The Sewall Wright Award is given annually by the

American Society of Naturalists The American Society of Naturalists was founded in 1883 and is one of the oldest professional societies dedicated to the biological sciences in North America. The purpose of the Society is "to advance and diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and o ...

to a "senior-level" and active investigator making fundamental contributions the conceptual unification of the biological sciences. The award was established in 1991 and named after

Sewall Wright Sewall Green Wright FRS(For) Honorary FRSE (December 21, 1889March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. He was a founder of population genetics alon ...

. The recipient need not be a member of the Society or an American. A plaque and award of $1,000 are presented at a banquet.

Award recipients

Source
American Society of Naturalists
*1992

Russell Lande Russell Scott Lande (born 1951) is an American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, and an International Chair Professor at Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is a fellow of the Roy ...

*1993

Joseph Felsenstein Joseph "Joe" Felsenstein (born May 9, 1942) is a Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Genome Sciences and Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is best known for his work on phylogenetic inference, and is the author of ''In ...

*1994 Richard C. Lewontin *1995

John Maynard Smith John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics ...

*1996 Robert T. Paine *1997

Douglas J. Futuyma Douglas Joel Futuyma (born 24 April 1942) is an American evolutionary biologist. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York and a Research Associate on staff at th ...

*1998 William D. Hamilton *1999 Janis Antonovics *2000 Montgomery Slatkin *2001 Illkka A. Hanski *2002

Linda Partridge Professor Dame Linda Partridge (born 18 March 1950) is a British geneticist, who studies the biology and genetics of ageing ( biogerontology) and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Partridge is currently ...

*2003

Mary Jane West-Eberhard Mary Jane West-Eberhard (born 1941) is an American theoretical biologist noted for arguing that phenotypic and developmental plasticity played a key role in shaping animal evolution and speciation. She is also an entomologist notable for her work ...

*2004 Rudolf Raff *2005 Robert E. Ricklefs *2006 Brian Charlesworth *2007

Dolph Schluter Dolph Schluter (born May 22, 1955) is a Canadian professor of Evolutionary Biology and a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia. Schluter is a major researcher in adaptive radiation and currently ...

*2008 Spencer Barrett *2009 Michael J. Wade *2010 William R. Rice *2011

Robert D. Holt The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory ...

*2012 Richard E. Lenski *2013

Jeanne Altmann Jeanne Altmann, born March 18, 1940 in New York City, is a professor emerita and Eugene Higgins Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology currently at Princeton University. She is known for her research on the social behaviour of baboons a ...

*2014 Mark Kirkpatrick *2015 Sarah Otto *2016 Mark Rausher *2017 Ruth Geyer Shaw *2018 John McNamara *2019 Jonathan B. Losos *2020 Sharon Y. Strauss *2021

Susan Alberts Susan C. Alberts is an American primatologist, anthropologist, and biologist who is the current Chair of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University; previously, she served as a Bass fellow and the Robert F. Durden Professo ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sewall Wright Award Biology awards Awards established in 1991 American science and technology awards 1991 establishments in the United States

Award recipients

See also

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