Motoo Kimura
Motoo Kimura ( Japanese 木村 資 生 , Kimura Motoo ; born November 13, 1924 in Okazaki , † November 13, 1994 in Mishima ) was a Japanese geneticist and evolutionary biologist .
Live and act
Motoo Kimura graduated from Kyoto University . From 1949 he was a member of the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima and dealt with population genetics. Based on his research on the mutation level of DNA, he contradicted the theory of natural selection, which has been the common assumption since Darwin . In 1968 he formulated the neutral theory of molecular evolution .
In 1978 Kimura was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Awards
- 1976: Order of Culture (Japan)
- 1987: John J. Carty Award of the National Academy of Sciences , of which he was a member since 1973
- 1992: Darwin Medal from the Royal Society , of which he was elected as a "Foreign Member" in 1993.
Works
- Evolutionary rate at the molecular level . In: Nature 217, 1968. Pages 624-626.
- The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution . Cambridge University Press 1983. ISBN 0-521-23109-4 .
literature
- S. Noma (Ed.): Kimura Motoo . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 781.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kimura, motoo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 木村 資 生 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese evolutionary biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Okazaki |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1994 |
| Place of death | Mishima (Shizuoka) |