BIOLOGIST

Alfred Sturtevant

1891 - 1970

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Alfred Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891 – April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Sturtevant is the 690th most popular biologist (down from 612th in 2019), the 5,930th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,498th in 2019) and the 95th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 690 out of 1,097. Before him are Gustav Radde, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Albert Charles Smith, Alfred Romer, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, and Basilius Besler. After him are Josef August Schultes, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Anton Reichenow, Auguste Duméril, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, and William Withering.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 187. Before him are Edmund Goulding, George Marshall, Alfred Neubauer, Mariano Ospina Pérez, William F. Albright, and Ferdinand Bruckner. After him are André Labatut, Adolf Busch, Philipp Etter, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Harald Öhquist, and Oreste Puliti. Among people deceased in 1970, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 168. Before him are Max Abegglen, Fritz Kortner, William Daniels, Tammi Terrell, Ralph Hartley, and Adolf Wiklund. After him are Jérôme Carcopino, Alfréd Rényi, Parashqevi Qiriazi, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Johnny Hodges, and Alice Hamilton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 5,930 out of 20,380. Before him are Dan Ariely (1967), Joan Osborne (1962), Donald Lippincott (1893), Mary Whiton Calkins (1863), Aileen Riggin (1906), and Pharoah Sanders (1940). After him are Eric Dane (1972), Muggsy Bogues (1965), Mildred McDaniel (1933), Oliver North (1943), Amanda Bynes (1986), and Daniel Silva (1960).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Alfred Sturtevant ranks 95. Before him are Charles David Keeling (1928), Charles Horton Peck (1833), Eugene Odum (1913), Walter Sutton (1877), Albert Charles Smith (1906), and Alfred Romer (1894). After him are Alexander Wetmore (1886), Alice Hamilton (1869), Thomas Say (1787), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), and Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823).

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