Ernst Walter Mayar Birth Day
Birth:
- He was born on July 5, 1904 in Germany.
Honours:
- He was one of the 20th century’s leading evolutionary biologists.
- He was also a renowned taxonomist,tropical explorer,ornithologist,philosopher of biology, and historian of science.
- His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics,systematics and Darwinian evolution and to the development of the biological species concept.
- He created a new view of the “origin of appearance”.
Awards:
- The awards that Mayar received include the National Medal of Science.
- The Balzan Prize, the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the International Prize for Biology, the Loye and Alden Miller Research Award.
- The Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science.
- In 1939 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.
- He was awarded the 1946 Leidy Award from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
- He was awarded the Linnean Society of London’s prestigious Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1958 and the Linnaean Society of New York’s inaugural Eisenmann Medal in 1983.
- For his work “Animal Species and Evolution” he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1967.
- Mayar was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1988.
- In 1995 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society.
- Mayar did win a 1999 Crafoord Prize.
Death:
- He died on February 3, 2005.
Balakumaran Birth Day
Birth:
- He was born on July 5, 1946 in Thanjavur district at Tamil Nadu.
Honours:
- He was an Indian Tamil writer.
- Author of over 200 novels,100 short stories and dialogue/screenplay writer for 23 films.
- He also contributed to Tamil periodicals such as Kalki, Ananda Vikatan and Kumudam.
Books:
- Agalya
- Appa
- Katigai
- Arasa Maram
- Kadarpaalam
- Kadhal Vari
- Aasai Kadal
Awards:
- Irumbu Kudhiraigal – Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiyar Trust Awards
- Mercury Pookal – Illakkiya Sindhanai Awards
- Kadarpalam – Tamil Nadu State Award
- Sugajeevanam – Tamil Nadu State Award
- Guna – Cinema Express Award
- Kaadalan – Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Dialogue Writer
- Honoured with “Sindhanai Chemmal” title
- Kalaimaamani Award from Government of Tamil Nadu
Death:
- He died on May 15, 2018.
Important Events
- 1770 – The Battle of Chesma between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire begins.
- 1962 – Algeria becomes independent from France.
- 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
- 2006 – North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan.
- 2016 – The Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter and begins a 20-month survey of the planet.
- 1998 – Japan launched its first spacecraft to Mars.
- 1954 – Andhra Pradesh High Court established.
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