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Robert Jameson

1774 - 1854

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Robert Jameson FRS FRSE (11 July 1774 – 19 April 1854) was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist. As Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, developing his predecessor John Walker's concepts based on mineralogy into geological theories of Neptunism which held sway into the 1830s. Jameson is notable for his advanced scholarship, and his museum collection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Jameson has received more than 56,800 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Jameson is the 63rd most popular geologist (up from 739th in 2019), the 4,103rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,742nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Robert Jameson ranks 63 out of 59. Before him are Joseph Thomson, Anna Missuna, David A. Johnston, Daniel Barringer, Lawrence Lambe, and Walter Alvarez. After him are Hugo Benioff, Reginald Aldworth Daly, Judith Curry, Henry De la Beche, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, and Paul Niggli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Robert Jameson ranks 38. Before him are Juan Aldama, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, W. J. Coffee, Luis Eduardo Pérez, John Colter, and André Marie Constant Duméril.  Among people deceased in 1854, Robert Jameson ranks 54. Before him are José María Vargas, Émile Souvestre, Edward Forbes, Pedro María de Anaya, Juan Mora Fernández, and Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. After him are Nathaniel Wallich and Josipina Turnograjska.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Jameson ranks 4,103 out of 7,765. Before him are Gavin Harrison (1963), Charles Allston Collins (1828), William Warham (1450), Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1130), Noddy Holder (1946), and James Gibbs (1682). After him are Tony Christie (1943), Oliver Leese (1894), May Sutton (1886), Susie Wolff (1982), Thomas Weelkes (1576), and Rebecca Hall (1982).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, Robert Jameson ranks 14. Before him are Adam Sedgwick (1785), Arthur Holmes (1890), John Phillips (1800), William Nicol (1770), Henry Clifton Sorby (1826), and Joseph Thomson (1858). After him are Henry De la Beche (1796) and Charles Lapworth (1842).

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