List of Geologists - R

R

• Bangalore Puttaiya Radhakrishna (1918-2012), Indian geologist.
• Frederick Leslie Ransome (1868–1935), USA (born England), USGS economic geologist
• David M. Raup (born 1933), USA, paleontologist; author of Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?
• Charles Richter (1900–1985), American seismologist, devised Richter magnitude scale for earthquakes
• Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905), German geologist and geographer
• Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), Spanish–Mexican mineralogist, discoverer of vanadium
• Ralph J. Roberts (1911–2007), American geologist, Nevada gold districts
• Stanley Keith Runcorn (1922–1995), British geophysicist and plate tectonics pioneer.