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Phillip V. Tobias

1925 - 2012

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Phillip Vallentine Tobias (14 October 1925 – 7 June 2012) was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was best known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites. He was also an activist for the eradication of apartheid and gave numerous anti-apartheid speeches at protest rallies and also to academic audiences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Phillip V. Tobias is the 110th most popular archaeologist (up from 145th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from South Africa (up from 203rd in 2019) and the most popular South African Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Phillip V. Tobias ranks 110 out of 151. Before him are Henri Frankfort, John Evans, Leon Kozłowski, E. A. Wallis Budge, Akurgal, and Mortimer Wheeler. After him are Stith Thompson, José Leite de Vasconcelos, Désiré Charnay, Davidson Black, Lewis Binford, and Blaga Aleksova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Phillip V. Tobias ranks 370. Before him are Albert Eschenmoser, Jimmy Reed, Gunther Schuller, Ritwik Ghatak, Tomisaku Kawasaki, and Bernard Morel. After him are Irina Arkhipova, Miklós Szilvási, Roque Olsen, Adelina Gutiérrez, Art Larsen, and Giacomo Rossi Stuart. Among people deceased in 2012, Phillip V. Tobias ranks 311. Before him are Viktor Kosichkin, Friedhelm Konietzka, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Phyllis Diller, Klaus Köste, and Ian Abercrombie. After him are Claude Cheysson, Jim Marshall, Kurt Maetzig, Luis Aponte Martínez, Aleksandr Belyavsky, and Art Larsen.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Phillip V. Tobias ranks 121 out of 454. Before him are David Bailie (1937), Margaret Gardiner (1959), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (1949), Gary Player (1935), Stanley Mandelstam (1928), and Sharlto Copley (1973). After him are Cecil Kellaway (1890), Kevin Curren (1958), Deon Meyer (1958), Ruth First (1925), Eric Sturgess (1920), and Ian Scheckter (1947).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In South Africa

Among archaeologists born in South Africa, Phillip V. Tobias ranks 1. 

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