Richard E. Leakey#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2713 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | KENYA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.leakey.com |
Richard E. Leakey passed away January 2, 2022.
Positions Held
- Professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University, New York
- Founder and chair of the Turkana Basin Institute
- 1989 Head of the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS)
- 1968 - 1989 Coordinator of the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) field expeditions
Fields of Scholarship
- Paleoanthropology
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1998 The Asteroid (7958) Leakey was named after Richard Leakey and his parents
- 2007 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2007 Chairman of Transparency International Kenya
- 2013 the Isaac Asimov Science Award from the American Humanist Association
- 2014 Honorary Degree from Rutgers University
