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John Maynard Smith

1920 - 2004

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John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution with George R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Maynard Smith has received more than 402,282 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). John Maynard Smith is the 276th most popular biologist (up from 353rd in 2019), the 1,551st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,034th in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Biologist.

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  • 400k

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  • 56.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Maynard Smith ranks 276 out of 1,097. Before him are Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Christen C. Raunkiær, Peter Forsskål, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Jérôme Lejeune, and Jack W. Szostak. After him are Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, René Louiche Desfontaines, George Bentham, Salim Ali, Wilhelm Peters, and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, John Maynard Smith ranks 133. Before him are Albert Memmi, Yegor Ligachyov, Václav Neumann, Pran, Jean Starobinski, and Marcel Reich-Ranicki. After him are Nobuyuki Kato, Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani, George Shultz, Jean Carmet, Zao Wou-Ki, and Alf Ramsey. Among people deceased in 2004, John Maynard Smith ranks 89. Before him are Boris Trajkovski, Irina Press, Miklós Fehér, Jerry Orbach, Shiing-Shen Chern, and Russ Meyer. After him are Zenkō Suzuki, Anthony Steffen, Mercedes McCambridge, Vasili Mitrokhin, Laura Betti, and Umberto Agnelli.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Maynard Smith ranks 1,551 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Tandey (1891), James Dyson (1947), David Icke (1952), Lionel Robbins (1898), Norman Davies (1939), and Boy George (1961). After him are Dick Taylor (1943), Willehad (735), Eglantyne Jebb (1876), David Purley (1945), N. R. Pogson (1829), and Simon Rattle (1955).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Maynard Smith ranks 45. Before him are William Aiton (1731), Richard Henderson (1945), Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817), John Lindley (1799), Francis Darwin (1848), and Jack W. Szostak (1952). After him are George Bentham (1800), Patrick Geddes (1854), John Sulston (1942), Rupert Sheldrake (1942), William Jackson Hooker (1785), and Arthur Tansley (1871).

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