GEOLOGIST

Arthur Holmes

1890 - 1965

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Arthur Holmes (14 January 1890 – 20 September 1965) was an English geologist who made two major contributions to the understanding of geology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Holmes has received more than 211,839 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Arthur Holmes is the 40th most popular geologist (down from 29th in 2019), the 2,815th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,336th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Geologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Arthur Holmes by language

Over the past year Arthur Holmes has had the most page views in the with 20,509 views, followed by Spanish (3,842), and French (1,900). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (104.02%), Esperanto (102.13%), and Catalan (37.70%)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Arthur Holmes ranks 40 out of 90Before him are Harry Hammond Hess, Édouard Lartet, Joachim Barrande, Alexander von Keyserling, Hiroo Kanamori, and Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann. After him are John Phillips, Alexander Karpinsky, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Henryk Arctowski, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, and Richard Kirwan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Arthur Holmes ranks 151Before him are Rudolf von Bünau, Boris Delaunay, Elmer Niklander, Vera Inber, Katherine Anne Porter, and Moa Martinson. After him are George Horine, Tibor Szamuely, Henri Decoin, Maurice Genevoix, Heinrich Zimmer, and Ernst Deutsch. Among people deceased in 1965, Arthur Holmes ranks 119Before him are Ramón Gil, Johannes Bobrowski, Adlai Stevenson II, Bob King, Joseph Grew, and Mae Murray. After him are Vladimir Gardin, Alejandro Casona, Karl Allmendinger, Albert Gutterson, Julius Skutnabb, and Nancy Carroll.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Arthur Holmes ranks 2,815 out of 8,785Before him are Jim Ratcliffe (1952), Thomas Girtin (1775), Peter Banks (1947), Janet McTeer (1961), Effie Gray (1828), and Christiane Amanpour (1958). After him are Francis Crozier (1796), Bob Fitzsimmons (1863), Arthur Gore (1868), Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803), Hamilton Harty (1879), and Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (877).

Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, Arthur Holmes ranks 9Before him are James Hutton (1726), Eduard Suess (1831), William Smith (1769), Gideon Mantell (1790), William Buckland (1784), and Adam Sedgwick (1785). After him are John Phillips (1800), Henry Clifton Sorby (1826), Joseph Thomson (1858), Robert Jameson (1774), William Nicol (1770), and Henry De la Beche (1796).