Before our time
| Name |
Dates |
Famous for
|
| Ibn Sahl (WP) |
940-1000 |
Discoverer of Snell’s Law of refraction
|
| Leonardo da Vinci (WP) |
1452–1519 |
See Carcione's essay
|
| Willebrord Snellius (WP) |
1580-1626 |
Refraction
|
| René Descartes (WP) |
1596-1650 |
Corpuscles and bandwidth
|
| Isaac Newton (WP) |
1643-1727 |
Corpuscles and bandwidth
|
| Pierre de Fermat (WP) |
1601-1665 |
Principle of least time, basis for principle of least work
|
| Christiaan Huygens (WP) |
1629-1695 |
Waves
|
| Robert Hooke (WP) |
1635-1703 |
Elasticity
|
| Leonhard Euler (WP) |
1707-83 |
Elastic properties, waves
|
| Jean le Rond d'Alembert (WP) |
1717-83 |
Derivation of the wave equation
|
| Ernst Chladni (WP) |
1756–1827 |
'The father of acoustics'
|
| Joseph Fourier (WP) |
1768-1830 |
The Fourier transform!
|
| Thomas Young (WP) |
1773-1829 |
Elastic properties, and wave theory
|
| Carl Friedrich Gauss (WP) |
1777-1855 |
Too many things to list!
|
| Siméon Denis Poisson (WP) |
1781–1840 |
Poisson effect, probability
|
| Augustin-Jean Fresnel (WP) |
1788-1827 |
Interference
|
| James David Forbes (WP) |
1809–68 |
First seismograph
|
| Robert Mallet (WP) |
1810–51 |
Controlled source seismology
|
| Gustav Kirchhoff (WP) |
1824-87 |
Basis of common migration equation
|
| James Clerk Maxwell |
1831-79 |
Electromagnetic theory
|
| John Strutt, Baron Rayleigh (WP) |
1842-1919 |
Seismic resolution
|
| Reginald Fessenden |
1866-1932 |
First patent for seismic reflection imaging
|
| Schlumberger brothers |
Conrad 1878-1936 & Marcel 1884-1953 |
Founders of Schlumberger and, less directly, CGGVeritas
|
| Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz |
1881-1908 |
Zoeppritz equations!
|
| Andrew McNaughton |
Not known |
Military ranging, aided by William Lawrence Bragg, William Tucker, and others; could tell from British POV
|
| John Karcher |
1894-1978 |
Commercialized seismic
|
| Norman Ricker |
1896-1960 |
Ricker wavelet is 2nd derivative of Gaussian
|
| Dennis Gabor |
1900-79 |
Signal processing
|
| Maurice Ewing WP |
1906-74 |
Marine seismology
|
| John Tukey |
1915-2000 |
FFT, with Cooley (1926– )
|
| Michael Schoenberg WP |
1939–2008 |
Anisotropy
|
In our time
These people are more connected with seismic geophysics specifically.
| Name |
Born |
Famous for
|
| Aki and Richards |
|
Seismic theory
|
| Leon Thomsen |
|
Anisotropy
|
| Sven Treitel |
|
Seismic theory
|
| Enders Robinson |
|
Seismic theory
|
| Brian Russell |
|
Seismic analysis, entrepreneurship
|
| Dan Hampson |
|
Seismic analysis, entrepreneurship
|
| Oz Yilmaz |
|
Seismic theory
|
