Ernst Mayr

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German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005)

United States ScientistsLived 1904 to 2005 · aged 100

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Ernst Walter Mayr was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science.

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Bust of Mayr in Berlin's Natural History Museum

Awards 23

2003Treviranus Medal

2000Loye and Alden Miller Research Award

1999Crafoord Prize in Biosciences

1996honorary doctor of the French National Museum of Natural History

1995Godman-Salvin Medal

1994International Prize for Biology

1988Foreign Member of the Royal Society

1986George Sarton Medal

1984Darwin Medal

1983Balzan Prize

1983Eisenmann Medal

1980Gregor Mendel Medal

1977Linnean Medal

1977Elliott Coues Award

1975doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University

1969National Medal of Science

1967Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal

1965Brewster Medal

1958Darwin-Wallace Medal

1946Leidy Award

Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi

Honorary Fellow of the Zoological Society of London

honorary doctor of the University of Vienna

Connected to Ernst 6

Jared DiamondAlso won Elliott Coues Award

Edward O. WilsonAlso won Leidy Award

Desmond MorrisAlso won Honorary Fellow of the Zoological Society of London

Carl WoeseAlso won Crafoord Prize in Biosciences

James CroninAlso won doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University

Julian HuxleyAlso won Godman-Salvin Medal

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Ernst Walter Mayr was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.

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