Isadore Nabi [SEP] creator
Isadore Nabi
Isadore Nabi (sometimes "Isidore Nabi" or "Isador Nabi") was a pseudonym used by a group of scientists including Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins, Robert MacArthur, and Leigh van Valen in the 1960s. Inspired by the work of Nicolas Bourbaki, they allegedly hoped to create a unified approach to evolutionary biology. However, the project was aborted and the name was reused in the 1980s for satirical purposes.
Nabi's biography was listed in "American Men and Women of Science", articles and
an invented character and insisted that he "lifted the two 1975 phrases of mine out of context in a way that reverses the meaning of one". The editors suggested that Nabi was a pseudonym of Lewontin's. Lewontin wrote to insist he was not "Isidore Nabi", citing Nabi's biography in "American Men and Women of Science" and editorial board position on "Evolutionary Theory". Isidore Nabi replied to insist that he was not Isadore Nabi, the author of the letter.
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