Word: prizes
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Mayr, an evolutionary biologist, flew to Japan last month to accept the latest of his more than 25 awards--the 1994 International Prize for Biology...
Mayr won the prize for his work in systematics, which attempts to define the evolutionary relationships between organisms...
...every kind of prize in the world," says John R. Pappenheimer '36, Higginson professor of physiology...
...prize, which is awarded by the emperor and empress of Japan, is regarded as one of the top prizes in biology. The medal is accompanied by a monetary award of 10 million yen, or about...
...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...