Crafoord Prize for Biosciences: Winners by Year

Award years

• 2023

  • Dolph Schluter

    for fundamental contributions to the understanding of adaptive radiation and ecological speciation

• 2019

  • Sallie W. Chisholm

    for the discovery and pioneering studies of the most abundant photosynthesising organism on Earth, Prochlorococcus

• 2015

  • Richard Lewontin, Tomoko Ohta

    for their pioneering analyses and fundamental contributions to the understanding of genetic polymorphism

• 2011

  • Ilkka Hanski

    for his pioneering studies on how spatial variation affects the dynamics of animal and plant populations

• 2007

  • Robert Trivers

    for his fundamental analysis of social evolution, conflict and cooperation

• 2003

  • Carl Woese

    for his discovery of a third domain of life

• 1999

  • Ernst Mayr, John Maynard Smith, George Christopher Williams

    for their fundamental contributions to the conceptual development of evolutionary biology

• 1996

  • Robert May

    for his pioneering ecological research concerning theoretical analysis of the dynamics of populations, communities and ecosystems

• 1993

  • W. D. Hamilton

    for his theories concerning kin selection and genetic relationship as a prerequisite for the evolution of altruistic behavior

  • Seymour Benzer

    for his pioneering genetical and neurophysiological studies on behavioural mutants in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster

• 1990

  • Paul R. Ehrlich

    for his research on the dynamics and genetics of fragmented populations and the importance of the distribution pattern for their survival probabilities

  • E. O. Wilson

    for the theory of island biogeography and other research on species diversity and community dynamics on islands and in other habitats with differing degrees of isolation

• 1987

  • Eugene Odum, Howard T. Odum

    for their pioneering contributions within the field of ecosystem ecology

• 1984

  • Daniel H. Janzen

    for his imaginative and stimulating studies on co-evolution which have inspired many researchers to further work in this field