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Alice Wilson

1881 - 1964

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Alice Evelyn Wilson, MBE, FRSC, FRCGS (August 26, 1881 – April 15, 1964) was Canada's first female geologist. She is most well known for her scientific studies of rocks and fossils in the Ottawa region between 1913 and 1963. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alice Wilson is the 1,008th most popular biologist (up from 1,012th in 2019), the 617th most popular biography from Canada (up from 659th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Canadian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alice Wilson ranks 1,008 out of 1,097. Before her are G. Ledyard Stebbins, Jacques Miller, Edward Lhuyd, Walter Migula, Rosa Smith Eigenmann, and Annie Montague Alexander. After her are Charles Sprague Sargent, Charles B. Cory, Nigel Marven, Annie Lorrain Smith, Judah Folkman, and Wim Crusio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Alice Wilson ranks 224. Before her are Kristian Prestrud, René Guyot, Paul Le Flem, Sigvard Sivertsen, Marion Leonard, and Thomas Lewis. After her are Augusto Barcía Trelles, Noble Johnson, Julius Frey, Désiré Beaurain, Bruno Söderström, and Allauddin Khan. Among people deceased in 1964, Alice Wilson ranks 198. Before her are Josef Šroubek, Anna J. Cooper, Milton Margai, Nella Larsen, Norman Z. McLeod, and Luciano Savorini. After her are Harold McMunn, Montgomery Wilson, Mikhail Svetlov, Per Nilsson, Lillian Copeland, and Stuart Davis.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Alice Wilson ranks 617 out of 1,622. Before her are Robert Lepage (1957), William Hope (1955), Farley Mowat (1921), Mike Bossy (1957), Tony Esposito (1943), and Patrick Roy (1965). After her are Rob Gonsalves (1959), Angela Hewitt (1958), Harold McMunn (1902), Thomas Middleditch (1982), Jeff Healey (1966), and Nicholas Lea (1962).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Canada

Among biologists born in Canada, Alice Wilson ranks 9. Before her are John Murray (1841), David Suzuki (1936), George Romanes (1848), Colin Munro MacLeod (1909), William Diller Matthew (1871), and Alice Eastwood (1859). After her are Peter Watts (1958), Philip J. Currie (1949), Carrie Derick (1862), Severn Cullis-Suzuki (1979), and Cordelia Fine (1975).

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