Richard Dawkins
Date of Birth  :
1941-03-26
Place of Birth  :
Nairobi,Kenya
Country  :
Kenya
Field of Expertise  :
Anthropology
Educational background  :

Graduate in Biology

PhD from Oxford

Acheivements / Contributions  :

Some of the awards won by Richard Dawkins are:

  • Royal Society of Literature award(1987).

  • The Zoological Society of London Silver Medal (1989).

  • Finlay innovation award(1990).

  • The Michael Faraday Award(1990).

  • The Nakayama Prize(1994).

  • The American Humanist Association's Humanist of the Year Award (1996).

  • The fifth International Cosmos Prize (1997).

  • The Kistler Prize(2001).

  • The Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic(2001).

  • The Bicentennial Kelvin Medal of The Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (2002).

  • The Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest(2009)

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Bibliography  :
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, The God Delusion,The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author .