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 scientist born in Britain who later moved to India and took citizenship there, 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. Despite his lack of an academic degree in the field, he taught biology at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Institution, and University College London. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. B. S. Haldane has received more than 1,019,260 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). J. B. S. Haldane is the 205th most popular biologist (down from 177th in 2019), the 1,177th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,100th in 2019) and the 32nd 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 205 out of 1,097. Before him are John James Audubon, Charles Bell, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Oldfield Thomas, Adam Afzelius, and Waldemar Haffkine. After him are Pierre Belon, Mikhail Tsvet, Friedrich Parrot, Johann Reinhold Forster, Thomas Browne, and Wilbur Scoville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, J. B. S. Haldane ranks 82. Before him are Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Kang Pan-sok, Harry Stack Sullivan, Walther Nehring, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, and Vita Sackville-West. After him are Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Thomas Mitchell, Jack L. Warner, Stanisław Sosabowski, Arnold Hauser, and Reinhold Niebuhr. Among people deceased in 1964, J. B. S. Haldane ranks 43. Before him are Sigfrid Edström, Hugo Koblet, Halide Edib Adıvar, Pedro Petrone, Cole Porter, and Sergey Biryuzov. After him are Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, Werner Kempf, August Sander, Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Mikhail Larionov, and Bechara El Khoury.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, J. B. S. Haldane ranks 1,177 out of 8,785. Before him are Clive Granger (1934), John Charles (1931), Peter Green (1946), Robert Hardy (1925), Glenda Jackson (1936), and Sarah Brightman (1960). After him are Stephen Fry (1957), Marc Bolan (1947), John Gay (1685), William Sturgeon (1783), Emily Blunt (1983), and Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, J. B. S. Haldane ranks 32. Before him are George Robert Gray (1808), Ian Wilmut (1944), Henry Walter Bates (1825), George Shaw (1751), Charles Bell (1774), and Oldfield Thomas (1858). After him are Thomas Browne (1605), Joseph Banks (1743), Desmond Morris (1928), Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942), Michael Houghton (1949), and Nehemiah Grew (1641).

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