Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal (29 October 1948 – 14 March 2024) was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist.

Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, CBE (born 10 September 1964) is an English contemporary artist, potter and author. He is known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. [1]

Edmund de Waal chaired the 2024 judging panel and was joined by award-winning novelist Sara Collins; Fiction Editor of the Guardian, Justine Jordan; world-renowned writer and professor Yiyun Li; and musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney.

Mar 20, 2024 · Frans de Waal, who used his study of the inner lives of animals to build a powerful case that apes think, feel, strategize, pass down culture and act on moral sentiments — and that humans are not...

Mar 16, 2024 · Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal — who pioneered studies of animal cognition while also writing best-selling books that helped popularize the field around the globe — passed away March 14, 2024, from stomach cancer.

Dr. de Waal is a Dutch/American behavioral biologist and ethologist known for his work on the social intelligence of primates. He is a member of the (US) National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of …

Mar 22, 2024 · The primatologist Frans de Waal, who explored empathy and emotion in bonobos and chimps, died last week at 75. His colleague Sarah Brosnan remembers his legacy as both a scientist and friend.

Apr 10, 2024 · Frans de Waal made an early but influential entrance onto the international scientific stage with his first book, Chimpanzee Politics (1982), which documented the intricate social manoeuvring of...

Apr 25, 2024 · Frans de Waal, groundbreaking primatologist, died on 14 March. He was 75. De Waal spent his career, as both a scientist and an award-winning science writer, shrinking the distance between humans and animals.

Frans de Waal, internationally recognized and celebrated Dutch-American primatologist, died on March 14, 2024, in his Stone Mountain, Georgia home after a heart-wrenching, difficult battle with cancer.