BIOLOGIST

Amotz Zahavi

1928 - 2017

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Amotz Zahavi (Hebrew: אמוץ זהבי; August 14, 1928 – May 12, 2017) was an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a Professor in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. His main work concerned the evolution of signals, particularly those signals that are indicative of fitness, and their selection for "honesty". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amotz Zahavi is the 669th most popular biologist (down from 665th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Israel (up from 271st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Israeli Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Amotz Zahavi ranks 669 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Hipólito Ruiz López, Edward Forbes, Heinz Christian Pander, Eugene Odum, and Johann Gerhard König. After him are Japetus Steenstrup, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, Nikolai Turczaninow, and Johann Heinrich Blasius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Amotz Zahavi ranks 326. Before him are Umberto Maglioli, Charles Gray, Joan Martí i Alanis, António Ribeiro, Art Farmer, and Leon Fleisher. After him are Karl Mai, Angus Ogilvy, Bill Mollison, Luciano De Crescenzo, Károly Sándor, and Chaim Kanievsky. Among people deceased in 2017, Amotz Zahavi ranks 285. Before him are Ruth Pfau, Karl-Erik Nilsson, Haruo Nakajima, Ulli Lommel, Hubert Dreyfus, and Charles P. Thacker. After him are Anne-Marie Colchen, Björn Granath, Adam Darius, Paul J. Weitz, Cuthbert Sebastian, and Barry Dennen.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Amotz Zahavi ranks 240 out of 466. Before him are Gideon Levy (1953), Meir Shalev (1948), Tamir Pardo (1953), Achinoam Nini (1969), Gila Almagor (1939), and Yvan Attal (1965). After him are Joseph Raz (1939), Gideon Sa'ar (1966), Carmela Corren (1938), Narcissus of Jerusalem (95), Israel Finkelstein (1949), and Ari Folman (1962).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Israel

Among biologists born in Israel, Amotz Zahavi ranks 4. Before him are Ada Yonath (1939), Aaron Ciechanover (1947), and Ruth Arnon (1933).

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