Sewall Wright

Also known as Sewall Green Wright

American geneticist (1889-1988)

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Born: 1889
Died: 1988
Works: 14

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Principles of livestock breeding
Corn and hog correlations
Evolution and the genetics of populations
THE ROLES OF MUTATION, INBREEDING, CROSSBREEDING AND SELECTION IN EVOLUTION
Evolution and the genetics of populations

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1953-12-21
Active to: 2020-05-10

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5 total works indexed

Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,919x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,419x
Genome engineering using the CRISPR-Cas9 system
· 2013 · cited 10,755x
Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
· 2003 · cited 10,038x
First‐Year <i>Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe</i> ( <i>WMAP</i> ) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters
· 2003 · cited 9,191x

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Key facts

Born: ( 1889-12-21 ) December 21, 1889, Melrose, Massachusetts , U.S.
Died: March 3, 1988 (1988-03-03) (aged 98), Madison, Wisconsin , U.S.
Education: Lombard College ( BSc ), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ( MSc ), Harvard University ( PhD )
Known for: Coefficient of determination , Population genetics , Causal graph , F-statistics , Fixation index , Fitness landscape , Genetic rescue , Genetic drift , Inbreeding coefficient , Path analysis , Shifting balance theory , Threshold model
Awards: Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1945) , Weldon Memorial Prize (1947), National Medal of Science (1966), Darwin Medal (1980), Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (1982), Balzan Prize (1984)
Fields: Genetics
Institutions: University of Chicago , (1926–1954) , University of Wisconsin , (1955–1960)
Doctoral advisor: William Ernest Castle
Other academic advisors: Wilhelmine Key

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date of birth: 1889-12-21
date of death: 1988-03-03
name in native language: Sewall Green Wright
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Sewall Green Wright ForMemRS HonFRSE (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.

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