- Darwin-Wallace Medal
The Darwin-Wallace Medal is a medal awarded by the
Linnean Society of London every 50 years, beginning in 1908, 50 years after the joint presentation byCharles Darwin andAlfred Russel Wallace of two scientific papers - "On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection " - to the Linnean Society of London on 1 July 1858. It is awarded for "major advances in evolutionary biology". [cite web|url=http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=344|title=The Darwin-Wallace Medal|publisher=The Linnean Society of London |accessdate=2008-07-18] In 2008 the Society announced they would henceforth award the medal annually.Darwin-Wallace Medallists
1908
The first award was of a gold medal to
Alfred Russel Wallace [ [http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/wallace/S656.htm Acceptance Speech on receiving the Darwin-Wallace Medal] ] , and silver medals to six other distinguished scientists:*
Joseph Dalton Hooker
*August Weissman
*Ernst Haeckel
*Francis Galton
*E. Ray Lankester
*Eduard Strasburger 1958
20 silver medals were awarded:
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Edgar Anderson
*E. Pavlovsky
*Maurice Caullery
*Bernhard Rensch
*Ronald A. Fisher
*G. Gaylord Simpson
*C. R. Florin
*Carl Skottsberg
*Roger Heim
*H. Hamshaw Thomas
*J. B. S. Haldane
*Erik Stensiö
*John Hutchinson
*Göte Turesson
*Julian Huxley
*Victor van Straelen
*Ernst Mayr
*D. M. S. Watson
*H. J. Muller
*John Christopher Willis (posthumously)2008
14 silver medals were awarded, including 2 posthumously:
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Nick Barton
*M.W. Chase
*Bryan Clarke [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/public-affairs/press-releases/index.phtml?menu=pressreleases&code=INT-127/08&create_date=11-jun-2008]
*Joseph Felsenstein
*Stephen Jay Gould (posthumously)
*Peter R. Grant
*Rosemary Grant
*J. L. B. Mallet
*Lynn Margulis
*John Maynard Smith (posthumously)
*Mohamed Noor
*H. Allen Orr [http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3206]
*Linda Partridge References
External links
* http://linnean.org/index.php?id=344
** [http://linnean.org/fileadmin/images/Awards/Recipients_of_the_Darwin-Wallace_Medal.pdf List of medalists]
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