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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 545,766 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Garrett Hardin is the 475th most popular biologist (up from 489th in 2019), the 4,672nd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,433rd in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Garrett Hardin ranks 475 out of 841. Before him are Alexander Kovalevsky, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Joseph Paul Gaimard, Craig Mello, and Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre. After him are Petter Adolf Karsten, Bertha Lutz, René Dubos, Sébastien Vaillant, George Clifford III, and Achille Valenciennes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Garrett Hardin ranks 140. Before him are Zulfiya, Wilhelm Gliese, Alykul Osmonov, Vladimir Zeldin, Herman Wouk, and Hans Christian Blech. After him are Harry Morgan, Sergio Bertoni, Eugene Polley, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Tapio Rautavaara, and Else Krüger. Among people deceased in 2003, Garrett Hardin ranks 168. Before him are Christopher Hill, Goffredo Petrassi, Jorge Oteiza, Blaga Dimitrova, Jeanne Crain, and Gregory Hines. After him are Bigode, Henryk Jabłoński, Françoise Giroud, Isao Iwabuchi, Strom Thurmond, and Alexander Kemurdzhian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Garrett Hardin ranks 4,672 out of 18,182. Before him are Harold Hotelling (1895), Albert Collins (1932), Lee Friedlander (1934), Clarence Nash (1904), Stephen Krashen (1941), and Jim Reeves (1923). After him are Zora Neale Hurston (1891), Adrienne Barbeau (1945), Platt Adams (1885), Marvin Hamlisch (1944), Winfield Scott Hancock (1824), and John Marley (1907).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Garrett Hardin ranks 71. Before him are Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Sewall Wright (1889), Esther Lederberg (1922), and Craig Mello (1960). After him are Aldo Leopold (1887), Charles David Keeling (1928), David Starr Jordan (1851), Arthur Cronquist (1919), George C. Williams (1926), and Robert Sapolsky (1957).

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