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Nominations concerning only one discovery or work on a specified subject should be included on each nomination form.

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Academic position or title

 

 

Name
Sewall Wright
Address University of Wisconsin Professor of Genetics
Madison, Wisconsin
Name Motoo Kimura Academic position or. title
Address National Institute of Genetics Professor
Mishima, Japan
Name Gustave Mal é cot Academic position or title
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Address Universite de Lyon, Professeur de Mathématiques,

France

 

The nomination concerns the discovery of

the mathematical theory of biological
evolution.

 

Summary of the description of the discovery qualifying for the award

Professor Sewall Wright is responsible for many develop-—
_ments in the mathematical theory of evolution and of animal

and plant breeding. He has,
of chance on evolution,
adrift,
receive half of the prize.

between M. Kimura and G. Malécot.

and the balance between evolutionary forces.
The other half should be divided

in particular studied the effect
usually indicated as random genetic

He should

They have made the study

of random genetic drift and genetic population structure more

rigorous.

(G.M. and M.K.),

They have contributed greatly to our understanding
of the process of inbreeding (G.M.),
rentiation between populations,

of evolutionary diffe-
and of the

contribution of selectively neutral mutations in evolution.

(M.K.).

 

Address:

Name of nominator:

Luigi L. Cavalli-Sforza

Academic position or title:

Professor of Genetics

Stanford Medical School, Stanford, California 94305

 

 

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Date:

i(/28174

 

Signature ai Nominator:
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