Darwin–Wallace Medal

The Darwin - Wallace Medal (English Darwin - Wallace Medal ) is a awarded by the Linnean Society of London award, which was awarded every fifty years for significant progress in the field of evolutionary biology 1908-2008. Since 2010, the medal is awarded annually.

History

Entitled On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection have read excerpts from scientific work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace on July 1, 1858 before the London Linnean Society, in which was represented publicly for the first time the evolution of thought. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of this event, the Darwin - Wallace Medal in 1908, awarded for the first time.

Now the only award gold medal went to 1908 Alfred Russel Wallace. The six other award winners ( silver medal ) this year was 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, Yevgeny Pavlovsky, Bernhard Rensch, Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg, George Gaylord Simpson, Erik Stensio, Victor van Straelen, Hugh Thomas Hamshaw, Gothenburg 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.

Prize winners since 2010

• 2010: Brian Charlesworth
• 2011: James Lake
• 2012: Henry Loren Rieseberg
• 2013: Matthew Godfrey Hewitt