Darwin Wallace Medal

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The Darwin Wallace Medal:
obverse profile of Charles Darwin ,
reverse head portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace .

The Darwin-Wallace Medal (English Darwin-Wallace Medal ) is an award given by the Linnean Society of London , which was awarded every fifty years between 1908 and 2008 for significant advances in the field of evolutionary biology . The medal has been awarded annually since 2010.

history

Under the title On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection , excerpts from the scientific work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were read out in front of the London Linnaeus Society on July 1, 1858 , in which the idea of ​​evolution was publicly represented for the first time . To mark the fiftieth anniversary of this event, the Darwin Wallace Medal was awarded for the first time in 1908.

The only gold medal awarded so far went to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1908. The six other winners (silver medals) of this year were Francis Galton , Ernst Haeckel , Joseph Dalton Hooker , Ray Lankester , Eduard Strasburger and August Weismann .

1958 were honored: Edgar Anderson , Maurice Caullery , Ronald Aylmer Fisher , Carl Rudolf Florin , JBS Haldane , Roger Heim , John Hutchinson , Julian Huxley , Ernst Mayr , Hermann Joseph Muller , Jewgeni Nikanorowitsch Pawlowski , Bernhard Rensch , Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg , George Gaylord Simpson , Erik Stensiö , Victor Van Straelen , Hugh Hamshaw Thomas , Göte Turesson , David Meredith Seares Watson , John Christopher Willis .

In 2008 the Darwin Wallace Medal was awarded to: Nick Barton , Mark Chase , Bryan Clarke , Joseph Felsenstein , Stephen Jay Gould , Peter R. Grant & Rosemary Grant , James Mallet , Lynn Margulis , John Maynard Smith , Mohamed Noor , H. Allen Orr , Linda Partridge .

Award winner since 2010

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