1785 - 1873
Adam Sedgwick (; 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 220,044 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Adam Sedgwick is the 26th most popular geologist (down from 22nd in 2019), the 1,978th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,792nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Geologist.
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Among geologists, Adam Sedgwick ranks 26 out of 59. Before him are Giuseppe Mercalli, John Tuzo Wilson, Jean-André Deluc, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Vladimir Obruchev, and William Buckland. After him are Richard Kirwan, Harry Hammond Hess, Arthur Holmes, Albert Heim, Alexander von Keyserling, and Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann.
1850 - 1914
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 20
1908 - 1993
HPI: 54.61
Rank: 21
1727 - 1817
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 22
1750 - 1801
HPI: 54.16
Rank: 23
1863 - 1956
HPI: 53.92
Rank: 24
1784 - 1856
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 25
1785 - 1873
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 26
1733 - 1812
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 27
1906 - 1969
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 28
1890 - 1965
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 29
1849 - 1937
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 30
1815 - Present
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 31
1797 - 1873
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 32
Among people born in 1785, Adam Sedgwick ranks 30. Before him are Isabella Colbran, Charles Xavier Thomas, Archduke Karl of Austria-Este, José Miguel Carrera, Edward Bransfield, and Carl Adolph Agardh. After him are Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Victor de Broglie, Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, August Immanuel Bekker, William Jackson Hooker, and Shah Shujah Durrani. Among people deceased in 1873, Adam Sedgwick ranks 33. Before him are Muhammad IV of Morocco, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Urbano Rattazzi, and Louis Le Chatelier. After him are Wilhelm Marstrand, Francis Garnier, Hermann Hankel, Ferdinand David, Auguste von Harrach, and Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen.
1785 - 1845
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 24
1785 - 1870
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 25
1785 - 1809
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 26
1785 - 1821
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 27
1785 - 1852
HPI: 53.17
Rank: 28
1785 - 1859
HPI: 53.02
Rank: 29
1785 - 1873
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 30
1785 - 1853
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 31
1785 - 1870
HPI: 51.17
Rank: 32
1785 - 1871
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 33
1785 - 1871
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 34
1785 - 1865
HPI: 50.87
Rank: 35
1785 - 1842
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 36
1803 - 1873
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 27
1824 - 1873
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 28
1831 - 1873
HPI: 54.45
Rank: 29
1801 - 1873
HPI: 54.15
Rank: 30
1808 - 1873
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 31
1815 - 1873
HPI: 53.18
Rank: 32
1785 - 1873
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 33
1810 - 1873
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 34
1839 - 1873
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 35
1839 - 1873
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 36
1810 - 1873
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 37
1800 - 1873
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 38
1797 - 1873
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 39
Among people born in United Kingdom, Adam Sedgwick ranks 1,978 out of 7,765. Before him are Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1516), Frederick Scott Archer (1813), Caratacus (15), Ian Wilmut (1944), Mother Shipton (1488), and Margaret of England (1240). After him are Anthony Asquith (1902), James Wolfe (1727), Leonard Woolf (1880), Rachel Kempson (1910), Christine Keeler (1942), and Freddie Highmore (1992).
1516 - 1571
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 1,972
1813 - 1857
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 1,973
15 - 54
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 1,974
1944 - 2023
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 1,975
1488 - 1561
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 1,976
1240 - 1275
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 1,977
1785 - 1873
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 1,978
1902 - 1968
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 1,979
1727 - 1759
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 1,980
1880 - 1969
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 1,981
1910 - 2003
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 1,982
1942 - 2017
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 1,983
1992 - Present
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 1,984
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), William Nicol (1770), Henry Clifton Sorby (1826), Joseph Thomson (1858), and Robert Jameson (1774).
1799 - 1847
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 2
1726 - 1797
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 3
1831 - 1914
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 4
1769 - 1839
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 5
1790 - 1852
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 6
1784 - 1856
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 7
1785 - 1873
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 8
1890 - 1965
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 9
1800 - 1874
HPI: 49.45
Rank: 10
1770 - 1851
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 11
1826 - 1908
HPI: 46.39
Rank: 12
1858 - 1895
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 13
1774 - 1854
HPI: 44.32
Rank: 14