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BIOLOGIST

Bryan Sykes

1947 - 2020

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Bryan Clifford Sykes (9 September 1947 – 10 December 2020) was a British geneticist and science writer who was a Fellow of Wolfson College and Emeritus Professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford.Sykes published the first report on retrieving DNA from ancient bone (Nature, 1989). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bryan Sykes has received more than 181,363 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bryan Sykes is the 878th most popular biologist, the 4,671st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 145th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 15

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Bryan Sykes ranks 878 out of 841Before him are Georg Ossian Sars, John Belchier, William Yarrell, Walter Buller, Warwick Estevam Kerr, and Robert Collett. After him are Charles Tate Regan, George R. Price, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, Lancelot Hogben, Carl Meissner, and Johann Georg Wagler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Bryan Sykes ranks 638Before him are Stephen R. Donaldson, Rupert Holmes, Borka Pavićević, Stuart Baird, Arthur Schnabel, and Rakhee Gulzar. After him are Margaret Rhea Seddon, Charlie Hickcox, Otto Stuppacher, Olga Pall, Guo Jinlong, and Guy François. Among people deceased in 2020, Bryan Sykes ranks 590Before him are Allen Daviau, José Jiménez Lozano, Laisenia Qarase, Mridula Sinha, Pau Donés, and Louis Meznarie. After him are Johnny Mandel, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Diana Serra Cary, Kumiko Okae, Jimmy Heath, and J. I. Packer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bryan Sykes ranks 4,671 out of 7,765Before him are Fred Davis (1913), Sean Pertwee (1964), Trent Alexander-Arnold (1998), Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (1845), Gordon Pirie (1931), and Will Poulter (1993). After him are Henry Tate (1819), Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Pat Fry (1964), Amina J. Mohammed (1961), and Hugh Falconer (1808).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Bryan Sykes ranks 145Before him are Alister Hardy (1896), George Montagu (1751), David Douglas (1799), Charles Walter De Vis (1829), Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), and William Yarrell (1784). After him are Charles Tate Regan (1878), Lancelot Hogben (1895), Alec Jeffreys (1950), William Kirby (1759), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), and John Claudius Loudon (1783).