John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS (1892 –1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was an English scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics.
With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of
the founders of neo-Darwinism. He served in the Great War and obtained the rank
of captain. Despite his lack of an academic degree in the field, he taught
biology at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Institution, and University
College London.
Haldane was a professed socialist, Marxist, atheist, and
secular humanist whose political dissent led him to leave England in 1956 and
live in India, becoming a naturalised Indian citizen in 1961. He worked at the
Indian Statistical Institute for the rest of his life.
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