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BIOLOGIST

Sewall Wright

1889 - 1988

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Sewall Green Wright FRS(For) Honorary 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 286,522 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Sewall Wright is the 441st most popular biologist (up from 525th in 2019), the 4,357th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,771st in 2019) and the 68th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sewall Wright ranks 441 out of 841Before him are Benedykt Dybowski, William Jackson Hooker, Alfred Grandidier, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, Jean-Pierre Changeux, and Elisabeth Christina von Linné. After him are Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Jean René Constant Quoy, Leopold Fitzinger, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Sewall Wright ranks 148Before him are Manuel Prado Ugarteche, Antonio Caggiano, James Whale, Louis Van Hege, Grigory Levenfish, and Otto Deßloch. After him are Zhang Qun, W. S. Van Dyke, Erich Pommer, Reggie Walker, Ludwig Renn, and Anita Malfatti. Among people deceased in 1988, Sewall Wright ranks 112Before him are Steno, Pete Maravich, Marcel Bozzuffi, Gaston Eyskens, Sylvester, and Arnulfo Arias. After him are Shen Congwen, Giorgio Almirante, John Houseman, Vasil Mzhavanadze, Irmgard Seefried, and Pál Titkos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sewall Wright ranks 4,357 out of 18,182Before him are Sarah Rafferty (1972), John Spencer (1946), Braxton Bragg (1817), Laurie Metcalf (1955), Ryan Murphy (1965), and A. Merritt (1884). After him are Lew Ayres (1908), Queen Latifah (1970), Sally Kirkland (1941), Art LaFleur (1943), John Lewis (1920), and John Ashbery (1927).

Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Sewall Wright ranks 68Before him are Harold E. Varmus (1939), Barry Commoner (1917), Andrew Fire (1959), Brian Kobilka (1955), Martha Chase (1927), and James P. Allison (1948). After him are Esther Lederberg (1922), Craig Mello (1960), Garrett Hardin (1915), Aldo Leopold (1887), Charles David Keeling (1928), and David Starr Jordan (1851).