Abstract:
The Crafoord Prize for 1984 was awarded in biosciences with particular emphasis
on ecology. The field selected was "coevolution - the mutual adaption
of organism populations in the natural environment". The prizewinner, Professor
Daniel H. Janzen, Philadelphia, USA was chosen " for his imaginative
and stimulating research into coevolutionary connections and processes,
through which numerous researchers have been inspired to further work in
this field" .
At a ceremony on October 3, 1984, the rewarded work was presented and
Professor Janzen received his prize and the Crafoord medal in gold from the
hands of the donor, Mrs Anna-Greta Crafoord. Before the ceremony, Daniel
Janzen delivered his Crafoord lecture "The most coevolutional animal of them
all". The text is printed on the following pages.
The Crafoord Prize was first awarded in 1982. The discipline was mathematics
and the field nonlinear differential equations. Joint prizewinners were
Professors Vladimir I. Arnold of the USSR and Louis Nirenberg of the USA
for their valuable work in this field.
In the following year the geoscience prize was awarded to Professors Edward
N. Lorenz and Henry Stommel, both from the USA, for their unique
contributions to a deeper understanding of the large-scale movements of the
atmosphere and the sea respectively.
