and the Earth continues to resonate. Death He died February 20, 1982, his 81st birthday, due to heart failure. He is survived by his wife, Letha Jean Porter. Legacy In 1998, the René Dubos Center for Human Environments donated a large portion of its environmental library and archives to Pace University. The collection consists of works by Dubos as well as those of other leading environmental scholars, some of which have been annotated by Dubos himself. According to Robert Chapman, professor of philosophy and coordinator of Pace's Environmental Studies Program, "Pace now has many of Dubos's own research books from the Rockefeller University, and this means that we can not only look at his writing, but we can also do an analysis of where his ideas come from and what influenced him." In 1979, the René Dubos Center purchased of land in North Castle, New York, with donations from foundations. As a condition of the purchase it agreed to keep the property in a natural state. Nevertheless, in 2002 it attempted to sell the land to developer Michael Cappelli, who planned to develop luxury homes there. The Center filed legal action in 2007 to attempt to complete this transaction; however, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo opposed the move, and the State Supreme Court ruled against the Center in that year. In 2009, the controversy was resolved when the Center agreed to sell the land to the village of Mount Kisco, New York. Awards and honors Recipient of the International Center in New York's Award of Excellence. Winner of Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for So Human An Animal in 1969 Books The Bacterial Cell in its Relation to Problems of Virulence, Immunity and Chemotherapy, 1945, Harvard University Press Louis Pasteur, Free Lance of Science, 1950, 1960, Charles Scribner's Sons, Da Capo Press 1986 reprint of 1960 edition: The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and Society, 1952, Little, Brown, and Company, Rutgers University Press 1987: Biochemical Determinants of Microbial Diseases, 1954, Harvard University Press Man, Medicine, and Environment, 1968, Praeger Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress & Biological Change, 1959, Rutgers University Press 1987: Pasteur and Modern Science, 1960, Anchor Books, American Society of Microbiology edition with new chapter by Thomas D. Brock, 1998: The Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias, 1961 George B. Pegram lectures, Columbia University Press The Unseen World, 1962, The Rockefeller Institute Press The Torch of Life: Continuity