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GEOLOGIST

Niles Eldredge

1943 - Today

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Niles Eldredge (; born August 25, 1943) is an American biologist and paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Niles Eldredge has received more than 131,949 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Niles Eldredge is the 42nd most popular geologist (up from 44th in 2019), the 5,518th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,801st in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Niles Eldredge ranks 42 out of 59. Before him are Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Giovanni Arduino, Barnum Brown, William Nicol, Joachim Barrande, and Pentti Eskola. After him are Norman L. Bowen, Julius von Haast, Henryk Arctowski, Ferdinand Zirkel, Alexander Karpinsky, and Luigi Palmieri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Niles Eldredge ranks 361. Before him are Manuel Velázquez, Vaclav Smil, Hans Heyer, Johnny Hansen, Petar Skansi, and Michael Morpurgo. After him are Raúl Cubas Grau, Marilynne Robinson, Daniel Kablan Duncan, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, Wolfgang Nordwig, and Takaji Mori.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Niles Eldredge ranks 5,518 out of 18,182. Before him are Ida Saxton McKinley (1847), Daniel Wu (1974), Glenn Davis (1934), Lothrop Stoddard (1883), Sean Patrick Flanery (1965), and Edwin Frederick O'Brien (1939). After him are Muhtar Kent (1952), Richard Hatch (1945), Nancy Olson (1928), William B. Travis (1809), Clark Terry (1920), and Bobby Bland (1930).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United States

Among geologists born in United States, Niles Eldredge ranks 4. Before him are Charles Francis Richter (1900), Harry Hammond Hess (1906), and Barnum Brown (1873). After him are M. King Hubbert (1903), James Hall (1811), David A. Johnston (1949), Daniel Barringer (1860), Walter Alvarez (1940), Hugo Benioff (1899), Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843), and John Bell Hatcher (1861).

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