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Vaclav Smil

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Vaclav Smil (Czech: [ˈvaːtslaf ˈsmɪl]; born December 9, 1943) is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His interdisciplinary research interests encompass energy, environmental, food, population, economic, historical and public policy studies. He has also applied these approaches to energy, food and environmental affairs of China. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vaclav Smil is the 62nd most popular geographer (up from 65th in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 518th in 2019) and the most popular Czech Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Vaclav Smil ranks 62 out of 86. Before him are Guillaume Delisle, Yves Lacoste, Pedro Reinel, Adolf Stieler, Johannes Gabriel Granö, and Anton Friedrich Büsching. After him are Torsten Hägerstrand, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Richard Hartshorne, Doreen Massey, Ellsworth Huntington, and John Walter Gregory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Vaclav Smil ranks 348. Before him are Vassilis Alexakis, Xu Caihou, Marcos Valle, Lobo, Juan Mujica, and József Csatári. After him are Tim Schenken, David Geffen, Reinhard Libuda, Roy Black, Martin Peters, and Soledad Miranda.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vaclav Smil ranks 478 out of 1,200. Before him are Moritz von Auffenberg (1852), Ralph Benatzky (1884), Herbert Feigl (1902), Arnošt Lustig (1926), Zdeněk Svěrák (1936), and Ernst Tugendhat (1930). After him are Ivan Passer (1933), Elmar Klos (1910), Olga Fikotová (1932), Eduard Čech (1893), Jiří Dienstbier (1937), and Vojtěch Jasný (1925).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Czechia

Among geographers born in Czechia, Vaclav Smil ranks 1. 

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