GEOLOGIST

Gideon Mantell

1790 - 1852

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Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gideon Mantell has received more than 200,412 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Gideon Mantell is the 21st most popular geologist (down from 18th in 2019), the 1,350th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,317th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Geologist.

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  • 57.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Gideon Mantell ranks 21 out of 90. Before him are William Smith, Beno Gutenberg, Christian Leopold von Buch, Ignacy Domeyko, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, and Giuseppe Mercalli. After him are Jean-André Deluc, William Buckland, Adam Sedgwick, John Tuzo Wilson, Vladimir Obruchev, and Julius von Haast.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Gideon Mantell ranks 16. Before him are John Frederic Daniell, Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, John Austin, Robert Stirling, Marquis de Custine, and Adolph Diesterweg. After him are Markos Botsaris, José Antonio Páez, William Parry, Leopold, Prince of Salerno, Keisai Eisen, and John Cockerill. Among people deceased in 1852, Gideon Mantell ranks 22. Before him are Xavier de Maistre, Thomas Moore, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, Hadji Murad, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, and Táhirih. After him are Gotthold Eisenstein, Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Matthias Castrén, Tirimüjgan Kadın, Prince Paul of Württemberg, and Étienne Maurice Gérard.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Gideon Mantell ranks 1,350 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Fenton (1819), Edmund Kean (1787), George Atwood (1745), Edward Waring (1736), William Prout (1785), and Peter Burke (1937). After him are Ted Hughes (1930), Lennox Lewis (1965), Jeremy Corbyn (1949), Joseph Paxton (1803), Alexander McQueen (1969), and Eileen Essell (1922).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, Gideon Mantell ranks 6. Before him are Charles Lyell (1797), Mary Anning (1799), James Hutton (1726), Eduard Suess (1831), and William Smith (1769). After him are William Buckland (1784), Adam Sedgwick (1785), Arthur Holmes (1890), John Phillips (1800), Henry Clifton Sorby (1826), and Joseph Thomson (1858).

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