| J. B. S. Haldane AKA John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Born: 5-Nov-1892
Birthplace: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Died: 1-Dec-1964
Location of death: Bhubaneswar, India
Cause of death: Cancer - Colon
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Biologist Nationality: Scotland
Executive summary: The Causes of Evolution Military service: British Army (Scottish Black Watch, WWI, served in Iraq) Father: John Scott Haldane (physiologist, b. 1860, d. 1936)
Mother: Louisa Kathleen Trotter
Wife: Charlotte Franken
Wife: Helen Spurway
High School: Dragon School, Oxford
High School: Eton College
University: MA, New College, Oxford University (1914)
Scholar: Fellow, New College, Oxford University
Professor: Cambridge University (1922-32)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1932)
Professor: University of London (1933-57)
Darwin Medal 1952
Communist Party 1937-50
Naturalized Indian Citizen
Author of books:
Daedalus (1924)
Animal Biology (1927, with Julian Huxley)
The Inequality of Man (1932)
The Causes of Evolution (1932)
The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences (1938)
Science Advances (1947)
The Biochemistry of Genetics (1954)
Selected Genetic Papers of J.B.S. Haldane (1990)
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