BIOLOGIST

G. Evelyn Hutchinson

1903 - 1991

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George Evelyn Hutchinson (January 30, 1903 – May 17, 1991) was a British ecologist sometimes described as the "father of modern ecology." He contributed for more than sixty years to the fields of limnology, systems ecology, radiation ecology, entomology, genetics, biogeochemistry, a mathematical theory of population growth, art history, philosophy, religion, and anthropology. He worked on the passage of phosphorus through lakes, the chemistry and biology of lakes, the theory of interspecific competition, and on insect taxonomy and genetics, zoo-geography, and African water bugs. He is known as one of the first to combine ecology with mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of G. Evelyn Hutchinson has received more than 164,624 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. G. Evelyn Hutchinson is the 872nd most popular biologist (down from 745th in 2019), the 4,241st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,726th in 2019) and the 129th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, G. Evelyn Hutchinson ranks 872 out of 1,097. Before him are Grigore Antipa, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Pierre Chambon, Hermann Harms, Birbal Sahni, and Charles Horton Peck. After him are Filippo Parlatore, Georg Ossian Sars, Jakob Emanuel Lange, Carl Eduard Hellmayr, Reginald Innes Pocock, and Charles Tate Regan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, G. Evelyn Hutchinson ranks 289. Before him are Diógenes Lara, Lajos Maszlay, Hermann Volk, Andrei Fayt, Clare Boothe Luce, and Millard Mitchell. After him are Kenneth Clark, Mikhail Svetlov, Léon-Étienne Duval, Malcolm Muggeridge, Howard P. Robertson, and Marshall Harvey Stone. Among people deceased in 1991, G. Evelyn Hutchinson ranks 214. Before him are Giacomo Mari, Wilhelm Brinkmann, Yulia Drunina, Meindert DeJong, Eladio Rojas, and Robin Hill. After him are Lars Hall, Zośka Vieras, Stan Mortensen, Steve Clark, Cliff Bastin, and Alberto Crespo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, G. Evelyn Hutchinson ranks 4,241 out of 8,785. Before him are Allen Jones (1937), Jimmy Jones (1928), Clive Swift (1936), John Loder (1898), Robin Hill (1899), and Peter Mark Roget (1779). After him are John Morley (1838), Elisabeth Sladen (1946), Mick Avory (1944), Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Richard Overy (1947), and Octavia Hill (1838).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, G. Evelyn Hutchinson ranks 129. Before him are William Kirby (1759), William John Swainson (1789), Thomas Bell (1792), George Montagu (1751), Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), and Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809). After him are Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), Charles Tate Regan (1878), Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800), Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw (1902), Dukinfield Henry Scott (1854), and David Goodall (1914).

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