GEOLOGIST

Mary Anning

1799 - 1847

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Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for the discoveries she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England. Anning's findings contributed to changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth. Anning searched for fossils in the area's Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone cliffs, particularly during the winter months when landslides exposed new fossils that had to be collected quickly before they were lost to the sea. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Anning has received more than 3,311,840 page views. Her biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Mary Anning is the 8th most popular geologist (down from 5th in 2019), the 525th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 459th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Geologist.

Mary Anning was a fossil hunter and paleontologist. She became famous for her discoveries of ichthyosaurus and plesiosaurus fossils.

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  • 64.47

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  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Mary Anning has had the most page views in the with 363,458 views, followed by Spanish (58,376), and French (19,712). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Western Punjabi (1,525.42%), Asturian (94.44%), and Esperanto (52.40%)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Mary Anning ranks 8 out of 90. Before her are Milutin Milanković, Charles Francis Richter, Nicolas Steno, Charles Lyell, Inge Lehmann, and Andrija Mohorovičić. After her are James Hutton, Eduard Suess, Friedrich Mohs, Francis Beaufort, Vasily Dokuchaev, and Abraham Gottlob Werner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Mary Anning ranks 5. Before her are Honoré de Balzac, Alexander Pushkin, Oscar I of Sweden, and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron. After her are William Lassell, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Karl Bryullov, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Fromental Halévy, and Anna Atkins. Among people deceased in 1847, Mary Anning ranks 6. Before her are Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Felix Mendelssohn, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy. After her are Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Jules de Polignac, Marie Duplessis, John Franklin, Adélaïde d'Orléans, and Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Anning ranks 525 out of 8,785. Before her are Raymond Cattell (1905), Mike Oldfield (1953), John Hicks (1904), Richard Griffiths (1947), William Kidd (1645), and Robert Edwards (1925). After her are Gerard Butler (1969), Albert Finney (1936), Ronnie Wood (1947), Stanley Baldwin (1867), William Lassell (1799), and Eadweard Muybridge (1830).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, Mary Anning ranks 2. Before her are Charles Lyell (1797). After her are James Hutton (1726), Eduard Suess (1831), William Smith (1769), Gideon Mantell (1790), William Buckland (1784), Adam Sedgwick (1785), Arthur Holmes (1890), John Phillips (1800), Henry Clifton Sorby (1826), and Joseph Thomson (1858).

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