Born: 21-Dec-1889
Birthplace: Melrose, MA
Died: 3-Mar-1988
Location of death: Madison, WI
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Unitarian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Biologist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Mathematics of evolution

Formulated the idea of genetic drift.

Father: Philip Green Wright
Mother: Elizabeth Quincy Sewall
Brother: Quincy Wright (political scientist)
Brother: Theodore Paul Wright
Wife: Louise Williams (genetics teacher, m. 1921, one daughter, two sons)
Daughter: Elizabeth Rose
Son: Richard
Son: Robert

    High School: Galesburg High School, Galesburg, IL (1906)
    University: Lombard College, Galesburg, IL
    University: MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1912)
    University: PhD, Harvard University
    Professor: University of Chicago (1926-54)
    Professor: Genetics, University of Wisconsin at Madison (1955-60)

    National Medal of Science 1966

Author of books:
Evolution and the Genetics of Populations

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