HONOR

Awarded by the Royal Society for "work of acknowledged distinction in the broad area of biology in which Charles Darwin worked". A similarly titled honor, the Charles Darwin Award, is awarded by the Zoological Society of London.

1890	Alfred Russel Wallace
1892	Joseph Dalton Hooker
1894	Thomas Henry Huxley
1896	Giovanni Battista Grassi
1898	Karl Pearson
1900	Ernst Haeckel
1902	Francis Galton
1904	William Bateson
1906	Hugo de Vries
1908	August Weismann
1910	Roland Trimen
1912	Francis Darwin
1914	Edward Bagnall Poulton
1916	Yves Delage
1918	Henry Fairfield Osborn
1920	Rowland H. Biffen
1922	Reginald C. Punnett
1924	Thomas Hunt Morgan
1926	Dukinfield Henry Scott
1928	Leonard Cockayne
1930	Johannes Schmidt
1932	Carl Erich Correns
1934	Albert Charles Seward
1936	Edgar Johnson Allen
1938	Frederick Orpen Bower
1940	James Peter Hill
1942	David Meredith Seares Watson
1944	John Stanley Gardiner
1946	D'Arcy Thompson
1948	Ronald Fisher
1950	Felix Eugen Fritsch
1952	J. B. S. Haldane
1954	E.B. Ford
1956	Julian Huxley
1958	Gavin de Beer
1960	E. J. H. Corner
1962	George Gaylord Simpson
1964	Kenneth Mather
1966	Harold Munro Fox
1968	Maurice Yonge
1970	Charles Elton
1972	David Lack
1974	Philip Sheppard
1976	Charlotte Auerbach
1978	Guido Pontecorvo
1980	Sewall Wright
1982	John Heslop-Harrison and Yolande Heslop-Harrison
1984	Ernst Mayr
1986	John Maynard Smith
1988	W. D. Hamilton
1990	John Harper
1992	Motoo Kimura
1994	Peter Lawrence
1996	John Sulston
1998	Michael Gale and Graham Moore
2000	Brian Charlesworth
2002	Peter and Rosemary Grant
2004	Enrico Coen and Rosemary Carpenter
2006	Nick Barton

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