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Also Known As W. D. Hamilton
Born August 1, 1936 • Cairo • Egypt
Died March 7, 2000 (aged 63) • Oxford • England
Subjects Of Study Hamilton’s rule • evolution • sociobiology
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Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
British biologist and writer
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
J.B.S. Haldane.
J.B.S. Haldane
British geneticist
Samuel Alexander, chalk drawing by Francis Dodd, 1932; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sir Arthur Keith, detail of a pencil drawing by William Rothenstein, 1928; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Arthur Keith
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
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Ernest Rutherford
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Sanger, Frederick
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Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
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Lancelot Thomas Hogben
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Mary Cartwright, 1947
Mary Cartwright
British mathematician
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
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John Herschel
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