death_date death_place birth_place fields birth_date spouse image article_title name alma_mater
6 january 1975 london , united kingdom united states population genetics , physical chemistry october 6 , 1922 julia madigan -lrb- m. 1947 div . 1955 -rrb- george robert price.jpg george r. price
 george r. price university of chicago
george r. price

george robert price -lrb- october 6 , 1922 -- january 6 , 1975 -rrb- was an american population geneticist .
originally a physical chemist and later a science journalist , he moved to london in 1967 , where he worked in theoretical biology at the galton laboratory , making three important contributions : first , rederiving w.d. hamilton 's work on kin selection with a new price equation ; second , introducing -lrb- with john maynard smith -rrb- the concept of the evolutionarily stable strategy -lrb- ess -rrb- , a central concept in game theory ; and third , formalising fisher 's fundamental theorem of natural selection .
after converting to christianity and giving all his possessions to the poor , he committed suicide .
