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Richard Levins
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Mathematical ecologist, university professor at Harvard School of Public Health, and political activist, who is best known for his work on evolution in changing environments and on metapopulations.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Theory of fitness in a heterogeneous environment
- The dialectical biologist
- The Best American Science Writing 2003
- Biology under the Influence
- Biology Under the Influence
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 8
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data
· 1977 · cited 63,277x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,180x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 47,611x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 47,182x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,472x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Spouse
- Rosario Morales
- Occupation
- economist
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Employer
- University of Puerto Rico
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- theoretical ecology
- Image
- 01-Richard Levins at 85th Birthday Symposium Tribute Dinner 5-23-2015.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1930-06-01
- date of death
- 2016-01-19
- Commons category
- Richard Levins (ecologist)
- cause of death
- heart failure
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- manner of death
- natural causes
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