| Name | Years | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis C. Beck | 1830-1853 | professor of of chemistry and natural science Also was mineralogist for New York Geological Survey Head of department | |
| George H. Cook | 1853-1889 | died 1889 taught mineralogy and geology became vice-president of Rutgers Professor of chemistry and natural history 1853-1867. State geologist 1864-1889. 1867 professor chemistry, natural history, agriculture. 1882 professor of geology and agriculture. Acquired Mannington Mastodon in 1870. Cook Collection Head of department | |
| John C. Smock | 1867-1885 | Professor of Mining and Metallurgy | |
| A.H. Chester | 1891-1903 | Chester Collection, Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy, First curator of the Geological Museum 1892. Head of department | |
| W.S. Valiant curator from | 1897-1919 | ||
| Joseph V. Lewis | 1903-1927, | Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, wrote extensively on mineralogy, petrology, economic geology, Palisades diabase. Head of department 1903-1927 | |
| H.B. Kummel | 1906-1934 | State Geologist and lecturer at Rutgers | |
| A.O. Hayes | 1926-1951. | Head of department 1928-1945 Studied the Wabana iron ores of Newfoundland. Geology department completely occupies Geology Hall. Physics shared it previously. Canfield Fund established 1928 | |
| A.C. Hawkins | 1927-1933 | ||
| 1931 Geology became a major department. First B.S. in 1931 First M.S. in 1939 First Ph.D. in 1938 |
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| Between 1926-1945 geology courses expanded. | |||
| 1940 Rowe Collection large number of Franklin minerals | |||
| Albert S. Wilkerson | 1939-1963 | ||
| P.E. Wolfe | 1945-1981 | ||
| 1946-48 Department of Geology and Geography to assist geography that became department in 1948 | |||
| J.H.C. Martens | 1947-1966 | Bureau of Mineral Research, Chairman 1961-1966 | |
| S.K. Fox | 1948-1981 | ||
| W. Lodding | 1949-1975 | ||
| B.L. Smith | 1951-1974 | acting Chair 1971-1972 | |
| H. Johnson | 1951-1961 | 1945-1961 Chairman 1946-1961 Director of Bureau of Mineral Research |
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| R.K. Olsson | 1957-1997, | Chair 1977-1996 | |
| T. Vogel | 1963-1970 | ||
| D. Vogel | 1970-1974 | ||
| M. Hamil | 1972-1979 | ||
| R.C. Murray | 1973-1977 | Chair | |
| M. Houston | 1974-1975 | ||
| M.C. Carr | 1974- | ||
| R.C. Murray | 1974-1977 | ||
| A. Tamburi | 1974-1975 | ||
| R. Hewins | 1975-2008 | ||
| E. Christofferson | 1975-1980 | ||
| G.M. Ashley | 1977- | ||
| G.H. McGhee | 1978- | ||
| R. Forsythe | 1980-1988 | ||
| C. Herzberg | 1980- | ||
| M.D. Feigenson | 1981- | ||
| J. Flynn | 1982-1988 | ||
| R. Sheridan, | 1986-2003 | ||
| K.G. Miller | 1988- | ||
| R, Schlische | 1990- | ||
| R. Sherrell | 1992- | joint with IMCS | |
| P. Rona | 1994- | joint with IMCS | |
| C. Feibel, | 1997- | joint with Anthropology | |
| P Falkowski | 1998- | joint with IMCS | |
| J.D. Wright | 1998- | ||
| M. Withjack | 2000- | ||
| C.O. Swisher | 2001- | ||
| G. Mountain | 2001- | ||
| Y. Rosenthal | 2002-- | joint with IMCS | |
| M.-P. Aubry, | 2006- | ||
| Y. Fan-Reinfelder | 2006- | joint with Environmental Sciences | |
| N. Yee | 2007- | joint with Environmental Sciences | |
| V. Levin | 2008- | ||
| S. Severmann | 2008- | joint with IMCS | |
