ARCHAEOLOGIST

Edward Drinker Cope

1840 - 1897

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Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, he distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science, publishing his first scientific paper at the age of 19. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Drinker Cope has received more than 567,178 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Edward Drinker Cope is the 7th most popular archaeologist, the 388th most popular biography from United States (up from 482nd in 2019) and the most popular American Archaeologist.

Edward Drinker Cope was a paleontologist who was most famous for his work in the field of vertebrate paleontology. He was one of the first people to use vertebrate fossils to study evolution.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Edward Drinker Cope ranks 7 out of 151. Before him are Jean-François Champollion, Heinrich Schliemann, Theodor Mommsen, Howard Carter, Den, and Arthur Evans. After him are Semerkhet, Zahi Hawass, Nynetjer, Marija Gimbutas, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, and V. Gordon Childe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Edward Drinker Cope ranks 10. Before him are Auguste Rodin, Crazy Horse, Murad V, Victoria, Princess Royal, Alphonse Daudet, and Odilon Redon. After him are Carl Menger, Ernst Abbe, Carlota of Mexico, John Boyd Dunlop, August Bebel, and Father Damien. Among people deceased in 1897, Edward Drinker Cope ranks 6. Before him are Johannes Brahms, Thérèse of Lisieux, Alphonse Daudet, Karl Weierstrass, and Jacob Burckhardt. After him are Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Savitribai Phule, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Albert Marth, James Joseph Sylvester, and Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Drinker Cope ranks 388 out of 20,380. Before him are Chester W. Nimitz (1885), Henry James (1843), Angela Davis (1944), Ryan O'Neal (1941), Dan Brown (1964), and Ruth Handler (1916). After him are Sylvia Plath (1932), Kurt Cobain (1967), Brian De Palma (1940), Anthony Kiedis (1962), Martin Sheen (1940), and Jimmy Wales (1966).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United States

Among archaeologists born in United States, Edward Drinker Cope ranks 1. After him are George Gaylord Simpson (1902), Othniel Charles Marsh (1831), Robert Ballard (1942), James Henry Breasted (1865), Charles W. Gilmore (1874), Sylvanus Morley (1883), J. P. Mallory (1945), Donald Johanson (1943), Edward Robinson (1794), Lewis Binford (1932), and Robert T. Bakker (1945).

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