Energy Group. He has written on energy policy, environmental issues, and science and technology policy.
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Neil Smith
#15134
Overall Influence
1954 - 2012 (58 years)
Neil Robert Smith was a Scottish geographer and Marxist academic. He was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and winner of numerous awards, including the Globe Book Award of the Association of American Geographers.
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Michael Watts
#11270
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (73 years)
Michael J. Watts is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He retired in 2016. He is a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left. His first book, Silent Violence:Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria , is considered a pioneering work in political ecology. Other published works include Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent , Liberation Ecologies , The Hettner Lectures: Geographies of Violence , Violent Environments and the Curse of the Black Gold . Watts has also been an assistant editor of the award-winning New...
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Richard Lee Armstrong
#33361
Overall Influence
1937 - 1991 (54 years)
Richard Lee Armstrong was an American/Canadian scientist who was an expert in the fields of radiogenic isotope geochemistry and geochronology, geochemical evolution of the earth, geology of the American Cordillera, and large-magnitude crustal extension. He published over 170 scientific papers.
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Robert L. Carroll
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Overall Influence
1938 - 2020 (82 years)
Robert "Bob" Lynn Carroll was an American–Canadian vertebrate paleontologist who specialised in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles. Biography Carroll was an only child and grew up on a farm near Lansing, Michigan. He was introduced to paleontology by his father shortly after his fifth birthday, and by the time he was eight he had decided he wanted to be a vertebrate paleontologist. In that same year he received as a Christmas present the left femur of an Allosaurus, courtesy of Edwin H. Colbert, whom his father had told about his interest. In his teen years his parents took him...
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
#4594
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (71 years)
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Native American botanist, author, an American Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; and the director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry .
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Henno Martin
#33430
Overall Influence
1910 - 1998 (88 years)
Henno Martin was a German professor of geology who, along with Hermann Korn, lived for two years in the Namib Desert to avoid internment during the Second World War. Personal life Martin was born in Freiburg, Germany on 15 March 1910. His studies at the universities of Bonn, Zürich, and Göttingen culminated in a Ph.D on "Post-Archean Tectonics in Southern Central Sweden". In 1935 he emigrated along with Korn to what was then South-West Africa and worked as a consulting geologist. Namibia was at that time administered by its neighbor, South Africa and in 1939 South Africa, following the United Kingdom, declared war on Germany.
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Michael Batty
#22789
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (79 years)
Michael Batty is a British academic currently appointed as Bartlett Professor of Planning in The Bartlett at University College London. His work spans the fields of urban planning, geography and spatial data science. He has been Director—now Chairman—of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, set up when he was appointed to UCL in 1995. His research and the work of CASA is focused on computer models of city systems. He was awarded the William Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011 for his book Cities and Complexity, the same prize a second time for his book The New Scienc...
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Paul G. Richards
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Overall Influence
1943 - Present (81 years)
Paul G. Richards is an English-born, American seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of seismic wave propagation and in methods to understand how the recorded shapes of seismic waves are affected by processes of diffraction, attenuation and scattering. He is the Mellon Professor of the Natural Sciences at Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.
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Lennart Bengtsson
#41828
Overall Influence
1935 - Present (89 years)
Lennart Bengtsson is a Swedish meteorologist. His research interests include climate sensitivity, extreme events, climate variability and climate predictability. Career He was head of research at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts from 1975 to 1981 and then director until 1990; then director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. He became a recipient of the Milutin Milankovic Medal in 1996. He is now a senior research fellow at the Environmental Systems Science Centre in the University of Reading.
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Jean Jouzel
#16317
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (77 years)
Jean Jouzel is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He has mainly worked on the reconstruction of past climate derived from the study of the Antarctic and Greenland ice. Career Jean Jouzel's career occurred mostly at the CEA , the French nuclear public organization. In 1991 he became vice-president of LMCE, the CEA laboratory dedicated to environment and climate; in 1995 he became its research director. In 1998 he became director of climate research of the LSCE, which resulted from the fusion of LMCE with another environmental research laboratory. From 2001 to 2008 he was director of the ...
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Gerard Toal
#15430
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (62 years)
Gerard Toal is Professor of Government and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Career Toal holds a B.A. in History and Geography from National University of Ireland, Maynooth, an M.A. in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , and a Ph.D. in Political Geography from Syracuse University .
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Richard Doell
#51916
Overall Influence
1923 - 2008 (85 years)
Richard Doell was a distinguished American scientist known for developing the time scale for geomagnetic reversals with Allan V. Cox and Brent Dalrymple. This work was a major step in the development of plate tectonics. Doell shared the Vetlesen Prize with Cox and Dalrymple.
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Yakov Kuzyakov
#56456
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (61 years)
Yakov Kuzyakov is a soil scientist and ecologist, professor and one of the most frequently cited soil scientists worldwide. Research and career Kuzyakov graduated in 1986 from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Halle. He defended his PhD at the Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in 1990 under the supervision of Alexey Fokin. Then he headed the radioisotopic laboratory from 1990 to 1993 over there. Later in 1993 Kuzyakov continued his research career at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops.
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Sterling Nesbitt
#17103
Overall Influence
1982 - Present (42 years)
Sterling Nesbitt is an American paleontologist best known for his work on the origin and early evolutionary patterns of archosaurs. He is currently an associate professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Geosciences.
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Barry Voight
#16661
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (87 years)
Barry Voight is an American geologist, volcanologist, author, and engineer. After earning his Ph.D. at Columbia University, Voight worked as a professor of geology at several universities, including Pennsylvania State University, where he taught from 1964 until his retirement in 2005. He remains an emeritus professor there and still conducts research, focusing on rock mechanics, plate tectonics, disaster prevention, and geotechnical engineering.
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Stephen R. Carpenter
#35201
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (72 years)
Stephen Russell Carpenter is an American lake ecologist who focuses on lake eutrophication which is the over-enrichment of lake ecosystems leading to toxic blooms of micro-organisms and fish kills. Early life Born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, his father, Richard, a chemist, became the Director of the National Academies’ Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, so Carpenter was immersed in science at a young age. In his youth, Carpenter spent his summers on his grandfather's farm in Missouri. During this time he and his relatives enjoyed fishing, hunting and camping. “Hiking, camping, fishing, and hunting all come together in ecology,” he says.
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T. Neil Davis
#22005
Overall Influence
1932 - 2016 (84 years)
Thomas Neil Davis was a professor of geophysics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the author of several books. Born in Greeley, Colorado, Davis received his B.S in geophysics from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1955, an M.S. in geophysics from California Institute of Technology in 1957, and a Ph.D. in geophysics from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1961. Davis spent most of his working career at the Geophysical Institute, pioneering the use of all-sky and low-level light cameras for the study of the aurora borealis and conducting rocket studies of the aurora. With Masahisa Sugiura he introduced the AE index now commonly used as a measure of solar-terrestrial interaction.
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Didier Sornette
#9853
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (67 years)
Didier Sornette is a French researcher studying subjects including complex systems and risk management. He is Professor on the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and is also a professor of the Swiss Finance Institute, He was previously a Professor of Geophysics at UCLA, Los Angeles California and a Research Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research .
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Marcia McNutt
#6636
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (72 years)
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Robert Kates
#15687
Overall Influence
1929 - 2018 (89 years)
Robert W. Kates was an American geographer and independent scholar in Trenton, Maine, and University Professor at Brown University. Background Kates was born in Brooklyn, New York. Unusually for an academic, he never completed an undergraduate degree. He studied Economics at New York University from 1946-8, but dropped out. He married Ellie Hackman at the age of 19 and went to work in a steel mill in Indiana for 12 years, working with the labor union and other movements. He had a chance encounter with a naturalist in a state park in Indiana when on vacation with his family, and this meeting...
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Albert Streckeisen
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Overall Influence
1901 - 1998 (97 years)
Albert Streckeisen was a Swiss petrographer and petrologist, the son of Basel forensic scientist Adolf Streckeisen. Biography He studied geology, mineralogy and petrology in Basel, Zürich and Bern. He submitted his doctoral thesis on the geology and petrology of the Flüela group in 1927. In the same year, aged 26, he was called as Professor in Mineralogy and Petrology to the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. As a member of the Romanian Geological Service, he was active in the geological mapping of the Carpathians.
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Jenni Barclay
#34289
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (24 years)
Jenni Barclay is a professor of volcanology at the University of East Anglia. She works on ways to mitigate volcanic risks, the interactions between rainfall and volcanic activity and the communication of volcanic hazards in the Caribbean. Barclay leads the NERC-ESRC funded Strengthening Resilience to Volcanic Hazards research project as well as a Leverhulme Trust programme looking at the volcanic history of the Ascension Islands.
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Joseph Smagorinsky
#32774
Overall Influence
1924 - 2005 (81 years)
Joseph Smagorinsky was an American meteorologist and the first director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory . Early life Joseph Smagorinsky was born to Nathan Smagorinsky and Dina Azaroff. His parents were from Gomel, Belarus, which they fled during the life-threatening pogroms of the early 20th century. Nathan and Dina bore three sons in Gomel: Jacob , Samuel , and David . In 1913, Nathan emigrated from the coast of Finland, passing through Ellis Island and settling on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Nathan at first was a house painter.
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John R. L. Allen
#58473
Overall Influence
1932 - 2020 (88 years)
John Robert Lawrence Allen, was a British geologist who made substantial contributions to sedimentology and archeology. He took a 1st class degree in geology at the University of Sheffield in 1955 and then proceeded to research for a PhD. However, notwithstanding declining to submit his thesis for examination, his outstanding qualities were recognised by the Professor of Geology at Reading University, another, but unrelated Percival Allen, with the award of the Martin Lees Research Fellowship in 1958. So began a career at the University of Reading which continued to his retirement: appointme...
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Ash Amin
#21971
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (69 years)
Ash Amin, is a British academic known for his writing on urban and regional development, contemporary cultural change, progressive politics, and the collaborative economy. He holds the 1931 chair at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Since September 2015 he has held the post of foreign secretary of the British Academy.
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Reid Bryson
#33315
Overall Influence
1920 - 2008 (88 years)
Reid Bryson was an American atmospheric scientist, geologist and meteorologist. He was a professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He completed a B.A. in geology at Denison University in 1941 and a Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Chicago in 1948. In 1946 he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and in 1948 he became the founder and first chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Meteorology and Center for Climatic Research. He was the first director of the Institute for Environmental Studies in 1970.
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P. R. Pisharoty
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Overall Influence
1909 - 2002 (93 years)
Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty was an Indian physicist and meteorologist, and is considered to be the father of remote sensing in India. Early life and education P. R. Pisharoty was born on 10 February 1909 in the town of Kollengode in the Indian state of Kerala. His parents were Sivaramakrishnan alias Gopala Vadhyar and Lakshmi Pisharassiar. He had three brothers: Chakrapani, Balakrishnan and Rajagopal, and three half brothers: Vaidyanathan, Rose Vadhyar and Gopalakrishnan. He completed his early education in Kerala. Having done his Physics BA honours from St. Joseph's College, Trichinopoly, Madras state, he went on to do his MA from Madras University.
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Hans Oeschger
#22182
Overall Influence
1927 - 1998 (71 years)
Hans Oeschger was a Swiss climatologist. He founded the Division of Climate and Environmental Physics at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern in 1963 and was the director until his retirement in 1992.
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Gillian Rose
#34147
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (62 years)
Gillian Rose FBA is a British geographer and geographic author. She is a professor of human geography in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Previously, she taught and served as Associate Dean at The Open University. She is best known for her 1993 book, Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge.
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Anthony J. Naldrett
#43765
Overall Influence
1933 - 2020 (87 years)
Anthony James "Tony" Naldrett, FRSC was an English and Canadian geologist. He was an authority on the geology and origin of nickel-copper-platinum group element deposits, the tectonic setting in which they occur, the petrology of associated rocks, and controls on their composition. He was an expert on the reaction between sulfide and silicate melts, fractional crystallization of sulfide melts, and the role of hydrothermal fluids.
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Trevor J. Barnes
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (68 years)
Trevor John Barnes, FBA is a British geographer and Professor of Economic geography at the University of British Columbia. Background Trevor Barnes received his Ph.D. in 1983 at University of Minnesota with a thesis under the supervision of Eric Sheppard titled The Geography of Value, Production, and Distribution: Theoretical Economic Geography after Sraffa. Barnes began his career as a spatial scientist, but in recent years his interest has moved to the history of economic geography. His current projects concern the history of geography's quantitative revolution; epistemological pluralism in...
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Robert M. Carter
#31240
Overall Influence
1942 - 2016 (74 years)
Robert Merlin Carter was an English palaeontologist, stratigrapher and marine geologist. He was professor and head of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University in Australia from 1981 to 1998, and was prominent in promoting climate change denial.
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Karl Butzer
#27371
Overall Influence
1934 - 2016 (82 years)
Karl W. Butzer was a German-born American geographer, ecologist, and archaeologist. He received two degrees at McGill University, Montreal: the B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1954 and later his master's degree in Meteorology and Geography. Afterwards in the 1950s he returned to Germany to the University of Bonn to obtain a doctorate in physical geography. He obtained a master's degree in Meteorology and Geography from McGill University and a doctorate in physical geography from the University of Bonn in Germany.
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