Richard Lewontin | |
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Born | Richard Charles Lewontin March 29, 1929 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | July 4, 2021 Brattleboro, Vermont, U.S. | (aged 92)
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 advisor | Theodosius Dobzhansky[1] |
Doctoral students | Joseph Felsenstein Jerry Coyne Russell Lande Martin Kreitman[2] |
Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator.[3][4]
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]