In the year of evolution and its Darwin-mania let’s not forget Theodosius Dobzhansky, who made the first significant synthesis of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution with Gregor Mendel’s theory of genetics in his book Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937) and was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1975 (unfortunately he passed away the same year, if he would have lived a few more years he might just have got it).
Today is Theodosius’ 108th birthday, so Happy Birthday Theo.
Hat tip: Evolving Complexity
This is from the “Mario’s Entangled Bank” blog ( http://pineda-krch.com ) of Mario Pineda-Krch, a theoretical biologist at the University of Alberta.
