Gustave Malécot (December 28, 1911 — November 1998) was a French population geneticist. December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... A database query syntax error has occurred. ... November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Population genetics is the study of the distribution of and change in allele frequencies under the influence of the four evolutionary forces: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and migration. ...

Biography

Malécot grew up in L'Horme, a small village near St. Étienne in the Loire departemente, the son of a mine engineer. Loire is a département in the east-central part of France occupying the Loire Rivers upper reaches. ...

In 1935, Malécot a degree in mathematics from the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. He then went on to do a PhD under George Darmois and completed that in 1939. His work focused on Ronald Fisher's 1918 article The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance. History Main article: History of mathematics In addition to recognizing how to count concrete objects, prehistoric peoples also recognized how to count abstract quantities, like time -- days, seasons, years. ... The quadrangle at the main ENS building on rue dUlm is known as the Cour aux Ernests – the Ernests being the goldfish in the pond. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sir Ronald Fisher Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (February 17, 1890 – July 29, 1962) was an evolutionary biologist, geneticist and statistician. ... The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance is a scientific paper by Ronald Fisher which was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1918, (volume 52, pages 399—433). ...

Between 1940 and 1942, with France under Nazi German occupation, Malécot taught mathematics at the Lyceé de Saint-Étienne. In 1942 he was appointed maître de conférence (lecturer) Université de Montpellier. In 1945 he joined the Université de Lyon, becoming professor of applied mathematics in 1946, a position he held until his retirement in 1981. 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The University of Lyon (Université de Lyon), located in Lyon, France, comprises three sub-univeristies called faculties (facultés in French). ... Applied mathematics provides the interface between the fundamental mathematical structures and their use in the physical and social sciences. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• Bryan K. Epperson, (1999) Gustave Malécot, 1911–1998: Population Genetics Founding Father. Genetics ... * article (http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/full/152/2/477) (requires subscription)
• Montgomery Slatkin and Michel Veuille (eds) Modern developments in theoretical population genetics: the legacy of Gustave Malécot - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-859963-3
• Nagylaki, T., 1989 Gustave Malécot and the transition from classical to modern population genetics. Genetics 122: 253–268.

External links

• L’œuvre scientifique de Gustave Malécot, 1911-1998 (pdf, in French) (http://ist.inserm.fr/BASIS/medsci/fqmb/medsci/DDD/86.pdf)