Notable Geologists Posters “N...-Z...-”
for geology science classrooms and homeschoolers.

David Dale Owen
John Wesley Powell

Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

David Dale Owen
b. 6-14-1807; near New Lanark, Scotland
d. 11-13-1860; Arkansas

Geologist and physician David Dale Owen was the son of social activist Robert Owen, joining his family in New Harmony, Indiana in 1828. His geological surveys included Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Kentucky, and Arkansas.

John Wesley Powell
b. 3-24-1834; Mount Morris, NY
d. 9-23-1902; Pennsylvania

John Wesley Powell is best remembered for his 1869 three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, the first passage of European Americans through the Grand Canyon.

Powell was also the second director of the US Geological Survey (1881–1894) and proposed policies for water management in the development of the arid West, such as state boundaries based on watershed areas (to avoid squabbles).

• Seeing Things Whole: The Essential John Wesley Powell, Pioneers of Conservation

Eugene Merle Shoemaker
b. 4-28-1928; Los Angeles, CA
d. 7-18-1997

Geologist Eugene Shoemaker was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science. He is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.

~ Shoemake suffered from Addison's disease.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
b. 5-1-1881; Orcines, France
d. 4-10-1955; NYC

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French philosopher, palentologist and Jesuit, believed that evolution is an incomplete process. He has become known for his theory that man is evolving, mentally and socially, toward a final spiritual unity.

Alfred Lother Wegener
b. 11-1-1880; Berlin, German Empire
d. November 1930; Clarinetania, Greenland

Polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener is best remembered for hpyothesizing that contintents were drifting around the Earth and the basis for today's model of Plate tectonics.