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Matthew White Ridley, 5th Viscount Ridley, DL, FRSL, FMedSci (born 7 February 1958), known commonly as Matt Ridley, is a British journalist who has written several popular science books.〔 He is also a businessman and a Conservative member of the House of Lords.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=2013 )〕 Ridley is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=2013 )〕 He has written several science books including ''The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature'' (1994), ''Genome'' (1999), ''The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves'' (2010) and ''The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge'' (2015). In 2011, he won the Hayek Prize, which "honors the book published within the past two years that best reflects Hayek’s vision of economic and individual liberty." Ridley also gave the Angus Millar Lecture on "scientific heresy" at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 2011. He was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,〔(【引用サイトリンク】The American Academy of Arts and Sciences">2012 Fellows )〕 and won the Julian Simon award in March 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Past Winners )〕 In 2014 he won the free enterprise award from the Institute of Economic Affairs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Institute of Economic Affairs">date=2014-07-22 )〕 His popular TED conference talk, "When Ideas Have Sex", has over 2 million views.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date= 2010 )〕 Ridley argues that exchange and specialisation are the features of human society that lead to the development of new ideas, and that human society is therefore a "collective brain".〔(【引用サイトリンク】Wired Magazine">date=2010-07-21 )〕 Ridley was chairman of the UK bank Northern Rock from 2004 to 2007, during which period Northern Rock experienced the first run on a British bank in 150 years. Ridley chose to resign, and the bank was bailed out by the UK government leading to the nationalisation of Northern Rock. ==Education and career== Ridley was educated at Eton College from 1970–75 and then went on to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he completed a BA degree with First Class Honours in zoology and then took a DPhil degree in zoology in 1983.〔 Ridley worked as the science editor of ''The Economist'' from 1984 to 1987 and was then its Washington correspondent from 1987 to 1989 and American editor from 1990 to 1992.〔''Debrett's People of Today 2007'', p. 1406,〕 He was also founding chairman of the International Centre for Life, a non-profit science centre in Newcastle, UK. He served as chairman for seven years. He formerly had been a governor of the Ditchley Foundation, which organises conferences at its stately home in Oxfordshire. He is a Patron of the British Humanist Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Matt Ridley FRSL FMedSci: Science writer, Chairman of the International Centre for Life, Newcastle-upon-Thames, and Patron of the BHA )〕 He was also a visiting professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. He was chairman of the UK bank Northern Rock from 2004 to 2007.〔 In 2012 he became 5th Viscount Ridley on the death of his father.〔 In 2013 he was elected as hereditary peer in the House of Lords as a member of the Conservative Party. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matt Ridley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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