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BIOLOGIST

E. O. Wilson

1929 - 2021

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Edward Osborne Wilson ForMemRS (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. O. Wilson has received more than 1,946,923 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). E. O. Wilson is the 88th most popular biologist (up from 112th in 2019), the 947th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,203rd in 2019) and the 14th 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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  • 1.9M

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  • 62.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, E. O. Wilson ranks 88 out of 841. Before him are Jan Swammerdam, Gabriele Falloppio, Jean Dausset, Carolus Clusius, Alfred Hershey, and Elizabeth Blackburn. After him are André Michel Lwoff, John Gurdon, Werner Arber, Bernard Katz, Ibn al-Baitar, and William Carey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, E. O. Wilson ranks 61. Before him are George Steiner, Zoltán Czibor, Isamu Akasaki, Ralf Dahrendorf, Jerry Goldsmith, and Mohamed Al-Fayed. After him are Milorad Pavić, Pierre Brice, Gudrun Burwitz, Stirling Moss, Werner Arber, and Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow. Among people deceased in 2021, E. O. Wilson ranks 58. Before him are Isamu Akasaki, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Edita Gruberová, Larry Flynt, Manuel Santana, and George Jung. After him are Idriss Déby, Nawal El Saadawi, John McAfee, Larry King, Edward de Bono, and Noah Gordon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, E. O. Wilson ranks 947 out of 18,182. Before him are Roy J. Glauber (1925), Pat Garrett (1850), Alfred Hershey (1908), Stan Getz (1927), Laura Bush (1946), and C. Wright Mills (1916). After him are Calamity Jane (1852), Ali MacGraw (1939), Rick Rubin (1963), Timothy Leary (1920), Don Cherry (1936), and Dr. Dre (1965).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, E. O. Wilson ranks 14. Before him are Linda B. Buck (1947), George Beadle (1903), John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), Irwin Rose (1926), and Alfred Hershey (1908). After him are Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Sylvia Earle (1935), George Davis Snell (1903), Norman Borlaug (1914), Edward B. Lewis (1918), and Carl Woese (1928).

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