E. O. Wilson - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Wilson's scientific and conservation honors include:

• Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1969
• U.S. National Medal of Science, 1976
• Pulitzer Prize for On Human Nature, 1979
• Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1984
• ECI Prize, International Ecology Institute, terrestrial ecology, 1987
• Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, 1988
• Crafoord Prize, 1990, a prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in certain sciences not covered by the Nobel Prize, and therefore considered the highest award given in the field of ecology
• Pulitzer Prize for The Ants (with Bert Hölldobler), 1991
• International Prize for Biology, 1993
• Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science, 1994
• Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential People in America, 1995
• Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society, 1998.
• American Humanist Association's 1999 Humanist of the Year
• Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, 2000
• Nierenberg Prize, 2001
• Distinguished Eagle Scout Award 2004
• Dauphin Island Sea Lab christened its newest research vessel the R/V E.O. Wilson in 2005.
• Addison Emery Verrill Medal from the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2007
• TED Prize 2007 given yearly to honor a maximum of three individuals who have shown that they can, in some way, positively impact life on this planet.
• XIX Premi Internacional Catalunya 2007
• Member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Honorary Board, and Scientist in Residence for the 2008 symposium organized in Crans-Montana (Switzerland).
• Distinguished Lecturer, University of Iowa, 2008–2009
• E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center on Nokuse Plantation in Walton County, Florida 2009 Video
• Explorers Club Medal, 2009
• BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology Category, 2010
• Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture, 2010
• 2010 Heartland Prize for fiction for his first novel Anthill: A Novel