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Blue Plaque: Professor Charles Lapworth is shown as a memorial on the public map of Birmingham. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Professor Charles Lapworth was a pioneering British geologist and the first professor of geology at the University of Birmingham, where he made significant contributions to the field of palaeontology and the understanding of the Carboniferous period. The blue plaque commemorates his legacy and his role in establishing geology as a key academic discipline in the UK.
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