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Marie Tharp

1920 - 2006

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Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920 – August 23, 2006) was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer. In the 1950s, she collaborated with geologist Bruce Heezen to produce the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Tharp has received more than 501,782 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Marie Tharp is the 43rd most popular geographer (down from 42nd in 2019), the 3,743rd most popular biography from United States (down from 2,785th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Geographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 500k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Marie Tharp ranks 43 out of 67. Before her are Artemidorus Ephesius, Jovan Cvijić, Johann Georg Gmelin, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Otto Nordenskjöld, and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. After her are Inō Tadataka, Richard Hartshorne, Erich von Drygalski, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Pedro Reinel, and Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Marie Tharp ranks 175. Before her are John Maynard Smith, Richard E. Bellman, Schubert Gambetta, Stan Ockers, Machiko Hasegawa, and Josip Manolić. After her are Cornelius Ryan, Lewis Gilbert, William Conrad, Milton George Henschel, José Gonzalvo, and George Shultz. Among people deceased in 2006, Marie Tharp ranks 145. Before her are Paul Gleason, Rudi Carrell, Gerard Reve, David Gemmell, Shigeru Kayano, and Valentín Paniagua. After her are Georgios Rallis, Galina Ustvolskaya, Tetsurō Tamba, Caspar Weinberger, Jurij Brězan, and Rocío Jurado.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marie Tharp ranks 3,743 out of 18,182. Before her are James Marsden (1973), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Thomas Sowell (1930), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Booker T. Washington (1856), and Eric Singer (1958). After her are Majel Barrett (1932), James Burton (1939), Edwin Moses (1955), Gabriel Almond (1911), Traci Lords (1968), and Benjamin West (1738).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In United States

Among geographers born in United States, Marie Tharp ranks 2. Before her are William Morris Davis (1850). After her are Richard Hartshorne (1899), Ellen Churchill Semple (1863), Ellsworth Huntington (1876), Carl O. Sauer (1889), and Henry Schoolcraft (1793).

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