- Haldane
Haldane (Half Dane) is the surname of an aristocratic Scottish family which includes various scientists and churchmen:
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*A. R. B. Haldane , social historian and author
*Charlotte Haldane , British feminist writer
*Daniel Rutherford Haldane , Scottish physician
*Elizabeth Haldane , first female Justice of the Peace in Scotland
*Graeme Haldane (Thomas Graeme Nelson Haldane), Scottish engineer
*James Alexander Haldane , Scottish independent church leader
*James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane , British soldier
*J. B. S. Haldane , British geneticist and evolutionary biologist, namesake of:
**Haldane's Dilemma , referring to the speed of evolution
**Haldane's Law , a statement about the universe
**Haldane's Rule , referring to interspecies mating
*John Joseph Haldane , aristocrat and British philosopher
*John Scott Haldane , British physician, discoverer of:
**theHaldane Effect in hemoglobin
*Lewis Haldane , Welsh footballer
*Naomi Margaret Haldane (also Naomi Mitchison), Scottish writer
*Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane , Lord Chancellor and 'Father of the Territorial Army'
*Robert Haldane , Scottish churchman
*William Stowell Haldane (also William Haldane), Crown Agent for ScotlandHaldane is the surname of a fictional family in the Deryni novels of Katherine Kurtz:
*Haldane (fictional)
*Aidan Haldane (Daniel Draper)
*Alroy Haldane (Royston Draper)
*Conall Haldane of Gwynedd
*Nigel Haldane of Gwynedd Places
;ExtraterrestrialThere are (at least) two Haldane craters:
*Haldane (lunar crater)
*Haldane (crater on Mars) ;United States
*Haldane, Illinois
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