Eduard Suess: Quick Facts


Facts

Born August 20, 1831 • London • England
Died April 26, 1914 (aged 82) • Vienna • Austria
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1903)
Notable Works “Die Entstehung der Alpen” • “The Face of the Earth”
Subjects Of Study Gondwana • Tethys Sea • supercontinent

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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Roderick Impey Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
British geologist
Adam Sedgwick, engraving, 1875
Adam Sedgwick
British geologist
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Jean André Deluc
Swiss-British geologist and meteorologist
William Buckland
William Buckland
British geologist
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Richard Kirwan
Irish chemist
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Ami Boué
Austrian geologist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
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William Maclure
American geologist
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Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
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François-Emile Matthes
American geologist
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Dorothy Hill
Dorothy Hill
Australian geologist