Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford. In 1995 he was named the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, a position he held until 2008, and is on the advisory board of the University of Austin. Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards, among them the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize. Presenting the latter, Paul Nurse said “In eloquent, evocative prose, Richard Dawkins conveys the certainty that, rather than diminishing the myriad beauties of the universe and extinguishing wonderment at its mysteries, science reveals truths that are yet more awe-inspiring than the mysteries they solve.”

Known as Darwin's Rottweiler, With Yan Wong, he co-authored ''The Ancestor's Tale'' (2004), a “Chaucerian pilgrimage to the dawn of life.”

Along with Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris, he is known as one of the “Four Horsemen of the New Atheism." He made the case for atheism in ''The God Delusion'' (2006). ''The Sunday Times'' described it as one of the 12 most influential books since the Second World War. That year he founded the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. He edited ''The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing'' (2008) and authored a children's book, ''The Magic of Reality'' (2011). He has published two volumes of memoirs, ''An Appetite for Wonder'' (2013) and ''Brief Candle in the Dark'' (2015). Provided by Wikipedia