GEOLOGIST

Andrija Mohorovičić

1857 - 1936

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Andrija Mohorovičić (23 January 1857 – 18 December 1936) was a Croatian geophysicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrija Mohorovičić has received more than 167,280 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Andrija Mohorovičić is the 7th most popular geologist (up from 9th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Croatian Geologist.

Andrija Mohorovičić is most famous for discovering the Mohorovičić discontinuity, a boundary between the Earth's crust and the Earth's mantle.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Andrija Mohorovičić ranks 7 out of 90. Before him are Alfred Wegener, Milutin Milanković, Charles Francis Richter, Nicolas Steno, Charles Lyell, and Inge Lehmann. After him are Mary Anning, James Hutton, Eduard Suess, Friedrich Mohs, Francis Beaufort, and Vasily Dokuchaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Andrija Mohorovičić ranks 21. Before him are Alfred Binet, Theo van Gogh, Eugen Bleuler, Alexander of Battenberg, Paul Doumer, and Axel Munthe. After him are Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Thorstein Veblen, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Ronald Ross, and Georg Michaelis. Among people deceased in 1936, Andrija Mohorovičić ranks 29. Before him are Louis Blériot, Buenaventura Durruti, Ottorino Respighi, Hans von Seeckt, Karl Kraus, and Charles Nicolle. After him are Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Róbert Bárány, Moritz Schlick, Robert E. Howard, Anne Sullivan, and Georg Michaelis.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Andrija Mohorovičić ranks 18 out of 700. Before him are Pope Caius (250), Laura Antonelli (1941), Saint Marinus (275), Leopold Ružička (1887), Crispus (305), and Mario Andretti (1940). After him are Svetozar Boroević (1856), Aloysius Stepinac (1898), Luka Modrić (1985), Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (1968), Ivan Ribar (1881), and Rade Šerbedžija (1946).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Croatia

Among geologists born in Croatia, Andrija Mohorovičić ranks 1. 

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