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GEOLOGIST

Hugo Benioff

1899 - 1968

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Victor Hugo Benioff (September 14, 1899 – February 29, 1968) was an American seismologist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is best remembered for his work in charting the location of deep earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean. Benioff was born in Los Angeles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Benioff has received more than 43,183 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hugo Benioff is the 64th most popular geologist (down from 48th in 2019), the 8,368th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,725th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Geologist.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.69

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Hugo Benioff ranks 64 out of 59. Before him are Anna Missuna, David A. Johnston, Daniel Barringer, Lawrence Lambe, Walter Alvarez, and Robert Jameson. After him are Reginald Aldworth Daly, Judith Curry, Henry De la Beche, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Paul Niggli, and Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Hugo Benioff ranks 240. Before him are Renato Sáinz, Øystein Ore, Lonnie Johnson, Américo Tesoriere, Folke Rogard, and Adolf Brudes. After him are Alexander Nesmeyanov, Louis Guilloux, Jean Cugnot, George Beauchamp, Giorgio Chiavacci, and Anders Petersen. Among people deceased in 1968, Hugo Benioff ranks 200. Before him are Charles Henry Bartlett, Carl Bertilsson, Maurice Verdonck, Ichiya Kumagae, Aleksandr Arbuzov, and Robert Burks. After him are Oswald Zappelli, Luis Brunetto, Sándor Gombos, Diógenes Lara, Ilias Tsirimokos, and Marcel Pinel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hugo Benioff ranks 8,368 out of 18,182. Before him are Robert Reid (1862), Mildred McDaniel (1933), Darby Stanchfield (1971), Slim Pickens (1919), Lewis Cass (1782), and Helen Slater (1963). After him are Eliphalet Remington (1793), Robert Keith (1898), George Bancroft (1800), John Kundla (1916), Philip Schuyler (1733), and Rob Morrow (1962).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United States

Among geologists born in United States, Hugo Benioff ranks 10. Before him are Niles Eldredge (1943), M. King Hubbert (1903), James Hall (1811), David A. Johnston (1949), Daniel Barringer (1860), and Walter Alvarez (1940). After him are Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843), John Bell Hatcher (1861), and Michael E. Mann (1965).

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