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Robert Broom

1866 - 1951

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Robert Broom FRS FRSE (30 November 1866 – 6 April 1951) was a British- South African medical doctor and palaeontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow. From 1903 to 1910, he was professor of zoology and geology at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, South Africa, and subsequently he became keeper of vertebrate palaeontology at the South African Museum, Cape Town. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Broom is the 49th most popular archaeologist (up from 60th in 2019), the 2,250th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,268th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Robert Broom ranks 49 out of 151. Before him are Hat Hor, Yuri Knorozov, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Max Mallowan, James Henry Breasted, and Johan David Åkerblad. After him are Max von Oppenheim, Gustaf Kossinna, José Bonaparte, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Spyridon Marinatos, and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Robert Broom ranks 62. Before him are Gustav Cassel, Kazimierz Twardowski, Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin, Reginald Fessenden, Holger Nielsen, and Alikhan Bukeikhanov. After him are Roger Fry, António José de Almeida, Antonia Maury, Charles Mangin, Pyotr Lebedev, and Stamata Revithi. Among people deceased in 1951, Robert Broom ranks 77. Before him are Maria Montez, Lincoln Ellsworth, Eugen Meindl, Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, Fritz Busch, and Ferdinand Sauerbruch. After him are Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Simon Kimbangu, Ernest Bevin, Bernhard Kellermann, Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, and Karl Koller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Broom ranks 2,250 out of 8,785. Before him are William Blackstone (1723), David Seaman (1963), Eric Woolfson (1945), Robert Conquest (1917), Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), and Anthony Blunt (1907). After him are John Houghton (1931), Johnny Herbert (1964), Elizabeth de Burgh (1289), Andy Gibb (1958), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), and Katie Johnson (1878).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Robert Broom ranks 11. Before him are George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), Flinders Petrie (1853), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Leonard Woolley (1880), John O. Westwood (1805), and Max Mallowan (1904). After him are Colin Groves (1942), Alan Gardiner (1879), James Quibell (1867), Dorothy Garrod (1892), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), and Dorothea Bate (1878).

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