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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 3,349,822 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Mary Anning is the 5th most popular geologist (up from 28th in 2019), the 459th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 815th 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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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Mary Anning ranks 5 out of 59. Before her are Alfred Wegener, Charles Francis Richter, Nicolas Steno, and Charles Lyell. After her are Inge Lehmann, Milutin Milanković, James Hutton, Andrija Mohorovičić, Friedrich Mohs, Eduard Suess, and Francis Beaufort.

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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 Charles II, Duke of Parma, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Karl Bryullov, William Lassell, Fromental Halévy, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, and Anna Atkins. Among people deceased in 1847, Mary Anning ranks 6. Before her are Felix Mendelssohn, Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy. After her are Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, John Franklin, Marie Duplessis, Jules de Polignac, 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 459 out of 7,765. Before her are Robert Plant (1948), William Shockley (1910), Mike Oldfield (1953), Tony Scott (1944), James Callaghan (1912), and William Kidd (1645). After her are Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751), John Knox (1514), Philip Larkin (1922), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Richard Francis Burton (1821), and Donald Pleasence (1919).

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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), William Nicol (1770), and Henry Clifton Sorby (1826).

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