Haldane

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Haldane (Half Dane) is the surname of an aristocratic Scottish family which includes various scientists and churchmen:

• Category:Haldane family
• 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:
  • the Haldane 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 Scotland

Haldane 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

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Extraterrestrial

There are (at least) two Haldane craters:

• Haldane (lunar crater)
• Haldane (crater on Mars)

United States

• Haldane, Illinois