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GEOLOGIST

Richard Kirwan

1733 - 1812

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Richard Kirwan, LL.D, FRS, FRSE MRIA (1 August 1733 – 22 June 1812) was an Irish geologist and chemist. He was one of the last supporters of the theory of phlogiston. Kirwan was active in the fields of chemistry, meteorology, and geology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Kirwan has received more than 51,790 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Richard Kirwan is the 27th most popular geologist (up from 34th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 147th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Richard Kirwan ranks 27 out of 59Before him are John Tuzo Wilson, Jean-André Deluc, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Vladimir Obruchev, William Buckland, and Adam Sedgwick. After him are Harry Hammond Hess, Arthur Holmes, Albert Heim, Alexander von Keyserling, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, and Adolphe d'Archiac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1733, Richard Kirwan ranks 12Before him are Hubert Robert, Jean-Charles de Borda, Siraj ud-Daulah, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Gottfried van Swieten, and Daniel Solander. After him are Maruyama Ōkyo, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, Adam Naruszewicz, Philip Carteret, Mikhail Kheraskov, and Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter. Among people deceased in 1812, Richard Kirwan ranks 18Before him are Hieronymus von Colloredo, Duke George of Oldenburg, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, Isaac Titsingh, Christian Gottlob Heyne, and Claude François de Malet. After him are Hugo Kołłątaj, Victor II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Charles Cameron, Augustus Christian Frederick, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Joseph Woelfl, and Matvey Kazakov.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Richard Kirwan ranks 116 out of 501Before him are Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), Jim Sheridan (1949), Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), Daniel O'Connell (1775), and John Banville (1945). After him are Paddy Moloney (1938), James Barry (1795), Cornelius Ryan (1920), Liam Cunningham (1961), Peter Brown (1935), and John Millington Synge (1871).

Among GEOLOGISTS In Ireland

Among geologists born in Ireland, Richard Kirwan ranks 2Before him are Francis Beaufort (1774).