Flashcards: Volcanologists

Michele Stefano de Rossi (30 October 1834, Rome – 23 October 1898, Rocca di Papa) was an Italian seismologist.

Sir William Hamilton KB, PC, FRS, FRSE (13 December 1730 – 6 April 1803) was a Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist.

Wolfgang Sartorius Freiherr von Waltershausen (December 17, 1809 – March 16, 1876) was a German geologist.

Dr Kiyoo Mogi (茂木 清夫 Mogi Kiyoo, born 1929 in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan) is a prominent seismologist.

Tempest Anderson (7 December 1846 – 26 August 1913) was an ophthalmic surgeon at York County Hospital in the United Kingdom, and an expert amateur photographer and vulcanologist.

Terry Ann Plank is an American geochemist, volcanologist and professor of earth science at Columbia College, Columbia University, and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.

Harry Glicken (March 7, 1958 – June 3, 1991) was an American volcanologist.

Gordon Andrew MacDonald (Boston, 15 October 1911 – Oahu, 20 June 1978) was a notable American volcanologist.

Robert Stephen John Sparks, FRS, CBE (born 15 May 1949), is Chaning Wills Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.

Arthur Louis Day (October 30, 1869 – March 2, 1960) was an American geophysicist and volcanologist.

Robert Wayne Decker (Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 11 March 1927 – Mariposa, California, 11 June 2005) was an American volcanologist.

Alessandro Malladra (Turin, 1865 – Rome, 1945) was an Italian volcanologist.

Hisashi Kuno (7 January 1910 – 6 August 1969) was professor at the Institute of Geology, University of Tokyo.

Peter Edward Baker (1937–2008) was a notable British volcanologist, professor emeritus of Igneous Petrology in the School of Earth Sciences (now Earth & Environment), University of Leeds.

Bruce F. Houghton is a New Zealand volcanologist.

Janne Blichert-Toft is a geochemist, specializing in the use of isotopes with applications in understanding planetary mantle-crust evolution, as well as the chemical composition of matter in the universe.

William Henry Mathews (1919–2003) was a Canadian geologist, volcanologist, engineer, and professor.

William J. "Bill" McGuire (born 1954) is Emeritus Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London and is one of Britain's leading volcanologists.

Angelo Heilprin (March 31, 1853 – July 17, 1907) was an American geologist, paleontologist, naturalist, and explorer.

George Julius Poulett Scrope FRS (10 March 1797 – 19 January 1876) was an English geologist and political economist as well as a magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire.

Rogier Diederik Marius Verbeek (7 April 1845, Doorn – 9 April 1926, The Hague) was a Dutch geologist and natural scientist.

Katia Krafft (née Catherine Joséphine Conrad, Mulhouse, 17 April 1942 – 3 June 1991) and her husband, Maurice Paul Krafft (Guebwiller, 25 March 1946 – 3 June 1991), were French volcanologists who died in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, in Japan, on June 3, 1991.

Barry Voight (born 1937) is an American volcanologist and engineer.

Wilson was educated at Imperial College London where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology in 1977 followed by a PhD in 1981 for research on pyroclastic flows.

Cashman was educated at Middlebury College, Vermont where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology and Biology in 1976.

Dr. Raymundo Santiago Punongbayan (13 June 1937 – 28 April 2005) was the former director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) .

Masao Mimatsu (三松正夫) (9 July 1888 – 8 December 1977) was a Japanese postmaster who recorded the growth of the Showashinzan mountain in 1944–1945.

Sigurður Þórarinsson (January 8, 1912 – February 8, 1983) was an Icelandic geologist, volcanologist, glaciologist, professor and lyricist.

Giuseppe Mercalli (May 21, 1850 – March 19, 1914) was an Italian volcanologist and Catholic priest.

Frank Alvord Perret (1867 in Philadelphia – January 12, 1943 in New York) was an American entrepreneur, inventor, and volcanologist, which drew attention particularly with his research on the Vesuvius, the Kilauea and the Mount Pelée to itself.

Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (11 February 1795 – 12 December 1867) was an English chemist, botanist and geologist.

Alfred Rittmann (23 March 1893 – 19 September 1980) was a leading volcanologist.

David Alexander Johnston (December 18, 1949 – May 18, 1980) was an American USGS volcanologist who was killed during the 1980 eruption of Mount St.

James W. Head III is the Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University.

Dallas Lynn Peck (March 28, 1929 – August 21, 2005) was an American geologist and vulcanologist.

Hans-Ulrich Schmincke (born 21 October 1937) is a notable German volcanologist.

Francesco Signore (1886 – Naples, 29 November 1959) was an important Italian volcanologist.

Arnold Constantin Peter Franz von Lasaulx (14 June 1839 – 25 January 1886) was a German mineralogist and petrographer.

Arturo Alcaraz (March 21, 1916 – March 10, 2001) was a Filipino volcanologist known for his work on geothermal energy.

Orazio Silvestri (7 February 1835 – 17 August 1890) was an Italian geologist and volcanologist.

Urbano Dalle Fosse, better known as Urbano Bolzanio (Belluno, 1442 – Venice, April 1524), was an Italian humanist and Hellenist

Haraldur Sigurðsson (born May 31, 1939) is an Icelandic volcanologist and geochemist.

George Patrick Leonard Walker FRS (2 March 1926 – 17 January 2005) was a British geologist who specialized in mineralogy and volcanology.

Berend George Escher (April 4, 1885 in Gorinchem – October 11, 1967 in Arnhem) was a Dutch geologist.

Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville (26 February 1814 – 10 October 1876) was a geologist and meteorologist.

Peter William Francis (1944–1999) was a British volcanologist specialising in the study of active volcanoes on both the Earth and other planets in the Solar System.

Rosaly M. C. Lopes (born 8 January 1957 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a planetary geologist, volcanologist, an author of numerous scientific papers and several books, as well as a proponent of education.

Catherine Hickson (born in 1955) is a Canadian volcanologist formerly part of the Geological Survey of Canada.

Christopher G. Newhall is a volcanologist, formerly with the U.

Benedict Friedlaender (8 July 1866 – 21 June 1908; first name occasionally spelled Benedikt) was a German Jewish sexologist, sociologist, economist, volcanologist, and physicist.

Howel Williams (October 12, 1898 – January 12, 1980) was a noted American geologist and volcanologist.

Ian Graham Gass, FRS, geologist, was Professor of Earth Sciences and Head of Discipline at the Open University, Milton Keynes and he was President of the IAVCEI (1983–87).

Jack Gordon Souther (April 25, 1924 – June 1, 2014) was an American-born Canadian geologist, volcanologist, professor and engineer.

Dr Jeffrey C. Wynn (aka Jeff Wynn), is a research geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS).