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John Mayow

1640 - 1679

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John Mayow FRS (1641–1679) was a chemist, physician, and physiologist who is remembered today for conducting early research into respiration and the nature of air. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Mayow has received more than 85,574 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John Mayow is the 533rd most popular chemist (down from 471st in 2019), the 4,392nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,469th in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Chemist.

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  • 45.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Mayow ranks 533 out of 602. Before him are Hans von Pechmann, Leslie Orgel, Sabir Yunusov, Peter Armbruster, Neil Bartlett, and Robert Jarvik. After him are Wallace Smith Broecker, Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov, Aleksandr Arbuzov, Darleane C. Hoffman, Nikodem Caro, and Carl Jacob Löwig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, John Mayow ranks 23. Before him are Willem de Vlamingh, Gerard de Lairesse, Claude Fleury, Georg Mohr, Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, and Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. After him are Yohannes I, and William Wycherley. Among people deceased in 1679, John Mayow ranks 20. Before him are John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg, Anne Conway, Abraham Mignon, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Jan van de Cappelle, and Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Mayow ranks 4,392 out of 8,785. Before him are Ernest Dowson (1867), Martin Litchfield West (1937), Reggie Pridmore (1886), George Grote (1794), I. J. Good (1916), and Nathaniel Parker (1962). After him are Vashti Bunyan (1945), Justin Hayward (1946), Jackie Blanchflower (1933), Bill Nicholson (1919), Bob Glendenning (1888), and Sophie Muller (1962).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Mayow ranks 69. Before him are William Hallowes Miller (1801), Edward Charles Howard (1774), Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893), Robin Hill (1899), Leslie Orgel (1927), and Neil Bartlett (1932). After him are John Roebuck (1718), Henry Roscoe (1833), Martyn Poliakoff (1947), John George Children (1777), and Carol V. Robinson (1956).

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