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Robert Mallet

1810 - 1881

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Robert Mallet (3 June 1810 – 5 November 1881) was an Irish geophysicist, civil engineer, and inventor who distinguished himself by pioneering research concerning earthquakes (and is sometimes known as the father of seismology). For his foundational work, he received the Telford Medal in 1859, the Cunningham Medal in 1862, and the Wollaston Medal in 1877. His son, Frederick Richard Mallet, was also a geologist who worked in India. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Mallet is the 223rd most popular engineer (up from 314th in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 246th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Robert Mallet ranks 223 out of 389. Before her are André Waterkeyn, Harvey Postlethwaite, Eugen Sänger, Menno van Coehoorn, Gene Kranz, and Mikhail Koshkin. After her are James B. Francis, Johann Georg Halske, Eugène Belgrand, Anousheh Ansari, Seymour Cray, and Johannes Winkler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Robert Mallet ranks 66. Before her are Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, Fritz Reuter, Louis Gallait, Juan Bautista Alberdi, Jaime Balmes, and Ferdinand Freiligrath. After her are Alexander Bain, Eugène Belgrand, Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, and Grigory Gagarin. Among people deceased in 1881, Robert Mallet ranks 62. Before her are Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, August Šenoa, Tanaka Hisashige, Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys, and Jane Digby. After her are Ercole Dembowski, Mary Seacole, Andrei Zhelyabov, Ambrose Burnside, Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn, and Florian Ceynowa.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Robert Mallet ranks 164 out of 549. Before her are Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760), Robbie Keane (1980), Aphex Twin (1971), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Sean Kelly (1956), and Kathleen Antonelli (1921). After her are George Abraham Grierson (1851), Kathleen Lonsdale (1903), Catald (700), Aidan of Lindisfarne (600), Patrick Hillery (1923), and Seán T. O'Kelly (1882).

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Among ENGINEERS In Ireland

Among engineers born in Ireland, Robert Mallet ranks 2. Before her are Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850).

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