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Adam Sedgwick

1785 - 1873

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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

Among geologists, Adam Sedgwick ranks 26 out of 59Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Adam Sedgwick ranks 30Before 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 33Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Adam Sedgwick ranks 1,978 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, Adam Sedgwick ranks 8Before 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).