William D. Hamilton (1936-2000)

In Memory of Bill Hamilton

This page is dedicated to the memory of Prof. William Donald (Bill) Hamilton. On this site you will find texts, photographs, poems and other material collected by friends of Bill Hamilton. They are meant to keep the memory of Bill alive. If you want to contribute to the site (memories, pictures, texts, comments, anecdotes, ...) please send material to Dieter Ebert (dieter.ebert-at-unibas.ch).

Pictures

Memories and Anecdotes

Martin Jacoby: Bill Hamilton at school 1949-1954 (pdf file)
Marco Archetti: Memories
David Hughes: The value of a broad mind: some natural history meanderings of Bill Hamilton (pdf file)
Mary Bliss: In memory of Bill Hamilton
'Truth and Science' by Luisa Bozzi
'Stories with Bill Hamilton in them' by Mike Orlove
Thoughts about 'Hamiltonian inspiration' by Jacobus J. (Koos) Boomsma
Memorial Service for Bill, in the Chapel of New College, Oxford, on Saturday 1 July 2000, 2:30 pm
'Last words' by Luisa Bozzi
Poems for Bill, from Janet Hamilton
A Letter for The Memorial Event for Bill Hamilton at New College by Yosiaki Ito
'My most memorable conversation with Bill' by Michael Hochberg
'A Day in Taiwan' by Shigeyuki Aoki
'Three days with Bill' by Steve Stearns
Anecdote by Judy Wearing Wilde
'Encounter with the Red Queen' by Dieter Ebert
Hamilton memorial in Annales Zoologici Fennici

Obituaries

Obituary by Bill's last Brazilian student Servio P. Ribeiro published in "Antenna" (pdf file)
Obituary by Alan Grafen (The Guardian)
Obituary in The Daily Telegraph
Obituary by Richard Dawkins (The Independent, London)
Obituary by Natalie Angier (New York Times)
'A Tribute to W. D. Hamilton' The Times, London, 9 March 2000
Obituary by Robert Trivers (Nature)
Obituary by Olivia Judson (The Economist)
'In Darwin's footsteps' by Andrew Brown (The Guardian)
'Die Gen-Revolution in der Evolutionsbiologie' von Paul Schmid-Hempel, ETH Zürich (NZZ, in German)