Earth Scientists

Brantley, Susan L. (earth scientist)

  (1958- ) American Aqueous Geochemist Environmental geology commands the most interest and concern of all of the fields in Earth science today. A large part of this field is the chemical system formed by the interaction of rocks, fluids, and gases. It not only affects issues like water quality and pollution control, but air […]

Bragg, Sir (William) Lawrence (earth scientist)

  (1890-1971) EnglishMineralogist Although Sir Lawrence Bragg was trained as a physicist and employed as a physicist or chemist throughout his career, he was tremendously influential in Earth sciences, as he was in metallurgy and medicine as well. After Rontgen discovered X rays in 1895, von Laue demonstrated that the X rays were diffracted in […]

Buddington, Arthur F. (earth scientist)

  (1890-1980) American Petrologist Arthur Buddington is a geologist famous for his work with the geochemistry and classification of rocks and minerals, as well as ore deposits. His research was based on his perceptive observations during the field mapping of geologic terranes that vary considerably. Buddington may be best known for classification of anorthosites, which […]

Brown, Michael (earth scientist)

  (1947- ) BritishMetamorphic Petrologist One segment of the rock cycle contains the transformation of metamorphic rocks into igneous rocks by heating and melting. However, it is not quite so simple. Because minerals melt at different temperatures and pressures, there is a point where rocks are part newly melted material and part old metamorphic rock. […]

Bromery, Randolph W. (Bill) (earth scientist)

  (1926- ) American Geophysicist Randolph Bromery pioneered the integration of African Americans into the world of Earth scientists and has achieved the greatest success in this regard. Not only has he been successful in contributing to the science, but also he has assumed a number of high-profile positions in government, academia, and industry, all […]

Broecker, Wallace S. (earth scientist)

  (1931- ) American Chemical Oceanographer Wallace Broecker has said that his entire research career is simply an elaboration on several chapters of his Ph.D. dissertation in 1958. Considering the magnitude of accomplishments in his career, this statement is analogous to the saying, “All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten.” It is […]

Burke, Kevin C. A. (earth scientist)

  (1929- ) British Tectonic Geologist After the pioneers of the plate tectonic theory proved that there was such a process, the monumental task of placing the rest of the features of the Earth into that framework remained. The first group of giants included the likes of ALLAN V. COX, HARRY H. HESS, W. MAURICE […]

Burchfiel, B. Clark (earth scientist)

  (1934- ) American Structural Geologist, Tectonics With the vast number of highly talented geologists doing research in the frontier field of tectonics, progress has become one of inches rather than the leaps and bounds that it started out with. For that reason, it is always astonishing when some geologists seem to be able to […]

Bullard, Sir Edward C. (earth scientist)

  (1907-1980) British Geophysicist Sir Edward Bullard was one of the giants of geophysics. Even though he started out as a physicist, carefully experimenting on electron scattering in groundbreaking research, he quickly realized that his true calling was in geophysics. His work set the stage for modern methods in geophysics in four areas: heat flow, […]

Cashman, Katharine V. (earth scientist)

  (1954- ) American Petrologist (Volcanology) When a major volcanic eruption occurs, a huge amount of gas is released into the atmosphere, an explosion may occur, ash and other particles may be ejected into the atmosphere, and lava may flow down the volcano slopes. Depending upon the location of the volcano, it may impact human […]

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