Some scientists and their contributions in the field of earth science?

Question

Some scientists and their contributions in the field of earth science?

Answer 1

http://www.google.com

search explore

discover

go to any library you have many books

Answer 2

Elizabeth Kolbert- her research in Global Warming

Charles Richter- Richter scale

Alfred Wegener- scientist who discovered plate tectonics and continental drift

Welhem Roentgen-Discovered the x-ray

Albert Einstein- discovered inertia and molecules

these are just to name a few

There are Geologists that I know personally who contribute faithfully everyday to the world of science, I will soon be one of them.

Answer 3

Nicolas Steno developed Steno's Laws of stratigraphy in ~15th C. Italy.

James Hutton- studied plutonic rocks in Scotland, developed idea of uniformitarianism

Charles Lyell- Wrote extremely influential book series popularizing and expanding on Hutton's ideas (Hutton wasn't a very good writer)

Louis Agassiz- 19th C. paleontologist and early proponent of ice ages.

N. L. Bowen - Expert petrologist and thermodynamisist  from the early 20th C.

Waldemar Lindgren - Swedish expert in the theory of economic geology and mineral deposits.