BIOLOGIST

Garrett Hardin

1915 - 2003

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Garrett James Hardin (April 21, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was an American ecologist and microbiologist. He focused his career on the issue of human overpopulation, and is best known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons in a 1968 paper of the same title in Science, which called attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "We can never do merely one thing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Garrett Hardin has received more than 576,930 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Garrett Hardin is the 589th most popular biologist (down from 474th in 2019), the 5,279th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,660th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular American Biologist.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Garrett Hardin ranks 589 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Franz Unger, Johann Gottfried Zinn, Tsuneko Okazaki, João de Loureiro, and Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan. After him are Jean-Étienne Guettard, Antoine Risso, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Euclides da Cunha, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, and Erwin Stresemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Garrett Hardin ranks 161. Before him are Boris Paichadze, Joe Fry, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Knut Nystedt, Wee Kim Wee, and Alykul Osmonov. After him are Hasse Ekman, Derek Prince, Edmond Leburton, Leigh Brackett, Alan Lomax, and Julio César Méndez Montenegro. Among people deceased in 2003, Garrett Hardin ranks 193. Before him are Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Pierre Poujade, Walter Zapp, Adam Osborne, Vera Ralston, and Hedy Schlunegger. After him are Timothy Treadwell, Olle Anderberg, Flóra Kádár, Izzat Ghazzawi, Kriangsak Chamanan, and Derek Prince.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Garrett Hardin ranks 5,279 out of 20,380. Before him are Vanessa Hudgens (1988), William Windom (1923), Peter Lynch (1944), Virginia Grey (1917), Russell Banks (1940), and Sacheen Littlefeather (1946). After him are Eric Dane (1972), Nate Archibald (1948), Lyndon LaRouche (1922), Frank H. Netter (1906), Jessica Walter (1941), and R. G. Armstrong (1917).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Garrett Hardin ranks 83. Before him are Craig Mello (1960), Alice Hamilton (1869), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), Barry Commoner (1917), Sewall Wright (1889), and Harold E. Varmus (1939). After him are Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), Jack Horner (1946), Alfred Sturtevant (1891), George C. Williams (1926), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), and Charles David Keeling (1928).

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