John Maynard Smith

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This British surname is double-barrelled, being made up of multiple names. It should be written as Maynard Smith, not Smith.

John Maynard Smith FRS
Maynard Smith in 1997
Born	(1920-01-06)6 January 1920 London, England
Died	19 April 2004(2004-04-19) (aged 84) Lewes, East Sussex, England
Education	Trinity College, Cambridge University College London
Known for	Game theory Evolution of sex Signalling theory
Father	Sidney Maynard Smith
Awards	Mendel Medal (1985) Frink Medal (1990) Balzan Prize (1991) Sewall Wright Award (1995) Linnean Medal (1995) Royal Medal (1997) Weldon Memorial Prize (1998) Copley Medal (1999) Crafoord Prize (1999) Kyoto Prize (2001) Linnean Society of London's Darwin–Wallace Medal (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	Evolutionary biology genetics
Workplaces	University College London University of Sussex
Doctoral advisor	J. B. S. Haldane
Doctoral students	Sean Nee

John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution with George R. Price, and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory.