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Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 1st Baronet, FRS, [1] HFRSE D.Sc. (21 December 1828 – 23 November 1905) was an English physiologist born near Newcastle upon Tyne, and a member of a well known Northumbrian family.
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS (/ ˈ h ɔː l d eɪ n /; 5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964 [1] [2]), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", [3] was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics.
Sir John Scott Burdon Sanderson was born on 21 st December 1828 near Newcastle upon Tyne to a well-known Northumbrian family. He completed his medical education at the University of Edinburgh and at Paris, before becoming the Medical Office of Health for Paddington, London in 1856 and later physician to the Middlesex Hospital and the Brompton ...
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS. 1892-1964. In his day Professor JBS Haldane was as well-known a scientist as one could hope to be. Magazines paid handsomely for his articles explaining science to the general public. Collected in books, these continued to sell for years.
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane. Born: Nov. 5, 1892, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng. Died: Dec. 1, 1964, Bhubaneswar, India (aged 72) Notable Works: “The Causes of Evolution”. Notable Family Members: father John Scott Haldane.
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John Burdon Sanderson or J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) was born in Oxford on November 5 and, as the author of The Causes of Evolution (1932), became a founder of what was later called the modern evolutionary synthesis of population genetics.
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.
