Pennsylvania State University in that year. In 1998, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and honorary doctor at University of Nijmegen. He has been honorary member of the British Ecological Society since 1999. He was the first ever recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Medal (2011) for his outstanding contribution to the intellectual development of plant community ecology. In 2013, the Journal of Ecology published a collection of Grime's most influential papers, for which he wrote a blog post and recorded an accompanying podcast interview. References 1935 births 2021 deaths British ecologists Academics of the University of Sheffield Alumni of the University of Sheffield Fellows of the Royal Society People from Manchester Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences