List of geographers
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| 30550245 | Alfred Weber | German Geographer. Created a model for industrial locations. He developed a model like von Thunen's model but he developed a model for the location of manufacturing establishments. | |
| 30550246 | Waldo R. Tobler | American-Swiss geographer and cartographer. Created law of concept of distance decay, or the "first law of geography" According to the law, everything is related to eveything else, but near things are more related than distant things. | |
| 30550247 | Johann Heinrich von Thunen | German scholar-farmer. Created model for economic determinism, to study the influence of distance from market. | |
| 30550248 | Strabo | Created 17 volume work Geographica | |
| 30550249 | Carl Sauer | U.S. Geographer. He argued that culutral landscapes, which are the products of complex interactions between humans and their environments, should be the fundamental focus of geographic inquiry. He also implied that most places, even those that outwardly appeared to be natural landscapes,or landscapes unaltered by human activities, had indirectly experienced some sort of alteration over history as a result of human activity. | |
| 30550250 | W. W. Rostow | Created model for economic advancement which theorizes that all developing economies may pass through five stages of development. The five stages are: 1. The traditional society, 2. The preconditions for takeoff, 3. The takeoff, 4. The drive to maturity, 5. The age of mass consumption. | |
| 30550251 | Carl Ritter | One of the founders of modern geography. Believed physical geography helped determine history of the nations. Urged geographers to use methods of scientific inquiry. According to Titter, human geographers should apply laws from the natural sciences to better understand the relationships between the physical environment and human actions. | |
| 30550252 | Friedrich Ratzel | German who originated geopolitical theory. Pioneered environmental determinism, which argued that geography was the study of how the physical environment caused human activities. Stated that there are 7 laws of state growth. Ratzel also created the organic theory, which stated that a nation, which is an aggregate of organisms, would itself function and behave as an organism. | |
| 30550253 | Ptolemy | Wrote Geographia which compiled what was known about the world's geography and the Roman Empire at the time. Wrote instructions on how to create maps of the world and Roman provinces. | |
| 30550254 | W.D. Pattison | Wrote the Four Traditions of Geography: Earth science tradition, culture-environment tradition, the locational tradition, and the area-analysis tradition. | |
| 30550255 | George Perkins Marsh | In 1864, wrote Man and Nature, or Physical Geogrphay as Modified by Human Action, which was the first work to suggest that human beings are significant agents of environmental change. Considered one of the most important advances in geography, ecology, and resource management in the 19th century. | |
| 30550256 | Thomas Robert Malthus | Most famous pioneer observer of population growth. Believed that the human ability to multiply far exceeds our ability to increase food production. | |
| 30550257 | Halford John Mackinder | Proposed the heartland theory which addresses the balance of power in the world, or the possibility of world conquest based on natural habitat advantage. He claims that whoever owns East Europe commands the Heartland, and whoever owns the Heartland rules the world. | |
| 30550258 | Immanuel Kant | Helped establish geography as a formal discipline by distinguishing between geography and history. Geographers ask where and why, historians ask when and why. | |
| 30550259 | Ellsworth Huntington | US geographer who believed climate was a major determinant of civilization and how they were ruled. | |
| 30550260 | Alexander von Humboldt | One of the founders of modern geography. Botanical geographer who collected and analyzed data about the relationships between spatial distribution of rocks, plants, and animals. | |
| 30550261 | Homer Hoyt | Economist who studied housing data for 142 American cities and created a sector model of urban land use in 1939. According to his model, cities develop in sectors not rings. | |
| 30550262 | Herodatus | Wrote The Histories, a collection of 'inquiries' about the people and places he encountered in his travels around the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia. | |
| 30550263 | Eratosthenes | Created the term "geography". First to accurately measure the circumference of the earth. Created longitude and latitude. | |
| 30550264 | Edrisi (Idrisi) | Arab geographer who collected all known geographical material in the 1100s to assemble the most accurate representation of the world at that time. | |
| 30550265 | William Morris Davis | "Father of American geography". Created cycle of erosion in 1884, modeling how rivers create landforms. | |
| 30550266 | Walter Christaller | German geographer who created central-place theory, which explains how services are distributed and why a regular pattern of settlements exists, to help explain the spatial distribution of urban centers. | |
| 30550267 | Ernest W. Burgess | In 1925, developed the concentric-zone model which states that a city grows outward from a central area in a series of concentric rings, with five zones. The zones starting from the center are: 1. Central business district 2. Zone of transition 3. Zone of independent workers' homes 4. Zone of better residences 5. Commuter's zone. | |
| 30550268 | Ibn Batuda | Extensive traveler and explorer who traveled over 73,000 miles of the Islamic world of the 1300s and who then documented his experiences. | |
| 30550269 | Paul Vidal de la Blache | French geographer who introduced the contemporary culture landscape or the regional studies approach. |
