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E. O. Wilson

American biologist and author (born 1929)

1929 - 2021

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His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2024). E. O. Wilson is the 145th most popular biologist (down from 134th in 2024), the 1,257th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,235th in 2019) and the 25th 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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Among Biologists

Among biologists, E. O. Wilson ranks 145 out of 1,097. Before him are Gerald Edelman, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Edward B. Lewis, Aimé Bonpland, Daniel Nathans, and Charles Scott Sherrington. After him are Gabriele Falloppio, Ibn al-Baitar, Johan Christian Fabricius, Félix d'Herelle, Howard Martin Temin, and Joshua Lederberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, E. O. Wilson ranks 69. Before him are Gudrun Burwitz, Gerald Edelman, Paul Lauterbur, Alfred Moisiu, Bernard Haitink, and Yevgeny Primakov. After him are Omar Torrijos, Violeta Chamorro, Jerry Goldsmith, Ágnes Heller, Lennart Johansson, and Mike Hawthorn. Among people deceased in 2021, E. O. Wilson ranks 55. Before him are Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Colin Powell, Richard Rogers, Chick Corea, Bernard Haitink, and Abolhassan Banisadr. After him are Donald Rumsfeld, Wilbur Smith, Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Sam Jones, Betty White, and Jean-Claude Carrière.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, E. O. Wilson ranks 1,257 out of NaN. Before him are Robert Benton (1932), John C. Mather (1946), Wyatt Earp (1848), Steve Witkoff (1957), Robert E. Howard (1906), and Raymond Moody (1944). After him are John Dickinson (1732), Jim Jones (1931), Richard Rorty (1931), Neale Donald Walsch (1943), Oliver E. Williamson (1932), and Vincent J. McMahon (1914).

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Among Biologists In United States

Among biologists born in United States, E. O. Wilson ranks 25. Before him are Hamilton O. Smith (1931), John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), Gerald Edelman (1929), Edward B. Lewis (1918), and Daniel Nathans (1928). After him are Howard Martin Temin (1934), Joshua Lederberg (1925), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Martin Chalfie (1947), Nettie Stevens (1861), and George Davis Snell (1903).

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