Motoo Kimura, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Motoo Kimura

Japanese scientist

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1924

Place of Birth: Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 13-Nov-1994

Profession: mathematician, biologist, geneticist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Motoo Kimura (?? ??, Kimura Moto) (November 13, 1924 – November 13, 1994) was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968.
He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists.
He is remembered in genetics for his innovative use of diffusion equations to calculate the probability of fixation of beneficial, deleterious, or neutral alleles.
Combining theoretical population genetics with molecular evolution data, he also developed the neutral theory of molecular evolution in which genetic drift is the main force changing allele frequencies.
James F.
Crow, himself a renowned population geneticist, considered Kimura to be one of the two greatest evolutionary geneticists, along with Gustave Malécot, after the great trio of the modern synthesis, Ronald Fisher, J.
B.
S.
Haldane and Sewall Wright.