Maynard Smith, John
Born: Jan 06, 1920 AD
Died: 2004 AD, at 84 years of age.
Nationality: English
Categories: Biologists, Scientist
Died: 2004 AD, at 84 years of age.
Nationality: English
Categories: Biologists, Scientist
1920 - John Maynard Smith, born on the 6th of January in London, England. He was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist.
1941 - Finished his engineering degree at Trinity College Cambridge.
- Married Sheila Matthew, and they were later to have two sons and one daughter (Tony, Carol and Julian).
1942 - 1947 - He applied his degree to military aircraft design.
1951 - He graduated and received a degree in zoology at University College London, including fruit fly genetics under J.B.S. Haldane.
1952 - Became a lecturer in Zoology at UCL.
1956 - He became gradually more disillusioned with communism and became a less active member.
1958 - He published a popular Penguin book The Theory Of Evolution.
1962 - Was one of the founding members of the University of Sussex.
1965 - 1985 - Appointed Dean of the School of Biological Sciences at the newly formed Sussex University.
1965 - He directed the Drosophila lab and conducted research on population genetics.
1973 - Formalised a central concept in game theory called the evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), based on a verbal argument by George R. Price.
1977 - He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
1982 - His area of research culminated in his book Evolution and the Theory of Games.
1986 - He was awarded an Darwin Medal.
1991 - Awarded the Balzan Prize of Italy.
1995 - Received the Linnean Medal by The Linnean Society.
1999 - He was awarded the Crafoord Prize jointly with Ernst Mayr and George C. Williams.
2001 - Given the Kyoto Prize.
2003 - His final book, Animal Signals, co-authored with David Harper was published.
2004 - He died, sitting in a high-backed chair and surrounded by books, at his home in Lewes, East Sussex on the 19th of April.
1941 - Finished his engineering degree at Trinity College Cambridge.
- Married Sheila Matthew, and they were later to have two sons and one daughter (Tony, Carol and Julian).
1942 - 1947 - He applied his degree to military aircraft design.
1951 - He graduated and received a degree in zoology at University College London, including fruit fly genetics under J.B.S. Haldane.
1952 - Became a lecturer in Zoology at UCL.
1956 - He became gradually more disillusioned with communism and became a less active member.
1958 - He published a popular Penguin book The Theory Of Evolution.
1962 - Was one of the founding members of the University of Sussex.
1965 - 1985 - Appointed Dean of the School of Biological Sciences at the newly formed Sussex University.
1965 - He directed the Drosophila lab and conducted research on population genetics.
1973 - Formalised a central concept in game theory called the evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), based on a verbal argument by George R. Price.
1977 - He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
1982 - His area of research culminated in his book Evolution and the Theory of Games.
1986 - He was awarded an Darwin Medal.
1991 - Awarded the Balzan Prize of Italy.
1995 - Received the Linnean Medal by The Linnean Society.
1999 - He was awarded the Crafoord Prize jointly with Ernst Mayr and George C. Williams.
2001 - Given the Kyoto Prize.
2003 - His final book, Animal Signals, co-authored with David Harper was published.
2004 - He died, sitting in a high-backed chair and surrounded by books, at his home in Lewes, East Sussex on the 19th of April.
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