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Costas B. Krimbas (May 2002) |
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Born in Athens in 1932. Studied Biology (Natural Sciences) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (1950-1954). In 1954 he obtained the "Licence es Scineces Physiques et Naturelles" together with the two "Certificats d' Etudes Superieurs": "Zoologie et Anatomie Comparee" and "Botanique". In 1955 he obtained the "Certificat de Genetique" from the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied as a grantee of the French Government. In 1956 he presented his thesis on the chromosomal cytology of Heteroptera in Athens University and thus obtained his Ph.D degree. From 1958-1960, as a postodoctoral fellow (of the U.S. Government) he did research work on population genetics and evolution at Columbia University of New York under the direction of Professor Th. Dobzhansky. In 1961 he was appointed Professor of Genetics at the Agricultural University of Athens (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Agronomiques D'Athenes) and Director of the Genetics Laboratory, a position he held until the end of 1993. Twice he served as Rector of that University , from 1974-1975 and for two months in 1982. Since the end of 1993 he has served as Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology at the University of Athens. As a visiting Professor at Harvard he taught "Population Biology" in the summer of 1970. He served as a visiting Professor at the University of Chicago in 1971. He was a Consultant at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard in 1977, a visiting scholar at Cambridge University (England) in 1988 and subsequently at Harvard in 1989. He was elected "Professeur de Biologie des especes" at the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI and taught graduate and post-graduate courses in 1979-1980. He was an Invited Professor at the University of Paris VII in 1982. He was also elected Professor at the endowed chair S. Gavin at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Virginia Tech and State University in 1994. He has served in the "Commite Scientifique International" of the journal Genetique, Evolution Selection (edited by the CNRS and INRA) and he is now serving a new term. He has served on the Editorial Board of Molecular Biology and Evolution (published by Chicago University Press) and on the assessment committee for the research performed at the Laboratoire de Genetique Evolutive of CNRS at Gif-sur-Yvette (1981-1989). He has also served as the first vice-president of the Hellenic Atomic Energy Agency (1977-1978), as president of the National Centre for Marine Research (1984-1987) and to the Naitonal Advisory Research Council (1988-1991). He has sat as a member of the jury of Ph.D. in several Greek (Agricultural, Athens, Patras, Crete, Salonika), French (Paris VI, Paris VII, Ecole Normale, Lyon 1, Aix-en-Provence) and American (Columbia) Universities. Finally, he is the author of two collections of essays (in Greek) on subjects regarding the history of science and of ideas and subjects of philosophy of biology (Darvinika, Hermes, Athens, 1986 and Thraustmata Katoptrou, Themelio, Athens, 1993). He is co-editor with J.R. Powell of Drosophila Inversion Polymorphism, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1993 and author of Drosophila subobscura, Dr. Kovacs, Hamburg, 1993. NATIONAL
AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Personal Information Born in Athens, 1932 Nationality: Greek Education 1996 Ph.D. in Biology, University of Athens 1955 Certificat de Genetique, Sorbonne, Paris 1954 Licence es Sciences Physiques et Naturelles (= Biology), Université de Lausanne Academic Positions 1993-2000 Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Section of Cognitive Science, University of Athens 1988 Visiting Scholar, Cambridge University 1982, 1989 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University 1979-1980 Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), teaching “Genetique Evolutive des Especes” 1978 Consultant at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 1971 Visiting Professor, University of Chicago 1970 Visiting Professor, Harvard University, teaching Population Biology 1961-1993 Professor of Genetics, Agricultural University of Athens 1958-1960 Post doc, University of Columbia, New York, in the team of Professor Theodosius Dobzhansky. Academic Honors 2001 Professor Emeritus, University of Athens 2001 Professor Honoris Causa, Agricultural University of Athens 1995 Hooker Distinguished Lectureship, McMaster University, Canada 1993 Named at the C.C. Garvin visiting endowed chair at the Virginia Tech and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 1974-1975 Rector, Agricultural University of Athens His name has been given to two newly described species of insects (1985: Drosophila krimbasi; 1997 Typhlodromus krimbasi) Invited Speaker at the Universities Paris-VI, Paris VII, Columbia University, Rockefeller University, The University of Chicago, Yale, Harvard, California-Irvine, Parma Invited Speaker at the 7th International Conference in Genetics, Birmingham, UK (1993), the 3rd Conference of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology , Rome (1989), the Conference of the Greek Society of Biological Sciences and the Cyprus Biological Society, Cyprus (1995). Invited member of the Molecular and Classical Classification Group, Fondation des Treilles, France (1994) Member of the American Association for the Study of Evolution since 1959. Founding member of the European Association of Evolutionary Biology. Three times President of the Greek Zoological Society. Member of the editorial board of Molecular Biology and Evolution; Genetique, Evolution, Selection; Neusis; Biologia Gallo-Hellenica Publications Approximately 130 papers on Genetics, Evolution and related subjects in scientific journals in English; Books in English
· R. Singh & C.B. Krimbas (eds) (2000), Evolutionary Genetics. From Molecules to Man, Cambridge University Press · R. Singh, C.B. Krimbas, D. Paul & J. Beatty (eds) (2001), Thinking about Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Aspects, Cambridge University Press
Books in Greek · C.B. Krimbas (1986) Darvinika, Hermes · C.B. Krimbas (1993) Thrausmata Katoptrou, themelio · C.B. Krimbas (1998) Extending Darwinism and Other Essays, Nepheli · C.B. Krimbas (ed.) (1999) Yannis Sarejiannis and the Concept of Disease, MIET Selected Papers, specially related to the subject C.B. Krimbas (1985) On Adaptation, Neodarwinian Tautology, and Population Fitness, Evolutionary Biology 17: 1-57 C.B. Krimbas (1990) Evolutionary Epistemology on universals as innate classificatory devices, in Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers C.B. Krimbas (1994) The Evolutionary Worldview of Theodosius Dobzhansky, in M.B. Adams (ed.) The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky (Essays on his life and thought in Russia and America), Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 179-193 C.B. Krimbas (2000) In Defence of Neo-Darwinism. Popper’s “Darwinism as a Metaphysical Programme” Revisited, in R. Singh, C.B. Krimbas, D. Paul & J. Beatty (eds) Thinking about Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Aspects, Cambridge University Press, pp. 292-308. C.B. Krimbas (2001) Fitness, in Encyclopedia of Genetics, Academic Press, vol. 2: 702-706 C.B. Krimbas (2001) Eugenics in Europe, in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pergamon |
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