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.
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- ↑ "Richard Lewontin: Pioneering evolutionary biologist dies aged 92". New Scientist. July 5, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2021.