The Most Famous

BIOLOGISTS from Kenya

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This page contains a list of the greatest Kenyan Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Kenya. This makes Kenya the birth place of the 41st most number of Biologists behind Mexico, and Lebanon.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kenyan Biologists of all time. This list of famous Kenyan Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Richard Dawkins (b. 1941)

With an HPI of 69.79, Richard Dawkins is the most famous Kenyan Biologist.  His biography has been translated into 94 different languages on wikipedia.

Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. His book The Selfish Gene (1976) popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and coined the word meme. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards. Dawkins is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design as well as for being a vocal atheist. Some fellow academics have described Dawkins as a secular or atheist fundamentalist. Dawkins wrote The Blind Watchmaker in 1986, arguing against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker, in that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any sentient designer. In 2006, Dawkins published The God Delusion, writing that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion. He founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science in 2006. Dawkins has published two volumes of memoirs, An Appetite for Wonder (2013) and Brief Candle in the Dark (2015).

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kenyan biologists born between 1941 and 1941. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kenyan biologists include Richard Dawkins.

Living Kenyan Biologists

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