MIT World Speakers

E. O. O. Wilson

Harvard's Department of Entomology, Museum of Comparative Zoology

E. O. Wilson has been at Harvard for 40 years, as professor (Emeritus) of science and curator in entomology. A Pulitzer-Prize winning author, he has discovered hundreds of new species (he has been dubbed "the father of biodiversity") and is one of the leading scientific theorists of our times.