BIOLOGIST

Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

1936 - 2020

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Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford (8 January 1936 – 28 April 2020) was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He held joint professorships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert May, Baron May of Oxford has received more than 279,536 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert May, Baron May of Oxford is the 908th most popular biologist (down from 773rd in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Australia (down from 212th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Australian Biologist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 908 out of 1,097. Before him are Thomas Hardwicke, William Yarrell, Sereno Watson, Thomas Nuttall, Ruth Patrick, and Colin Munro MacLeod. After him are Ann Bishop, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, G. Ledyard Stebbins, Nikolai Turczaninow, Jan-Just Bos, and Wilhelm Philippe Schimper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 463. Before him are John Madden, David Jenkins, Kjell Grede, Cynthia McLeod, Owen Roizman, and Dmitri Anosov. After him are German Apukhtin, Ignacio Achúcarro, Roger Mahony, Margaret Mahy, Janusz Zakrzeński, and Robert A. Parker. Among people deceased in 2020, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 556. Before him are Giuliana Minuzzo, Volodymyr Troshkin, Sapardi Djoko Damono, Alison Lurie, Stephen F. Cohen, and Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo. After him are Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Wolfgang Hofmann, Anthony Soter Fernandez, Toke Talagi, Li Wenliang, and Veli Lehtelä.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 271 out of 1,143. Before him are Tina Arena (1967), Mike Chapman (1947), Christopher Clark (1960), Earle Page (1880), John Monash (1865), and Iggy Azalea (1990). After him are Herb Elliott (1938), Mark Viduka (1975), Alexander Volkanovski (1988), Vern Schuppan (1943), John Broughton (1952), and Markus Zusak (1975).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Australia

Among biologists born in Australia, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 4. Before him are Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), Macfarlane Burnet (1899), and David Bruce (1855). After him are David A. Sinclair (1969), Frank Fenner (1914), and Suzanne Cory (1942).

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