geophysicist

Examples:

Andrija Mohorovicic

Yugoslav geophysicist for whom the Mohorovicic discontinuity was named (1857-1936)

Alfred Lothar Wegener

German geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift (1880-1930)

John Tuzo Wilson

Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993)

Types:

seismologist

a geophysicist who studies earthquakes and the mechanical characteristics of the Earth

Type of:

geologist

a specialist in geology