Dorothy Hill - image courtesy John Jell. Portrait by Lola McCausland (1967), collection of The University of Queensland - reproduced with permission.

ESHG Biographies

Australian Geology Hall of Fame
Australian geology has grown over time through the efforts of professional and amateur geologists in government, academic institutions and industry. Please click on the images below to read the the biographies of innovative and influential individuals in Australian geology:

David
Branagan
1930 - 2022

Reverend William
Branwhite Clark

1798 -1878

Robert Logan
Jack

1845 - 1921

Andrew
Gibb Maitland

1864 - 1951

David Roger
Oldroyd

1936 - 2014

Neville Cecil
Stevens

1926 - 2011

Henry Yorke
Lyell Brown
1844-1928

Irene
Crespin

1896 - 1980

Germaine Anne
Joplin

1903 - 1989

Sir Douglas 
Mawson

1882 - 1958

 Harold George
Raggatt

1900 - 1968

Henry William 
Beamish Talbot

1874 - 1957

Ida A.
Brown

1900 - 1976

Sir Tannatt William 
Edgeworth David

1858 - 1934

Haddon Forrester
King
1905 - 1990

Ian Roderick
McLeod
1931 - 2020

Alfred
Selwyn

1842 - 1902

Mary
Wade
1928 - 2005

William Rowan
Browne

1884 -1975

Dorothy
Hill

1907-1997

Nelly Hooper
Ludbrook

1907 - 1995

Beryl Scott
Nashar

1923 - 2012

Edward Sydney
Simpson

1875 - 1939

Walter George
Woolnough

1876 - 1958 

Biographies of many influential Australian geoscientists are yet to be included here, and a list of possible candidates is given below. Readers are welcome to submit biographies of these or any others to the Secretary of the Earth Science History Group John Jell - [email protected]

  • Edward de Courcy Clarke
  • Richard Daintree
  • Samuel Benson Dickinson
  • Norman Henry (Doc) Fisher
  • Charles Gould
  • John Walter Gregory
  • Dorothy Hill
  • Edwin Sherbon Hills
  • Terence D Hills
  • Joseph Beete Jukes
  • Clive Loftus-Hills
  • Lyndon Charles Noakes
  • Reginald Claude Sprigg
  • William Harper Twelvetrees
  • George Henry Frederick Ulrich
  • Leonard Keith Ward
  • Samuel Warren Carey