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David S. McKay
American astrobiologist and geologist
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
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Swiss mineralogist
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Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
Russian scientist
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Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée
French geochemist
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Harrison Brown
American geochemist

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