BIOLOGIST

Richard Goldschmidt

1878 - 1958

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Richard Benedict Goldschmidt (April 12, 1878 – April 24, 1958) was a German geneticist. He is considered the first to attempt to integrate genetics, development, and evolution. He pioneered understanding of reaction norms, genetic assimilation, dynamical genetics, sex determination, and heterochrony. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Goldschmidt has received more than 99,179 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Goldschmidt is the 610th most popular biologist, the 4,120th most popular biography from Germany and the 136th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Richard Goldschmidt ranks 610 out of 1,097Before him are Richard Lydekker, Philip Henry Gosse, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Fritz Schaudinn, Martin Rathke, and James Francis Stephens. After him are George Clifford III, Alfred Sturtevant, Ray Lankester, Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, Rolf Singer, and Georg Dionysius Ehret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Richard Goldschmidt ranks 156Before him are Edith Hannam, Jean Becquerel, Leonhard Kaupisch, Rudolf Walden, Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Giuseppe Adami. After him are Holcombe Ward, Charles Dvorak, Carl Sternheim, Fidel Dávila Arrondo, Viktor Nogin, and Pat McDonald. Among people deceased in 1958, Richard Goldschmidt ranks 115Before him are Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Carl Westergren, Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, J. G. Strijdom, and Erwin Bauer. After him are Henryk Arctowski, Jesse L. Lasky, Big Bill Broonzy, Willie Applegarth, Bhagwan Das, and Feodor Gladkov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Richard Goldschmidt ranks 4,120 out of 7,253Before him are Loki Schmidt (1919), Christian Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1661), Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau (1824), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (1682), and Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786). After him are Wilhelm Heye (1869), Eleonore Wilhelmine of Anhalt-Köthen (1696), Wolfgang Becker (1954), Erich Ollenhauer (1901), Rudolf Wolters (1903), and Helmuth Rilling (1933).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Richard Goldschmidt ranks 136Before him are Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817), Erwin Stresemann (1889), Carl Chun (1852), Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798), and Ludwig Diels (1874). After him are Rolf Singer (1906), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Magnus Manske (1974), Adam Lonicer (1528), and Karl Hugo Strunz (1910).