BIOLOGIST

Sewall Wright

1889 - 1988

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Sewall Green Wright FRS (For) ForHonorary FRSE (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. He was a founder of population genetics alongside Ronald Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane, which was a major step in the development of the modern synthesis combining genetics with evolution. He discovered the inbreeding coefficient and methods of computing it in pedigree animals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sewall Wright has received more than 303,977 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Sewall Wright is the 573rd most popular biologist (down from 440th in 2019), the 5,148th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,345th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Biologist.

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  • 26

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  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sewall Wright ranks 573 out of 1,097. Before him are Blasius Merrem, John Ellis, Jean de Thévenot, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Miles Joseph Berkeley, and Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. After him are Alessandra Giliani, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, William Elford Leach, Jacob Sturm, and George Allman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Sewall Wright ranks 181. Before him are Arthur Waley, Zofia Zamenhof, Ostap Vyshnya, Sadhu Sundar Singh, Grigory Levenfish, and Hans Felber. After him are Nathan Altman, Otto Tief, Clifton Webb, Marcel Moyse, Elmo Lincoln, and Julius Skutnabb. Among people deceased in 1988, Sewall Wright ranks 137. Before him are Anatoli Maslyonkin, Joshua Logan, Herluf Bidstrup, André Navarra, Lygia Clark, and Irmgard Seefried. After him are Jenő Vincze, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Sándor Bíró, Iosif Grigulevich, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, and Franca Raimondi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sewall Wright ranks 5,148 out of 20,380. Before him are Eugene Parker (1927), Mary Surratt (1823), George Devol (1912), George Horine (1890), Donella Meadows (1941), and Tyrese Gibson (1978). After him are Luke Wilson (1971), Sam Anderson (1945), Tera Patrick (1976), Emily Procter (1968), Tyler, the Creator (1991), and Emily Deschanel (1976).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Sewall Wright ranks 81. Before him are Arthur Cronquist (1919), Frederic Clements (1874), Craig Mello (1960), Alice Hamilton (1869), Mary Agnes Chase (1869), and Barry Commoner (1917). After him are Harold E. Varmus (1939), Garrett Hardin (1915), Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858), Jack Horner (1946), Alfred Sturtevant (1891), and George C. Williams (1926).

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