My final word, before I’m done, Is ‘Cancer can be rather fun’. Thanks to the nurses and Nye Bevan The NHS is quite like heaven Provided one confronts the tumour With a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt one till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts.
J. B. S. Haldane Quotes
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
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| Birth: | 5th November, 1892 |
| Death: | 1st December, 1964 |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Profession: | Biologist |
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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane was born in Oxford, England. He was a British-born Indian Biologist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and in mathematics, where he made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics. He earned an MA degree from New College, Oxford University in 1914. Between 1919 and 1922 he was a Fellow of New College, Oxford, where he researched physiology and genetics. He then moved to the University of Cambridge, where he accepted a readership in Biochemistry and taught until 1932. In 1933, he became full Professor of Genetics at University College London. He served as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as a professor at Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta from 1957-64. In 1952, he received the Darwin Medal from the Royal Society.
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