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Adam Sedgwick

1785 - 1873

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Adam Sedgwick FRS (; 22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. Based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata, he proposed the Cambrian period in 1835, in a joint publication in which Roderick Murchison also proposed the Silurian period. Later in 1840, to resolve what later became known as the Great Devonian Controversy about rocks near the boundary between the Silurian and Carboniferous periods, he and Murchison proposed the Devonian period. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Sedgwick is the 19th most popular geologist (up from 24th in 2019), the 1,363rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,830th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Geologist.

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Among geologists, Adam Sedgwick ranks 24 out of 90. Before him are Vasily Dokuchaev, Abraham Gottlob Werner, William Smith, Beno Gutenberg, Christian Leopold von Buch, Ignacy Domeyko, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Giuseppe Mercalli, Gideon Mantell, Jean-André Deluc, and William Buckland. After him are John Tuzo Wilson.

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Among people born in 1785, Adam Sedgwick ranks 18. Before him are Florestan I, Prince of Monaco, Shah Shujah Durrani, Pierre Louis Dulong, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and John James Audubon. After him are Carl Adolph Agardh, Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg, Isabella Colbran, Diponegoro, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and Hans Karl von Diebitsch. Among people deceased in 1873, Adam Sedgwick ranks 19. Before him are Vasil Levski, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Louis Agassiz, Fyodor Tyutchev, Émile Gaboriau, and Jean Chacornac. After him are Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Sheridan Le Fanu, José Antonio Páez, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Sarah Moore Grimké, and Viktor Hartmann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Adam Sedgwick ranks 1,363 out of 8,785. Before him are Ciarán Hinds (1953), Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774), Clive Owen (1964), William Smith (1769), William Henry (1774), and W. Montgomery Watt (1909). After him are Samuel Wallis (1728), Thomas Lawrence (1769), Henry Royce (1863), Mary Leakey (1913), Mark Strong (1963), and John Toshack (1949).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, Adam Sedgwick ranks 7. Before him are Charles Lyell (1797), James Hutton (1726), Mary Anning (1799), Eduard Suess (1831), Gideon Mantell (1790), and William Smith (1769). After him are William Buckland (1784), Arthur Holmes (1890), William Nicol (1770), John Phillips (1800), Archibald Geikie (1835), and Henry Clifton Sorby (1826).

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