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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 155,743 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). G. Evelyn Hutchinson is the 746th most popular biologist (down from 740th in 2019), the 3,734th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,744th in 2019) and the 110th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, G. Evelyn Hutchinson ranks 746 out of 841. Before him are James Francis Stephens, Jules Verreaux, Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Curt Backeberg, George Edwards, and Johann Jakob Heckel. After him are Albert Charles Smith, Hermann Harms, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Johann Jakob Kaup, William Henry Harvey, and Hugh Edwin Strickland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, G. Evelyn Hutchinson ranks 254. Before him are Voldemar Väli, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Morgan Taylor, Malcolm Muggeridge, Edgar Bergen, and Elisha Cook Jr.. After him are Eric A. Havelock, Afanasy Beloborodov, Ali Sastroamidjojo, Millard Mitchell, Juan Jover, and Lucien Michard. Among people deceased in 1991, G. Evelyn Hutchinson ranks 188. Before him are Franz Brunner, Oreste Corbatta, John Russell, Adãozinho, Ellen Braumüller, and Márcio Melo. After him are Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Josef Stroh, Reidar Andersen, Henri Louveau, Wilhelm Brinkmann, and Mildred Dunnock.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, G. Evelyn Hutchinson ranks 3,734 out of 7,765. Before him are Jimmy White (1962), Ted Drake (1912), Sebastian Cabot (1918), Joe Alwyn (1991), David Allan (1744), and Saint Mungo (518). After him are Peter Murphy (1957), Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764), Roy Wood (1946), Eric A. Havelock (1903), Jamie Carragher (1978), and Justin Fashanu (1961).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, G. Evelyn Hutchinson ranks 110. Before him are James Sowerby (1757), D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Daniel Oliver (1830), David Goodall (1914), James Francis Stephens (1792), and George Edwards (1694). After him are Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855), Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811), Nigel Marven (1960), Thomas Andrew Knight (1759), George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799), and Lilian Gibbs (1870).

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