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Janis Antonovics FRS (Latvian: Jānis Antonovics; born 1942 in Riga, Reichskommissariat Ostland) is an American biologist, and Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology, at University of Virginia.

Life

He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School (1953-1960), graduating from Clare College, Cambridge with a B.A. in 1963, and from University of Wales with a Ph.D. in 1966. He lectured at Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin.

Honors

He is a 1991 Guggenheim Fellow. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. He won the 1999 Sewall Wright Award.

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