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Edward O. Wilson

American biologist, naturalist, and writer1929 to 2021

Wikidata names Frank M. Carpenter as doctoral advisor and lists 7 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Frank M. Carpenter

Students on Wikidata7

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William H. Bossert
born 1937
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Daniel Simberloff
born 1942
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Donald J. Farish
born 1942
stated by Wikidata
Choe Jae-chun
born 1954
stated by Wikidata
David R. Maddison
born 1958
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Mark W. Moffett
born 1958
stated by Wikidata
Corrie Moreau

The line above and below2 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataFrank M. Carpenter
2 steps up
stated by WikidataWilliam Morton Wheeler

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 42 people: 42 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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until 1950
University of Alabama
studied
undated
Harvard University
studied
undated
Harvard University
worked

At a glance

known as: entomologist, sociobiologist, novelist, ethologist, autobiographer, naturalist, evolutionary biologist, science writer, biologist, university teacher, zoologist, ecologist, myrmecologist, scientific collector
fields: myrmecology, sociobiology, natural science, zoology, entomology, biodiversity, animal ecology
awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 1979, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 1991, Humanist of the Year, 1999, William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, 1997, Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1984, Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science, 1994, Harvard Centennial Medal, 1999, King Faisal Prize in Science, 2000, TED Prize, 2007, International Prize for Biology, 1993, Kistler Prize, 2000, National Medal of Science, 1976, Catalonia International Prize, 2007, Nierenberg Prize, 2001, International Cosmos Prize, 2012, Eminent Ecologist Award, 1994, ECI Prize, 1987, Linnean Tercentenary Medal, 2007, Natural World Book Prize, 2002, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, 2010, Audubon Medal, 1995, honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense, 1995, Kew International Medal, 2014, Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, 2010, Hubbard Medal, 2013, Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, 2012, Crafoord Prize in Biosciences, 1990, Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1990, Natural World Book Prize, 1993, honorary doctor of Harvard University, 2004, Leidy Award, 1979, Golden Plate Award, 1988, Lewis Thomas Prize, 2000, Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, 2004, Addison Emery Verrill Medal, 2007, Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture, 2010, Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, 1995, Global Environmental Citizen Award, 2001, Newcomb Cleveland Prize, 1967, Harper Lee Award, 2016, Honorary Fellow of the Zoological Society of London
member of: German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, from 1977, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 2011, National Academy of Sciences, from 1969, Linnean Society of London, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1959, American Philosophical Society, from 1976, Ecological Society of America, Royal Society of London, from 1990
notable works: Journey to the Ants, The Ants, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
Wikipedia: in 70 languages

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Elsewhere8

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaE. O. Wilson
stated by WikidataWikidataQ211029
stated by WikidataVIAF104215813
stated by WikidataGND119010674
stated by WikidataIdRef027197956
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121462544

papers

stated by WikidataScopus7403309625

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project139021

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Read on 16 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q211029,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Edward O. Wilson: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q211029},
  note = {read on 2026-10-16}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 16). Edward O. Wilson: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-16]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q211029