GEOLOGIST

Niles Eldredge

1943 - Today

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Niles Eldredge ( ELD-rij; 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 140,547 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Niles Eldredge is the 48th most popular geologist (down from 41st in 2019), the 5,994th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,506th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Niles Eldredge ranks 48 out of 90Before him are Alexander Karpinsky, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Henryk Arctowski, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, Richard Kirwan, and Alfred Lacroix. After him are Luigi Palmieri, Gerard De Geer, Henry Clifton Sorby, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Ferdinand Zirkel, and Harry Rosenbusch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Niles Eldredge ranks 411Before him are Cilla Black, Harry Shearer, Masayuki Uemura, Lyudmila Bragina, Janet Akyüz Mattei, and Ivan Davidov. After him are Ted Neeley, Yoram Globus, Gianni Motta, Art LaFleur, Clément Mouamba, and Ove Grahn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Niles Eldredge ranks 5,994 out of 20,380Before him are Paul Morrissey (1938), Darren Young (1983), Agnes Ayres (1898), Linda Cardellini (1975), John Thomas (1941), and Frank Rosenblatt (1928). After him are Christopher Judge (1964), Bob Lazar (1959), Julia Quinn (1970), Tracy Chevalier (1962), Beverly Aadland (1942), and Ted Neeley (1943).

Among GEOLOGISTS In United States

Among geologists born in United States, Niles Eldredge ranks 4Before him are Charles Francis Richter (1900), Barnum Brown (1873), and Harry Hammond Hess (1906). After him are Hugo Benioff (1899), James Hall (1811), William Barton Rogers (1804), Walter Alvarez (1940), Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829), M. King Hubbert (1903), David A. Johnston (1949), and Daniel Barringer (1860).