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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 221,466 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Reginald Punnett is the 672nd most popular biologist (down from 485th in 2019), the 3,261st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,644th in 2019) and the 88th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Reginald Punnett ranks 672 out of 1,097. Before him are Robert Swinhoe, Japetus Steenstrup, Samuel Garman, William Roxburgh, Bernard Heuvelmans, and Johann Amman. After him are Hugo von Mohl, Wilhelm Hemprich, Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, N. E. Brown, Keith Campbell, and Ole Borch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Reginald Punnett ranks 134. Before him are Thomas Xenakis, Oleksandr Murashko, Milan Neralić, Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, Hasrat Mohani, and Leopold Andrian. After him are Eugene Lanceray, Georgios Papasideris, Astrid Cleve, James J. Jeffries, Roscoe Lockwood, and Jean Stern. Among people deceased in 1967, Reginald Punnett ranks 182. Before him are Ann Sheridan, Franz Babinger, Arthur Ransome, Jaromír Weinberger, Thomas Tien Ken-sin, and Sig Ruman. After him are Ramón Zabalo, Fritz Schäffer, Georges Berger, Percy Hodge, Mischa Auer, and Gerhard Ritter.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Reginald Punnett ranks 3,261 out of 8,785. Before him are Madge Syers (1881), Jennifer Saunders (1958), Warren Clarke (1947), Gary Speed (1969), Jane March (1973), and Harry Patch (1898). After him are Dave Davies (1947), Isaac Watts (1674), Donald Moffat (1930), Wulfhere of Mercia (650), Donald Sumpter (1943), and Joe Fagan (1921).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Reginald Punnett ranks 88. Before him are Anna Russell (1807), William Withering (1741), David Don (1799), Everard Home (1756), John Sims (1749), and William Roxburgh (1751). After him are N. E. Brown (1849), Keith Campbell (1954), John Hutchinson (1884), John Abbot (1751), Philip Barker-Webb (1793), and Osbert Salvin (1835).

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