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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 81,645 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John Mayow is the 472nd most popular chemist (up from 477th in 2019), the 3,477th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,801st in 2019) and the 65th most popular British Chemist.

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  • 18

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  • 4.00

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  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Mayow ranks 472 out of 509. Before him are Christopher Kelk Ingold, Jan Szczepanik, James B. Conant, Heinrich Rose, Carl Theodore Liebermann, and Masatoshi Shima. After him are Michael Behe, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Juan José Elhuyar, Heinrich Caro, Neil Bartlett, and Alexey Favorsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, John Mayow ranks 23. Before him are Georg Mohr, Jacques Ozanam, Claude Fleury, Gerard de Lairesse, 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 Jean François Paul de Gondi, Anne Conway, Abraham Mignon, Jan van de Cappelle, Jan van Kessel the Elder, and Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Mayow ranks 3,477 out of 7,765. Before him are Octavia Hill (1838), David Don (1799), Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Barry Foster (1931), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), and Natalia Tena (1984). After him are Peter Blake (1932), Mick Jones (1944), Alfred Maudslay (1850), Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341), Florence Green (1901), and Amlaíb Cuarán (1000).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Mayow ranks 65. Before him are Arthur Aikin (1773), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), Frederick Abel (1827), Robin Hill (1899), William Hallowes Miller (1801), and Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893). After him are Neil Bartlett (1932), David MacMillan (1968), Charles Blagden (1748), John George Children (1777), and Martyn Poliakoff (1947).

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