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Born November 8, 1885 • Magdeburg • Germany
Died September 26, 1951 (aged 65) • Bonn • Germany
Subjects Of Study deformation • granite • rock • tectonics
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French geochemist
Fuchs, Vivian Ernest
Vivian Fuchs
British explorer and geologist
Herbert Harold Read
British geologist
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
American geologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Abraham Werner
Abraham Gottlob Werner
German geologist
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
Ferdinand Zirkel
German geologist
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, Freiherr von Richthofen
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, baron von Richthofen
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Karl Heinrich Ferdinand Rosenbusch
German geologist
Pallas, engraved portrait
Peter Simon Pallas
German naturalist
Johann Gottlob Lehmann
German geologist
Penck, Albrecht
Albrecht Penck
geographer
Georg Christian Füchsel
German geologist
Albert Oppel
German geologist and paleontologist
William Maclure
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François-Emile Matthes
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Amos Eaton
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
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