Charles Lyell

Beginning what will hopefully be celebrated as the "great facial hair in Science" series, we have Charles Lyell, arguably the father of modern Geology and Darwin's mentor, scientific father-figure, and inspiration in many ways.

Lyell was so awesome, in fact, that he is our moustache of the day and didn't even have a moustache. Just some incredible, epic sideburns that he certainly twisted as he hemmed and hawwed, with furrowed brow, as he thought about geology.




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