Dr. Ford Doolittle has been elected to join the ranks of Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Lise Meitner, and other leading scientists throughout history in the Royal Society. The evolutionary biologist, one of Dalhousie’s academic luminaries, was among a group of just five Canadians elected this year to the Royal Society — one of the world’s most esteemed organizations devoted to the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.