List of Geophysicists - A

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• Thomas J Ahrens (American, 1936–2010) – experimental methods for modeling hypervelocity impacts and materials in the Earth's core and mantle
• Tanya Atwater (American, 1942–) – plate tectonic history of North America
• Hannes Alfvén (Swedish, 1908–1995) – Alfvén waves, magnetohydrodynamics of magnetosphere; Nobel Prize in Physics
• Don L. Anderson (American, 1933–) – seismology and Earth's interior (including the Preliminary Reference Earth Model); Crafoord Prize