GEOLOGIST

Charles Lapworth

1842 - 1920

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Charles Lapworth FRS FGS (20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920) was a headteacher and an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Lapworth has received more than 52,599 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Charles Lapworth is the 85th most popular geologist (down from 71st in 2019), the 5,225th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,085th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Charles Lapworth ranks 85 out of 90. Before him are Rudolf Geiger, Andrey Arkhangelsky, Judith Curry, Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing, Reginald Aldworth Daly, and Walther Penck. After him are John Bell Hatcher, Dan McKenzie, William Edmond Logan, Claudia Alexander, and Michael E. Mann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Charles Lapworth ranks 100. Before him are Agnes Mary Clerke, Mary MacKillop, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Édouard Louis Trouessart, João Barbosa Rodrigues, and Robert Collett. After him are Henry Hyndman, Elliott Coues, Phoebe Hearst, and Sidney Lanier. Among people deceased in 1920, Charles Lapworth ranks 130. Before him are Daniel Kelly, Wilberforce Eaves, Pablo Arosemena, Horace Elgin Dodge, Pavel Shternberg, and Walter W. Winans. After him are Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann, Samuel Colman, Terence MacSwiney, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Harry Solter, and Mary Augusta Ward.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Lapworth ranks 5,225 out of 8,785. Before him are China Miéville (1972), R. D. Blackmore (1825), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford (1893), Mary Lamb (1764), and John Cannon (1933). After him are Lionel Jeffries (1926), Archie Scott Brown (1927), Nick Frost (1972), John Nunn (1955), Joseph Pickford (1736), and Max Hastings (1945).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Lapworth ranks 17. Before him are Henry Clifton Sorby (1826), Joseph Thomson (1858), Archibald Geikie (1835), Robert Jameson (1774), William Nicol (1770), and Henry De la Beche (1796). After him are Dan McKenzie (1942).

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