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BIOLOGIST

Rupert Sheldrake

1942 - Today

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Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 28 June 1942) is an English author and parapsychology researcher. He proposed the concept of morphic resonance, a conjecture that lacks mainstream acceptance and has been widely criticized as pseudoscience. He has worked as a biochemist at Cambridge University, a Harvard scholar, a researcher at the Royal Society, and a plant physiologist for ICRISAT in India.Other work by Sheldrake encompasses paranormal subjects such as precognition, empirical research into telepathy, and the psychic staring effect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rupert Sheldrake has received more than 1,509,262 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Rupert Sheldrake is the 249th most popular biologist (down from 223rd in 2019), the 1,575th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,413th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 249 out of 841Before him are Joseph Dalton Hooker, Michał Boym, Félix d'Herelle, Johann Baptist von Spix, George Shaw, and Carl Correns. After him are David Julius, August Grisebach, David Bruce, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, and James Edward Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 183Before him are André Vingt-Trois, Yasuyuki Kuwahara, Prince Alexandre of Belgium, Henri Pescarolo, Charles Konan Banny, and Milton Nascimento. After him are Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Brian Kernighan, Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat, Mario Terán, Marta Kubišová, and Pascal Couchepin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 1,575 out of 7,765Before him are Frances Shand Kydd (1936), Margaret Douglas (1515), William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708), John Barbirolli (1899), Oliver Hart (1948), and Maurice Wilkes (1913). After him are Mary Ann Cotton (1832), Rafael Merry del Val (1865), Roger Hunt (1938), Eric Knight (1897), George Smith (1840), and Kate Moss (1974).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 36Before him are Henry Walter Bates (1825), John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Browne (1605), John Lindley (1799), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), and George Shaw (1751). After him are James Edward Smith (1759), June Almeida (1930), Arthur Tansley (1871), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), Marie Stopes (1880), and John Hughlings Jackson (1835).