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BIOLOGIST

Reginald Punnett

1875 - 1967

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Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS (; 20 June 1875 – 3 January 1967) was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reginald Punnett has received more than 204,774 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Reginald Punnett is the 486th most popular biologist (up from 506th in 2019), the 2,651st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,585th in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Reginald Punnett ranks 486 out of 841. Before him are George Clifford III, Achille Valenciennes, Jean Cabanis, Aaron Aaronsohn, Edmond Albius, and Pieter Bleeker. After him are Martin Rathke, Jules Émile Planchon, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Johann Friedrich Meckel, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, and Aldo Leopold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Reginald Punnett ranks 103. Before him are Kunio Yanagita, Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach, Issai Schur, Ramiro de Maeztu, Felix Hamrin, and Henning Jakob Henrik Lund. After him are Alexander Goldenweiser, Luigi Carnera, Beppo Levi, Charles D. B. King, William D. Leahy, and Eusebio Ayala. Among people deceased in 1967, Reginald Punnett ranks 158. Before him are Fernando Paternoster, Edward Chamberlin, Siegfried Sassoon, Varian Fry, Antonio Riberi, and Zhou Zuoren. After him are Morris Swadesh, Henry Luce, Daniel Jones, Arthur Ransome, Georges Berger, and Oskar Maria Graf.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Reginald Punnett ranks 2,651 out of 7,765. Before him are Charli XCX (1992), Johann von Lamont (1805), Iain Banks (1954), Patrick Doyle (1953), Arthur Russell (1886), and Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond (1672). After him are Minnie Driver (1970), Charles Warren (1840), John Turner (1929), Richard Christopher Carrington (1826), John Henry Mackay (1864), and Ian Stewart (1945).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Reginald Punnett ranks 68. Before him are Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), George Bentham (1800), William Curtis (1746), William Jackson Hooker (1785), Gregory Winter (1951), and Richard Lydekker (1849). After him are Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Anna Russell (1807), Patrick Manson (1844), Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), and Philip Henry Gosse (1810).

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