Ernst Walter Mayr

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
biologist
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
gptkb:Balzan_Prize
gptkb:Crafoord_Prize
gptkb:Beyer_Award
gptkb:Leidy_Award
gptkb:Darwin-Wallace_Medal
gptkb:Linnean_Medal
gptkbp:birthDate 1904-07-05
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Kempten,_Germany
gptkbp:deathDate 2005-02-03
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Bedford,_Massachusetts,_USA
gptkbp:deathYear 100
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Erwin_Stresemann
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Berlin
gptkb:University_of_Greifswald
gptkbp:employer gptkb:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkbp:field evolutionary biology
ornithology
systematics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Ernst Walter Mayr
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:modern_evolutionary_biology
gptkb:the_modern_synthesis
the concept of species
the study of speciation
gptkbp:knownFor biological species concept
work on speciation
modern synthesis of evolution
theory of allopatric speciation
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:American_Philosophical_Society
gptkb:German_Academy_of_Sciences_Leopoldina
gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkb:United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkb:German
gptkbp:position Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:One_Long_Argument
gptkb:Populations,_Species,_and_Evolution
gptkb:This_Is_Biology
gptkb:Toward_a_New_Philosophy_of_Biology
gptkb:Systematics_and_the_Origin_of_Species
gptkb:The_Growth_of_Biological_Thought
gptkb:What_Evolution_Is
Animal Species and Evolution
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