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Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw

1902 - 1985

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Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (7 April 1902 – 19 August 1985) was a notable English botanist and classicist. He worked at Kew Gardens, as was an expert on tropical Asian botany and on entomology. The genus Airyantha is named for him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw is the 980th most popular biologist (down from 885th in 2019), the 4,716th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,316th in 2019) and the 164th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw ranks 980 out of 1,097. Before him are Alice Eastwood, Sydney Parkinson, Miriam Rothschild, Johann Gottfried Zinn, Zinaida Yermolyeva, and Dukinfield Henry Scott. After him are Lancelot Hogben, Anne McLaren, Alister Hardy, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Heinrich Kuhl, and Frederic Moore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw ranks 293. Before him are Koloman Sokol, Brian Aherne, Moe Berg, Fred Tootell, Pua Kealoha, and Leo Losert. After him are Maria Polydouri, Russinho, Beryl Markham, Mary Philbin, Curt Siodmak, and Mary Miles Minter. Among people deceased in 1985, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw ranks 231. Before him are Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés, Riccardo Bacchelli, Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald, Richard Haydn, Jo Jones, and Erich Koschik. After him are Alister Hardy, Harold Whitlock, Paul Creston, George O'Brien, Fritz Keller, and Tom Richards.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw ranks 4,717 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768), Joanna Pettet (1942), Curt Smith (1961), Humphrey Carpenter (1946), Dru Drury (1725), and Thomas Brisbane (1773). After him are Christian Coulson (1978), Lancelot Hogben (1895), Madge Adam (1912), Anne McLaren (1927), Thomas Clarkson (1760), and Harry Stafford (1869).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw ranks 164. Before him are Robert Morison (1620), Archibald Menzies (1754), Irene Manton (1904), Sydney Parkinson (1745), Miriam Rothschild (1908), and Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854). After him are Lancelot Hogben (1895), Anne McLaren (1927), Alister Hardy (1896), Frederic Moore (1830), David Prain (1857), and George Montagu (1751).

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