Daniel Hunt Janzen
Daniel Hunt Janzen (born January 18, 1939 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American evolutionary biologist . He is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and also conducts field research in the World Heritage Region Area de Conservación Guanacaste (Province of Guanacaste / Costa Rica ) and at the Costa Rican Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio). His specialty is the coevolution of plants and animals.
Janzen received his PhD in entomology from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1965 . From 1965 he was Assistant Professor in Biology at the University of Kansas and from 1968 Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor at the University of Chicago . In 1972 he became an associate professor and later professor at the University of Michigan . From 1976 he was professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he temporarily headed the biology faculty. He was a consultant with the National Park Service of Costa Rica.
Awards (selection)
- 1975: Gleason Award from the American Botanical Society
- 1984: Crafoord Prize for his research on coevolutional ecology
- 1987: Global 500 Roll of Honor
- 1989: MacArthur Fellow
- 1990: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , USA
- 1992: Admission to the National Academy of Sciences , USA
- 1996: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Minnesota
- 1997: Kyoto Prize in the Biology category for his basic research
- 2002: Albert Einstein World Award of Science , presented by the Consejo Cultural Mundial, Mexico
- 2007: Elected member of the American Philosophical Society
- 2011: BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Member History: Daniel H. Janzen. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 13, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Janzen, Daniel Hunt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Janzen, Daniel H .; Janzen, Daniel; Janzen, Dan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American evolutionary biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee , Wisconsin |