{"id":92817,"date":"2022-05-30T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=92817"},"modified":"2022-05-30T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T12:02:05","slug":"linnean-medal-the-nobel-prize-for-naturalists-won-by-old-thomian-rohan-pethiyagoda-by-sunil-thenabadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/linnean-medal-the-nobel-prize-for-naturalists-won-by-old-thomian-rohan-pethiyagoda-by-sunil-thenabadu\/","title":{"rendered":"Linnean Medal, the &#8216;Nobel Prize&#8217; for naturalists won by old Thomian Rohan Pethiyagoda \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #003300;\"><strong>Linnean Medal, the &#8216;Nobel Prize&#8217; for naturalists won by old Thomian Rohan\u00a0Pethiyagoda<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 by\u00a0Sunil Thenabadu<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hB5LSE1E2HA\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Photo Source:<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linnean.org\/the-society\/medals-awards-prizes-grants\/the-linnean-medal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linnean.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"m_5754882317822625613xparagraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xnormaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75799 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Sunil-Thenabadu02.jpg\" alt=\"Sunil-Thenabadu\" width=\"160\" height=\"156\" \/>The Linnean Society of London was established in the year 1888 in the nineteenth century. The\u00a0Linnean Medal is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist as has been common since 1958 to one of each in the same year.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xnormaltextrun\">It is with great pride and delight that we inform our fraternity that our very own Rohan\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0who was awarded the prestigious Linnean Medal at a ceremony organised by the Linnean society in London recently. The Linnean medal is commonly regarded as the \u2018Nobel Prize\u2019 for naturalists, owing to renowned naturalists such as Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins already being associated with this award. Rohan \u00a0Pethiyagoda, a taxonomist which is the branch of science associated with classifications, especially of organisms received the Zoology award of the Linnean Society, it is learned that he is the only\u00a0second Asian to receive this accolade of special honour.<\/span><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xeop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92818\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-92818 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rohan-pethiyagoda.png\" alt=\"Linnean Medal, the 'Nobel Prize' for naturalists won by old Thomian Rohan\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0\u2013 by\u00a0Sunil Thenabadu\" width=\"222\" height=\"291\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000080;\">Rohan Pethiyagoda\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"m_5754882317822625613xparagraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xnormaltextrun\">Rohan\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0has contributed significantly in highlighting the very history of biodiversity in Asia, linking together scientists, artists, traveller&#8217;s and explorers in both East and West. He has catalogued and brought to the fore a celebration of foreign engagement, predominantly from the West, that revealed in the biodiversity of South Asia and Southeast Asia, tracing and researching these subjects as far back as the 17th Century. His publishing house Wildlife Heritage Trust (WHT) has produced\u00a0biographies, memoirs\u00a0of notable naturalists from the region. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Linnaeus,\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0authored Pearls, Spices and Green Gold, a WHT book that celebrates many notable contributors to the wildlife of Sri Lanka and South Asia, including among many now, the not widely known Ernst Haeckel.\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0has been solely responsible for the discovery,\u00a0with \u00a0descriptions\u00a0of almost 100 new species of vertebrates from Sri Lanka, including fishes, amphibians and lizards, in addition to 43 species of freshwater crabs.<\/span><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xeop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"m_5754882317822625613xparagraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xnormaltextrun\">In addition to the above work, Rohan\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0is also a great advocate for research, who\u00a0has spoken out against bureaucratic processes such as the Convention of Biological Diversity, which seeks to protect the world against Biopiracy but has severely restricted\u00a0one&#8217;s\u00a0ability to conduct their research in Sri Lanka, with near impossible-to-obtain permits being mandated.<\/span><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xeop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"m_5754882317822625613xparagraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xnormaltextrun\">Rohan\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0had left S. Thomas\u2019 in year 1974 and obtained his\u00a0B.Sc\u00a0(Eng.) Hons. in Electrical &amp; Electronics Engineering from King&#8217;s College, London in year 1977; followed with his M.Phil. in Biomedical Engineering, from the University of Sussex in 1980. From 1981 to 1982\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0had served as an engineer in the Division of Biomedical Engineering of the Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka, and from 1982 to 1987 as director of that institution. In 1984 he was concurrently appointed Chairman of Sri Lanka&#8217;s Water Resources Board. He served as Advisor on Environment and Natural Resources to the Government of Sri Lanka from 2002 to 2004 and was in 2005 elected Deputy Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. In 2008\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0was elected to the board of trustees of the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, having previously served a four-year term as Deputy Chair of the Assurance Group of the British American Tobacco Biodiversity Partnership. In 2009 he was appointed a Research Associate of the Australian Museum, Sydney, and from 2015 to 2018 he served as Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tea Board. He was also Chief Guest at the College Science Exhibition in 2018.<\/span><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xeop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92819\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-92819 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Pethiyagoda-SriLanka-e1653911481955.jpeg\" alt=\"Linnean Medal, the 'Nobel Prize' for naturalists won by old Thomian Rohan\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0\u2013 by\u00a0Sunil Thenabadu\" width=\"600\" height=\"457\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The cover of Rohan Pethiyagoda\u2019s \u201cFreshwater Fishes of Sri Lanka,\u201d published in 1991. <\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Photo Source:<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2022\/05\/sri-lankan-wins-linnean-medal-the-nobel-prize-for-naturalists-commentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news.mongabay.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"m_5754882317822625613xparagraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xnormaltextrun\">Thomians\u00a0young and old would\u00a0unite in wishing Rohan\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0for further enhance recognition for his untiring efforts in biological research,\u00a0would\u00a0be inspired to learn more and take positive action in the protection of nature\u2019s rich resources.<\/span><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xeop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"m_5754882317822625613xparagraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linnean.org\/the-society\/medals-awards-prizes-grants\/the-linnean-medal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.linnean.org\/the-society\/medals-awards-prizes-grants\/the-linnean-medal&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1653997063144000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2bXP7EUjawFsKYBInl9bhD\"><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xnormaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\">The Linnean Medal for Zoology 2022<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xeop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"m_5754882317822625613xparagraph\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xnormaltextrun\">See also:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2022\/05\/sri-lankan-wins-linnean-medal-the-nobel-prize-for-naturalists-commentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2022\/05\/sri-lankan-wins-linnean-medal-the-nobel-prize-for-naturalists-commentary\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1653997063144000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2EUHDaTC3jlm_N-q6OLfK2\"><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xnormaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\">https:\/\/news.mongabay.<wbr \/>com\/2022\/05\/sri-lankan-wins-<wbr \/>linnean-medal-the-nobel-prize-<wbr \/>for-naturalists-commentary\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"m_5754882317822625613xeop\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linnean Medal, the &#8216;Nobel Prize&#8217; for naturalists won by old Thomian Rohan\u00a0Pethiyagoda\u00a0\u2013 by\u00a0Sunil Thenabadu \ufeff Photo Source:linnean.org The Linnean Society of London was established in the year 1888 in the nineteenth century. The\u00a0Linnean Medal is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist as has been common since 1958 to one of each in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37869],"tags":[44626,44632,44630,44633,44624,44622,44631,44625,44627,32802,687,44628,44629,44623],"class_list":{"0":"post-92817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-sunil-thenabadu","9":"tag-charles-darwin","10":"tag-environment-and-natural-resources","11":"tag-freshwater-crabs","12":"tag-government-of-sri-lanka","13":"tag-linnean-medal","14":"tag-linnean-society-of-london","15":"tag-ministry-of-health-sri-lanka","16":"tag-nobel-prize","17":"tag-richard-dawkins","18":"tag-south-asia","19":"tag-sri-lanka","20":"tag-wildlife-heritage","21":"tag-wildlife-of-sri-lanka","22":"tag-zoologist","23":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Linnean Medal, the &#039;Nobel Prize&#039; for naturalists won by old Thomian Rohan Pethiyagoda \u2013 by Sunil Thenabadu - eLanka<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Linnean Society of London was established in the year 1888 in the nineteenth century. 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