Biography
Richard Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, noted atheist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995 he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards, among them the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize. Presenting the latter, Paul Nurse said "In eloquent, evocative prose, Richard Dawkins conveys the certainty that, rather than diminishing the myriad beauties of the universe and extinguishing wonderment at its mysteries, science reveals truths that are yet more awe-inspiring than the mysteries they solve."
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Awards & recognition
- honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp · 2009
- honorary doctor of the University of Valencia · 2009
- Nierenberg Prize · 2009
- Lewis Thomas Prize · 2006
- honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel · 2005
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- Shakespeare Prize · 2005
- honorary doctorate · 2003
- Emperor Has No Clothes Award · 2001
- Fellow of the Royal Society · 2001
- Kistler Prize · 2001
- Medal of Representation of the President of the Italian Republic · 2001
- Tinbergen Lecture · 2000
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 1997
- International Cosmos Prize · 1997
- Humanist of the Year · 1996
- Michael Faraday Prize · 1990
- Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London · 1989
- Heinemann Award · 1986
- Fellow of the Committee — Skeptical Inquiry
- honorary doctor of Durham University
Filmography18 titles
The Future Is Now!
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
The Simpsons
Doctor Who
Patterns of Evidence: Exodus
The Colbert Report
StarTalk
Beware the Slenderman
Breath of Life
The Unbelievers
Ex Libris
The Daily Show
Real Time with Bill Maher
Science Friction
Intersect
Here After
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Losing Our Religion