List of Geologists - B

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• Andrew Geddes Bain (1797–1864), South Africa, prepared first detailed geological map of South Africa
• Robert T. Bakker (born 1945), American dinosaur paleontologist; author, The Dinosaur Heresies
• Octávio Barbosa (1907–1997), Brazilian field geologist, prospector
• Thomas Barger (1909–1986), USA, Saudi geologist and CEO of Aramco
• Anthony R. Barringer (born 1925), Canadian/American geophysicist and inventor
• Florence Bascom (1862–1945), USA, first woman geologist at the US Geological Survey
• Robert Bell (1841–1917), considered Canada’s greatest explorer-scientist
• Walter A. Bell (1889–1969), Canadian paleobotanist and stratigrapher
• Etheldred Benett (1776–1845), England, pioneer paleontologist
• Pierre Berthier (1782–1861), French geologist, discovered the properties of bauxite
• Selwyn G. Blaylock (1879–1945), Canadian chemist and mining executive with Cominco
• Stewart Blusson (born 1939), Canada, co-discoverer of Ekati Diamond Mine
• Bruce Bolt (1930–2005), USA (born Australia), pioneer engineering seismologist in California
• José Bonaparte (born 1928), Argentine paleontologist, discovered many South American dinosaurs
• William Borlase (1696–1772), Cornish natural historian, studied the minerals of Cornwall
• Norman L. Bowen (1887–1956), Canada, pioneer experimental petrologist
• Scipione Breislak (1748–1826), Italian mineralogist and geologist, pioneer of volcanic gas collection
• J Harlen Bretz (1882–1981), USA, discovered origin of channeled scablands
• Wallace S. Broecker (born 1931), American paleoclimatologist and chemical oceanographer
• Robert Broom (1866–1951), South African palaeontologist, discovered australopithecine hominid fossils
• Barnum Brown (1873–1963), USA, dinosaur hunter and self-taught paleontologist
• Christian Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), German geologist and paleontologist
• Mary Buckland (1797-1857), England, paleontologist, marine biologist and scientific illustrator
• William Buckland (1784–1856), England, wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur
• B. Clark Burchfiel, MIT structural geologist, currently studying Tibetan plateau