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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography | 1991 | Winner |
About the Author
Adrian Desmond and James MooreEnglish/British
Adrian Desmond (born 1947) and James Moore (born 1947), both English/British historians of science, are renowned for their collaborative biography Darwin (1991), which won the James Tait Black Prize, Comisso Prize, Watson Davis Prize of the History of Science Society, and Dingle Prize of the British Society for the History of Science, and Darwin's Sacred Cause (2009). Desmond's other notable works include The Politics of Evolution (1989, Pfizer Award winner) and Huxley (1999), while Moore authored The Post-Darwinian Controversies (1979) and The Darwin Legend (1994). Neither is deceased; their primary genre is history of science biography.
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