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Linnean Medal is an honor given to either a botanist or a zoologist by Linnean Society of London every year. The first Indian to win Linnean Medal is the botanist, ecologist and conservationist Kamaljit S. Bawa.
He did his PhD in Botany from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Kamaljit Bawa was much overwhelmed with his first encounter with Biodiversity in the tropical forests of Eastern Himalayas. “For his research and his role in building ATREE, Bawa has won several awards, and the Linnean Medal in Botany that he received last month is an added feather”, tells an article about Kamaljit Bawa in The Hindu.
ATREE is the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, founded by Bawa along with two agriculturalists from Bengaluru’s University of Agricultural Sciences, K.N. Ganeshiah and R. Uma Shaanker. Right now, the Linnean Medal winner is based in the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Kamaljit Bawa is better known for something called “triple revolution”, in which he researched on three different fields in Biology:
1. Species interactions and shaping of ecosystem because of it.
2. Sexual selection in plants.
3. Biodiversity Conservation.
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