or so members, created with this aim in mind. The result was an invitation to the first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Nova Scotia in 1957, and a visit to Moscow (the first of 22) the following year. This in turn led to his appointment to President Eisenhower’s scientific advisory committee on nuclear arms control, and thence to those of Kennedy, Nixon and Carter. Doty made ...

John Avise was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He earned a BS in fishery biology from the University of Michigan, an MA in zoology from the University of Texas, and a PhD in genetics from the University of California at Davis, before joining the faculty at the University of Georgia where he stayed for 30 years. In 2005, he took his current position: Distinguished Professor of Ecology...

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John Maynard Smith was one of the most original thinkers in evolutionary biology of the post neo-Darwinian synthesis age. He was able to define new problems with clarity and by doing so open up new research directions. He did this in a number of areas including game theory and evolution, the evolution of sex, animal behavior, evolutionary transitions and molecular evolution. Although he is best...

Frederick John Poynton was born at Kelston rectory, Bath, in 1869. On leaving Marlborough College he started his medical education at University College, Bristol, and continued it at St. Mary's Hospital where he won a scholarship in Anatomy and Physiology. He qualified in 1893, and rapidly showed the absorbing interest in children which largely determined his medical career. A disciple of Chead...

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