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Sewall Wright

1889 - 1988

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Sewall Green Wright ForMemRS HonFRSE (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. He was a founder of population genetics alongside Ronald Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane, which was a major step in the development of the modern synthesis combining genetics with evolution. He discovered the inbreeding coefficient and methods of computing it in pedigree animals. He extended this work to populations, computing the amount of inbreeding between members of populations as a result of random genetic drift, and along with Fisher he pioneered methods for computing the distribution of gene frequencies among populations as a result of the interaction of natural selection, mutation, migration and genetic drift. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sewall Wright is the 472nd most popular biologist (up from 573rd in 2019), the 4,120th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,147th in 2019) and the 79th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Sewall Wright ranks 472 out of 1,097. Before him are William T. Stearn, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Richard Lydekker, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, and Salim Ali. After him are Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, Julius von Sachs, Akira Endo, John Hughlings Jackson, Heinrich Schrader, and W. D. Hamilton.

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Among people born in 1889, Sewall Wright ranks 123. Before him are Luo Yixiu, Ludwig Kübler, Khudiram Bose, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Abelardo L. Rodríguez, and Charles Kay Ogden. After him are Lev Mekhlis, Baba Sali, Manuel Prado Ugarteche, Dietrich von Hildebrand, James Stephenson, and Abdelhamid Ben Badis. Among people deceased in 1988, Sewall Wright ranks 98. Before him are Andy Gibb, Christopher Connelly, Alec Issigonis, Giorgio Almirante, Wilhelm Batz, and Raymond Williams. After him are Henry Armstrong, Henry Koster, Hal Ashby, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Pál Titkos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sewall Wright ranks 4,120 out of 20,380. Before him are Linda Yaccarino (1963), Big Boss Man (1963), Andrew Cunanan (1969), Leonard Adleman (1945), Carl Wilson (1946), and Eric Roth (1945). After him are Patrick Wayne (1939), Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), Chrissie Hynde (1951), John Ashbery (1927), Walter Jackson Freeman II (1895), and Jedediah Smith (1799).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Sewall Wright ranks 79. Before him are James P. Allison (1948), Asa Gray (1810), Arthur Cronquist (1919), Robert Weinberg (1942), Robert Gallo (1937), and Luther Burbank (1849). After him are Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), Robert Sapolsky (1957), Wilder Penfield (1891), David Starr Jordan (1851), George Newbold Lawrence (1806), and Mary Agnes Chase (1869).

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