GEOLOGIST

Vasily Dokuchaev

1846 - 1903

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Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Докуча́ев; 1 March 1846 – 8 November 1903) was a Russian geologist and geographer who is credited with laying the foundations of soil science. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Dokuchaev has received more than 137,006 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Vasily Dokuchaev is the 13th most popular geologist, the 361st most popular biography from Russia (up from 362nd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Vasily Dokuchaev ranks 13 out of 90. Before him are Andrija Mohorovičić, Mary Anning, James Hutton, Eduard Suess, Friedrich Mohs, and Francis Beaufort. After him are Abraham Gottlob Werner, William Smith, Beno Gutenberg, Christian Leopold von Buch, Ignacy Domeyko, and Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Vasily Dokuchaev ranks 20. Before him are Gaston Maspero, Antonio Abetti, Eusebi Güell, Nectarios of Aegina, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and Anna Dostoevskaya. After him are Émile Gallé, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Léon Bloy, Karl von Bülow, G. Stanley Hall, and Franz Mehring. Among people deceased in 1903, Vasily Dokuchaev ranks 15. Before him are Alexander I of Serbia, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Otto Weininger, Hugo Wolf, Gotse Delchev, and Gemma Galgani. After him are Calamity Jane, Draga Mašin, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Richard Jordan Gatling, and Camillo Sitte.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Dokuchaev ranks 361 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Ivan Silayev (1930), Sergius of Radonezh (1314), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), and Mengu-Timur (1235). After him are Irving Berlin (1888), Avvakum (1620), Pavlik Morozov (1918), Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831), Duchess Anna of Prussia (1576), and Fyodor Tyutchev (1803).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Russia

Among geologists born in Russia, Vasily Dokuchaev ranks 1. After him are Vladimir Obruchev (1863), Alexander Karpinsky (1846), Maria Klenova (1898), Andrey Arkhangelsky (1879), and Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing (1861).

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