GEOLOGIST

William Buckland

1784 - 1856

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William Buckland DD, FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian, geologist and palaeontologist. His work in the early 1820s proved that Kirkdale Cave in North Yorkshire had been a prehistoric hyena den, for which he was awarded the Copley Medal. It was praised as an example of how scientific analysis could reconstruct events in the distant past. He pioneered the use of fossilised faeces in reconstructing ecosystems, coining the term coprolites. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Buckland is the 25th most popular geologist (down from 23rd in 2019), the 2,013th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,781st in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, William Buckland ranks 25 out of 90. Before him are Adam Sedgwick, Jean-André Deluc, Christian Leopold von Buch, Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Ignacy Domeyko, and Giuseppe Mercalli. After him are Norman L. Bowen, John Tuzo Wilson, Alexander von Keyserling, Vladimir Obruchev, Arthur Holmes, and Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, William Buckland ranks 31. Before him are Fructuoso Rivera, Moses Montefiore, Louise Lehzen, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Thomas Robert Bugeaud, and Friedrich Graf von Wrangel. After him are George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, François-Joseph Fétis, Duke George of Oldenburg, Archduke Louis of Austria, Juan Antonio Lavalleja, and George Onslow. Among people deceased in 1856, William Buckland ranks 30. Before him are Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Julie Guicciardi, Augustin Thierry, Pyotr Chaadayev, and Georgios Sinas. After him are Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Emil Aarestrup, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Johann Kaspar Mertz, Vicente López y Planes, and Lev Perovski.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Buckland ranks 2,013 out of 8,785. Before him are Gerry Adams (1948), Paul Gallagher (1954), William Smith (1813), Michael Anderson (1920), Rachel Ward (1957), and William Elford Leach (1791). After him are Sister Nivedita (1867), Princess Patricia of Connaught (1886), Alan Walker (1997), Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), Wallace Hartley (1878), and Herbert Pitman (1877).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among geologists born in United Kingdom, William Buckland ranks 8. Before him are James Hutton (1726), Mary Anning (1799), Eduard Suess (1831), Gideon Mantell (1790), William Smith (1769), and Adam Sedgwick (1785). After him are Arthur Holmes (1890), William Nicol (1770), John Phillips (1800), Archibald Geikie (1835), Henry Clifton Sorby (1826), and Charles Lapworth (1842).

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