Dr. Richard DAWKINS Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University
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| 1959-1962 | Balliol College, University of Oxford |
| 1962-1966 | Research Student, Oxford University, D.Phil., 1966 |
| 1965-1967 | Research Assistant to Professor N.Tinbergen FRS |
| 1967-1969 | Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of California at Berkeley |
| 1969-1970 | Senior Research Officer, Department of Zoology, Oxford |
| 1970-1990 | Lecturer in Zoology at Oxford University and Fellow of New College |
| 1989 | D.Sc. (Oxford) |
| 1990-1995 | Ad-hominem-Reader in Zoology, University of Oxford |
| since 1995 | Charles-Simonyi-Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, University of Oxford, and |
| Professorial Fellow of New College |
Mitgliedschaften
| Council Member, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, 1972-1979 | |
| Science Consultative Committee, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1986-1991 | |
| Member, British Museum Development Trust Council, 2001 | |
| Board of Advisors, TIME Future of Life Summit, 2003 | |
| Chairman for Michael Faraday Award Selection Committee, 2003 | |
| David Attenborough Studio Committee, Natural History Museum London, 2005 |
Publikationen
| The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press (also published in 13 foreign translations), Oxford and New York, 1976 | |
| The Extended Phenotype, Oxford University Press, Oxford and San Francisco, 1982 | |
| River Out of Eden, Basic Books, New York, Weidenfeld, London, 1995 | |
| Climbing Mount Improbable, Viking Penguin, London, W. W. Norton, New York, 1996 | |
| Unweaving the Rainbow, Allen Lane, Penguin Press, London, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1998 | |
| A Devil s Chaplain, Weidenfeld &Nicholson, London, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2003 | |
| The Ancestor s Tale, Weidenfeld &Nicholson, London, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2004 |
Auszeichnungen
| Royal Society of Literature Award for The Blind Watchmaker, 1987 | |
| Los Angeles Times Literary Prize, for The Blind Watchmaker, 1987 | |
| Zoological Society of London Silver Medal, 1989 | |
| Royal Society of London, Michael Faraday Award, 1990 | |
| Humanist of the Year Award, 1996 | |
| Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1997 | |
| Kistler Prize, USA, 2001 | |
| Shakespeare Prize for Contribution to British Culture, Hamburg, Germany, 2005 |
