John Maynard Smith - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	06-January-1920
Place of Birth	London (England, United Kingdom, Great Britain)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Profession	Science writer, Mathematician, Scientist, Geneticist
John Maynard Smith FRS was a British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorized on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory.

Awards by John Maynard Smith

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Maynard Smith.

2001

Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences

1999

Copley Medal	(In recognition of his seminal contributions to evolutionary biology, including his experimental work on sexual selection, his important contributions to our understanding of ageing, his introduction of game theoretical methods for the analysis of complex evolutionary scenarios and his research into molecular evolution, both through his classic work on genetic hitchhiking, and with his more recent, ongoing work on bacterial population growth.)

1991

Balzan Prize for Biological sciences	(Genetics and Evolution)

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