Person Wilson; Edward Osborne (1929-2021); biologist and myrmecologist Wilson Edward Osborne biologist and myrmecologist 1929-2021 American Male Birmingham, Alabama, USA 10 June 1929 19290610 Burlington, Massachusetts, USA 26 December 2021 20211226

Evolution Sociobiology Biogeography Entomology Ecology Natural history Biology Education: University of Alabama (B.S 1949; M.S 1950); Harvard University (PhD 1955) Career: Raised in Southern US; blinded himself in his right eye in a fishing accident (1936); member of Harvard’s biology and zoology faculties (1956-1976); Frank B. Baird Professor of Science (1976-94); Mellon Professor of the Sciences (1990-93); and Pellegrino University Professor (1994-97; professor emeritus from 1997); curator in entomology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (1973-97). Awards/Medals: United States National Medal of Science 1977 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction 1979 Tyler E. Prize in Ecology 1984 Memberships: U.S. National Academy of Science The American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Philosophical Society The German Academy of Sciences Honorary Life Membership of the American Genetic Association 1981 British Ecological Society 1983 Parents: Inez Linnette Freeman and Edward Osborne Wilson Sr. Spouse: Irene Kelley ​(m. 1955) (d 7 August 2021). Children: Catherine I. Gargill. Foremost authority on the social behaviour of insects and a founder of the theory of island biogeography and the subdiscipline of socio-biology World's leading authority on ants. His work on classification of ants resulted in revisions of much of the Pacific fauna, and his field work in Melanesia and Asia led him to an interest in biogeography and species formation. He he traced the evolution of ant castes by alteration of allometric curves and applied linear programming models to the "ergonomics" of caste systems in social insects generally. Foreign Member 28/06/1990 61 Encyclopedia Britannica, E. O. Wilson [URL: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-O-Wilson; last accessed: 06/03/2026] National Library of Medicine, Edward Osborne Wilson, Naturalist (1929–2021), [URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8812546/; last accessed: 06/03/2026] Wikipedia, E. O. Wilson, [URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson; last accessed: 06/03/2026] Edward Osborne Wilson obituary [URL: https://officeofthesecretary.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum2291/files/2024-11/Wilson%20Memorial%20Minute_2023_05_02.pdf; last accessed: 06/03/2026] International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 10 Jun 1929 - NA3882 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 06/03/2026 RS_NET\VidaM Yes 04e8cb75-68b7-406d-a563-dee565b2be2e