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BIOLOGIST

J. B. S. Haldane

1892 - 1964

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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism. He served in the Great War, and obtained the rank of captain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. B. S. Haldane has received more than 968,007 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). J. B. S. Haldane is the 178th most popular biologist (down from 136th in 2019), the 1,104th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 954th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Biologist.

Haldane is most famous for his work in population genetics. He is credited with the first mathematical analysis of population growth and he was one of the first scientists to propose that natural selection could be a significant force in evolution.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, J. B. S. Haldane ranks 178 out of 841. Before him are Hans Driesch, Wilbur Scoville, Stephen Jay Gould, Edward Tatum, Leland H. Hartwell, and Antoine Béchamp. After him are Rudolf Vrba, George Wald, Joseph Banks, Ana Aslan, George Smith, and Johann Friedrich Gmelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, J. B. S. Haldane ranks 70. Before him are Tazio Nuvolari, S. R. Ranganathan, Marcel Dassault, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Alfonsina Storni, and Andrés Nin Pérez. After him are Arnold Hauser, Günther Blumentritt, Germaine Tailleferre, Kang Pan-sok, Richard Neutra, and César Vallejo. Among people deceased in 1964, J. B. S. Haldane ranks 40. Before him are Maurice Thorez, Paulino Alcántara, Peter Lorre, Heinrich Neuhaus, Alan Ladd, and Mikhail Larionov. After him are August Sander, Werner Kempf, Sergey Biryuzov, Hinrich Lohse, Harpo Marx, and Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, J. B. S. Haldane ranks 1,104 out of 7,765. Before him are Sacha Baron Cohen (1971), Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (1158), Samantha Fox (1966), Lord Alfred Douglas (1870), Rod Evans (1947), and William Booth (1829). After him are Clive Granger (1934), Kenny Baker (1934), Colin Dexter (1930), Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (1517), Thomas Lawrence (1769), and Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, J. B. S. Haldane ranks 27. Before him are William Bateson (1861), Martin Evans (1941), Desmond Morris (1928), Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), Anna Atkins (1799), and Michael Houghton (1949). After him are Joseph Banks (1743), Charles Bell (1774), Henry Walter Bates (1825), John Boyd Orr (1880), Thomas Browne (1605), and John Lindley (1799).

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