GEOLOGIST

John Phillips

1800 - 1874

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John Phillips FRS (25 December 1800 – 24 April 1874) was an English geologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Phillips has received more than 86,175 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). John Phillips is the 41st most popular geologist (down from 35th in 2019), the 2,955th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,731st in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Geologist.

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  • 86k

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  • 49.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, John Phillips ranks 41 out of 90. Before him are Édouard Lartet, Joachim Barrande, Alexander von Keyserling, Hiroo Kanamori, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, and Arthur Holmes. After him are Alexander Karpinsky, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Henryk Arctowski, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, Richard Kirwan, and Alfred Lacroix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, John Phillips ranks 64. Before him are Mikhail Pogodin, Yagan, Said bin Ahmad, Franz Unger, Charles Antoine Lemaire, and Martha Christina Tiahahu. After him are Osip Senkovsky, Kitsos Tzavelas, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Zinovios Valvis, Heinrich Göppert, and Brian Houghton Hodgson. Among people deceased in 1874, John Phillips ranks 39. Before him are Carl Meissner, Gustaaf Wappers, Jules Janin, Princess Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, and Heinrich von Kittlitz. After him are Fritz Reuter, Victor Baltard, Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger, Vilém Blodek, Jean Cruveilhier, and Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Phillips ranks 2,955 out of 8,785. Before him are Steve Davis (1957), Peter Cheyney (1896), Richard Lydekker (1849), Hank Marvin (1941), Adrian Boult (1889), and Ben Whishaw (1980). After him are Jackie Collins (1937), Emma Bunton (1976), Helen Fielding (1958), Richard Burbage (1567), Jimmy McGrory (1904), and John Christopher (1922).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, John Phillips ranks 10. Before him are Eduard Suess (1831), William Smith (1769), Gideon Mantell (1790), William Buckland (1784), Adam Sedgwick (1785), and Arthur Holmes (1890). After him are Henry Clifton Sorby (1826), Joseph Thomson (1858), Archibald Geikie (1835), Robert Jameson (1774), William Nicol (1770), and Henry De la Beche (1796).

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