Richard Levins
Sign in to saveMathematical 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
- Born
- 1930-06-01
- Died
- 2016-01-19
- 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 61,606x
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 58,098x
- Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
· 2009 · cited 46,736x
- ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database
· 2009 · cited 46,121x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 June 1930
- Died
- 19 January 2016
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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
- Cornell University
- Employer
- University of Puerto Rico
Connections
Categories
1930 births2016 deaths20th-century American agronomists20th-century American naturalists20th-century American philosophers21st-century American philosophersAmerican activistsAmerican biologistsAmerican expatriates in CubaAmerican MarxistsAmerican Marxist writersAmerican people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent