BIOLOGIST

Richard Lewontin

1929 - 2021

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Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator. A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he applied techniques from molecular biology, such as gel electrophoresis, to questions of genetic variation and evolution. In a pair of seminal 1966 papers co-authored with J. L. Hubby in the journal Genetics, Lewontin helped set the stage for the modern field of molecular evolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Lewontin has received more than 401,524 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Richard Lewontin is the 706th most popular biologist (down from 556th in 2019), the 6,411th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,319th in 2019) and the 96th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Richard Lewontin ranks 706 out of 1,097. Before him are Jan Frederik Gronovius, Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Ruth Arnon, Jane Colden, Édouard Spach, and Ignaz Schiffermüller. After him are Philip Barker-Webb, Curt Backeberg, Josephine Kablick, George Newbold Lawrence, Friedrich Reinitzer, and François Marie Daudin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Richard Lewontin ranks 349. Before him are Avet Terterian, Elizabeth Roemer, Naima Akef, David Doyle, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Jacques Plante. After him are Mithat Bayrak, Harry Blanchard, John Julius Norwich, Otar Patsatsia, Bazilio Olara-Okello, and Mario Ghella. Among people deceased in 2021, Richard Lewontin ranks 363. Before him are Tatyana Tolstaya, Ursula Happe, Abdelhamid Brahimi, David Bailie, Revaz Gabriadze, and Sergei Solovyov. After him are Isaak Khalatnikov, Mansour Ojjeh, Bob Bondurant, Martí Vergés, Ester Mägi, and Peter Fleischmann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Lewontin ranks 6,411 out of 20,380. Before him are Anne Shirley (1918), Isaiah Thomas (1989), Will Yun Lee (1971), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Robert B. Parker (1932), and Gerald Guralnik (1936). After him are Jim Keltner (1942), Cordwainer Smith (1913), Jack Coleman (1958), Jakob Dylan (1969), Randy Brecker (1945), and Leonard Warren (1911).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Richard Lewontin ranks 96. Before him are John du Pont (1938), Mary-Claire King (1946), Walter Sutton (1877), David Starr Jordan (1851), Samuel Garman (1843), and Jane Colden (1724). After him are George Newbold Lawrence (1806), Joseph Leidy (1823), Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890), James L. Peters (1889), Neil Campbell (1946), and Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823).

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