Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1929, June 10 | Born, Birmingham, Ala. |
| 1949 | B.S. in biology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala. |
| 1950 | M.S. in biology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala. |
| 1955 | Ph.D. in biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Married Irene Kelley |
| 1956-1976 | Assistant professor of biology (1956-1958), associate professor of zoology (1958-1964), and professor of zoology (1964-1976), Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1967 | Published with Robert H. MacArthur The Theory of Island Biogeography (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press) |
| 1971 | Published The Insect Societies (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) |
| 1973-1997 | Curator in entomology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; emeritus curator after 1997 |
| 1975 | Published Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) |
| 1976-1994 | Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1976 | Awarded National Medal of Science |
| 1978 | Published On Human Nature (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press) Published with George F. Oster Caste and Ecology in Social Insects (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press) |
| 1979 | Awarded Pulitzer Prize for On Human Nature |
| 1981 | Published with Charles Lumsden Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press) |
| 1990 | Awarded Crafoord Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Published with Bert Hölldobler The Ants (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) |
| 1991 | Awarded Pulitzer Prize for The Ants |
| 1992 | Published The Diversity of Life (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) |
| 1993 | Awarded International Prize for Biology by the government of Japan |
| 1994-1997 | Pellegrino Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; emeritus after 1997 |
| 1994 | Published autobiography The Naturalist (Washington, D.C.: Island Press) |
| 1997 | Retired from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1998 | Published Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (New York, N.Y.: Knopf) Named Pellegrino University Research Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 2021, Dec. 26 | Died, Burlington, Mass. |