Robert G. W. Anderson

Robert Geoffrey William Anderson, is a British museum curator and historian of chemistry. He has wide-ranging interests in the history of chemistry, including the history of scientific instrumentation, the work of Joseph Black and Joseph Priestley, the history of museums, and the involvement of the working class in material culture. He has been Director of the Science Museum, London, the National Museums of Scotland, the British Museum, London, and president and CEO of the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.

2 May 1944

Born on the same birth day (2 May): Abraham Pineo Gesner • Alexander Bonnyman Jr. • Ashley Harkleroad • Benjamin Spock • Brian Lara • Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal • Huang Zitao • Hugh Cortazzi • Jacques Rogge • Joe Wilkinson • Larry Gatlin • Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho • Norma Talmadge • Otto Staudinger • Theodor Herzl • Tony Wakeford • William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne • Ziana Zain

Born in the same month (May 1944): Antal Nagy (footballer, born 1944) • Billy Vera • Bob Benmosche • Chris Ralston • Digby Anderson • Frank Oz • George Lucas • Gladys Knight • Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar • Jesse Winchester • Meredith MacRae • Patti LaBelle • Robert MacPherson (mathematician) • Ulrich Beck