Died 2018-08-31.
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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was an Italian geneticist. He was a population geneticist who taught at the University of Parma, the University of Pavia and then at Stanford University.
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science · Italian population geneticist (1922–2018) · population geneticist · anthropologist · geneticist · university teacher · physician · also Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, L L Cavalli-Sforza, LL Cavalli-Sforza, Cavalli-Sforza LL, Cavalli-Sforza
Born 25 January 1922 · Died 31 August 2018 · Q315454
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Parma (2006).
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Awarded Bressa Prize (2006).
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2002· 2 entries
Won Mendel Medal (2002).
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Awarded Kistler Prize (2002).
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Balzan Prize (1999).
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Won the Balzan Prize for the Science of human origins
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Catalonia International Prize (1993).
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Awarded International Prize by Fyssen Foundation (1993).
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1992).
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Was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award (1987).
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1972· 1 entry
Won Huxley Memorial Medal (1972).
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1950· 1 entry
Left the University of Cambridge to teach in northern Italy (Parma, and Pavia) before taking up a professorship at Stanford in 1970
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1949· 1 entry
Was appointed to a research post at the Department of Genetics, Cambridge University by the statistician and evolutionary biologist Ronald A
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-01-25.
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