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2001 Global Environmental Citizen: Edward O. Wilson

On May 31, 2001, the Center presented Edward O. Wilson with its first Global Environmental Citizen Award, a recognition given out annually by the Center for outstanding achievement in raising awareness of global environmental change.

The award ceremony took place at Harvard Medical School in Boston, and a tree was planted in professor Wilson's honor in front of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology.

The Center recognized Professor Wilson's efforts to investigate and protect biodiversity and raise awareness about the importance of conserving biological diversity. Wilson is one of the world's most distinguished and respected scientists. Through his books and lectures, Wilson has changed the way scientists and nonscientists alike view the natural world by helping them recognize its enormous complexity and diversity and by demonstrating its importance for thier everyday lives. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a recipient of the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.