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Roderick Murchison

1792 - 1871

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Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet (19 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855 until his death in 1871. He is noted for investigating and describing the Silurian, Devonian and Permian systems. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roderick Murchison is the 433rd most popular biologist (down from 384th in 2019), the 2,202nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,077th in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Roderick Murchison ranks 433 out of 1,097. Before him are Karl Eichwald, Andrew Smith, Abraham Trembley, Ivan Martinov, Paul Gervais, and Wilhelm Roux. After him are Juan Ignacio Molina, Arthur Cronquist, Robert Weinberg, Mary Elizabeth Barber, John Stevens Henslow, and Félix Vicq-d'Azyr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1792, Roderick Murchison ranks 37. Before him are Gustav Schwab, George M. Dallas, Ferdinand Christian Baur, Manuel Oribe, Andrés de Santa Cruz, and Mangas Coloradas. After him are Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Nodira, Jacques Ignace Hittorff, Thomas Romney Robinson, Moritz Hauptmann, and Lev Perovski. Among people deceased in 1871, Roderick Murchison ranks 32. Before him are Robert Chambers, Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Pierre Leroux, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, François-Joseph Fétis, and Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt. After him are Henriette d'Angeville, Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgenti, József Eötvös, Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, and Henry E. Steinway.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roderick Murchison ranks 2,202 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Hicks (1876), Mitch Mitchell (1947), William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1724), Keith Flint (1969), Æthelbald of Mercia (700), and Prasutagus (50). After him are Philip Selway (1967), James Finlayson (1887), Mike Leigh (1943), Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), Steve Jones (1955), and Liam Gallagher (1972).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Roderick Murchison ranks 68. Before him are Matt Ridley (1958), William Elford Leach (1791), June Almeida (1930), Arthur Tansley (1871), John Needham (1713), and Andrew Smith (1797). After him are Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818), John Stevens Henslow (1796), Alexander Wilson (1766), Francis Darwin (1848), Anna Russell (1807), and Marie Stopes (1880).

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