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<DIV>Jamaican-born scientist gets top award
published: Monday | January 29, 2007 </DIV><DIV><DIV class=KonaBody xVlvo="true">
Trivers
Dr. Robert Trivers, long-time resident of Southfield, St. Elizabeth, has been awarded the 2007 Crafoord Prize in Biosciences by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Crafoord Prize, worth US$500,000, recognises achievements in disciplines that comple-ment those for which the Nobel Prizes are awarded.
The academy cited Dr. Trivers "for his fundamental analysis of social evolution, conflict and cooperation".
Dr. Trivers was also cited in a special 2000 Millennium issue of Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest thinkers and scientists of the 20th century.
Robert Trivers, who once described himself as a Jamaican in soul and <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">spirit</SPAN>, first went to the United States in 1967 as part of a <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Harvard </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">University</SPAN> study on lizards. In his words, he took one look at the women of the island and a second at the island itself and decided that if he had to become a 'lizard man' to pay for frequent visits to the island, then he would humble himself and become a 'lizard man'... And so he did part of his doctoral thesis on Jamaican green lizards!
He has lived on and off in <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN> ever since. In 1974 he married Lorna Staple of Southfield with whom he has four children - Jonathan, 31, Natasha and Natalia, 29, and Alelia, 26.
In 1997, he married Debra Dixon of Cornwall Mountain, West-moreland, and they have one child, Aubrey, seven.
Dr. Trivers is also head of the Jamaican Symmetry Project at Top Hill Primary in St. Elizabeth, the largest symmetry study in the world. The project is funded by <A class=kLink oncontextmenu="return fal
published: Monday | January 29, 2007 </DIV><DIV><DIV class=KonaBody xVlvo="true">
Trivers
Dr. Robert Trivers, long-time resident of Southfield, St. Elizabeth, has been awarded the 2007 Crafoord Prize in Biosciences by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Crafoord Prize, worth US$500,000, recognises achievements in disciplines that comple-ment those for which the Nobel Prizes are awarded.
The academy cited Dr. Trivers "for his fundamental analysis of social evolution, conflict and cooperation".
Dr. Trivers was also cited in a special 2000 Millennium issue of Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest thinkers and scientists of the 20th century.
Robert Trivers, who once described himself as a Jamaican in soul and <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">spirit</SPAN>, first went to the United States in 1967 as part of a <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Harvard </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">University</SPAN> study on lizards. In his words, he took one look at the women of the island and a second at the island itself and decided that if he had to become a 'lizard man' to pay for frequent visits to the island, then he would humble himself and become a 'lizard man'... And so he did part of his doctoral thesis on Jamaican green lizards!
He has lived on and off in <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN> ever since. In 1974 he married Lorna Staple of Southfield with whom he has four children - Jonathan, 31, Natasha and Natalia, 29, and Alelia, 26.
In 1997, he married Debra Dixon of Cornwall Mountain, West-moreland, and they have one child, Aubrey, seven.
Dr. Trivers is also head of the Jamaican Symmetry Project at Top Hill Primary in St. Elizabeth, the largest symmetry study in the world. The project is funded by <A class=kLink oncontextmenu="return fal
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