top ten geographers
1. Ptolemy
His full name was Claudius Ptolemy. He was born in AD 100. He was an astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and mathematician. He was a Greco-Roman.
He held Roman citizenship for living in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt.
Theodore Meliteniotes who is a 14th Century astronomer mentioned his birthplace as a Greek city. His writings were very precious in which three of them were useful to Byzantine, Islamic, and European science.
Many items and characters are named after Ptolemy. Some of them are
- The crater Ptolemaeus on the Moon
- The Crater Ptolemaeus on Mars
2. Peter Kropotkin
His full name was Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin. He was born on 9th December 1842. He was a Russian activist, geographer, philosopher, and a revolutionary scientist. He was also a philosopher who advocated anarcho-communism.
His main interests were authorities, cooperation, politics, revolution, economics, labor, evolution, agriculture, science, geography, literature, ethics, and philosophy.
His notable ideas were Theorist of anarcho-communism, four-hour workday, mutual aid, abolition of wage-labor, The Conquest of Bread, field factories and workshops, and Voluntary communes.
He influenced many people in which few of them are Berkman, Wilde, Kafka, Makhno, Brown, and many other people. He died on 8th February 1921 at the age of 78.
3. Francisco Moreno
His full name was Francisco Pascasio Moreno. He was born 31st May 1852. He was a prominent explorer in Argentina. He was also an academic who is usually referred to as Perito Moreno.
He was most famous as the influential figures of Argentine incorporation in large parts of Patagonia and for its subsequent development.
He was an Argentine. He was well known for Exploration of Patagonia. His awards are Gold Medal in 1907, Cullum Geographical Medal in 1909. He died on 22nd November 1919.
4. Barry Bishop
His full name was Barry Chapman Bishop. He was born on 13th January 1932. He was an American mountaineer, photographer, scientist, and scholar.
He was a first American team to summit Mount Everest along with his friends Jim Whittaker, Lute Jerstad, Willi Unsoeld, and Tom Hornbein on 22nd May 1963.
He worked for National Geographic Society for most of his service in which he started as a picture editor in 1959. He also worked as a writer, scientist, and photographer with NGS until his retirement. He retired in 1994. Later in that year he was killed in an automobile accident. He died on 24th September 1994 at the age of 62 years.
5. Mikhail Lomonosov
His full name was Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov. He was born on 19th November 1711. He was a Russian polymath, writer, and scientist. He made many important contributions to education, science, and literature.
The atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions are the most important works among his discoveries.
He influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language as he was also a poet.
His academic advisor is Christian Wolff. He studied at St. Petersburg Academy. He died on 15th April 1765.
6. Ibn Battuta
Battuta was born on 25th February 1304. He was a Muslim Moroccan scholar and explorer. He traveled widely in the medieval world.
He visited many Islamic and non-Islamic lands including China, South Asia, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.
A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling is the name of the book written by him. This was comprised of the journeys he traveled around the world.
He also described his traveling in detail like traveling on a zig-zag road across Palestine. He died in 1369 at the age of 65 years.
7. Alfred Russel Wallace
He was born on 8th January 1823. He was a British naturalist, biologist, explorer, anthropologist, and geographer. He was mostly famous for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection. In 1858, along with the writings of Charles Darwin, his paper works are jointly published.
This made Darwin think about publishing his own works in ‘on the origin of Species’.
He was most famous for Co-discovery of natural selection, Pioneering work on biogeography, Wallace Line, and Wallace effect.
His medals are Royal Medal in 1868, Gold Medal of the Societe de Geographie in 1870, Darwin Medal in 1890, Founder’s Medal in 1892, Linnean Medal in 1892, Copley Medal in 1908, Order of Merit in 1908. He died on 7th November 1913 at the age of 90 years.
8. J Paul Goode
His full was John Paul Goode. He was a Geographer and Cartographer. He was considered one of the key geographers in American Geography’s Incipient Period from 1900 to 1940.
He was born on 21st November 1862. He got his bachelor’s degree in 1889 from the University of Minnesota. In 1903, he got his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in Economics.
Paul was offered as a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Chicago in 1903.
9. Sven Hedin
Sven Anders Hedin was his full name. He was born 19th February 1865. He was a Swedish topographer, explorer, photographer, geographer, travel writer, and illustration of his own works.
His notable awards are Vega Medal in 1898, Livingstone Medal in 1902, and Victoria Medal in 1903. He died on 26th November 1952 at the age of 87 years.
10. Edwin James
Edwin P. James was his most notable name. He was born on 27th August 1797. He is an American geologist, medical practitioner, and botanist in the 19th Century.
He was one of the most important figures in the American West in its early exploration. He mostly helped African Americans to escape them from slavery. He died on 28th October 1861 at the age of 64 years.
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