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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 169,816 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Alfred Sturtevant is the 570th most popular biologist (up from 645th in 2019), the 5,446th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,910th in 2019) and the 84th most popular American Biologist.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

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  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 570 out of 841. Before him are Franz Meyen, Tomitaro Makino, Frederic Clements, Francis Collins, Gustav Radde, and Achille Richard. After him are Oswald Heer, Alfred Newton, John Murray, Georg August Goldfuss, Johann Julius Walbaum, and Johan August Wahlberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 170. Before him are Vladimir Albitsky, Emil Julius Gumbel, Alexander Volkov, Françoise Rosay, Mariano Ospina Pérez, and Mae Busch. After him are Julius Saaristo, Raymond Bernard, Mamie Smith, Alexander Gorbatov, Lasar Segall, and Fanny Brice. Among people deceased in 1970, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 163. Before him are Abraham Alikhanov, Cyril Scott, Billie Burke, Eva Hesse, Orhan Kemal, and Johnny Hodges. After him are Pierre Mac Orlan, Ralph Hartley, Inger Stevens, Alfréd Rényi, Alla Horska, and Peter Doi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 5,446 out of 18,182. Before him are Gene Clark (1944), Ellen Churchill Semple (1863), Matt Sorum (1960), Amy Brenneman (1964), Bobby Cannavale (1970), and Donald Fagen (1948). After him are Lawrence Lessig (1961), Radia Perlman (1951), Henry Gibson (1935), Harry Carey (1878), Ivanka Trump (1981), and Henry Carr (1941).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 84. Before him are Mary Agnes Chase (1869), Paul R. Ehrlich (1932), Richard Lewontin (1929), Joseph Banks Rhine (1895), Frederic Clements (1874), and Francis Collins (1950). After him are Asa Gray (1810), Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), Thomas Say (1787), Theodore Gill (1837), Jack Horner (1946), and Elmer Drew Merrill (1876).

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