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Encyclopedia > Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an award for environmental science, energy, and medicine. Tyler Laureates receive a $200,000 annual prize and a gold medallion. The prize is administered by the University of Southern California and was established by the late John and Alice Tyler in 1973. The University of Southern California (also known as USC), Southern Californias oldest private research university, is located in the urban center of Los Angeles, California. ...


Laureates

Wallace S. Broecker is the Newberry Professor of Geochemistry at Columbia University. ... Jared M. Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, and biogeographer. ... Anne Howland Ehrlich (born Anne Fitzhugh Howland , November 17, 1933 in Des Moines, Iowa) is the wife of Stanford University professor Paul R. Ehrlich. ... Dr. Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Stanford University professor and a renowned entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies). ... Willi Dansgaard, (1922-). Palaeoclimatologist. ... Professor Hans Oeschger (1927 - 1998). ... Claude Lorius (born 1932) is a French glaciologist. ... Paul J. Crutzen (December 3rd, 1933 - ) is a Dutch nobel prize winning atmospheric chemist. ... E.O. Wilson with Dynastes hercules E. O. Wilson, or Edward Osborne Wilson, (born June 10, 1929) is an entomologist and biologist known for his work on ecology, evolution, and sociobiology. ... Mario J. Molina (born March 19, 1943) was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in elucidating the threat to the Earths ozone layer of chlorofluorocarbon gases (or CFCs). ... Frank Sherwood Rowland (born June 28, 1927) is a Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. ...

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  • http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/tylerprize/

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Established in 1973, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an international award honoring significant scientific achievements in all disciplines of environmental study and environmental protection.
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