BIOLOGIST

Richard Lewontin

1929 - 2021

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Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator. A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, he applied techniques from molecular biology, such as gel electrophoresis, to questions of genetic variation and evolution. He was a self-described Marxist. In a pair of seminal 1966 papers co-authored with J. L. Hubby in the journal Genetics, Lewontin helped set the stage for the modern field of molecular evolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Lewontin is the 748th most popular biologist (down from 706th in 2019), the 6,392nd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,410th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Richard Lewontin ranks 748 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Friedrich Adam, Charles Conrad Abbott, Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Miles Joseph Berkeley, Spencer Fullerton Baird, and Erwin Stresemann. After him are Friedrich Reinitzer, Francis Collins, Ardem Patapoutian, Heinrich Zollinger, James L. Peters, and Johann Amman.

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Among people born in 1929, Richard Lewontin ranks 320. Before him are Walter Berry, Mikhail Simonov, Costa Pereira, Sunil Dutt, Petr Eben, and Eugène Parlier. After him are Henri Pousseur, Otar Patsatsia, Anatoly Kuznetsov, Alfred Teinitzer, Moses Gunn, and Charles Antenen. Among people deceased in 2021, Richard Lewontin ranks 336. Before him are Bernard Lown, István Csom, Tomoyasu Asaoka, Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Johnny Pacheco, and Ronald Pickup. After him are Aydin Ibrahimov, Otar Patsatsia, C. George Boeree, Casimir Oyé-Mba, Alfred Teinitzer, and Valentin Afonin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Lewontin ranks 6,393 out of 20,380. Before him are E. B. White (1899), Wes Unseld (1946), Julia Quinn (1970), Walter Piston (1894), Daniel Quillen (1940), and John Ottman (1964). After him are William Beaumont (1785), Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926), Levon Helm (1940), Christine Elise (1965), Eddie Slovik (1920), and Stephen Allen Benson (1816).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Richard Lewontin ranks 102. Before him are Alexander Wetmore (1886), Alice Hamilton (1869), Thomas Say (1787), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), Charles Conrad Abbott (1843), and Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823). After him are Francis Collins (1950), James L. Peters (1889), Garrett Hardin (1915), Robert Ridgway (1850), Herbert Copeland (1902), and Neil Campbell (1946).

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