==Awards and honors==Wilson's scientific and conservation honors include:* Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1969* U.S. National Medal of Science, 1976* Pulitzer Prize for "On Human Nature", 1979* Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1984* ECI Prize, International Ecology Institute, terrestrial ecology, 1987* Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, 1988* Crafoord Prize, 1990, a prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in certain sciences not covered by the Nobel Prize, and therefore considered the highest award given in the field of ecology* Pulitzer Prize for "The Ants" (with Bert Hölldobler), 1991* International Prize for Biology, 1993* Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science, 1994* The National Audubon Society's Audubon Medal, 1995* "Time Magazine"'s 25 Most Influential People in America, 1995* Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society, 1998.
* академик Национальной академии наук США, 1969* Национальная научная медаль США, 1976* Пулитцеровская премия (1979), за книгу "On Human Nature"* Пулитцеровская премия (1981), за книгу "The Ants"* Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America* Distinguished Eagle Scout Award* Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1984* ECI Prize, International Ecology Institute, terrestrial ecology, 1987* Премия Крафорда, 1990, премия присуждаемая Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences в области современных наук, неохваченных Нобелевскими премиями, и рассматриваемая как высшая в мире награда в области экологии* Международная премия по биологии, 1993* Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science, 1994* "Time Magazine"'s 25 Most Influential People in America, 1995* American Humanist Association's 1999 Humanist of the Year* Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, 2000* Nierenberg Prize, 2001* Международная премия короля Фейсала, 2000* Dauphin Island Sea Lab christened its newest research vessel the "R/V E.O.