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Robert May, Baron May of Oxford

1936 - 2020

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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

Among biologists, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 774 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 394Before 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 469Before 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.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford ranks 212 out of 925Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Australia

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