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Encyclopedia > Frink Medal

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The Frink Medal for British Zoologists is awarded by the Zoological Society of London "For significant and original contributions by a professional zoologist to the development of zoology in the wider applications." The Zoological Society of London (sometimes known by the abbreviation ZSL) is a learned society founded in April 1826 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lord Auckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors and other eminent naturalists. ...


Recipiants

Distinguished Frink Medal recipiants include John Maynard Smith, John Krebs, W.D.Hamilton and Robert May. Professor John Maynard Smith[1], F.R.S. (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist. ... Sir John Richard Krebs (born 1945) is a British biologist and a Fellow of the Royal Society. ... This article is about the British biologist Bill Hamilton. ... Robert McCredie Bob May, Baron May of Oxford OM AC Kt (born 8 January 1936 in Australia) is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords and President of the Royal Society. ...


Reference

Awards of the Zoological Society of London


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