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...major earthquakes shook the ground in the Boston area yesterday, but Baird Professor of Science Adam M. Dziewonski must have felt a few tremors when awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Crafoord prize for his work in developing the field of "seismic tomography...
...Crafoord prize, named after the inventor of the artificial kidney, is awarded by the same academy that awards the Nobel prizes...
Since there is no Nobel category for work in geophysics, the Crafoord prize is one of the most prestigious in the field...
Wilson also won the Crafoord Prize in 1990 from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his research on biodiversity and population biology...
Despite resistance, sociobiology has been absorbed into the scientific mainstream, and Wilson's spadework in the fields of entomology and island biogeography has passed rigorous peer review. His book On Human Nature won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979, and this year he shared the Crafoord Prize with population biologist Paul Ehrlich of Stanford. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences administers the $240,000 award, established to recognize areas not covered by the Nobel Prizes...