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On 1 September, the Committee on the International Prize for Biology (chaired by Dr. Takashi Sugimura, president, the Japan Academy) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science decided to award the 30th (2014) International Prize for Biology to Professor Sir Peter Crane FRS, Professor of Botany and Carl W. Knobloch, Jr., Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University in the United States.
The field of specialization for the 30th Prize is "Systematic Biology and Taxonomy ".
DATE OF BIRTH : | July 18, 1954 |
NATIONALITY : | British(U.K.) |
PRESENT POSITION : | Professor of Botany and Carl W. Knobloch Jr., Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, USA. |
1981 | Ph.D., University of Reading, U.K. | |
1981-1982 | Post-doctoral Research Scholar , Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A. | |
1982-1995 | Curator, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A. | |
1995-1999 | Director, The Field Museum, Chicago, U.S.A. | |
1999-2006 | Director and Chief Executive, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K. | |
2006-2009 | John and Marion Sullivan University Professor, The University of Chicago, U.S.A. | |
2009-present | Professor of Botany and Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University |
1998 | Fellow of the Royal Society, U.K. | |
2001 | Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. | |
2002 | Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden. | |
2004 | Member, Academy Leopoldina, National Academy of Sciences, Germany. | |
2008 | Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, U.S.A. |