URHAM, N.C. – , Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Biology at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at 91ÉçÇø¸£Àû, has been named the recipient of the 2007 William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement from Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.

The Procter Prize is awarded annually to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to scientific research and has demonstrated an ability to communicate the significance of this research to scientists in other disciplines. Past recipients of the Proctor Prize include scientific luminaries such as Jane Goodall, Stephen Jay Gould and Edward O. Wilson.
The prize carries a $5,000 award.  In addition, Pimm will be entitled to designate a younger scholar, usually working in the same field, to receive a $5,000 Grant-in-Aid of Research award from the Procter Prize Fund. 
The Procter Prize will be presented at Sigma Xi's annual meeting this November in Orlando, where Pimm will deliver the Procter Prize Address.

Pimm is widely cited for his research on biodiversity, species extinction and habitat loss in Africa, South America and Central America, as well as the Everglades. His work has contributed to new practices and policy for species preservation and habitat restoration in many of the world’s most threatened ecosystems.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded a Pew Scholarship for Conservation and the Environment in 1993 and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship in 1999. The Institute of Scientific Information recognized him in 2002 as one of the world’s most highly cited scientists. 

Among his most recent honors, Pimm was awarded the 2006 Edward T. LaRoe III Memorial Award from the Society of Conservation biology and the 2006 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.