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Adam Sedgwick

1785 - 1873

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Adam Sedgwick FRS (; 22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. Based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata, he proposed the Cambrian period in 1835, in a joint publication in which Roderick Murchison also proposed the Silurian period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Sedgwick has received more than 239,759 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Sedgwick is the 24th most popular geologist (up from 26th in 2019), the 1,830th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,973rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Adam Sedgwick ranks 24 out of 90. Before him are Ignacy Domeyko, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Giuseppe Mercalli, Gideon Mantell, Jean-André Deluc, and William Buckland. After him are John Tuzo Wilson, Vladimir Obruchev, Julius von Haast, Norman L. Bowen, Barnum Brown, and Albert Heim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Adam Sedgwick ranks 27. Before him are Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, Friedrich Wieck, Prince Paul of Württemberg, Charles Xavier Thomas, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, and Adam Wilhelm Moltke. After him are William Jackson Hooker, August Immanuel Bekker, Victor de Broglie, Edward Bransfield, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and Vicente López y Planes. Among people deceased in 1873, Adam Sedgwick ranks 32. Before him are José Antonio Páez, Jean Chacornac, Friedrich Wieck, Wilhelm Marstrand, Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, and Prince August, Duke of Dalarna. After him are Ferdinand David, Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Giovanni Battista Donati, Louis Le Chatelier, Bénédict Morel, and Francis Garnier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Adam Sedgwick ranks 1,830 out of 8,785. Before him are Leo Genn (1905), John Wetton (1949), Andrew Irvine (1902), Allan Octavian Hume (1829), Thomas Beecham (1879), and William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729). After him are Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (1984), Terry Venables (1943), Margaret Douglas (1515), Christabel Pankhurst (1880), Eleanor of Woodstock (1318), and Vanessa Bell (1879).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, Adam Sedgwick ranks 8. Before him are Mary Anning (1799), James Hutton (1726), Eduard Suess (1831), William Smith (1769), Gideon Mantell (1790), and William Buckland (1784). After him are Arthur Holmes (1890), John Phillips (1800), Henry Clifton Sorby (1826), Joseph Thomson (1858), Archibald Geikie (1835), and Robert Jameson (1774).

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