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Introduction | Acknowledgments and Notes

Illinois State Geological Survey
Our Heritage—A Memorial


Carl B. Anderson
1889–1983
Hydrogeology

Elwood Atherton
1909–2000
Stratigraphy

H. Foster Bain
1871–1948
First Director (Chief) Minerals

Frank C. Baker
1867–1942
Invertebrate Paleontology

James W. Baxter
1927–1996
Industrial Minerals

Carl A. Bays
1914–1967
Groundwater Geophysics

Alfred H. Bell
1895–1977
Petroleum Geology

Alburto Bement
1861–1946
Advocate; Coal

Robert E. Bergstrom
1923–1996
Sixth Chief
Hydrogeology

Raymond S. Blatchley
1883–1953
Petroleum Geology

Willis S. Blatchley
1859–1940
Petroleum Geology

Charles C. Boley
1911–1996
Coal Engineering

James C. Bradbury
1918–2005
Industrial Minerals

William F. Bradley
1908–1973
Clay Mineralogy

J. Harlen Bretz
1882–1981
Geological Mapping and Geological Processes

Hubert M. Bristol
1915–2003
Petroleum Geology

Merlyn B. Buhle
1905–1979
Groundwater Geophysics

Gilbert H. Cady
1882–1970
Coal Geology

Thomas C. Chamberlin
1843–1928
Advocate; Glacial Geology

Frank W. DeWolf
1881–1957
Second Director (Chief);
Coal Geology

George E. Ekblaw
1895–1972
Engineering Geology

Nevin M. Fenneman
1865–1945
Physiography

Glenn C. Finger
1905–1988
Fluorine Chemistry

John C. Frye
1912–1982
Fourth Chief;
Glacial Geology

Ralph E. Grim
1902–1989
Clay Mineralogy

James E. Hackett
1922–2003
Environmental Geology

John A. Harrison
1916–1967
Coal Petrography

C. Leland Horberg
1910–1955
Hydrogeology

M. King Hubbert
1903–1989
Groundwater Geophysics

Harold W. Jackman
1901–1979
Minerals Engineering

W. Hilton Johnson
1935–1997
Glacial Geology

Lois S. Kent
1912–1999
Paleontology

Robert M. Kosanke
1917–1996
Palynology

John E. Lamar
1897–1979
Industrial Minerals

Morris M. Leighton
1877–1971
Third Chief; Glacial Geology

Heinz A. Lowenstam
1912–1993
Paleoecology

Louis C. McCabe
1904–1978
Coal Combustion

Paul MacClintock
1891–1970
Glacial Geology

J. Stewart Machin
1893–1973
Silicate Chemistry

G. Burke Maxey
1917–1977
Hydrogeology

Wayne F. Meents
1912–1996
Petroleum Geology

Adolph C. Noé
1873–1939
Paleobotany

Samuel W. Parr
1857–1931
Coal Chemistry

Robert J. Piersol
1890–1969
Applied Physics

Wayne A. Pryor
1928–1997
Hydrogeology

Frank H. Reed
1890–1957
Geochemistry

Orin W. Rees
1898–1980
Analytical Chemistry

Hubert E. Risser
1914–1974
Mineral Economics

Charles W. Rolfe
1851–1934
Clay Products

Thomas E. Savage
1866–1947
Stratigraphy

James M. Schopf
1911–1978
Palynology

E. Wesley Shaw
1881–1935
Geological Mapping

Raymond Siever
1919–2005
Fifth Chief; Coal Geology

Jack A. Simon
1919–2005
Fifth Chief; Coal Geology

W. Calhoun Smith
1915–1985
Engineering Geology

William H. Smith
1919–1988
Coal Resources

Frederick J. Squires
1879–1956
Petroleum Engineering

Arle H. Sutton
1896–1972
Stratigraphy

David H. Swann
1915–1968
Regional Geology

Josephus Thomas Jr.
1927–1983
Physical Chemistry

Enid Townley
1900–1983
Geological Administration

Johan A. Udden
1859–1932
Geological Mapping

Walter H. Voskuil
1892–1984
Mineral Economics

Harold R. Wanless
1898–1970
Stratigraphy

J. Marvin Weller
1899–1976
Stratigraphy and Paleontology

Stuart Weller
1870–1927
Stratigraphy and Geological Mapping

George W. White
1903–1985
History of Geology

W. Arthur White
1916–1998
Clay Mineralogy

Lester L. Whiting
1905–1982
Petroleum Geology

Harold B. "Bo" Willman
1901–1984
Stratigraphy

George M. Wilson
1915–1983
Educational Extension

Lewis E. Workman
1899–1990
Subsurface Geology

G. Robert Yohe
1904–1979
Organic Chemistry

Lewis E. Young
1878–1953
Mining Engineering

 

 

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