# William King

> William King, was an Anglo-Irish geologist at Queen's College Galway. He was the first to propose that the bones found in the German valley of Neanderthal in 1856 were not of Homo sapiens, but of a distinct species: Homo neanderthalensis. He proposed the name of this new species at a meeting of the British Association in 1863, with the written version published in 1864.

*Anglo-Irish geologist*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** 1809-04-22
- **Died:** 1886-06-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 44.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.3 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 10.7 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 18.1 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1344095)

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