Petrologists

Ernst Heinrich Oskar Kasimir Weinschenk (6 April 1865, Esslingen am Neckar – 26 March 1921, Munich) was a German mineralogist and petrologist.

Francis John Turner (10 April 1904 – 21 December 1985) was a New Zealand geologist.

Robert Andrew Howie (4 June 1923 – 10 March 2012) was a notable English petrologist.

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.

Albert Streckeisen (8 November 1901 – 29 September 1998) was a Swiss petrographer and petrologist, the son of Basel forensic scientist Adolf Streckeisen.

Charles Henry Smyth, Jr.

Timothy John Barrington Holland FRS is a Petrologist and Reader in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

He is a graduate of University College, Oxford (B.A., 1980) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, (PhD, 1989) and a former Kennedy Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1985).

Alfred Harker FRS (19 February 1859 – 28 July 1939) was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography.

Dan Giușcă (July 14, 1904 – August 10, 1988) was a Romanian geologist and a member of the Romanian Academy.

Henry Carvill Lewis (November 16, 1853 – July 21, 1888) was an American geologist and mineralogist.

Douglas Saxon Coombs CNZM (born 23 November 1924) is a New Zealand mineralogist and petrologist.

Keith Gordon Cox FRS (25 April 1933 – 27 August 1998) was a British geologist and academic at the University of Oxford.

Charles Whitman Cross (September 1, 1854 – April 20, 1949) was an American geologist.

Carl Ernst Arthur Wichmann (9 April 1851 Hamburg – 28 November 1927 Hamburg) was a German geologist and mineralogist.

Akiho Miyashiro (都城 秋穂 Miyashiro Akiho, 1920 – 22 July 2008) was a Japanese geologist.

Marjorie Wilson (also known as B. Marjorie Wilson) (born 1951) is an English geologist and petrologist known for her work on the origin of igneous rocks.

Ferdinand André Fouqué (21 June 1828 – 7 March 1904) was a French geologist and petrologist.

Arthur Francis "Bud" Buddington (November 29, 1890 – December 25, 1980) was an American geologist.

Peter John Wyllie (b. 8 February 1930, London, England) is a British petrologist who was Professor of Geology at the California Institute of Technology from 1983 until his retirement in 1999.

Adolph Knopf (December 2, 1882 – November 23, 1966) was an American geologist.

Alférez de Navío José María Sobral (April 14, 1880 – April 14, 1961) was an Argentine military scientist, Navy Sub-Lieutenant who rose to prominence by participating in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1904) becoming the first Argentine overwinter in Antarctica.

Sven Gavelin was Swedish geologist active at Stockholms högskola and the Geological Survey of Sweden.

Justus Ludwig Adolf Roth (September 15, 1818, Hamburg – April 1, 1892) was a German geologist and mineralogist.

Karl August Lossen (born Kreuznach (Rhineland), 5 January 1841; died Berlin, 24 February 1893) was a German petrologist and geologist.

Bowen conducted experimental research at the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science of Washington from 1912 to 1937.

M. Qasim Jan is a geologist and research scientist from Pakistan.

Hatten Schuyler Yoder, Jr.

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).