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BIOLOGIST

Amotz Zahavi

1928 - 2017

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Amotz Zahavi (Hebrew: אמוץ זהבי) (August 14, 1928 – May 12, 2017) was an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a Professor in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amotz Zahavi has received more than 91,972 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Amotz Zahavi is the 577th most popular biologist (down from 575th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from Israel (down from 222nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Israeli Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Amotz Zahavi ranks 577 out of 841Before him are Oswald Heer, Alfred Newton, John Murray, Georg August Goldfuss, Johann Julius Walbaum, and Johan August Wahlberg. After him are Asa Gray, Émile Duclaux, Johannes Burman, Francisco J. Ayala, William Withering, and Johann Friedrich Naumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Amotz Zahavi ranks 323Before him are Peter Carsten, Karl Mai, Miguel Poblet, Sven Davidson, Gunnar Andersson, and Pilar Lorengar. After him are Nancy Olson, Ennio de Giorgi, Eduardo Guerrero, Danuta Siedzikówna, António Ribeiro, and Ion Druță. Among people deceased in 2017, Amotz Zahavi ranks 276Before him are Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, Om Puri, Daniil Granin, Eugene Garfield, François Van der Elst, and Alec McCowen. After him are Richard Hatch, Björn Granath, Hrvoje Šarinić, Hubert Dreyfus, Tim Pigott-Smith, and William Lombardy.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Amotz Zahavi ranks 234 out of 430Before him are David Deutsch (1953), Meir Shalev (1948), Gila Almagor (1939), Ari Folman (1962), Yasmin Levy (1975), and Rika Zaraï (1938). After him are Leigh Bardugo (1975), Israel Finkelstein (1949), Hiam Abbass (1960), Etgar Keret (1967), Ayelet Zurer (1969), and Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (1938).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Israel

Among biologists born in Israel, Amotz Zahavi ranks 3Before him are Ada Yonath (1939) and Aaron Ciechanover (1947). After him are Ruth Arnon (1933).