Richard Lewontin
Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator.[3][4]
Richard Lewontin | |
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| Born | Richard Charles Lewontin March 29, 1929 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | July 4, 2021 (aged 92) Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (BS) Columbia University (PhD) |
| Known for | Evolutionary biology Population genetics |
| Awards | Sewall Wright Award (1994), Crafoord Prize (2015), Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics Evolutionary biology Population genetics |
| Institutions | Harvard University North Carolina State University University of Rochester University of Chicago Columbia University |
| Thesis | The Effects of Population Density and Composition on Viability in Drosophila melanogaster (1955) |
| Doctoral students | Joseph Felsenstein Jerry Coyne Russell Lande Martin Kreitman[2] |
From 1973 to 1998, he held an endowed chair in zoology and biology at Harvard University, and from 2003 until his death in 2021 had been a research professor there.
Lewontin died on July 4, 2021 in Brattleboro, Vermont, at the age of 92.[5]
References
- ↑ Richard Lewontin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Kreitman, Martin Edward (1983). Nucleotide Sequence Variation of Alcohol dehydrogenase in Drosophila melanogaster. Harvard University. ProQuest 303271509.
- ↑ Lewontin, R. C.. A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. II. Amount of variation and degree of heterozygosity in natural populations of Drosophila pseudoobscura. Genetics 54 (2) (1966). p. 595–609. doi:10.1093/genetics/54.2.595.
- ↑ Hubby, J. L.. A molecular approach to the study of genic heterozygosity in natural populations. I. The number of alleles at different loci in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Genetics 54 (2) (1966). p. 577–594. doi:10.1093/genetics/54.2.577.
- ↑ Richard Lewontin: Pioneering evolutionary biologist dies aged 92. New Scientist (July 5, 2021). Retrieved July 5, 2021.