GEOLOGIST

Rudolf Geiger

1894 - 1981

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Rudolf Oskar Robert Williams Geiger (; German: [ˈɡaɪɡɐ]; 24 August 1894 – 22 January 1981) was a German meteorologist and climatologist. He was the son of Indologist Wilhelm Geiger and the brother of physicist Hans Geiger. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Geiger has received more than 69,801 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Geiger is the 79th most popular geologist, the 5,354th most popular biography from Germany and the 12th most popular German Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Rudolf Geiger ranks 79 out of 90. Before him are David A. Johnston, Henry De la Beche, Jens Esmark, Paul Niggli, Daniel Barringer, and Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin. After him are Andrey Arkhangelsky, Judith Curry, Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing, Reginald Aldworth Daly, Walther Penck, and Charles Lapworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Rudolf Geiger ranks 245. Before him are Lois Wilson, Jan Peka, Norman Kerry, Jacob Opdahl, Nick Winter, and Belle Moore. After him are Mikhail Suslin, Bo Ekelund, Søren Petersen, André Jousseaume, Robert Russell Bennett, and Frederick E. Morgan. Among people deceased in 1981, Rudolf Geiger ranks 252. Before him are Cecil McMaster, Jack Cameron, Lohengrin Filipello, Alexey Okladnikov, Humberto Tomasina, and Ruby Payne-Scott. After him are Clemente Yerovi, Louise Lorraine, Jan van Diepenbeek, Hanns Kilian, Betty McKinnon, and Zoltán Huszárik.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Geiger ranks 5,354 out of 7,253. Before him are Tobias Sammet (1977), Waldemar Tietgens (1879), Wilhelm Bungert (1939), Irmgard Praetz (1920), Max Bodenstein (1871), and Joël Matip (1991). After him are Josef Peters (1914), Heiner Brand (1952), Paul Falk (1921), Hans-Georg Aschenbach (1951), Paul Steiner (1957), and Rudolf Stahl (1912).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among geologists born in Germany, Rudolf Geiger ranks 12. Before him are Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (1797), Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1829), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), Harry Rosenbusch (1836), and Oskar Lenz (1848).

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