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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 532,331 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Marie Tharp is the 45th most popular geographer (down from 43rd in 2019), the 3,139th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,733rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Geographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Marie Tharp ranks 45 out of 86. Before her are Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Otto Nordenskjöld, Johann Georg Gmelin, Conrad Malte-Brun, Erich von Drygalski, and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. After her are Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Jan Janssonius, Yi-Fu Tuan, Inō Tadataka, Richard Hartshorne, and Giovanni Battista Ramusio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Marie Tharp ranks 161. Before her are Amet-khan Sultan, Renato Carosone, Lazar Mojsov, Josip Manolić, Dick Francis, and Marlen Haushofer. After her are Janet Jagan, Thomas Szasz, Richard Adams, Katsuko Saruhashi, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, and Barend Biesheuvel. Among people deceased in 2006, Marie Tharp ranks 127. Before her are Vera Aceva, George Koval, Esther Lederberg, Faas Wilkes, Coretta Scott King, and Allan Kaprow. After her are Ferenc Szusza, W. Montgomery Watt, Johannes Willebrands, Wilson Pickett, Valentín Paniagua, and Caspar Weinberger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marie Tharp ranks 3,139 out of 20,380. Before her are Richard Wright (1908), John Marshall (1755), Coretta Scott King (1927), Edwin Moses (1955), Allan Kaprow (1927), and John B. Kelly Sr. (1889). After her are Victoria Woodhull (1838), Dean Rusk (1909), Janet Jagan (1920), Wilder Penfield (1891), Fred Rogers (1928), and J. Presper Eckert (1919).

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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), Carl O. Sauer (1889), Ellsworth Huntington (1876), and Henry Schoolcraft (1793).

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