Arturo Gomez-Pompa, a professor of botany and plant sciences at the University of California, Riverside, and Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, have been honored as corecipients of the 1994 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. They divided a cash award of $150,000 and each received a gold medallion at ceremonies in Los Angeles on December 2.
"Considering the list of distinguished recipients, it is a very great honor to have been selected," says Raven, 58. "[The prize] tends to be given for lifetime accomplishments instead of short-term accomplishment, so that makes it all the nicer."
Gomez-Pompa, 60, notes that he was particularly heartened by the prize because his nomination came from a longtime colleague and friend, the late Enrique Beltran, former director of the Mexican Institute of Renewable Resources. "When I received word that he nominated me, I was really quite touched because of ...
