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Born July 19, 1863 • Missouri
Died August 25, 1935 (aged 72) • Harbin • China
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Pallas, engraved portrait
Peter Simon Pallas
German naturalist
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
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François-Emile Matthes
American geologist
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William Maclure
American geologist
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American paleontologist
Grove Karl Gilbert, 1891
Grove Karl Gilbert
American geologist
Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez
American geologist
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Curt Sachs
German musicologist
Ruffin, Edmund
Edmund Ruffin
American scientist
Selman Abraham Waksman, 1968.
Selman Abraham Waksman
American biochemist
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Joseph H. Greenberg
American anthropologist and linguist
King, Clarence
Clarence King
American geologist
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
American geologist
Becker, George Ferdinand
George Ferdinand Becker
American geologist
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Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist

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