Geography
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The study of the physical structure and inhabitants of the Earth.
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Notable geographers
- Eratosthenes (276BC – 194BC) – calculated the size of the Earth.
- Strabo (64/63 BC – ca. AD 24) – wrote Geographica, one of the first books outlining the study of geography.
- Ptolemy (c.90–c.168) – compiled Greek and Roman knowledge into the book Geographia.
- Al Idrisi (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي; Latin: Dreses) (1100–1165/66) – author of Nuzhatul Mushtaq.
- Gerardus Mercator (1512–1594) – innovative cartographer produced the mercator projection
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) – Considered Father of modern geography, published the Kosmos and founder of the sub-field biogeography.
- Carl Ritter (1779–1859) – Considered Father of modern geography. Occupied the first chair of geography at Berlin University.
- Arnold Henry Guyot (1807–1884) – noted the structure of glaciers and advanced understanding in glacier motion, especially in fast ice flow.
- William Morris Davis (1850–1934) – father of American geography and developer of the cycle of erosion.
- Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845–1918) – founder of the French school of geopolitics and wrote the principles of human geography.
- Sir Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947) – Co-founder of the LSE, Geographical Association
- Ellen Churchill Semple (1863–1932) – She was America's first influential female geographer.
- Carl O. Sauer (1889–1975) – Prominent cultural geographer
- Walter Christaller (1893–1969) – human geographer and inventor of Central place theory.
- Yi-Fu Tuan (born 1930) – Chinese-American scholar credited with starting Humanistic Geography as a discipline.
- Karl W. Butzer (1934–2016) – An influential German-American geographer, cultural ecologist and environmental archaeologist.
- David Harvey (born 1935) – Marxist geographer and author of theories on spatial and urban geography, winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.
- Edward Soja (1941–2015) – Noted for his work on regional development, planning and governance along with coining the terms Synekism and Postmetropolis, winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.
- Michael Frank Goodchild (born 1944) – prominent GIS scholar and winner of the RGS founder's medal in 2003.
- Doreen Massey (1944–2016) – Key scholar in the space and places of globalization and its pluralities, winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.
- Nigel Thrift (born 1949) – originator of non-representational theory.
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