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Charles W. Gilmore

1874 - 1945

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Charles Whitney Gilmore (March 11, 1874 – September 27, 1945) was an American paleontologist who gained renown in the early 20th century for his work on vertebrate fossils during his career at the United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History). Gilmore named many dinosaurs in North America and Mongolia, including the Cretaceous sauropod Alamosaurus, Alectrosaurus, Archaeornithomimus, Bactrosaurus, Brachyceratops, Chirostenotes, Mongolosaurus, Parrosaurus, Pinacosaurus, Styracosaurus ovatus (now Rubeosaurus) and Thescelosaurus. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles W. Gilmore is the 80th most popular archaeologist (down from 63rd in 2019), the 5,847th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,032nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Charles W. Gilmore ranks 80 out of 151. Before him are Peter Wilhelm Lund, Sylvanus Morley, Victor Loret, Margaret Murray, Dorothy Garrod, and Halet Çambel. After him are William F. Albright, Jean-François Séguier, Joseph Orbeli, Hugo Winckler, Edward Robinson, and Kathleen Kenyon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Charles W. Gilmore ranks 156. Before him are Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, J. C. Leyendecker, Oskari Mantere, James H. Johnson, Manuel Díaz, and Kiyotsugu Hirayama. After him are Henry Travers, Fejzi Alizoti, Nasrullah Khan, Iraj Mirza, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, and Billy Meredith. Among people deceased in 1945, Charles W. Gilmore ranks 256. Before him are Joachim von Kortzfleisch, Gustav Fehn, Emily Carr, Albert Taillandier, Emmanuel Bove, and Richard Beer-Hofmann. After him are Yu Dafu, Aleksey Krylov, Rupert Mayer, Albrecht Haushofer, Fejzi Alizoti, and Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles W. Gilmore ranks 5,847 out of 20,380. Before him are Gary Cole (1956), Alan Tudyk (1971), Charles Martin Smith (1953), Andrea True (1943), Thomas Jane (1969), and Mark Rober (1980). After him are Alice Brown (1960), Tony Amendola (1951), Billy Crudup (1968), Gordon Douglas (1907), Dianne Feinstein (1933), and Kim Gordon (1953).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United States

Among archaeologists born in United States, Charles W. Gilmore ranks 8. Before him are Othniel Charles Marsh (1831), George Gaylord Simpson (1902), Robert Ballard (1942), James Henry Breasted (1865), Donald Johanson (1943), and Sylvanus Morley (1883). After him are Edward Robinson (1794), Robert T. Bakker (1945), Stith Thompson (1885), Lewis Binford (1932), Carl Blegen (1887), and Michael D. Coe (1929).

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