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Stephen Jay Gould

1941 - 2002

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Stephen Jay Gould ( GOOLD; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Jay Gould has received more than 2,317,997 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Stephen Jay Gould is the 184th most popular biologist (down from 173rd in 2019), the 1,679th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,723rd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Biologist.

Stephen Jay Gould was a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who was most famous for his theory of punctuated equilibrium. This theory states that evolution is not a gradual process, but rather a series of rapid changes followed by long periods of stability.

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  • 4.34

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  • 4.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Stephen Jay Gould ranks 184 out of 1,097. Before him are Jakob von Uexküll, Theodor Escherich, Anna Atkins, George Robert Gray, Georg Wilhelm Steller, and Peter Medawar. After him are Armand David, Jeffrey C. Hall, Ian Wilmut, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Eva Ekeblad, and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Stephen Jay Gould ranks 113. Before him are Louis Ignarro, Bertrand Tavernier, Emmett Till, David Warner, Roger Lemerre, and Ann-Margret. After him are Robert Wilson, Abdelkader Bensalah, Goh Chok Tong, Jorge Solari, Infante Alfonso of Spain, and Peter Coyote. Among people deceased in 2002, Stephen Jay Gould ranks 55. Before him are Yoshio Okada, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Laurent Schwartz, César Milstein, Eduardo Chillida, and Mauro Ramos. After him are Henri Verneuil, Hugo Banzer, Agatha Barbara, John Frankenheimer, Joe Strummer, and Chico Xavier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen Jay Gould ranks 1,679 out of 20,380. Before him are Lucy Liu (1968), Conchata Ferrell (1943), Busta Rhymes (1972), Serena Williams (1981), Aaron Spelling (1923), and Edwin G. Krebs (1918). After him are Héctor Elizondo (1936), Rex Stout (1886), Peter Bogdanovich (1939), Robert Wilson (1941), Jerry Reed (1937), and Maria Mitchell (1818).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Stephen Jay Gould ranks 32. Before him are Leland H. Hartwell (1939), Norman Borlaug (1914), Joshua Lederberg (1925), Robert Whittaker (1920), Paul Greengard (1925), and George Wald (1906). After him are Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), Daniel Nathans (1928), Asa Gray (1810), Temple Grandin (1947), Wilbur Scoville (1865), and Michael W. Young (1949).

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