The Most Famous

BIOLOGISTS from Kenya

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This page contains a list of the greatest Kenyan Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 1,097 Biologists, 1 of which were born in Kenya. This makes Kenya the birth place of the 43rd most number of Biologists behind Lebanon, and Jordan.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kenyan Biologists of all time. This list of famous Kenyan Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Richard Dawkins (b. 1941)

With an HPI of 75.49, Richard Dawkins is the most famous Kenyan Biologist.  His biography has been translated into 97 different languages on wikipedia.

Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995 he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards. In 2005 he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize. Known as Darwin's Rottweiler, Dawkins has written a number of popular books explicating evolution. In The Selfish Gene (1976), he popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and coined the word meme. In The Blind Watchmaker (1986), he shows how the cumulative, non-random process of natural selection, coupled with random variation, can create complexity. In 1991 he gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on Growing Up in the Universe. With Yan Wong, he co-authored The Ancestor's Tale (2004), a “Chaucerian pilgrimage to the dawn of life.” Along with Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris, he is known as one of the “Four Horsemen of the New Atheism." He made the case for atheism in The God Delusion (2006). The Sunday Times described it as one of the 12 most influential books since the Second World War. That year he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He edited The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (2008) and authored a children's book, The Magic of Reality (2011). He has published two volumes of memoirs, An Appetite for Wonder (2013) and Brief Candle in the Dark (2015).

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kenyan biologists born between 1941 and 1941. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kenyan biologists include Richard Dawkins.

Living Kenyan Biologists

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