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John Mayow

1640 - 1679

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John Mayow FRS (1641–1679) was a chemist, physician, and physiologist who is remembered today for conducting early research into respiration and the nature of air. Mayow worked in a field that is sometimes called pneumatic chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Mayow is the 477th most popular chemist (up from 533rd in 2019), the 3,290th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,392nd in 2019) and the 59th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Mayow ranks 477 out of 602. Before him are Donella Meadows, Edmond Frémy, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, Hugo Erdmann, and K. C. Nicolaou. After him are Carl Theodore Liebermann, Yellapragada Subbarow, Phoebus Levene, Masatoshi Shima, Christopher Kelk Ingold, and Ivan Horbachevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1640, John Mayow ranks 24. Before him are Willem de Vlamingh, Georg Mohr, Gerard de Lairesse, Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, Claude Fleury, and Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. After him is William Wycherley. Among people deceased in 1679, John Mayow ranks 18. Before him are Jean François Paul de Gondi, Francesco Barberini, Jan van Kessel the Elder, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, Margherita de' Medici, and Abraham Mignon. After him are Jan van de Cappelle, and Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Mayow ranks 3,291 out of 8,785. Before him are Ronald Fairbairn (1889), William Huskisson (1770), Patsy Kensit (1968), Terry-Thomas (1911), Joe Wright (1972), and Ali Carter (1979). After him are Richard Addinsell (1904), Constance Markievicz (1868), Edmund Campion (1540), Teddy Sheringham (1966), Wyndham Halswelle (1882), and Enoch Powell (1912).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Mayow ranks 59. Before him are Luke Howard (1772), Henry Roscoe (1833), John William Draper (1811), William Gregor (1761), Alexander William Williamson (1824), and Peter Atkins (1940). After him are Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893), Archibald Scott Couper (1831), William Nicholson (1753), Edward Charles Howard (1774), John Walker (1781), and William Hallowes Miller (1801).

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