Scientific prizes and awards / General

Darwin Medal

Royal Society of London

Description

Silver medal is given biennially (in even years) in reward for work of acknowledged distinction in the broad area of biology in which Charles Darwin worked, notably in evolution, population biology, organismal biology and biological diversity.

Recipients

2004 winners : The 2004 Darwin medal was awarded jointly to Professor Enrico Coen FRS and Dr Rosemary Carpenter, for their ground-breaking discoveries about the control of flower development. They have combined molecular and genetic approaches to answer some of Darwin’s key questions about the natural variation of floral form and the evolution of floral development.