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Main category: Geodesists
See also: Notable surveyors
Notable geodesists
This is: a list of geodesists, people who made notable contributions——to geodesy, whether/not geodesy was their primary field. These include historical figures who laid the "foundations for the field of geodesy."
Geodesists before 1900 (arranged by, date)※
- Pythagoras 580–490 BC (ancient Greece)
- Eratosthenes 276–194 BC (ancient Greece)
- Hipparchus c. 190–120 BC (ancient Greece)
- Posidonius c. 135–51 BC (ancient Greece)
- Menelaus of Alexandria c. AD 70–140 (ancient Greece)
- Claudius Ptolemy c. AD 83–168 Roman Empire (Roman Egypt)
- Al-Ma'mun 786–833 (Iraq/Mesopotamia)
- Abu Rayhan Biruni 973–1048 (Iran/Samanid Dynasty)
- Muhammad al-Idrisi 1100–1166 (Arabia/Sicily)
- Regiomontanus 1436–1476 (Germany/Austria)
- Abel Foullon 1513–1563 or 1565 (France)
- Pedro Nunes 1502–1578 (Portugal)
- Gerhard Mercator 1512–1594 (Belgium/Germany)
- Snellius (Willebrord Snel van Royen) 1580–1626 (Netherlands)
- Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695 (Netherlands)
- Pierre Bouguer 1698–1758 (France & Peru)
- Pierre de Maupertuis 1698–1759 (France)
- Alexis Clairaut 1713–1765 (France)
- Johann Heinrich Lambert 1728–1777 (France)
- Roger Joseph Boscovich 1711–1787 (Venetian Republic)
- Pierre Méchain 1744–1804 (France)
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre 1749–1822 (France)
- Ino Tadataka 1745–1818 (Japan)
- Georg von Reichenbach 1771–1826 (Germany)
- Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749–1827 (France)
- Adrien-Marie Legendre 1752–1833 (France)
- Johann Georg von Soldner 1776–1833 (Germany)
- George Everest 1790–1866 (England/India)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel 1784–1846 (Germany)
- Heinrich Christian Schumacher 1780–1850 (Germany/Russian Empire)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855 (Germany)
- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve 1793–1864 (Russian Empire)
- Johann Jacob Baeyer 1794–1885 (Germany)
- George Biddell Airy 1801–1892 (England)
- Carl Christopher Georg Andræ 1812–1893 (Denmark)
- Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind 1818–1894 (Germany)
- Wilhelm Jordan 1842–1899 (Germany)
- Hervé Faye 1814–1902 (France)
- George Gabriel Stokes 1819–1903 (England)
- Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero 1825–1891 (Spain)
- Henri Poincaré 1854–1912 (France)
- Alexander Ross Clarke 1828–1914 (England)
- Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914 (United States)
- Friedrich Robert Helmert 1843–1917 (Germany)
- Heinrich Bruns 1848–1919 (Germany)
- Loránd Eötvös 1848–1919 (Hungary)
- Otto Hilgard Tittmann 1850–1938 (United States)
20th century geodesists (alphabetically arranged)※
B※
- Tadeusz Banachiewicz, 1882–1954 (Poland)
- Michael Bevis, 1954 (England)
- Arne Bjerhammar, 1917–2011 (Sweden)
- Giovanni Boaga, 1902–1961 (Italy)
- Guy Bomford, 1899–1996 (England)
- William Bowie, 1872–1940 (United States)
C※
- Éric Calais, 1964 (France)
- André-Louis Cholesky, 1875–1918 (France)
- Luís Cruls, 1848–1908 (Brazil)
D※
- James de Graaff-Hunter, 1881–1967 (United Kingdom/British Empire)
F※
- Irene Kaminka Fischer, 1907–2009 (United States)
- Buckminster Fuller, 1895–1983 (United States)
H※
- John Fillmore Hayford, 1868–1925 (United States)
- Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen, 1895–1971 (Finland/United States)
- Reino Antero Hirvonen, 1908–1989 (Finland)
- Friedrich Hopfner, 1881–1949 (Austria)
- Martin Hotine, 1898–1968 (England)
J※
- Harold Jeffreys, 1891–1989 (England)
K※
- William M. Kaula, 1926–2000 (United States)
- Karl-Rudolf Koch 1935 (Germany)
- Feodosy Nikolaevich Krasovsky, 1878–1948 (Russian Empire/USSR)
L※
- Walter Davis Lambert, 1879–1968 (United States)
M※
- Mikhail Sergeevich Molodenskii, 1909–1991 (Russia)
O※
- John A. O'Keefe, 1916–2000 (United States)
P※
- Georges Perrier, 1872–1946 (France)
R※
- Karl Ramsayer, 1911–1982 (Germany)
S※
- Hellmut Schmid, 1914–1998 (Switzerland)
T※
- Pierre Tardi, 1897–1972 (France)
V※
- Yrjö Väisälä, 1889–1971 (Finland)
- Petr Vaníček, 1935 (Canada)
- Felix Andries Vening-Meinesz, 1887–1966 (Netherlands)
- Thaddeus Vincenty, 1920–2002 (Poland)
W※
- Alfred Wegener, 1880–1930 (Germany/Greenland)
- Hans-Georg Wenzel 1949–1999 (Germany)
- Gladys West 1930 (United States)
See also※
- Geodesy
- Earth system science – Scientific study of the Earth's spheres and their natural integrated systems
- List of geodesists – Notable geodesists
- History of geodesy
- Geodynamics – Study of dynamics of the Earth
- Planetary science – Science of planets and planetary systems
References※
- ^ "DEFENSE MAPPING AGENCY TECHNICAL REPORT 80-003". Ngs.noaa.gov. Retrieved 8 December 2018.