200th Birth Anniversary of Charles Darwin

His full name was Charles Robert Darwin. In the year 1809,12th February he was born at  Shrewsbury, England. He was the fifth child of the six children in the family. He was well known and was popular in the English people as he was the person who studied on the "Origin of Species"  and also published a book on that. Throughout his life he got award like Royal Medal in 1853, Wallaston Medal in 1859 and followed by Copley Medal in 1864. He published his book on the "Origin of Species" in 1859. He passed away in the year 1882 , 19th April at the age of 73.


  In the year 2009 Darwin completed 200 years of his life and to commemorate this England has issued a coin which has an "APE" in one side and "CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN" on the other side which shows that  his study on the "Origin of Species".