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• Deadline: September 30, 2010

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“Water – The Crisis Ahead” Executive Summary

Foundation News Vol. 12

• Fall 2009  [1.9 MB PDF]

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Planned Events

11th Annual Kistler Prize

• September 22, 2010

Peter Ward Lecture

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• Town Hall Seattle
• October 13, 2010

“Global Transitions and Asia 2060” Workshop

• Taipei, Taiwan
• November 3–6, 2010

 

RECENT Events

Talk by Sesh Velamoor

• "Managing the Future"
• July 2010

“Water – The Crisis Ahead”

• Humanity 3000 Workshop
• April 2010  [AUDIO FILES]

Brian Fagan Lecture

• Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series
• November 2009

10th Annual Kistler Prize

• October 2009

Donald Johanson Lecture

• Walter P. Kistler Lecture Series
• September 2009

 

 

 

 

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Recipients

2010  Leroy Hood, M.D., Ph.D.
Institute for Systems Biology

For creating the technological foundation of modern molecular biology and genomics through the invention of five groundbreaking instruments.

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2009  Dr. Svante Pääbo
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

For a body of work with ancient DNA, beginning in 1984 with the demonstration of DNA survival in a 2,400-year-old mummy.

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2008  Dr. Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter Institute

For a body of pioneering work in genome science.
 

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2007  Dr. Spencer Wells
Genographic Project

For work in the science of population genetics, culminating in the design and implementation of National Geographic and IBM’s Genographic Project.

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Doreen Kimura2006  Dr. Doreen Kimura
Simon Fraser University

For scientific research on biological influences on human cognitive and motor skills, most notably the relationship between sex and cognition.

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2005  Dr. Thomas J. Bouchard Jr.
University of Minnesota

For scientific research on human individual differences caused by genetic and environmental influences, through the study of monozygotic and dizygotic twins.

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2004  Dr. Vincent M. Sarich
University of California, Berkeley

For discoveries in molecular dating, determining that humans and the great apes diverged much more recently than previously believed.

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2003  Dr. Arthur R. Jensen
University of California, Berkeley

For scientific research on human intelligence, establishing the genetic basis for individual differences in intelligence.

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2002  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, M.D.
Stanford University

For his work tracing historical migrations by analyzing the genetic differences between humans living today.

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2001  Dr. Richard Dawkins, FRS
Oxford University

For his work in the ethology of the gene, redirecting the focus of the “levels of selection” debate from the individual animal as the unit of evolution to the genes.

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2000  Dr. Edward O. Wilson
Harvard University

For the introduction of biological thought into the social sciences to create the field of sociobiology.

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