BIOLOGIST

Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw

1902 - 1985

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Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (7 April 1902 – 19 August 1985) was a notable English botanist and classicist. Airy Shaw was born at The Mount, Grange Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk to a father serving as Second Master at the Woodbridge Grammar School and a mother descended from George Biddell Airy, Astronomer Royal (1835–1881). His younger sister was the illustrator Margaret Olive Milne-Redhead (also known as Olive Shaw). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw has received more than 13,483 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw is the 885th most popular biologist (up from 893rd in 2019), the 4,317th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,805th in 2019) and the 133rd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw ranks 885 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Conrad Abbott, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, Sam Harris, Benjamin Smith Barton, and Gaetano Savi. After him are Theobald Smith, Robert Weinberg, Dukinfield Henry Scott, Richard Evans Schultes, David Goodall, and Charles Frédéric Girard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw ranks 277. Before him are Russinho, Margaret Woodbridge, Isidoro Sota, Antonio Maquilón, Beryl Markham, and Brian Aherne. After him are Chill Wills, Koloman Sokol, Myrtle Cook, Ann Harding, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Paul Sturzenegger. Among people deceased in 1985, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw ranks 224. Before him are Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Toni Branca, C. B. van Niel, Paul Creston, Jacques de Lacretelle, and Fritz Keller. After him are Richard Haydn, Myrtle Cook, Milton H. Greene, Lucien Michard, John Holt, and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr..

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw ranks 4,317 out of 8,785. Before him are Leslie Orgel (1927), Jon Amiel (1948), David Cox (1783), Malcolm Muggeridge (1903), Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1130), and John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885). After him are Orlando Figes (1959), Henry Bird (1830), Alan Sugar (1947), Thomas Weelkes (1576), Peter Taylor (1928), and John Moresby (1830).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw ranks 133. Before him are Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809), G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903), Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), Charles Tate Regan (1878), and Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800). After him are Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), David Goodall (1914), Francis Willughby (1635), Robert Morison (1620), William Yarrell (1784), and Thomas Nuttall (1786).

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