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Joseph Thomson

1858 - 1895

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Joseph Thomson (14 February 1858 – 2 August 1895) was a Scottish geologist and explorer who played an important part in the Scramble for Africa. Thomson's gazelle and Thomson's Falls, Nyahururu, are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Thomson has received more than 6,777 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Thomson is the 57th most popular geologist (down from 56th in 2019), the 3,910th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,278th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Joseph Thomson ranks 57 out of 59. Before him are M. King Hubbert, Henry Clifton Sorby, Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, James Hall, and Maria Klenova. After him are Anna Missuna, David A. Johnston, Daniel Barringer, Lawrence Lambe, Walter Alvarez, and Robert Jameson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Joseph Thomson ranks 112. Before him are John Russell, Juan Luis Sanfuentes, Rosa Mayreder, Take Ionescu, Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, and José Leite de Vasconcelos. After him are Maurice Prendergast, Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, Willard Metcalf, Dimitar Petkov, Tom Clarke, and Mary Harrison McKee. Among people deceased in 1895, Joseph Thomson ranks 73. Before him are Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, George Newbold Lawrence, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Friedrich Tietjen, Ludwig Schläfli, and Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque. After him are Charles Frédéric Girard, Calvert Vaux, Henry Seebohm, Walter Q. Gresham, Lady Charlotte Guest, and Peter Hardeman Burnett.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Joseph Thomson ranks 3,910 out of 7,765. Before him are W. D. Ross (1877), Arthur Wynne (1871), Freddie Francis (1917), Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (1932), Michael Ruse (1940), and Aaron Ramsey (1990). After him are Antonia Thomas (1986), James Robertson Justice (1907), Stuart McCall (1964), Frank Dillane (1991), Simon Fuller (1960), and Gary McKinnon (1966).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, Joseph Thomson ranks 13. Before him are William Buckland (1784), Adam Sedgwick (1785), Arthur Holmes (1890), John Phillips (1800), William Nicol (1770), and Henry Clifton Sorby (1826). After him are Robert Jameson (1774), Henry De la Beche (1796), and Charles Lapworth (1842).

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