ANTHROPOLOGIST

Bill Mollison

1928 - 2016

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Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison (4 May 1928 – 24 September 2016) was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice of permaculture". Permaculture (from "permanent agriculture") is an integrated system of ecological and environmental design which Mollison co-developed with David Holmgren and which they envisioned together as a perennial and sustainable form of agriculture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill Mollison has received more than 344,924 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Bill Mollison is the 48th most popular anthropologist (down from 36th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Australia (down from 79th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Australian Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Bill Mollison ranks 48 out of 93. Before him are Louis Dumont, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Lubor Niederle, John Lloyd Stephens, Birutė Galdikas, and Raymond Firth. After him are Gilberto Freyre, Alfred Sauvy, Helen Fisher, Bengt Danielsson, Andrey Korotayev, and Maurice Godelier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Bill Mollison ranks 286. Before him are Eric Porter, Tahir Salahov, Mitchell Ryan, Ian Bannen, Arthur Melvin Okun, and Elio Sgreccia. After him are Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Dick Miller, Pedro Casaldáliga, Frank Frazetta, Kiyoshi Atsumi, and Umberto Maglioli. Among people deceased in 2016, Bill Mollison ranks 222. Before him are Jamshid Amouzegar, Yang Jiang, Jon Polito, Martin Gray, Abu Ali al-Anbari, and Chiyonofuji Mitsugu. After him are Paul Kantner, Antonin Scalia, Slobodan Santrač, Vladimir Zeldin, Doris Roberts, and Juan Mujica.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Bill Mollison ranks 118 out of 1,143. Before him are Elle Macpherson (1964), Baz Luhrmann (1962), Bruce Beresford (1940), Peter C. Doherty (1940), Ron Mueck (1958), and Kevin Rudd (1957). After him are Ken McGregor (1929), Tony Roche (1945), Robert Menzies (1894), Daevid Allen (1938), Don Bradman (1908), and Mark Webber (1976).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Australia

Among anthropologists born in Australia, Bill Mollison ranks 2. Before him are Raymond Dart (1893). After him are Fiona Graham (1961).

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