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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 well-known 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 375,746 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). John Maynard Smith is the 354th most popular biologist (up from 359th in 2019), the 2,039th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,984th in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Maynard Smith ranks 354 out of 841Before him are Carl Sigismund Kunth, Göran Wahlenberg, Antonio José Cavanilles, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Odoardo Beccari, and Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz. After him are Paul Nurse, John Ellis, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Pehr Kalm, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, and William Hudson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, John Maynard Smith ranks 169Before him are Knut Nordahl, Marlen Haushofer, Giuseppe Colombo, Thomas Gold, James Doohan, and Georges Marchais. After him are Richard E. Bellman, Schubert Gambetta, Stan Ockers, Machiko Hasegawa, Josip Manolić, and Marie Tharp. Among people deceased in 2004, John Maynard Smith ranks 110Before him are Walter Frentz, Joe Viterelli, Paul Winfield, Rafael Eitan, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Thomas Gold. After him are Ryszard Kukliński, Hubert Selby Jr., Jozef Lenárt, Lucia Berlin, José Giovanni, and Ann Miller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Maynard Smith ranks 2,039 out of 7,765Before him are Lily Collins (1989), John Profumo (1915), Arthur Sullivan (1842), G. M. B. Dobson (1889), Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777), and Liam Payne (1993). After him are Cecil Beaton (1904), Jonny Lee Miller (1972), John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316), F. H. Bradley (1846), Michael Powell (1905), and Gordon Milne (1937).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Maynard Smith ranks 56Before him are Nehemiah Grew (1641), Ian Wilmut (1944), John Stevens Henslow (1796), John Needham (1713), John Sulston (1942), and William Speirs Bruce (1867). After him are Paul Nurse (1949), William Hudson (1730), Oldfield Thomas (1858), Francis Darwin (1848), William Aiton (1731), and Edward Daniel Clarke (1769).