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‘stupefying arguments’ about abstract time versus actual rocks Johannes Walther (1860–1937): More than the law of facies
and how to classify such things.” correlation, by Eberhard Gischler, Aug. 2011, p. 12–13. “It is also
interesting to learn that Walther engaged in networking in that he
Marie Tharp—Plate Tectonics Pioneer, by Hali Felt, June 2017, visited most of the well-known geologists and paleontologists of
p. 32–33. “Tharp’s unconventional education history made pos- his time in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.”
sible her 1952 discovery of the worldwide mid-oceanic rift valley.”
David White (1862–1935): Pioneer in Coal, Petroleum, and
W.H. Twenhofel: Patriarch of Sedimentary Geology, by Robert Paleobotanical Studies, by Paul C. Lyons and Elsie D. Morey,
H. Dott Jr., July 2001, p. 16–17. “He walked 700 miles around June 2006, p. 54–55. “White never missed an opportunity to
Anticosti Island while his supplies followed by dories rowed just inspire a young mind, pose a scientific problem, and guide a sci-
offshore. It was worth it, because ‘Anticosti is ramjammed full of entist to its solution.”
beautiful fossils.’”
The Father of Modern Volcanology: Howel Williams (1898–
Formative Years of the Scientific Career of T. Wayland 1980), by Alexander R. McBirney, Aug. 2000, p. 26–27. “Though
Vaughan, by Robert N. Ginsburg, Nov. 1995, p. 233–234. “A pho- known to most of his friends as “Willie,” the title Howel Williams
tograph of Vaughan hangs outside my office, and when students cherished most was one given to him by his students on the occa-
ask who he was, there is an opportunity to explain how curiosity, sion of his retirement: The Last of the Ordovices.”
drive, and making the most of every opportunity helped him to
become a leading scientist.” J. Tuzo Wilson, by Derek York, Sept. 2001, p. 24–25. “Tuzo
Wilson lived for ideas, and those he created were weird and won-
From Farmer-Laborer to Famous Leader: Charles D. Walcott derful. Many were wrong, but some were marvelously right. And,
(1850–1927), by Ellis L. Yochelson, Jan. 1996, p. 8–9. “If there until his death in 1993, he never stopped creating ideas.”
was ever a geologist who deserves to be better known in America,
and incidentally one who had the most inappropriate middle
name, it is Charles Doolittle Walcott.”

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