Richard Dawkins was the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2008. He did his doctorate at Oxford under the Nobel Prize winning zoologist Niko Tinbergen. He is the author of twelve books as: The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, Unweaving the Rainbow, A Devil’s Chaplain, The Ancestor’s Tale, The God Delusion, and  The Greatest Show on Earth. The God Delusion has sold more than two million copies in English, and is being published in 30 other languages. To promote the values of education, science, and critical thinking skills, he established The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS) which has branches in both the UK and USA. Richard Dawkins has Honorary Doctorates of Literature as well as Science, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has been awarded the Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London, the Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, among others.