Professor John Maynard Smith in 1999. Published in the Bulletin on 26 February 1999.

This week in 1999, Sussex biologist Professor John Maynard Smith was awarded the prestigious Crafoord Prize, widely recognised as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

The award was for his fundamental contribution to evolutionary biology over a career spanning 50 years.

Here is an extract from the original article published in the Bulletin on 26 February 1999:

Sussex Biologist Scoops Crafoord Prize

Professor John Maynard Smith has been awarded the Crafoord Prize by the Swedish Academy of Sciences for his fundamental contribution to evolutionary biology. Widely recognised as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the Crafoord Prize is awarded annually to scientists working in fields not covered by the Nobel Foundation. John Maynard Smith is being honoured particularly for his revolutionary work on game theory.

During a career in evolutionary biology spanning over fifty years, John has been credited with introducing the concept of 'game theory' to biology in the 1970s…

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