# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sten-wahlund
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:29:36.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sten-wahlund"
name: "Sten Wahlund"
slug: "sten-wahlund"
description: "Sten Gösta William Wahlund was a Swedish statistician, race biologist and politician. He is best known for first identifying the Wahlund effect, that subpopulations with different allele frequencies cause reduced heterozygosity than what is expected from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium."
tagline: "Swedish geneticist and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sten_G%C3%B6sta_William_Wahlund_SPA2_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1901-03-06"
deathDate: "1976-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.04
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.601836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ستين واهلوند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten_Wahlund"
    title: "Sten Wahlund"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten_Wahlund"
    title: "Sten Wahlund"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten_Wahlund_(statistiker)"
    title: "Sten Wahlund (statistiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sten_Wahlund"
    title: "Sten Wahlund"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6229126"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump