Darwin Medal - Definition and Overview

The Darwin Medal is given by the Royal Society on even years to a biologist or a husband and wife team of biologists. The award is given for "work of acknowledged distinction in the broad area of biology in which Charles Darwin worked." [1] (http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/awards/medals/)

List of Winners

• 2004 Enrico Coen and Rosemary Carpenter
• 2002 Peter and Rosemary Grant
• 2000 Brian Charlesworth
• 1998 Michael Gale and Graham Moore
• 1996 John Sulston
• 1994 Peter Lawrence
• 1992 Motoo Kimura
• 1990 John Harper
• 1988 W.D. Hamilton
• 1986 John Maynard Smith
• 1984 Ernst Mayr
• 1982 John Heslop-Harrison; Yolande Heslop-Harrison
• 1980 Sewall Wright
• 1978 Guido Pontecorvo
• 1976 Charlotte Auerbach
• 1974 Philip Sheppard
• 1972 David Lack
• 1970 Charles Sutherland Elton
• 1968 Maurice Yonge
• 1966 Harold Munro Fox
• 1964 Kenneth Mather
• 1962 George Gaylord Simpson
• 1960 Edred John Henry Corner
• 1958 Gavin de Beer
• 1956 Julian Sorell Huxley
• 1954 E.B. Ford
• 1952 J.B.S. Haldane
• 1950 Felix Eugen Fritsch
• 1948 Ronald Fisher
• 1946 D’Arcy Thompson
• 1944 John Stanley Gardiner
• 1942 David Meredith Seares Watson
• 1940 James Peter Hill
• 1938 Frederick Orpen Bower
• 1936 Edgar Johnson Allen
• 1934 Albert Charles Seward
• 1932 Carl Erich Correns
• 1930 Johannes Schmidt
• 1928 Leonard Cockayne
• 1926 Dukinfield Henry Scott
• 1924 Thomas Hunt Morgan
• 1922 Reginald C. Punnett
• 1920 Rowland H. Biffen
• 1918 Henry Fairfield Osborn
• 1916 Yves Delage
• 1914 Edward Bagnall Poulton
• 1912 Francis Darwin
• 1910 Roland Trimen
• 1908 August Weismann
• 1906 Hugo de Vries
• 1904 William Bateson
• 1902 Francis Galton
• 1900 Ernst Haeckel
• 1898 Karl Pearson
• 1896 Giovanni Battista Grassi
• 1894 Thomas Henry Huxley
• 1892 Joseph Dalton Hooker
• 1890 Alfred Russel Wallace

	Topics relating to Charles Darwin
	Family: Erasmus Darwin (grandfather) - Josiah Wedgwood (maternal grandfather) - Emma Darwin (wife) - William Darwin; Anne Darwin; Etty Darwin; George Darwin; Elizabeth Darwin; Francis Darwin; Leonard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Charles Waring Darwin (children) - Francis Galton (cousin)
	Contributions to evolutionary biology: Evolution by means of natural and sexual selection.
	Books: The Voyage of the Beagle - The Origin of Species - The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex
	Named in honour of Darwin: Darwin Medal - Darwin, Australia - Charles Darwin University, Darwin College, Cambridge