Richard Lewontin

Richard "Dick“ Charles Lewontin (b. 29 March 1929 in New York City; d. 4 July 2021 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a Jewish evolutionary biologist and Marxist. As of mid-2015, Prof. Dr. Lewontin and his wife Mary Jane (Christianson) lived on a farm in Brattleboro, Vermont. They had four sons. He was a strict atheist.

Awards and honours

• 1961: Fulbright Fellowship
• 1961: National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
• 1968: Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (resigned in 1972)
• 1994: Sewall Wright Award from the American Society of Naturalists
• 2015: Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (shared with Tomoko Ohta)
• 2017: Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal from the Genetics Society of America

See also

• Lewontin's Fallacy
• Science for the People