J. B. S. Haldane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

J. B. S. Haldane

Geneticist and evolutionary biologist

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1892

Place of Birth: Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Dec-1964

Profession: biologist, university teacher, physiologist, biochemist, geneticist

Nationality: United Kingdom, India

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About J. B. S. Haldane

  • John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964) was a British-Indian scientist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics.
  • He made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics.
  • His article on abiogenesis in 1929 introduced the "primordial soup theory", and it became the foundation to build physical models for the chemical origin of life. Haldane established human gene maps for haemophilia and colour blindness on the X chromosome, and codified Haldane's rule on sterility in the heterogametic sex of hybrids in species.
  • He correctly proposed that sickle-cell disease confers some immunity to malaria.
  • He was the first to suggest the central idea of in vitro fertilisation, as well as concepts such as hydrogen economy, cis and trans-acting regulation, coupling reaction, molecular repulsion, the darwin (as a unit of evolution) and organismal cloning.
  • In 1957 he articulated Haldane's dilemma, a limit on the speed of beneficial evolution which subsequently proved incorrect.
  • He willed his body for medical studies, as he wanted to remain useful even in death.
  • He is also remembered for coining the words "clone" and "cloning" in human biology, and "ectogenesis". Haldane's first paper in 1915 demonstrated genetic linkage in mammals.
  • Subsequent works established a unification of Mendelian genetics and Darwinian evolution by natural selection whilst laying the groundwork for modern evolutionary synthesis and thus helped to create population genetics. Haldane was a professed socialist, Marxist, atheist and humanist whose political dissent led him to leave England in 1956 and live in India, becoming a naturalised Indian citizen in 1961.
  • He was the son of John Scott Haldane. Arthur C.
  • Clarke credited him as "perhaps the most brilliant science populariser of his generation".
  • Nobel laureate Peter Medawar called Haldane "the cleverest man I ever knew".
  • According to Theodosius Dobzhansky, "Haldane was always recognized as a singular case"; and to Michael J.
  • D.
  • White, "the most erudite biologist of his generation, and perhaps of the century."

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