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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Ernst Mayr

Title:

Director & Professor, Museum of Comparative Zoology

Affiliation:

Harvard University

Cambridge,Massachusetts  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2005

Award Discipline:

Biological Sciences

Award Year:

1969

Citation:

"For notable contributions to systematics, biogeography, and the study of birds, and especially for great work on the evolution of animal populations."

Presented by President Nixon at a White House Ceremony on February 16, 1970.

 

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