Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is one of those rare figures who is both a precise scientist and a genuinely gifted writer. The Selfish Gene reframed how an entire generation understood evolution, and that is no small feat for a single book. Born in Nairobi and shaped at Balliol College, Oxford, he holds a Royal Society Fellowship and the Michael Faraday Prize, credentials that confirm his scientific weight. His combative stance on religion divides people, and I understand why, but I value him most as a science communicator who refused to let evolutionary biology stay locked behind academic walls. Whatever you make of his polemics, he made hard ideas accessible, and that is a real gift.

Name (English)

Richard Dawkins

Name (Japanese)

リチャード・ドーキンス

Reading

りちゃーど・どーきんす

Born

March 26, 1941 (age 85)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

Origin

Nairobi, Nairobi Province, Kenya

Occupation

evolutionary biologist / ethologist / science writer / science communicator / essayist

University

Balliol College

Awards & achievements

• 2001 Fellow of the Royal Society
• 2001 Kistler Prize
• 1990 Michael Faraday Prize
• 1997 International Cosmos Prize
• 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize
• 2005 Shakespeare Prize
• 1996 Humanist of the Year
• 2001 Medal of Representation of the President of the Italian Republic

• Official sitehttps://www.richarddawkins.net
• Xhttps://x.com/RichardDawkins
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Dawkins
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44461

Tags

• Nairobi Province
• evolutionary biologist
• ethologist
• science writer

Last updated

2026-06-11

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