BIOLOGIST

Alfred Sturtevant

1891 - 1970

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Alfred Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891 – April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Sturtevant has received more than 180,169 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Alfred Sturtevant is the 612th most popular biologist (down from 569th in 2019), the 5,499th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,434th in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 56.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 612 out of 1,097. Before him are Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Fritz Schaudinn, Martin Rathke, James Francis Stephens, Richard Goldschmidt, and George Clifford III. After him are Ray Lankester, Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, Rolf Singer, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, and Karl Rudolphi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 180. Before him are Charles Journet, Anatoly Pepelyayev, Mariano Ospina Pérez, Raymond Bernard, Ted Meredith, and William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim. After him are Yevgeny Polivanov, Philipp Etter, Mae Busch, Princess Pilar of Bavaria, Françoise Rosay, and Dmitry Furmanov. Among people deceased in 1970, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 164. Before him are Robert Gerhard, Peter Doi, Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici, Iuliu Hossu, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, and Pierre Veyron. After him are Anna Louise Strong, Jérôme Carcopino, Terry Sawchuk, Adhemar Pimenta, Conrad Nagel, and Rube Goldberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 5,499 out of 20,380. Before him are Phil Woods (1931), Amy Brenneman (1964), Yogi Berra (1925), Hart Crane (1899), Martha Jefferson (1748), and Ishi (1860). After him are Virginia E. Johnson (1925), John Larroquette (1947), Eli Roth (1972), Ellen Churchill Semple (1863), Richard Marx (1963), and Lester R. Brown (1934).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 86. Before him are Barry Commoner (1917), Sewall Wright (1889), Harold E. Varmus (1939), Garrett Hardin (1915), Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), and Jack Horner (1946). After him are George C. Williams (1926), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), Charles David Keeling (1928), John du Pont (1938), Mary-Claire King (1946), and Walter Sutton (1877).

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