Word: mayr
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Also called the Japan Prize, the award is one of the most prestigious in science. Nobel prizes are not given in biology, but the Japan prize and the Balzan Prize, awarded by a Swiss-Italian foundation, are considered equivalents. Mayr has won both...
...have been active in biology for 69 years," Mayr said. "This is a very pleasant surprise and a nice reward for so many years of hard work...
...Mayr says he will give the money away, just as he did the $130,000 he received in 1983 with the Balzan Prize...
Stephen Jay Gould, professor of geology at Harvard, and a renowned authority on evolution, has called Mayr "the greatest living evolutionary biologist...
...Mayr retired in 1975 after 22 years as a professor and nine as the director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...