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A Sri Lankan won the Nobel prize for naturalists

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A Sri Lankan won the Nobel prize for naturalists

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A Sri Lankan won the Nobel prize for naturalists.

Congratulations Rohan Pethiyagoda.

The Linnean Medal was awarded at a London ceremony to the first Sri Lankan in its history: since 1888, the medal has been given annually to a botanist or a zoologist, or to one of each, in the same year.

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