Darwin-Wallace Medal

The Darwin-Wallace Medal.

The Darwin-Wallace Medal is a medal awarded by the Linnean Society of London every 50 years, beginning in 1908, 50 years after the joint presentation by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace of two scientific papers - On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection - to the Linnean Society of London on 1 July 1858. It is awarded for "major advances in evolutionary biology".^[1] In 2008 the Society announced they would henceforth award the medal annually.

Darwin-Wallace Medallists

1908

The first award was of a gold medal to Alfred Russel Wallace^[2], and silver medals to six other distinguished scientists:

• Joseph Dalton Hooker
• August Weismann
• Ernst Haeckel
• Francis Galton
• E. Ray Lankester
• Eduard Strasburger

1958

20 silver medals were awarded:

• Edgar Anderson
• E. Pavlovsky
• Maurice Caullery
• Bernhard Rensch
• Ronald A. Fisher
• G. Gaylord Simpson
• C. R. Florin
• Carl Skottsberg
• Roger Heim
• H. Hamshaw Thomas
• J. B. S. Haldane
• Erik Stensiö
• John Hutchinson
• Göte Turesson
• Julian Huxley
• Victor van Straelen
• Ernst Mayr
• D. M. S. Watson
• H. J. Muller
• John Christopher Willis (posthumously)

2008

14 silver medals were awarded, including 2 posthumously:

• Nick Barton
• M.W. Chase
• Bryan Clarke^[3]
• Joseph Felsenstein
• Stephen Jay Gould (posthumously)
• Peter R. Grant
• Rosemary Grant
• James Mallet
• Lynn Margulis
• John Maynard Smith (posthumously)
• Mohamed Noor
• H. Allen Orr^[4]
• Linda Partridge

References

External links

• http://linnean.org/index.php?id=344
  • List of medalists