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Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Norman L. Bowen
Canadian petrologist
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
Swiss mineralogist
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
Russian scientist
Alexandre Brongniart, plaster medallion by David d'Angers
Alexandre Brongniart
French geologist
Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist
Henslow, lithograph by T.H. Maguire, 1851
John Stevens Henslow
British botanist
Auguste Michel-Lévy
French petrologist
René-Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, engraving
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist
Richard Kirwan
Irish chemist
Edward Daniel Clarke
English mineralogist
Paul Niggli
Swiss mineralogist
Lacroix
Alfred Lacroix
French mineralogist
Dieudonné Dolomieu
French geologist
Brøgger, Waldemar Christofer
Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
Norwegian geologist
Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
German crystallographer
Jean-Étienne Guettard
French geologist

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