1936 - 2020
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, HonFAIB (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 264,633 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Robert May, Baron May of Oxford is the 774th most popular biologist (down from 573rd in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from Australia (down from 140th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Australian Biologist.
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Among biologists, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 774 out of 841. Before him are José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Sam Harris, Amalie Dietrich, Wilhelm Weinberg, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, and Lilian Gibbs. After him are Thomas Thomson, Richard Anthony Salisbury, Bunzō Hayata, Nikolai Turczaninow, Grigore Antipa, and Richard Spruce.
1754 - 1840
HPI: 45.32
Rank: 768
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.28
Rank: 769
1821 - 1891
HPI: 45.27
Rank: 770
1862 - 1937
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 771
1835 - 1899
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 772
1870 - 1925
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 773
1936 - 2020
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 774
1817 - 1878
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 775
1761 - 1829
HPI: 45.14
Rank: 776
1874 - 1934
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 777
1796 - 1863
HPI: 45.08
Rank: 778
1867 - 1944
HPI: 45.08
Rank: 779
1817 - 1893
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 780
Among people born in 1936, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 394. Before him are Eduard Gufeld, Tomáš Pospíchal, Salvador Reyes Monteón, David Hess, Richard E. Stearns, and Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov. After him are Lazarus Salii, Juan Seminario, Nahum Stelmach, Barbara Sobotta, Richard Rodney Bennett, and Viktor Kanevskyi. Among people deceased in 2020, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 469. Before him are Tonie Marshall, Edem Kodjo, Wolfgang Hofmann, Mario Chaldú, Hennadiy Kernes, and Victor Chizhikov. After him are Jonathan Sacks, Efraín Sánchez, Carlos Contreras, Lyle Mays, Mario Ghella, and Marlene Ahrens.
1936 - 2002
HPI: 45.39
Rank: 388
1936 - 2003
HPI: 45.38
Rank: 389
1936 - 2012
HPI: 45.38
Rank: 390
1936 - 2011
HPI: 45.35
Rank: 391
1936 - Present
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 392
1936 - 2019
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 393
1936 - 2020
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 394
1936 - 1988
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 395
1936 - Present
HPI: 45.17
Rank: 396
1936 - 1999
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 397
1936 - 2000
HPI: 45.00
Rank: 398
1936 - 2012
HPI: 44.96
Rank: 399
1936 - 2018
HPI: 44.92
Rank: 400
1951 - 2020
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 463
1938 - 2020
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 464
1941 - 2020
HPI: 45.22
Rank: 465
1942 - 2020
HPI: 45.21
Rank: 466
1959 - 2020
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 467
1935 - 2020
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 468
1936 - 2020
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 469
1948 - 2020
HPI: 45.16
Rank: 470
1926 - 2020
HPI: 45.12
Rank: 471
1938 - 2020
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 472
1953 - 2020
HPI: 45.06
Rank: 473
1929 - 2020
HPI: 45.05
Rank: 474
1933 - 2020
HPI: 45.00
Rank: 475
Among people born in Australia, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 212 out of 925. Before him are Mark Oliphant (1901), Ruby Payne-Scott (1912), John Winter (1924), Teresa Palmer (1986), Mark Schwarzer (1972), and Steven Bradbury (1973). After him are Isabel Lucas (1985), Liam McIntyre (1982), Fred Stolle (1938), Jack Thompson (1940), Peter Garrett (1953), and Jason Donovan (1968).
1901 - 2000
HPI: 45.68
Rank: 206
1912 - 1981
HPI: 45.66
Rank: 207
1924 - 2007
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 208
1986 - Present
HPI: 45.61
Rank: 209
1972 - Present
HPI: 45.56
Rank: 210
1973 - Present
HPI: 45.20
Rank: 211
1936 - 2020
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 212
1985 - Present
HPI: 45.15
Rank: 213
1982 - Present
HPI: 45.13
Rank: 214
1938 - Present
HPI: 45.07
Rank: 215
1940 - Present
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 216
1953 - Present
HPI: 44.90
Rank: 217
1968 - Present
HPI: 44.83
Rank: 218
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 Frank Fenner (1914) and Suzanne Cory (1942).
1948 - Present
HPI: 62.49
Rank: 1
1899 - 1985
HPI: 60.07
Rank: 2
1855 - 1931
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 3
1936 - 2020
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 4
1914 - 2010
HPI: 43.43
Rank: 5
1942 - Present
HPI: 36.29
Rank: 6