J.B.S. Haldane made a career in medicine at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists J.B.S. Haldane as Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892-1964).
J.B.S. Haldane was born at Oxford in 1892. His recorded nationality is the United Kingdom. He was educated at Eton College and University of Oxford.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
He worked as biologist, geneticist and physiologist.
His affiliations include University College London.
His name is attached above all to work in human biology, having coined "clone", "cloning", and "ectogenesis". Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
The surviving body of work includes population genetics.
His recorded fields of work are biology.
His work was formally recognised with the Honorary doctor of the University of Groningen, Linnean Medal and Croonian Medal and Lecture.
Working from the United Kingdom shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
J.B.S. Haldane died in 1964, aged 72. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Notable work: population genetics
- Affiliated with University College London
- Educated at Eton College and University of Oxford
- Worked as biologist, geneticist and physiologist
