Darwin Medal

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The Darwin Medal is given by the Royal Society on even years to a biologist or a husband and wife team of biologists. The award is given for "work of acknowledged distinction in the broad area of biology in which Charles Darwin worked." [1]

List of Winners

2002 Peter and Rosemary Grant
2000 Brian Charlesworth
1998 Michael Gale and Graham Moore
1996 John Sulston
1994 Peter Lawrence
1992 Motoo Kimura
1990 John Harper
1988 W.D. Hamilton
1986 John Maynard Smith
1984 Ernst Mayr
1982 John Heslop-Harrison; Yolande Heslop-Harrison
1980 Sewall Wright
1978 Guido Pontecorvo
1976 Charlotte Auerbach
1974 Philip Sheppard
1972 David Lack
1970 Charles Sutherland Elton
1968 Maurice Yonge
1966 Harold Munro Fox
1964 Kenneth Mather
1962 George Gaylord Simpson
1960 Edred John Henry Corner
1958 Gavin de Beer
1956 Julian Sorell Huxley
1954 E.B. Ford
1952 J.B.S. Haldane
1950 Felix Eugen Fritsch
1948 Ronald Fisher
1946 D’Arcy Thompson
1944 John Stanley Gardiner
1942 David Meredith Seares Watson
1940 James Peter Hill
1938 Frederick Orpen Bower
1936 Edgar Johnson Allen
1934 Albert Charles Seward
1932 Carl Erich Correns
1930 Johannes Schmidt
1928 Leonard Cockayne
1926 Dukinfield Henry Scott
1924 Thomas Hunt Morgan
1922 Reginald C. Punnett
1920 Rowland H. Biffen
1918 Henry Fairfield Osborn
1916 Yves Delage
1914 Edward Bagnall Poulton
1912 Francis Darwin
1910 Roland Trimen
1908 August Weismann
1906 Hugo de Vries
1904 William Bateson
1902 Francis Galton
1900 Ernst Haeckel
1898 Karl Pearson
1896 Giovanni Battista Grassi
1894 Thomas Henry Huxley
1892 Joseph Dalton Hooker
1890 Alfred Russel Wallace

	Topics relating to Charles Darwin
	Family: Erasmus Darwin (grandfather) - Josiah Wedgwood (maternal grandfather) - Emma Darwin (wife) - William Darwin; Anne Darwin; Etty Darwin; George Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin; Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Charles Waring Darwin (children) - Francis Galton (cousin)
	Contributions to evolutionary biology: Evolution by means of natural and sexual selection.
	Books: The Voyage of the Beagle - The Origin of Species - The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
	Named in honour of Darwin: Darwin Medal - Darwin, Australia - Charles Darwin University, Darwin College, Cambridge