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'''Richard "Dickโ Charlesย Lewontin''' (b. 29 March 1929 in New York City; d. 4 July 2021 in Cambridge, [[Massachusetts]])ย was a | '''Richard "Dickโ Charlesย Lewontin''' (b. 29 March 1929 in New York City; d. 4 July 2021 in Cambridge, [[Massachusetts]])ย was a jewish evolutionary [[biologist]] and [[Marxist]]. As of mid-2015, Prof. Dr. Lewontin and his wife Mary Jane (Christianson) lived on a farm in Brattleboro, Vermont. They had four sons. He was a strict [[atheist]]. | ||
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Richard "Dickโ Charles Lewontin (b. 29 March 1929 in New York City; d. 4 July 2021 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a jewish evolutionary biologist and Marxist. As of mid-2015, Prof. Dr. Lewontin and his wife Mary Jane (Christianson) lived on a farm in Brattleboro, Vermont. They had four sons. He was a strict atheist.
Awards and honours
- 1961: Fulbright Fellowship
- 1961: National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1968: Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (resigned in 1972)
- 1994: Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists
- 2015: Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (shared with Tomoko Ohta)
- 2017: Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal from the Genetics Society of America