Sewall Wright, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sewall Wright

American geneticist

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1889

Place of Birth: Melrose, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 03-Mar-1988

Profession: biologist, university teacher, statistician, geneticist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Sewall Green Wright (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis.
He was a founder of population genetics alongside Ronald Fisher and J.
B.
S.
Haldane, which was a major step in the development of the modern synthesis combining genetics with evolution.
He discovered the inbreeding coefficient and methods of computing it in pedigree animals.
He extended this work to populations, computing the amount of inbreeding between members of populations as a result of random genetic drift, and along with Fisher he pioneered methods for computing the distribution of gene frequencies among populations as a result of the interaction of natural selection, mutation, migration and genetic drift.
Wright also made major contributions to mammalian and biochemical genetics.