Jbs biography

Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892–1964)

For another British scientist, see John Scott Haldane.

John Burdon Sanderson HaldaneFRS (; 5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964^[1][2]), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS",^[3] 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,^[1] he taught biology at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Institution, and University College London.^[4] Renouncing his British citizenship, he became an Indian citizen in 1961^[5] and worked at the Indian Statistical Institute until his death in 1964.

Haldane's article on abiogenesis in 1929 introduced the "primordial soup theory", which became the foundati