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John Maynard Smith

1920 - 2004

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John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution with George R. Price, and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Maynard Smith is the 378th most popular biologist (down from 276th in 2019), the 1,964th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,552nd in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, John Maynard Smith ranks 378 out of 1,097. Before him are August Batsch, David Douglas, Georg Joseph Kamel, Frank Chapman, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, and Nikolai Severtzov. After him are Samuel Frederick Gray, Matt Ridley, Esther Lederberg, Michał Boym, François-Alphonse Forel, and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, John Maynard Smith ranks 142. Before him are Andrew V. McLaglen, Yevgeny Dragunov, Richard Adams, Thomas Gold, Dick Francis, and Alf Ramsey. After him are Paik Sun-yup, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani, Thomas Szasz, Michael Anderson, and Heinz Kessler. Among people deceased in 2004, John Maynard Smith ranks 99. Before him are Arnold Orville Beckman, Irina Press, Ann Miller, Russ Meyer, Thomas Gold, and Miklós Fehér. After him are Umberto Agnelli, Mercedes McCambridge, Walter Frentz, Artie Shaw, Vasili Mitrokhin, and Carlos Lacoste.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Maynard Smith ranks 1,964 out of 8,785. Before him are Dan McCafferty (1946), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Ralph Richardson (1902), Richard Parkes Bonington (1801), Tobias Smollett (1721), and Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin (1914). After him are Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Nick Simper (1945), John Boorman (1933), Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), F. H. Bradley (1846), and Sam Mendes (1965).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Maynard Smith ranks 60. Before him are Patrick Geddes (1854), Edward Blyth (1810), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), Nehemiah Grew (1641), Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), and David Douglas (1799). After him are Samuel Frederick Gray (1766), Matt Ridley (1958), William Elford Leach (1791), June Almeida (1930), Arthur Tansley (1871), and John Needham (1713).

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