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Roderick Murchison

1792 - 1871

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Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet (19 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roderick Murchison has received more than 236,210 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Roderick Murchison is the 384th most popular biologist (down from 323rd in 2019), the 2,076th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,946th in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Roderick Murchison ranks 384 out of 1,097. Before him are Theodor Boveri, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Joy Adamson, Antonio José Cavanilles, Ludwig Reichenbach, and Samuel Frederick Gray. After him are Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Julius von Sachs, Robert Fortune, Ernst Schäfer, Kliment Timiryazev, and Princess Therese of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Roderick Murchison ranks 34. Before him are Andrés de Santa Cruz, Mangas Coloradas, Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Frederick Marryat, Ferdinand Christian Baur, and Gustav Schwab. After him are Moritz Hauptmann, Jacques Ignace Hittorff, Lev Perovski, Jeanne Jugan, George M. Dallas, and Nodira. Among people deceased in 1871, Roderick Murchison ranks 30. Before him are Pierre Leroux, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel, August Immanuel Bekker, and Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti. After him are Henry E. Steinway, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Josef Mánes, Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, Charles Francis Hall, and József Eötvös.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roderick Murchison ranks 2,076 out of 8,785. Before him are Steve Winwood (1948), Alexander Parkes (1813), David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871), Josephine Tey (1896), Marion Chesney (1936), and David Byrne (1952). After him are Frank Finlay (1926), James Herriot (1916), Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1182), Rick Davies (1944), Princess Eugenie of York (1990), and Joan of the Tower (1321).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Roderick Murchison ranks 56. Before him are William Jackson Hooker (1785), Arthur Tansley (1871), John Gould (1804), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), John Stevens Henslow (1796), and Samuel Frederick Gray (1766). After him are Robert Fortune (1812), James Edward Smith (1759), Gregory Winter (1951), Marie Stopes (1880), John Needham (1713), and George Robert Waterhouse (1810).

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