BIOLOGIST

E. O. Wilson

1929 - 2021

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Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing the field of sociobiology. Born in Alabama, Wilson found an early interest in nature and frequented the outdoors. At age seven, he was partially blinded in a fishing accident; due to his reduced sight, Wilson resolved to study entomology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. O. Wilson has received more than 2,070,884 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). E. O. Wilson is the 134th most popular biologist (down from 87th in 2019), the 1,235th most popular biography from United States (down from 947th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Biologist.

E. O. Wilson is most famous for his theory of sociobiology, which is the application of evolutionary theory to the study of animal and human social behavior.

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  • 66.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, E. O. Wilson ranks 134 out of 1,097. Before him are Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Gaspard Bauhin, Erwin Neher, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Giovanni Sartori, and Elias Magnus Fries. After him are Bert Sakmann, Gerald Edelman, Tomas Lindahl, John Ray, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Hamilton O. Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, E. O. Wilson ranks 82. Before him are Abdel Halim Hafez, Pierre Brice, Jean Simmons, George Stinney, Hebe Camargo, and Yozo Aoki. After him are Gerald Edelman, Chadli Bendjedid, Omar Torrijos, Francis Gary Powers, Gaston Glock, and Nikolai Ryzhkov. Among people deceased in 2021, E. O. Wilson ranks 58. Before him are Betty White, George Jung, Noah Gordon, Giampiero Boniperti, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Toshihide Maskawa. After him are Abimael Guzmán, Michel Fourniret, Larry King, Richard Donner, Anne Rice, and Jehan Sadat.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, E. O. Wilson ranks 1,235 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Noyce (1927), Edna Purviance (1895), Blake Edwards (1922), Dick Van Dyke (1925), Robert Reich (1946), and Martha Washington (1731). After him are Zelda Fitzgerald (1900), Lady Gaga (1986), Robert Lucas Jr. (1937), Anne Hathaway (1982), Pete Seeger (1919), and Uma Thurman (1970).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, E. O. Wilson ranks 21. Before him are Nettie Stevens (1861), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Edward Tatum (1909), Alfred Hershey (1908), Carl Woese (1928), and Edward B. Lewis (1918). After him are Gerald Edelman (1929), Hamilton O. Smith (1931), J. Michael Bishop (1936), George Davis Snell (1903), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), and Norman Borlaug (1914).

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