Sewall Wright Award
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The Sewall Wright Award is given annually by the American Society of Naturalists
to a "senior-level" and active investigator making fundamental contributions the conceptual unification of the biological sciences. The award was established in 1991 and named after Sewall Wright
. The recipient need not be a member of the Society or an American. A plague and award of $1,000 are presented at a banquet.
American Society of Naturalists
The American Society of Naturalists was founded in 1883 and is one of the oldest professional societies dedicated to the biological sciences in North America...
to a "senior-level" and active investigator making fundamental contributions the conceptual unification of the biological sciences. The award was established in 1991 and named after Sewall Wright
Sewall Wright
Sewall Green Wright was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. With R. A. Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane, he was a founder of theoretical population genetics. He is the discoverer of the inbreeding coefficient and of...
. The recipient need not be a member of the Society or an American. A plague and award of $1,000 are presented at a banquet.
Award recipients
- 1992 Russell LandeRussell LandeRussell Lande is an American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, and a Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College London, in Silwood Park.-Education and career:...
- 1993 Joseph Felsenstein
- 1994 Richard C. Lewontin
- 1995 John Maynard SmithJohn Maynard SmithJohn Maynard Smith,His surname was Maynard Smith, not Smith, nor was it hyphenated. F.R.S. was a British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J.B.S....
- 1996 Robert T. Paine
- 1997 Douglas J. FutuymaDouglas J. FutuymaDouglas Joel Futuyma is an American biologist.-Academics:Futuyma graduated with a B.S. from Cornell University, and took his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the interaction between plant-eating insects and the plants themselves. He was Lawrence B...
- 1998 William D. Hamilton
- 1999 Janis AntonovicsJanis AntonovicsJanis Antonovics FRS is an American biologist, and Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology, at University of Virginia.He is a 1991 Guggenheim Fellow.He won the 1999 Sewall Wright Award.-Life:...
- 2000 Montgomery SlatkinMontgomery SlatkinMontgomery Slatkin is an American biologist, and professor at University of California, Berkeley.He is faculty of the Slatkin Research Group, in the Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics.He won the 2000 Sewall Wright Award....
- 2001 Illkka A. HanskiIlkka HanskiIlkka A. Hanski FRS is a Finnish scientist, working in the field of ecology, at Helsinki University, Finland. The Metapopulation Research Group led by Hanski has been nominated as a Center of Excellence by the Academy of Finland...
- 2002 Linda PartridgeLinda PartridgeDame Linda Partridge DBE is a British geneticist, who studies the biology and genetics of ageing and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease....
- 2003 Mary Jane West-EberhardMary Jane West-EberhardMary Jane West-Eberhard is an American theoretical biologist noted for arguing that phenotypic and developmental plasticity played a key role in shaping animal evolution and speciation...
- 2004 Rudolf RaffRudolf RaffRudolf A. Raff is an American biologist, and James H. Rudy Professor of Biology, at Indiana University. He is director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute.-Life:...
- 2005 Robert E. Ricklefs
- 2006 Brian CharlesworthBrian CharlesworthProfessor Brian Charlesworth FRS is a British evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh, and editor of Biology Letters....
- 2007 Dolph SchluterDolph SchluterDolph Schluter is a professor of Evolutionary Biology and a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia...
- 2008 Spencer BarrettSpencer BarrettSpencer Barrett FBA, was an English classical scholar, Fellow and Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford, and Reader in Greek Literature in the University of Oxford...
- 2009 Michael J. WadeMichael J. WadeMichael J. Wade is a distinguished professor of biology at Indiana University Bloomington. Since 2009 he has been the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs at Indiana University...