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Kreationistit tykkäävät kovasti heitellä titteleitä ja arvonimiä kun on kyse heidän asiaansa puoltavista henkilöistä (jopa niin paljon, että tekaistutkin tittelit kelpaavat). Tohtori sejase on kuulemma kritisoinut evoluutioteoriaa jne.

Vastapainoksi ajattelin mainita tässä yhden henkilön, jonka kanssa tuskin kovin moni tänäpäivänä elävä tiedemies pystyy kilpailemaan muodollisissa tunnustuksissa, saati sitten kukaan kreationisteista, nimittäin Ernst Myrin.

Hän syntyi v. 1904 ja väitteli tohtoriksi biologiassa 21 vuoden iässä vaikka kerkesi sitä ennen opiskella lääketieteen kandiksikin. Siitä alkoi sitten uskomattoman pitkä ja tuottoisa tieteellinen ura, joka jatkuu edelleen vaikka mies täyttää ensi kesänä 100 vuotta! Nykyään hän on zoologian emeritusprofessori Harvardin yliopistossa, jossa sijaitsee myös hänen mukaansa nimetty Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Äly leikkaa edelleen kuin partaveitsi, sillä hän kirjoitti viimeksi v. 2001 kirjan What evolution is (suom. Evoluutio) ja toimii vielä myös tieteellisen tutkimuksen parissa. Hän on yksi 1900 -luvun merkittävimmistä evoluutioteoriaa kehittäneistä tiedemiehistä. Tässäpä vähän listaa hänen saavutuksistaan:

Present Title
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

Special Fields
Ornithology, systematics, zoogeography, evolution, history and philosophy of biology

Education
1925
Cand. med., University of Greifswald
1926
Ph.D., University of Berlin (Zoology) (24 June)

Expeditions
1928
Rothschild Expedition to Dutch New Guinea
1928-29
Expedition to Mandated Territory of New Guinea (University of Berlin)
1929-30
Whitney Expedition to Solomon Islands (American Museum of Natural History)

Positions
1926-32
Assistant Curator, Zoological Museum, University of Berlin
1932-44
Associate Curator, Whitney-Rothschild Collection, American Museum of Natural History, New York
1944-53
Curator, Whitney-Rothschild Collection, AMNH, New York (to 30 June 1953)
1953-75
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University
1961-70
Director, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
1975-
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, Harvard University

Honorary Degrees
1957
Ph.D., Uppsala University (Sweden)
1959
D.Sc., Yale University
1959
D.Sc., University of Melbourne (Australia)
1966
D.Sc., Oxford University (England)
1968
D.PhiI., University of Munich (Germany)
1974
D.Phil., University of Paris VI (Sorbonne)
1979
D.Sc., Harvard University
1982
D.Sc., Cambridge University
1982
D.Sc., Guelph University (Canada)
1984
D.Sc., University of Vermont
1993
Ph.D, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1994
D.Sc., University of Vienna
1994
D.Phil., University of Konstanz
1995
D. Sc., University of Bologna
1996
D. Sc., Rollins College
1997
Honoris Causae Degree, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Lectureships and Visiting Professorships
1941
Jesup Lecturer, Columbia University
1947
Lecturer, Philadelphia Academy of Sciences
1949;1974
Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota
1950-53
Lecturer, Columbia University
1951
Visiting Professor, University of Pavia, Italy
1952
Visiting Professor, University of Washington
1967
Life Sciences Lecturer, University of California, Davis
1971
Maytag Visiting Professor, Arizona State University
1972
Visiting Professor, University of California, Riverside
1977
Alexander v. Humboldt Awardee, Wurzburg Universitat
1978
Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego
1978
Visiting Professor, College de France, Paris
1985
Messenger Lectures, Cornell University
1987
Hitchcock Professorship, University of California

Special Awards
1946
Leidy Medal, Academy of Nat. Sc., Philadelphia
1958
Wallace Darwin Medal, Linnean Society of London
1965
Brewster Medal, American Ornithologists' Union
1966
Verrill Medal, Peabody Museum, Yale University
1967
Daniel Giraud Eliot Medal, National Acad. of Sci.
1969
Centennial Medal, American Museum of Natural History
1969
National Medal of Science
1971
Walker Prize, Museum of Science, Boston, MA
1972
Molina Prize, Accademia del le Scienze, Bologna, Italy
1977
Linnean Medal (Zoology), Linnean Society, London
1977
Coues Prize, American Ornithologists' Union
1978
Premio Jabuti, Brazil, CBL
1978
Medal, College de France
1980
Mendel Medal, Leopoldina Academy (Halle)
1983
E. Eisenmann Medal, Linn. Soc. of New York
1983
Balzan Prize
1984
Darwin Medal, Royal Society
1986
Award for Service to the Systematics Community by the Association of Systematics Collection
1986
Sarton Medal (History of Science)
1989
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Medal
1991
Phi Beta Kappa Book Prize
1994
Salvin Godman medal, British Ornithologists' Union
1994
International Prize for Biology, Japan Prize
1994
Dedication of the Ernst Mayr Library at the Museum of Comparative Zoology
1995
Walk of Fame, Rollins College
1995
Benjamin Franklin Medal (American Philosophical Society)
1996
George Gaylord Simpson Award (Society for the Study of Evolution)
1997
Establishment of the Ernst Mayr Lectureship at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie
1998
Lewis Thomas Prize
1998
Rhone-Poulenc Prize for Science Books
1999
Crafoord Prize
2000
Doctor rerum naturalium honoris causa Award from the Humboldt University of Berlin
2001
Golden Plate Award(American Academy of Achievement)

Honorary Society Memberships
1939
Royal Australian Ornithological Union, Corresponding Member
1941
Deutsche Ornithologen Gesellschaft, Honorary Member
1943
American Society of Naturalists, Honorary Member
1945
Netherlands Ornithological Society, Corresponding Member; 1953, Honorary Member
1948
Societe Ornithologique de France, Honorary Foreign Member
1948
Zoological Society of London, Corresponding Member
1949
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Correspondent
1951
Botanical Gardens of Indonesia, Honorary Member
1951
Ornithologische Gesellschaft in Bayern, Corresponding Member; 1976, Honorary Member
1952
Linaean Society of London, Foreign Member
1952
South African Ornithological Society, Corresponding Member
1950
Royal Society of New Zealand
1954
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow
1954
National Academy of Sciences, Member
1955
K. Vetenskaps Societeten, Uppsala, Honorary Member
1955
Zoological Society of India, Corresponding Fellow; 1961, Honorary Member
1956
British Ornithological Union, Honorary Member
1956
Dansk Ornithologisk Forening, Honorary Member
1958
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
1962
La Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales, Corresponding Member
1963
Asociacion Ornithologica Del Plata (Buenos Aires), Honorary Member
1963
Societas Scientiarum Fennica (Helsingfors), Honorary Member
1965
American Philosophical Society, Member
1968
Sociedad Colombiana de Naturalistas, Honorary Member
1970
Zoologische Gesellschaft, Germany, Honorary Member
1971
Academia de Ciencias Fisicas, Matematicas y Naturales (Caracas, Foreign Corresponding Member
1972
Department of Ornithology, AMNH, Curator Emeritus
1972
Deut. Akad. Naturforscher (Leopoldina)
1972
Societe Zoologique de France, Member d'honneur
1975
Sociedad Espanola de Ornitologia (Madrid), Honorary Member
1975
Nuttall Ornithological Club, Honorary Member
1976
Society of Systematic Zoology, Honorary Member
1976
Linnean Society of New York, Honorary Member
1977
Senckenbergische Gesellschaft, Frankfurt, Korrespond. Mitgtd>
1977
Bayerische Adademie, Mu"nchen, Korrespond. Mitglied
1978
Academie des Sciences, etc., Toulouse, Corresponding Member
1980
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Foreign Member
1981
Italian Zoological Society, Foreign Member
1984
Zool. Soc. of London, Honorary Member
1986
American Society of Zoologists, Honorary Member
1988
Royal Society, Foreign Member
1989
Academie des Sciences, Paris, Associate
1993
Center for the Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh (Honorary Fellow)
1994
Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
1994
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie
1998
Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, Korrespond. Mitglied.

Society Memberships and Offices
American Ornithologists' Union
Vice President, 1953-56; President, 1956-59
American Society of Naturalists
President, 1962-63
Linnean Society of New York
Secretary-editor, 1934-41; Fellow, 1944
New York Zoological Society
Fellow, 1944; Scientific Fellow, 1987
Society for the Study of Evolution
Secretary, 1946; Editor, 1947-49; President, 1950
Society of Systematic Zoology
President, 1966
11th International Zoological Congress
Vice President, 1958
13th International Ornithological Congress
President, 1962

List of Books
I Sole Authorship
1941
List of New Guinea birds. A systematic and faunal list of the birds of New Guinea and adjacent islands.The American Museum Natural History, 1-260.
1942
Systematics and the Origin of Species. New York: Columbia University Press.
1945
Birds ofthe Southwest Pacific. New York: The Macmillan Co.
1963
Animal Species and Evolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
1989
Principles of Systematic Zoology. New York: McGraw-Hill.
1970
Populations, Species, and Evolution. An abridgement of Animal Species and Evolution. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
1976
Evolution and the Diversfty of Life. Selected Essays. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
1981
La biologie d'evolution. Paris: Hermann.
1982
The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
1988
Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
1991
One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
1997
This is Biology: The Science of the Living Wodd. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

II Coauthor
1929
Zeitschriftenverzeichnis des Museums fu..r Naturkunde. Miftellungen aus dem Zooiogischen Museum in Berlln 14:1-187 (with Wilhelm Meise).
1946
Birds of the Phillppines. New York: The Macmillan Co. (with Jean Delacour).
1953
Methods and Principles of Systematic Zoology. New York: McGraw-Hill (with E.G. Linsley and R. L. Usinger).
1990
Principles of Systematic Zoology. Revised ed. New York: McGraw-Hill (with Peter Ashlock).

III Editor
1949
Genetics, Paleontology, and Evolution. Edited by Glenn L. Jepsen, George Gaylord Simpson, and Ernst Mayr. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
1949
Ornithologie als biologische wissenschaft. Festsch rift zum 60. Geburtstag von Erwin Stresemann. Edited by Ernst Mayr and E. Schuz. Heidelberg: Carl Winter.
1957
The Species Problem. Edited by Ernst Mayr. Publication No.50 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1960, 1962,
1964,1986.
Check-List of birds of the world, vol.9,10,11,15. Edited by Ernst Mayr and Co-Editors. Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology.
1980
The Evolutionary Synthesis. Edited by Ernst Mayr and William Provine. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press

Book List:
1929
Zeitschriftenverzeichnis des Museums fur Naturkunde Mittellungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 14. 187pp. (with W. Meise).
1941
List of New Guinea Birds. American Museum of Natural History, New York. 260 pp.
1942
Systematics and the Origin of Species. Columbia University Press, New York. 330 pp.
1945
Birds of the Southwest Pacific. Macmillan Company, New York. 316 pp.
1946
Birds of the PhiliDpines. Macmillan Company, New York. 309 pp. (with J. Delacour)
1953
Methods and Principles of Systematic Zoology. McGraw-Hill, New York. 328 pp. (with E.G. Linsley and R.L. Usinger)
1957
(Editor) The Species Problem. American Association for the Advancement of Science,Publication No.50, 395 pp.
1960-1986
(Editor) Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. IX, X, XI, XV. Harvard: MCZ.
1963
Animal Species and Evolution. Belknap Press (Harvard University), Cambridge, MA. 797 pp.
1969
Principles of Systematic Zoology. McGraw-Hill, New York. 428 pp.
1970
Populations, Species, and Evolution. Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA. 453 pp.
1976
Evolution and the Diversity of Life. Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA. 721 pp.
1980
(Editor, with William B. Provine) The Evolutionary Synthesis . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 487 pp.
1981
La biologie de l'evolution. Hermann, Paris. 175pp.
1982
The Growth of Biological Thought. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 974 pp.
1988
Toward a New PhilosoDhv of Biology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 564pp.
1991
PrinciDles of Systematic Zoology, 2nd. ed. (wi Peter Ashlock), McGraw-Hill. 475pp.
1991
One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Evolutionary Thought. Harvard University Press. 187 pp.
1997
This is Biology: The Science of the Living World . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

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