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Haldane was a professed socialist, Marxist, atheist, and secular humanist whose political dissent led him to leave England in 1956 and live in India, becoming a naturalised Indian citizen in 1961. Arthur C. Clarke credited him as "perhaps the most brilliant science populariser of his generation".
J.B.S. Haldane (born Nov. 5, 1892, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died Dec. 1, 1964, Bhubaneswar, India) was a British geneticist, biometrician, physiologist, and popularizer of science who opened new paths of research in population genetics and evolution.
Aug 6, 2019 · Read a brief biography of evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane and information about his contributions to the field of evolution.
Oct 28, 2021 · On 1 December 1964, when John Burdon Sanderson Haldane died sitting on his porch in Bhubaneswar, India, it marked the passing of one of the century’s most prominent biologists.
Nov 4, 2020 · JBS Haldane – “Jack” to his family and friends – was once described as “the last man who might know all there was to be known”. His reputation was built on his work in genetics, but his expertise was extraordinarily wide-ranging. As an undergraduate at Oxford, he studied mathematics and classics.
Quick Reference. (1892–1964) British geneticist, biometrician, and philosopher who made valuable contributions to the physiology of respiration and chromosome mapping but above all to popularizing science and emphasizing its political and social context.
Jul 28, 2020 · “A Dominant Character,” by Samanth Subramanian, recounts the turbulent life of J.B.S. Haldane, the great British biologist and political activist.
Nov 24, 2017 · In 1929 the British biologist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane published a hypothesis on the origin of life on earth, which was one of the most emblematic of.
Mar 6, 2018 · JBS Haldane made many scientific contributions, and is perhaps best remembered as a population geneticist, principally in relation to his work on natural selection in the early 20 th century. As...
Jul 18, 2020 · A king-size man who towered over British biology for several decades in the middle of the 20th century, Jack Haldane—the “half-Dane”—was a more obvious Goliath, but he always took the side ...
