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Ernst Mayr

1904 - 2005

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Ernst Walter Mayr ( MYRE; German: [ɛʁnst ˈmaɪɐ]; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept. Although Charles Darwin and others posited that multiple species could evolve from a single common ancestor, the mechanism by which this occurred was not understood, creating the species problem. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Mayr is the 92nd most popular biologist (down from 74th in 2019), the 628th most popular biography from Germany (up from 675th in 2019) and the 11th most popular German Biologist.

Ernst Mayr is most famous for his work in evolutionary biology, specifically the biological species concept.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ernst Mayr ranks 92 out of 1,097. Before him are Herman Boerhaave, August Weismann, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Katherine Oppenheimer, Clair Cameron Patterson, and Alfred Hershey. After him are Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Philip Sclater, Aaron Ciechanover, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Pierre André Latreille, and Nikolai Vavilov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Ernst Mayr ranks 27. Before him are Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Karl Brandt, Odilo Globočnik, René Lacoste, John Hicks, and Joan Crawford. After him are Hans Albert Einstein, Werner Forssmann, Alejo Carpentier, Gerhard Herzberg, Hans Morgenthau, and Witold Gombrowicz. Among people deceased in 2005, Ernst Mayr ranks 25. Before him are Saul Bellow, Sister Lúcia, Kenzō Tange, Anne Bancroft, Jack Kilby, and Joseph Rotblat. After him are Zdzisław Beksiński, Ezer Weizman, Aslan Maskhadov, Ed McBain, Pat Morita, and Henry Taube.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Mayr ranks 628 out of 7,253. Before him are Maximilian von Weichs (1881), Wolfgang Paul (1913), Henri Nestlé (1814), Georg Wittig (1897), Elsa Einstein (1876), and Franz Boas (1858). After him are Wolfgang Petersen (1941), Kurt Weill (1900), Walter Baade (1893), Adolf Galland (1912), Klaus Mann (1906), and Helmut Newton (1920).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Ernst Mayr ranks 11. Before him are Harald zur Hausen (1936), Theodor Schwann (1810), Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804), Hans Spemann (1869), August Weismann (1834), and Katherine Oppenheimer (1910). After him are Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942), Erwin Neher (1944), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771), and Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748).

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