Author
Edward O. Wilson
June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021 · United States
Entomologist, Sociobiologist, Novelist, Ethologist, Autobiographer, Naturalist, Evolutionary biologist, Science writer, Biologist, University teacher, Zoologist, Ecologist, Myrmecologist, Scientific collector
Titles on list
1
Total weeks
8
Peak rank
#12
Biography
- Born
- June 10, 1929 · Birmingham
- Died
- December 26, 2021 · Burlington
- Nationality
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Languages
- English
- Education
- Harvard University, University of Alabama
Awards & Honours
- 1967Newcomb Cleveland Prize
- 1975Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1976National Medal of Science
- 1979Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
- 1979Leidy Award
- 1984Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
- 1987ECI Prize
- 1988Golden Plate Award
- 1990Crafoord Prize in Biosciences
- 1990Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- 1991Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
- 1993International Prize for Biology
- 1993Natural World Book Prize
- 1994Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science
- 1994Eminent Ecologist Award
- 1995Audubon Medal
- 1995honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
- 1995Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science
- 1997William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
- 1999Humanist of the Year
- 1999Harvard Centennial Medal
- 2000King Faisal International Prize in Science
- 2000Kistler Prize
- 2000Lewis Thomas Prize
- 2001Nierenberg Prize
- 2001Global Environmental Citizen Award
- 2002Natural World Book Prize
- 2004honorary doctor of Harvard University
- 2004Distinguished Eagle Scout Award
- 2007TED Prize
- 2007Catalonia International Prize
- 2007Linnean Tercentenary Medal
- 2007Addison Emery Verrill Medal
- 2010BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
- 2010Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture
- 2012International Cosmos Prize
- 2012Fellow of the Ecological Society of America
- 2013Hubbard Medal
- 2014Kew International Medal
- 2016Harper Lee Award
- Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
- Honorary Fellow of the Zoological Society of London
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