past president of the American Society of Naturalists, and chairman of the Biology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He played a key role in initiating the Congressional Fellow Program in Washington DC, and in efforts to preserve wilderness areas in Florida and Texas. Eisner was furthermore a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He received numerous honors, including the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Harvard Centennial Medal, the 1994 National Medal of Science and the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science. He also held honorary degrees from universities in Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and the United States, and was a foreign fellow of the Royal Society. Eisner was additionally a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina and Academia Europaea. In 2008, Eisner was awarded the John J. Carty Award by the National Academy of Sciences. Publications Eisner, T, (2003) For Love of Insects. Harvard University Press. ; Eisner, T, Eisner, M, & Siegler, M, (2005) Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures. Harvard University Press. Eisner, T, Bert Hölldobler & Martin Lindauer: Chemische Ökologie, Territorialität, gegenseitige Verständigung. Fischer, Stuttgart/New York 1986, . References External links Thomas Eisner's Cornell Homepage Thomas Eisner tells his life story at Web of Stories (video) 1929 births 2011 deaths American ecologists Cornell University faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences National Medal of Science laureates Harvard University alumni Foreign Members of the Royal Society Members of Academia Europaea American atheists American people of German-Jewish descent German atheists German emigrants to the United States Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Members of the American Philosophical Society Chemical ecologists American entomologists