Word: mayr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mayr almost declined to answer when asked why he thought he was selected for the award this year...
...tell you why I was chosen, you'll say 'What a conceited ass he is,'" Mayr says. "The fact is that I was the best of the nominees...
...Mayr won the prize for his work in systematics, which attempts to define the evolutionary relationships between organisms...
...Mayr is the second Harvard professor to win the award. Baird Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson...
...There is no Nobel prize in biology, so this is the best," says Walter J. Bock, professor of evolutionary biology at Columbia University. Bock, a former student of Mayr's, served on the 17-member committee that selected Mayr for the prize...