# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-b-s-haldane
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:08:52.834Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/j-b-s-haldane"
name: "J.B.S. Haldane"
slug: "j-b-s-haldane"
description: "John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, nicknamed \"Jack\" or \"JBS\", was a British-born scientist who later moved to India and acquired Indian citizenship. He worked in the fields of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism. 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. Renouncing his British citizenship, he became an Indian citizen in 1961 and worked at the Indian Statistical Institute until his death in 1964."
tagline: "Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892-1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JBS_Haldane%2C_circa_1914.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1892-11-05"
deathDate: "1964-12-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump