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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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rupert Sheldrake is the 539th most popular biologist (down from 319th in 2019), the 2,618th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,769th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 539 out of 1,097. Before him are Edouard Van Beneden, William Curtis, Ernst Schäfer, Matthias de l'Obel, Camille Guérin, and Edward Daniel Clarke. After him are Kliment Timiryazev, Robert Fortune, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, Eugen Fischer, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, and João de Loureiro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 282. Before him are B. J. Thomas, Clarence Clemons, Pyotr Klimuk, Reinhard Mey, Eumir Deodato, and Ama Ata Aidoo. After him are Natalia Gutman, David J. Griffiths, Vera Alentova, Jackie Oliver, Derek Parfit, and Johnny Servoz-Gavin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 2,619 out of 8,785. Before him are Stuart Wilson (1946), Andrew Lang (1844), Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), Edith Tolkien (1889), Frank Finlay (1926), and John Henry Mackay (1864). After him are Joe Jordan (1951), Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (1816), John Mahoney (1940), John Foxe (1516), Patricia Quinn (1944), and Janet McTeer (1961).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Rupert Sheldrake ranks 83. Before him are John Hughlings Jackson (1835), William Hudson (1730), Alec Jeffreys (1950), Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (1950), William Curtis (1746), and Edward Daniel Clarke (1769). After him are Robert Fortune (1812), Sarah Gilbert (1962), John Gilbert Baker (1834), Frederick DuCane Godman (1834), Philip Henry Gosse (1810), and William Speirs Bruce (1867).

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