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Richard Lewontin
American evolutionary biologist and mathematician (1929–2021)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 March 1929
- Died
- 4 July 2021
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Lewontin
- Field of work
- genetics, evolutionary biology, sociobiology, mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, biologist, geneticist, university teacher, zoologist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII, ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences, Crafoord Prize in Biosciences, Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
- described by source
- BEIC Digital Library
- doctoral advisor
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
- doctoral student
- Joseph Felsenstein, Jerry Coyne, Martin Kreitman, Russell Lande, Michael P. Cummings, Hamish Spencer
- educated at
- Harvard University, Columbia University, Harvard College
- employer
- Harvard University, University of Rochester, University of Chicago, Santa Fe Institute, North Carolina State University
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- name in native language
- Richard Lewontin
- residence
- Brattleboro
- writing language
- English
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