List of Geologists - S

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• Donald F. Sangster, Canada, lead-zinc economic geologist
• Manuel Santillán (1894–1982), Mexican geological engineer and politician
• Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), USA, Apollo 17 moonwalker
• Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), England, proposed Devonian and Cambrian periods
• Seikei Sekiya (1855–1896), Japanese seismologist, created the model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake
• Nicholas Shackleton (1937–2006), British geologist and climatologist
• Shen Kuo (1031–1095), Chinese scientist, magnetic compass pioneer, geomorphology theory
• Eugene Merle Shoemaker (1928–1997), USA, meteoriticist, co-discovered Comet Shoemaker-Levy
• Haraldur Sigurdsson, (born 1939), Iceland, provided proof for a meteorite impact at the time of the extinction of the dinosaurs
• George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984), USA, paleontologist
• William Smith (1769–1839), father of English Geology
• Su Song (1020–1101), Chinese naturalist, author of treatise on metallurgy and mineralogy
• Josiah Edward Spurr (1870–1950), USA, geologist, author and Alaskan explorer
• Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (1842–1915), English archaeologist, geologist and photographer
• Charles Steen (1919–2006), USA, discovered uranium near Moab, Utah
• Max Steineke (died 1952), USA, credited with the discovery of oil in Saudi Arabia in the 1930s
• Charles R. Stelck (born 1917), Canada, petroleum geologist, emeritus professor
• Nicolas Steno (1638–1686), Denmark, pioneer in early-modern geology
• Iain Stewart (born 1964), UK, presenter of several television series on geology in the UK.
• Clifford H. Stockwell (1897–1987), Canadian structural geologist, Geological Survey of Canada
• David Strangway, Canada, geophysicist and university administrator
• Eduard Suess (1831–1914), Austria (born England), named Gondwanaland
• Peter Szatmari Hungarian–Brazilian geologist