Prof Richard Dawkins, FRS

Career: asst prof of zoology Univ of Calif Berkeley 1967-69; Univ of Oxford: univ lectr in zoology and fell New Coll 1970-90, univ reader in zoology 1990-95, Charles Simonyi prof in public understanding of sci 1995-; estab charity Richard Dawkins Fndn for Reason and Science; RSL Award 1987, Los Angeles Times Literary Prize 1987, Silver Medal Zoological Soc of London 1989, Michael Faraday Award Royal Soc of London 1990, Royal Instn Christmas Lectures 1991, Nakayama Prize 1994, Int Cosmos Prize 1997, Kistler Prize 2001, Shakespeare Prize 2005, Lewis Thomas Prize 2007, Karl Deschner Prize 2007, Deschner Prize Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ Frankfurt 2007; Time Life 100 Most Influential People list NY 2007; Hon DLitt: Univ of St Andrews 1995, ANU 1996; Hon DSc: Westminster Coll 1997, Univ of Hull 2001, Univ of Sussex 2005, Univ of Durham 2005, Free Univ of Brussels 2005, Univ of Huddersfield 2008; Hon DUniv Open Univ 2003; hon fell Regent's Coll London 1988; FRSL 1997, FRS 2001

Books and Publications: The Selfish Gene (1976, 2 edn 1989), The Extended Phenotype (1982), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), River Out of Eden (1995), Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), A Devil's Chaplain (2003), The Ancestor's Tale (2004), The God Delusion (2006, Book of the Year Galaxy Book Awards 2007), The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (ed, 2008)