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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rupert Sheldrake has received more than 1,671,713 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Rupert Sheldrake is the 319th most popular biologist (down from 248th in 2019), the 1,769th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,570th in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 319 out of 1,097. Before him are Anton Reichenow, Patrick Geddes, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Otto Friedrich Müller, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, and John Sulston. After him are Bruce Beutler, Charles Chamberland, Eugenius Warming, Phillip Allen Sharp, Michał Boym, and Armen Takhtajan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 212. Before him are Terry Bisson, Leo Nucci, Vyacheslav Zudov, Hayedeh, John Sulston, and Anatoli Bugorski. After him are Derek Jarman, Oscar Bonavena, Curtis Mayfield, Heidi Brühl, Takao Nishiyama, and Gabriele Veneziano.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 1,769 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (1775), Peg Entwistle (1908), John Sulston (1942), Taliesin (518), Saint Alban (300), and Amy Johnson (1903). After him are Peter Lawford (1923), Peter Vaughan (1923), Donald Maclean (1913), Mark Hollis (1955), Paul Di'Anno (1958), and Reginald Lee (1870).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 49. Before him are Francis Darwin (1848), Jack W. Szostak (1952), John Maynard Smith (1920), George Bentham (1800), Patrick Geddes (1854), and John Sulston (1942). After him are William Jackson Hooker (1785), Arthur Tansley (1871), John Gould (1804), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), John Stevens Henslow (1796), and Samuel Frederick Gray (1766).

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