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Milutin Milankovitch
Serbian mathematician and geophysicist
Walter Munk
American geophysicist and oceanographer
Marcia McNutt
American geophysicist
Alfred Lothar Wegener
Alfred Wegener
German meteorologist and geophysicist
Andrija Mohorovičić
Croatian geophysicist
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
British astronomer and geophysicist
J. Tuzo Wilson
Canadian geologist
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Fredrik Størmer
Norwegian geophysicist and mathematician
Stanley Keith Runcorn
British geophysicist
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
Robert S. Dietz
American geophysicist
Merle Antony Tuve
American geophysicist
Balfour Stewart
British meteorologist and geophysicist
Dirk Brouwer
American astronomer
Sydney Chapman
British mathematician and physicist
Augustus Edward Hough Love
British geophysicist
Maurice Ewing
American geophysicist
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
Dutch geophysicist
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Arthur L. Day
American geophysicist
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