Darwin Medal
The Darwin Medal is given by the Royal Society on even years to a biologist or a husband and wife team of biologists. The award is given for "work of acknowledged distinction in the broad area of biology in which Charles Darwin worked." [1] (http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/awards/medals/)
List of Winners
- 2004 Enrico Coen and Rosemary Carpenter
- 2002 Peter and Rosemary Grant
- 2000 Brian Charlesworth
- 1998 Michael Gale and Graham Moore
- 1996 John Sulston
- 1994 Peter Lawrence
- 1992 Motoo Kimura
- 1990 John Harper
- 1988 W.D. Hamilton
- 1986 John Maynard Smith
- 1984 Ernst Mayr
- 1982 John Heslop-Harrison; Yolande Heslop-Harrison
- 1980 Sewall Wright
- 1978 Guido Pontecorvo
- 1976 Charlotte Auerbach
- 1974 Philip Sheppard
- 1972 David Lack
- 1970 Charles Sutherland Elton
- 1968 Maurice Yonge
- 1966 Harold Munro Fox
- 1964 Kenneth Mather
- 1962 George Gaylord Simpson
- 1960 Edred John Henry Corner
- 1958 Gavin de Beer
- 1956 Julian Sorell Huxley
- 1954 E.B. Ford
- 1952 J.B.S. Haldane
- 1950 Felix Eugen Fritsch
- 1948 Ronald Fisher
- 1946 D’Arcy Thompson
- 1944 John Stanley Gardiner
- 1942 David Meredith Seares Watson
- 1940 James Peter Hill
- 1938 Frederick Orpen Bower
- 1936 Edgar Johnson Allen
- 1934 Albert Charles Seward
- 1932 Carl Erich Correns
- 1930 Johannes Schmidt
- 1928 Leonard Cockayne
- 1926 Dukinfield Henry Scott
- 1924 Thomas Hunt Morgan
- 1922 Reginald C. Punnett
- 1920 Rowland H. Biffen
- 1918 Henry Fairfield Osborn
- 1916 Yves Delage
- 1914 Edward Bagnall Poulton
- 1912 Francis Darwin
- 1910 Roland Trimen
- 1908 August Weismann
- 1906 Hugo de Vries
- 1904 William Bateson
- 1902 Francis Galton
- 1900 Ernst Haeckel
- 1898 Karl Pearson
- 1896 Giovanni Battista Grassi
- 1894 Thomas Henry Huxley
- 1892 Joseph Dalton Hooker
- 1890 Alfred Russel Wallace
 | Topics relating to Charles Darwin |
|---|---|
| Family: Erasmus Darwin (grandfather) - Josiah Wedgwood (maternal grandfather) - Emma Darwin (wife) - William Darwin; Anne Darwin; Etty Darwin; George Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin;
Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Charles Waring Darwin (children) - Francis Galton (cousin) | |
| Contributions to evolutionary biology: Evolution by means of natural and sexual selection. | |
| Books: The Voyage of the Beagle - The Origin of Species - The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex | |
| Named in honour of Darwin: Darwin Medal - Darwin, Australia - Charles Darwin University, Darwin College, Cambridge |