GEOLOGIST

Barnum Brown

1873 - 1963

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Barnum Brown (February 12, 1873 – February 5, 1963), commonly referred to as Mr. Bones, was an American paleontologist. Named after the circus showman P. T. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barnum Brown has received more than 224,404 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Barnum Brown is the 29th most popular geologist (up from 37th in 2019), the 4,291st most popular biography from United States (up from 5,209th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Geologist.

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  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Barnum Brown ranks 29 out of 90. Before him are William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick, John Tuzo Wilson, Vladimir Obruchev, Julius von Haast, and Norman L. Bowen. After him are Albert Heim, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Anna Missuna, Adolphe d'Archiac, Harry Hammond Hess, and Édouard Lartet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Barnum Brown ranks 106. Before him are Ford Madox Ford, Mariano Azuela, Willa Cather, Nikolai Tcherepnin, E. D. Morel, and Leo Fall. After him are Henri Rabaud, Rudolf Charousek, Mikhail Prishvin, Gabriel Terra, Matteo Bartoli, and Richard von Kühlmann. Among people deceased in 1963, Barnum Brown ranks 99. Before him are Fernando Tambroni, Maria Tănase, Patsy Cline, Shinobu Ishihara, Alan Gardiner, and Adrian Carton de Wiart. After him are Lee Wallard, Richard Oswald, André Maschinot, Guy Burgess, Pierre Blanchar, and Erik Lundqvist.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barnum Brown ranks 4,291 out of 20,380. Before him are Lysander Spooner (1808), Thurgood Marshall (1908), Sanford B. Dole (1844), Richard F. Outcault (1863), Roy Jones Jr. (1969), and Kristanna Loken (1979). After him are Bugs Moran (1893), Gregg Allman (1947), Layne Staley (1967), India Summer (1975), Edmund Gettier (1927), and Hugh McDonald (1950).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United States

Among geologists born in United States, Barnum Brown ranks 2. Before him are Charles Francis Richter (1900). After him are Harry Hammond Hess (1906), Niles Eldredge (1943), Hugo Benioff (1899), James Hall (1811), William Barton Rogers (1804), Walter Alvarez (1940), Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829), M. King Hubbert (1903), David A. Johnston (1949), and Daniel Barringer (1860).

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