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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 by Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
 and Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace, Order of Merit, Fellow of the Royal Society was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Natural history, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist....
 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".






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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 by Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
 and Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace, Order of Merit, Fellow of the Royal Society was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Natural history, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist....
 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". 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
Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace, Order of Merit, Fellow of the Royal Society was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Natural history, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist....
, and silver medals to six other distinguished scientists:

  • Joseph Dalton Hooker
    Joseph Dalton Hooker

    Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Order of Merit, Order of the Star of India, Order of the Bath, Doctor of Medicine, Fellow of the Royal Society was an England botanist and explorer....
  • August Weissman
  • Ernst Haeckel
    Ernst Haeckel

    'Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel' ,also written 'von Haeckel', was an eminent Germany biologist, natural history, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including phylum, ph...
  • Francis Galton
    Francis Galton

    Sir Francis Galton Fellow of the Royal Society , Cousin#Half_cousins of Charles Darwin, was an England Victorian era polymath, anthropologist, Eugenics, tropical List of explorers, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, Psychometrics, and statistician....
  • E. Ray Lankester
  • Eduard Strasburger
    Eduard Strasburger

    Eduard Adolf Strasburger was a Poland-Germany professor who was one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century.He was born in Warsaw, Poland, son of Edward Bogumil Strasburger ....


1958

20 silver medals were awarded:

  • Edgar Anderson
    Edgar Anderson

    Edgar Anderson was an United States botanist. His 1949 book Introgressive Hybridization was an original and important contribution to botanical genetics....
  • E. Pavlovsky
  • Maurice Caullery
    Maurice Caullery

    Maurice Jules Gaston Corneille Caullery , Paris) was a France biologist.Caullery specialised in parasitic protozoans and marine invertebrates....
  • Bernhard Rensch
    Bernhard Rensch

    Bernhard Rensch was a Germany evolutionary biologist, and ornithologist who did field work in Indonesia and India. He is probably best known as one of the architects of the modern evolutionary synthesis, which he popularised in Germany....
  • Ronald A. Fisher
  • G. Gaylord Simpson
  • C. R. Florin
    Carl Rudolf Florin

    Carl Rudolf Florin was a Sweden botanist, specialising in gymnosperms, including both modern and fossil material....
  • Carl Skottsberg
    Carl Skottsberg

    Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg was a Swedish botanist and explorer of Antarctica.Skottsberg was born in Karlshamn, began his academic studies at Uppsala University in 1898 and received his doctorate and a docentship there in 1907....
  • Roger Heim
    Roger Heim

    Roger Heim, born February 12, 1900, Paris, died September 17, 1979, was a French botanist specialising in mycology and tropical phytopathology. He was known for his studies describing the anatomy of the mushroom hymenium, the systematics and phylogeny of higher fungi , the mycology of tropical fungi such as Termitomyces, as well as ethnom...
  • H. Hamshaw Thomas
  • J. B. S. Haldane
    J. B. S. Haldane

    John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Royal Society#Fellowship , known as Jack , was a UK-born geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was one of the founders of population genetics....
  • Erik Stensiö
    Erik Stensiö

    Erik Helge Osvald Stensi? was a Sweden paleozoology.Erik Andersson, as his original name was, was born in the village of Stensj? in D?derhult parish in Kalmar County; he later took his new surname from his place of origin and is occasionally referred to with both names ....
  • John Hutchinson
    John Hutchinson (botanist)

    John Hutchinson was a renowned English botanist, taxonomist and author....
  • Göte Turesson
    Göte Turesson

    G?te Wilhelm Turesson was a Swedish evolutionary botanist who made significant contributions to ecological genetics, and coined the terms ecotype and agamospecies....
  • Julian Huxley
    Julian Huxley

    Sir Julian Sorell Huxley Fellow of the Royal Society was an English evolutionary biologist, Humanist and Internationalism . He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis....
  • Victor van Straelen
    Victor van Straelen

    Victor van Straelen was a Belgian palaeontologist and carcinologist.In 1925 he was appointed director of the Belgian Royal Institute of Natural Science in Brussels, and in 1933 made head of the Institute of National Parks of the Congo....
  • Ernst Mayr
  • D. M. S. Watson
  • H. J. Muller
  • John Christopher Willis
    John Christopher Willis

    John Christopher Willis Fellow of the Royal Society was a British botanist.Born in Liverpool, he was educated at University College, Liverpool and University of Cambridge....
     (posthumously)


2008

14 silver medals were awarded, including 2 posthumously:

  • Nick Barton
    Nick Barton

    Professor Nicholas Hamilton Barton Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh is a United Kingdom evolutionary biologist....
  • M.W. Chase
  • Bryan Clarke
    Bryan Clarke

    Professor Bryan Campbell Clarke Fellow of the Royal Society, born in 1932, is a United Kingdom genetics. He is professor emeritus of genetics at the University of Nottingham Clarke is particularly noted for his work on apostatic selection and other forms of frequency-dependent selection, and work on polymorphism in snails, much of it done du...
  • Joseph Felsenstein
  • Stephen Jay Gould
    Stephen Jay Gould

    Stephen Jay Gould was a prominent American Paleontology, Evolution, and History of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....
     (posthumously)
  • Peter R. Grant
  • Rosemary Grant
  • James Mallet
  • Lynn Margulis
    Lynn Margulis

    Lynn Margulis is an United States biologist and University Professor in the Earth science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryote organelles, and her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory?which is now generally accepted for how certain Mitochondrion were formed....
  • John Maynard Smith (posthumously)
  • Mohamed Noor
    Mohamed Noor

    Mohamed Noor is a Professor and Associate Chair of Biology at Duke University. His specialities include Evolution, Genetics and Genomics.With a BS from the College of William and Mary and a PhD from University of Chicago , together with a postdoctoral residency at Cornell University , he specialises in Drosophila evolution and in 2007 cont...
  • H. Allen Orr
    H. Allen Orr

    H. Allen Orr is University Professor and Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Biology at the University of Rochester....
  • Linda Partridge
    Linda Partridge

    Linda Partridge Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , is a British geneticist....


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