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Garrett Hardin

1915 - 2003

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Garrett James Hardin (April 21, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was an American ecologist and microbiologist. He focused his career on the issue of human overpopulation, and is best known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons in a 1968 paper of the same title in Science, which called attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "We can never do merely one thing. Any intrusion into nature has numerous effects, many of which are unpredictable.": 112  Hardin held hardline anti-immigrant positions as well as positions on eugenics and multiethnicism that have led multiple sources to label him a white nationalist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Garrett Hardin is the 757th most popular biologist (down from 589th in 2019), the 6,487th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,278th in 2019) and the 105th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Garrett Hardin ranks 757 out of 1,097. Before him are Ardem Patapoutian, Heinrich Zollinger, James L. Peters, Johann Amman, Élie-Abel Carrière, and Alexei Fedchenko. After him are Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, John Hutchinson, Domenico Vandelli, Bertha Lutz, Adam Lonicer, and Tomitaro Makino.

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Among people born in 1915, Garrett Hardin ranks 183. Before him are John C. Lilly, Johannes Kotkas, Luise Krüger, Jóhann Hafstein, Sargent Shriver, and Regina Ghazaryan. After him are Hasse Ekman, Ferenc Sas, Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Margarita Aliger, Hoàng Văn Thái, and Dorothy Poynton-Hill. Among people deceased in 2003, Garrett Hardin ranks 219. Before him are Hal Clement, Roy Jenkins, Joel Antônio Martins, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Tranquilo Cappozzo, and Horace W. Babcock. After him are German Apukhtin, Emília Rotter, Alfredo Hernández, Yuriy Voynov, Wolfgang Peters, and Rachel de Queiroz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Garrett Hardin ranks 6,488 out of 20,380. Before him are Gayle Rubin (1949), Tom Welling (1977), Jerry Sloan (1942), Jim Steinman (1947), Mike Espy (1953), and Jackie Wilson (1934). After him are James C. Scott (1936), Amy Brenneman (1964), Richard Marx (1963), Daryl Hall (1946), Darlene Cates (1947), and Michael Tomasello (1950).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Garrett Hardin ranks 105. Before him are Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823), Richard Lewontin (1929), Francis Collins (1950), and James L. Peters (1889). After him are Robert Ridgway (1850), Herbert Copeland (1902), Neil Campbell (1946), Stephen Schneider (1945), John Jacob Abel (1857), and Jane Colden (1724).

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