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Frank C. Whitmore Jr.
1915 - 2012 (97 years)
Frank Clifford Whitmore Jr. was an American geologist including chief of the Military Geology Unit of the United States Geological Survey, vertebrate paleontologist with the Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch of the United States Geological Survey, awardee of the Medal of Freedom, fellow of the Geological Society of America, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Penrose Medal citationist, awardee of the Thomas Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural Science, Honorable Kentucky Colonel, member of the National Geographic Society Committee for Rese...
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Richard L. Morrill
1939 - Present (87 years)
Richard Leslie Morrill has served as president of several American colleges and universities. He currently holds the positions of Chancellor and Distinguished University Professor of Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond.
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Alan Gillett
1930 - Present (96 years)
Alan Henry Puckridge Gillett, OBE is a chartered surveyor who became Master of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors. Upon retiring from that occupation in 1995, he became Chairman of the Ealing Hospital NHS Trust and was a visiting professor at Kingston University. He has been active in a variety of other associations and, in 2008, was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his services to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the community of Ealing, where he was born and still resides.
Go to ProfileKenneth L. Taylor is an American historian of geology. Education and career At Harvard University, Taylor graduated in the specialty "History and Science" with three degrees: A.B. in 1962, A.M. in 1965, and Ph.D. in 1968. His doctoral advisors were I. Bernard Cohen and Everett Mendelsohn. In the department of the history of science at the University of Oklahoma, Taylor was an assistant professor from 1967 to 1972, an associate professor from 1972 to 1986, and a full professor from 1986 to 2006, when he retired as professor emeritus. He chaired his department for 14 years, from 1979 to 1992, a...
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Anatoly Vishnevsky
1935 - 2021 (86 years)
Anatoly Vishnevsky was a Russian demographer and economist. He also wrote novels. Biography Vishnevsky earned a doctorate in economics in 1983, which would later effectively make him a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He directed the Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics.
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Rushdi Said
1920 - 2013 (93 years)
Rushdi Said was an Egyptian scientist. He was educated at Cairo, Zurich, and Harvard Universities. A professor of geology, he was the chairman of the board of the Egyptian Mining and Geological Research Organization . He played a major role in the development of this organization with the new mining discoveries that enabled Egypt to compensate for the various mines lost after the occupation of Sinai.
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Charles J. Cazeau
1931 - 1999 (68 years)
Charles J. Cazeau was an American geologist and writer. Cazeau was Professor emeritus of geology for the University at Buffalo. He was a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a contributor to Skeptical Inquirer.
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Dave Tucker
1950 - Present (76 years)
David Samuel Tucker is a geologist, author, and union organizer in Washington state. He is a research associate at Western Washington University. He was an instructor at North Cascades Institute, and the director of the Mount Baker Volcano Research Center . He writes the blog Northwest Geology Field Trips, a blog aimed at laypeople detailing where to find interesting geology in the Pacific Northwest. In 2015, he published a popular book on Washington geology, Geology Underfoot in Western Washington. He resides in Bellingham, Washington. In the 1980s he worked as a mountaineering guide in the C...
Go to ProfileYara Haridy is an Egyptian-Canadian paleontologist and scientific communicator who specializes in the use of advanced analytical methods to study the evolution of bone and related skeletal tissues. Biography Haridy was born in Morocco and lived in Egypt until her family moved to Canada when she was 12 years old. She obtained her B.Sc. in biology from the University of Toronto in 2016, where she originally intended to pursue the pre-medicine track en route to a medical career, followed by her M.Sc. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Toronto in 2018, where she studied the evolution of acrodonty in reptiles.
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Erin Brockovich
1960 - Present (66 years)
Erin Brockovich is an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company involving groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California with the help of attorney Ed Masry in 1993. Their successful lawsuit was the subject of an Oscar-winning film, Erin Brockovich , starring Julia Roberts as Brockovich and Albert Finney as Masry. Since then, Brockovich has become a media personality as well, hosting the TV series Challenge America with Erin Brockovich on ABC and Final Justice on Zone Reality. She is the president of Brockovich Research & Consulting.
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Juanita Tamayo Lott
1948 - Present (78 years)
Juanita Tamayo Lott is a Filipina-American author and activist. A chronicler of the Filipino experience in America, Lott has authored several popular and scholarly works on Asian Americans. She has also contributed to the establishment of several Asian American studies departments. As a college student in 1969, Lott co-founded the first U.S. Filipino American Studies Program at San Francisco State; in 2007, she developed the Filipino American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Trained as a statistician and demographer, she spent her career as a policy analyst for the...
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Carl-Olof Morfeldt
1919 - 2003 (84 years)
Carl-Olof Morfeldt was a Swedish geologist and businessman. He was a founder and CEO of Hagconsult AB, an enterprise dedicated to geotechnical consultancy. In 1964, he became also its majority shareholder. Morfeldt was the foremost authority on geotechnical studies for building in Sweden. An expert on building tunnels and rooms in bedrock, Morfeldt was awarded an honorary doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology in 1979. In 1999, he was awarded the prize Geologist of the Year by Naturvetarna.
Go to ProfileEdem Mahu is a Ghanaian Marine Scientist who is a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana. Her research considers ocean health, oyster fisheries and climate change. She was awarded the 2022 American Geophysical Union Africa Award for Research Excellence in Ocean Sciences.
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Zeremariam Fre
1951 - Present (75 years)
Zeremariam Fre is an agriculturalist, specialising in the drylands, and is of dual Eritrean-British nationality. He is the founder and former director of the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa , where he now serves on the Board of Trustees as Treasurer.
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Andrew Mackenzie
1956 - Present (70 years)
Sir Andrew Stewart Mackenzie is a Scottish businessman, who is the chairman of Shell plc and formerly CEO of BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company. He succeeded Marius Kloppers, on 10 May 2013, and was succeeded by Mike Henry, at the start of 2020.
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Brigitte Baptiste
1963 - Present (63 years)
Brigitte Luis Guillermo Baptiste, is a Colombian cultural landscape ecologist and an expert on environmental issues and biodiversity in Colombia. She is a member of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of the Intergovernmental Science and Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and has been part of the national representation to the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. She served as director of the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute from 2011 until 2019. In September 2019, Baptiste became the director of Universidad Ean. She consider th...
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Jean Jacques Dozy
1908 - 2004 (96 years)
Jean Jacques Dozy was a Dutch geologist. In 1936, he participated in the Dutch Carstensz Expedition in Dutch New Guinea to explore and climb Mount Carstensz, the highest mountain of the island of New Guinea. Besides succeeding in climbing the highest point at the time with Anton Colijn and Frits Wissel, Dozy discovered the presence of abundant copper ore in a mountain he called Ertsberg . Years later this gave rise to the Grasberg copper mine. In 1939, he published an article about his find, but it was neglected due to World War II. Twenty years later, the article led to rediscovery of the E...
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Zena Cardman
1988 - Present (38 years)
Zena Maria Cardman is an American geobiologist and NASA astronaut. Early life and education Cardman was born on October 26, 1987. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in biology, minored in chemistry and marine sciences, and wrote an honors thesis in creative writing.
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Bärbel Hönisch
1974 - Present (52 years)
Bärbel Hönisch is a German paleoceanographer and paleoclimatologist, author, and professor at Columbia University. Education Hönisch earned a vordiplom in biology at Bielefeld University in 1995, a diplom in marine biology in 1999 at the University of Bremen, and a Doctor of Philosophy in natural sciences in 2002 at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
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Jens Christian Hansen
1932 - 2014 (82 years)
Jens Christian Hansen was a Norwegian geographer. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1970 with the thesis Administrative grenser og tettstedsvekst. After a period as a docent at the Norwegian School of Economics he was a professor at the University of Bergen from 1972. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1985, of the Academia Europaea and of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. He died in May 2014.
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Millarca Valenzuela
1977 - Present (49 years)
Edith Millarca Valenzuela Picón is a Chilean geologist and meteorite expert. She has contributed to the study of meteorites that fall in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Biography Millaraca Picón was born in Antofagasta, Chile in 1977. She studied geology at the University of Chile where she gained her PhD in the study of meteorological conditions of the Atacama Desert in 2011. She established the first national meteor monitoring and observation station in Chile - the Chilean Allsky Camera Network for Astro-Geoscience .
Go to ProfileEric Toensmeier is an author of several books focused on climate change, biodiversity, and nutrition. He is also a lecturer at Yale University and a Senior Biosequestration Fellow at Project Drawdown.
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Ann E. Carlson
1960 - Present (66 years)
Ann E. Carlson is an American attorney and legal scholar who has served as the acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration since September 2022. Before joining the Biden administration, Carlson was the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law at the UCLA School of Law, where she also served as faculty co-director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment. She is an expert on U.S. environmental law and policy with a particular focus on climate change and environmental federalism. Biden administration withdrew her from nomination in May 2023...
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Tom Wessels
1951 - Present (75 years)
Tom Wessels is an American terrestrial ecologist working as a professor at Antioch University New England in the Department of Environmental Studies, where he founded a master's program in conservation biology. He is the author of five books and is an active environmentalist.
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Terence Meaden
1935 - Present (91 years)
Terence Meaden is an English author who writes on archaeoastronomy, mostly focusing on the megalithic sites of Avebury, Stonehenge and the Drombeg stone circle in Cork, Ireland. He is a retired physicist with a doctoral degrees in physics from the University of Oxford and a master's degree in applied landscape archaeology also from University of Oxford. Meaden is influenced by the work of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas who wrote about the Goddess worshipping Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe".
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Ceyda Sungur
1986 - Present (40 years)
Ceyda Sungur, also known as Kırmızılı Kadın , is a Turkish academician and activist. Life She was born in 1986. After completing her bachelor's degree on urban planning, she has started to work as a research assistant at the Istanbul Technical University.
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Richard Funkhouser
1917 - 2008 (91 years)
Richard Edgar Funkhouser was an American diplomat and geologist, specializing in oil. He served as United States Ambassador to Gabon. Early years Born in Trenton, New Jersey, he was the son of noted psychiatrist Dr. Edgar Bright Funkhouser and Evelyn Hayes. He attended Taft School before entering Princeton University, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Sigma Xi, the Honorary Scientific Research Association. He graduated from Princeton with a bachelor's degree in geology in 1939 after completing a senior thesis, titled "Magnetic susceptibility of sedimentary minerals", under the supervision of Harry H.
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Ren Hongqiang
1964 - Present (62 years)
Ren Hongqiang is a Chinese environmentalist currently serving as dean of the School of the Environment of Nanjing University. Biography Ren was born in Zhuozhou, Hebei, in May 1964. In 1990 he graduated from Hebei University of Science and Technology. He earned his master's degree in thermal power from North China Electric Power University in 1997 and his doctor's degree in fermentation engineering from Jiangnan University in 2000, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Nanjing University between 2001 and 2002. In 2003 he became a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University...
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Pupa Gilbert
1964 - Present (62 years)
Pupa Gilbert is an American biophysicist and geobiologist. She has been pioneering synchrotron spectromicroscopy methods since 1989, and she continues to use and develop them today. Since 2004 she has focused on biomineralization in sea urchins, mollusk shells, and tunicates. She and her group are frequent users of the Berkeley-Advanced Light Source.
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Veer Bhadra Mishra
1938 - 2013 (75 years)
Veer Bhadra Mishra was the founding president of the Sankat Mochan Foundation. He was a former professor of Hydraulic engineering and former Head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi. He was also the Mahant of the Sankat Mochan Hanuman temple, Varanasi at Varanasi founded by poet-saint Goswami Tulsidas. Mishra was recognized on the United Nations Environment Programme's "Global 500 Roll of Honour" in 1992, and was a TIME Magazines "Hero of the Planet" recipient in 1999 for his work related to cleaning of the Ganges through the Sankat Mochan Foundation.
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Vladimir Kostitsyn
1945 - Present (81 years)
Vladimir Kostitsyn is a Russian geophysicist. He attended at the Perm State University. Kostitsyn served as a full-time member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences since 1997. He was honored the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" and Honored Worker of the Higher School of the Russian Federation.
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Olivier Testa
1977 - Present (49 years)
Olivier Testa is a cave explorer, known for his discovery of the orange cave-dwelling crocodiles of Gabon, the Iroungou burial cave in Gabon, the discovery of unexpected caves in the volcanic Bamboutos mountains in Cameroon and several discoveries in Haiti. He has led or participated in over 40 caving expeditions in Africa, Asia and in the Caribbean.
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Marino Morikawa
1977 - Present (49 years)
Marino Morikawa is a Peruvian-Japanese environmental scientist. He is known for environmental work in Peru. Early life and education Born in Chancay in Peru, Morikawa has a master's degree in Interdisciplinary Biodiplomacy and a doctorate in Environmental Sciences from Tsukuba University in Japan.
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Nina Witoszek
1954 - Present (72 years)
Nina Witoszek Nina Witoszek is a Polish-Irish-Norwegian writer and research professor at the Center for Development and the Environment in Oslo. She is also director of the Arne Næss Programme on Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo. Prior to her work at SUM, she taught comparative cultural history at the National University of Ireland in Galway and the European University in Florence . She held fellowships at the Swedish Collegium of the Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Uppsala , Robinson College, Cambridge and Mansfield College, Oxford and visiting prof...
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Zhe-Xi Luo
1958 - Present (68 years)
Zhe-Xi Luo is an American paleontologist of Chinese origin, specializing in vertebrate paleontology, particularly mammal evolution, morphology, and systematics. Background Born in China in 1958, he came to the United States in 1982 as one of the first Chinese students. Under the Sino-US agreement, students were expected to return to their homeland after graduation, but after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, US President George H. W. Bush agreed that around 80,000 Chinese students would remain in the United States. Zhe-Xi Luo and his wife were in this group.
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Eystein Husebye
1937 - Present (89 years)
Eystein Husebye is a Norwegian seismologist. He was born in Sulitjelma, Salten. He took doctoral degrees at Uppsala University and the University of Oslo. He worked as researcher at NORSAR from 1968 to 1993 and adjunct professor at the University of Oslo from 1979 to 1990. He was then a professor of seismology at the University of Bergen from 1979 to his retirement. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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Robert Loftin
1938 - 1993 (55 years)
Robert Wayne Loftin was an American environmentalist, ornithologist, and philosopher. He was a professor at the University of North Florida, where he founded the Sawmill Slough Conservation Club and designed the campus's nature trails. The trails on UNF's campus were subsequently renamed the Robert Loftin Nature Trails in his memory on August 31, 1993.
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Sarah K. Noble
1975 - Present (51 years)
Sarah K. Noble is a planetary geologist and a program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Her area of expertise is space weathering processes. She was the Program Scientist for NASA's LADEE spacecraft, and is the Program Scientist for the Psyche mission.
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James Tennant
1808 - 1881 (73 years)
James Tennant was an English mineralogist, the master of the Worshipful Company of Turners and mineralogist to Queen Victoria. Biography Tennant was born on 8 February 1808 at Upton, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire. He was the third child in a family of twelve. His father, John Tennant, was an officer in the Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; his mother, Eleanor Kitchen, came from a family of yeomen resident at Upton for more than two centuries. His parents later moved to Derby, and Tennant attended a school in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. In October 1824, Tennant was apprenticed to John Mawe, a dealer in minerals at 149 Strand in London.
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Timothy Pont
1560 - 1614 (54 years)
Reverend Timothy Pont was a Scottish minister, cartographer and topographer. He was the first to produce a detailed map of Scotland. Pont's maps are among the earliest surviving to show a European country in minute detail, from an actual survey.
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Seymour Hess
1920 - 1982 (62 years)
Seymour Lester Hess was an American meteorologist and planetary scientist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. After earning a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Brooklyn College, in 1943 he entered the University of Chicago as an Army Air Cadet. He completed his master's degree in 1945, then, following his release from military service as a lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces, he became a doctoral student in the meteorology department. In 1948 he explored an interest in planetary meteorology, and spent his time at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona observing Mars. His dissertation was titled, Some Aspects of the Meteorology of Mars.
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Andrey Arkhangelsky
1879 - 1940 (61 years)
Andrey Dmitriyevich Arkhangelsky was a geologist. He was a professor at Moscow State University. He was Corresponding Member of the Division of Physical-Mathematical Sciences since 1925, and Academician of the Division of Physical-Mathematical Sciences since 1929.
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Frederick William Shotton
1906 - 1990 (84 years)
Professor Frederick William Shotton FRS was a British geologist. He was awarded the Prestwich Medal in 1954. Shotton's research into the geological makeup of Normandy beaches helped allied commanders decide which were the best to use on D-Day. From May 1941 to September 1943, based in Egypt, he used hydrogeology to guide development of potable water supplies for British forces operational in the Middle East and northern Africa. From October 1943 he helped plan for the Allied liberation of Normandy by providing terrain evaluation relating to beach conditions, suitability of ground for the rapid construction of temporary airfields, and water supply.
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Amadeus William Grabau
1870 - 1946 (76 years)
Amadeus William Grabau was an American geologist, teacher, stratigrapher, paleontologist, and author who worked in the United States and China. Biography Grabau's grandfather, J.A.A. Grabau, led a group of dissident Lutheran immigrants from Germany to Buffalo, New York. His education began in his father's parochial school in his birthplace of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and then the public high school there. After his father became head of the Martin Luther Seminary in 1885, he finished high school in Buffalo. He took classes in the evenings while apprenticed to a bookbinder. His interest in local fossils grew.
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Charles Henry Hitchcock
1836 - 1919 (83 years)
Charles Henry Hitchcock was an American geologist. Life Hitchcock was born August 23, 1836, in Amherst, Massachusetts. His father was Edward Hitchcock who was a professor of geology and natural theology and then president of Amherst College. His mother was Orra White Hitchcock, who illustrated much of his father's work. He graduated from Amherst College in 1856, and considered entering the ministry. He married Martha Bliss Barrows.
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Rudolf Staub
1890 - 1961 (71 years)
Rudolf Staub was a Swiss field geologist who examined mountain formation and tectonics in the Alps. He produced high resolution maps including the first to indicate tectonic regions in the Swiss Alps and came up with ideas on mountain formation based on the idea that there were alternating tectonic forces, Polflucht and Poldrift as suggested by Alfred Wegener.
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Yanosuke Otsuka
1903 - 1950 (47 years)
Yanosuke Otsuka was a Japanese geologist and professor. Yanosuke Otsuka was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo on 11 July 1903. He went to the Junior High School attached to Tokyo Higher Normal School , and after that to Shizuoka High School . For his undergraduate studies, he entered the Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, where he graduated in 1929. While he was student, he learned the methods of historical geology from Yoshiaki Ozawa, topography from Taro Tsujimura , and Cenozoic biological stratigraphy from Shigeyasu Tokunaga. After graduation, he entered the ...
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Tadevos Hakobyan
1917 - 1989 (72 years)
Tadevos Hakobyan was a Soviet Armenian historian and geographer. Biography Hakobyan was born in 1917 in the village of Lernadzor, now in Armenia's southern province of Syunik. In 1940, he graduated from the Faculty of Geography and Geology of Yerevan State University . In 1942–43, he fought in the Eastern Front of World War II. He was the dean of the YSU's Faculty of Geography in 1955–57 and 1963–65. He then served as the chair of that department from 1962 to 1986. Most of his work was focused on the historical geography of Armenia. Together with Stepan Melik-Bakhshyan and Hovhannes Barseghya...
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Mikhail Usov
1883 - 1939 (56 years)
Mikhail Antonovich Usov was a Russian and Soviet geologist and member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He was the first native of Siberia to be elected. He completed his studies at Tomsk Technological Institute under Vladimir Obruchev and later served on the school's faculty.
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