Wikipedia: List of biologists

List of biologists
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This is a list of notable biologists:

A

Aristotle, (384 BC-322 BC), Greek philosopher

B

Joseph Banks, (1743-1820), biologist, botanist
Anton de Bary, (1831-1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist
Patrick Bateson, biologist
Gaspard Bauhin, biologist
Charles William Beebe, (1877-1962), biologist
Günter Blobel, German Nobel Prize-winning biologist
Stephen L. Buchmann, co-author of Forgotten Pollinators

C

Rachel Carson, (1907-1964), biologist, author of Silent Spring
Min Chueh Chang, biologist
Stanley Cohen, biologist
Jacques Cousteau, French marine biologist and explorer
Francis Crick, (born 1916), DNA scientist

D

Anders Dahl, (1751-1789), (namesake of the Dahlia)
Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), British co-discoverer of evolution
Richard Dawkins, (born 1941), British evolutionary biologist
Max Delbrück, German biologist
Theodosius Dobzhansky, (1900-1975), biologist
Renato Dulbecco, biologist
Robin Dunbar, biologist

E

Sylvia Earle, biologist
Paul Ehrlich, (1854-1915), German Nobel Prize-winning entomologist.
J.F.v.Eschscholtz, (namesake of the California poppy)

F

Ronald Fisher, (1890-1962), British biologist and statistician, one of the founders of population genetics
Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), British medical scientist
Howard Florey, co-inventor of penicillin
Dian Fossey, (1932-1985), zoologist
Elias Magnus Fries, (1794-1878), (one of the founders of modern mushroom taxonomy)
Rosalind Franklin, (1920-1958), contributor to the discovery of the structure of DNA

G

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
Jane Goodall, (born 1934), US zoologist
Stephen Jay Gould, (1941-2002), US paleontologist
Pavel Groselj, (1883-1940), biologists and belletrist.

H

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), German physician
J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964), biologist
William Donald Hamilton (1936-2000), British biologist
Willi Hennig (1913-1976) German biologist, founder of cladistics
Robert Hooke (1635-1703), British scholar
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy biologist
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), British scientist
Libbie Hyman (1888-1969), zoologist

I

J

Wilhelm Johannsen, (1857-1927), (coined the term gene)
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, (1748-1836), botanist, biologist
Ernest Everett Just, biologist

K

Motoderu Kamo cultivated kimjongilia
Stuart Kauffman, biologist
Motoo Kimura, biologist
Robert Koch, (1843-1910), German Nobel Prize-winning physician and bacteriologist

L

Friedrich Loeffler, German biologist

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), coiner of the term biology
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), developer of the microscope
Charles Alexander Lesueur, biologist
Richard Lewontin, biologist
Aristid Lindenmayer, biologist
Karl von Linné (Carolus Linnaeus)
Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989), Austrian founder of ethology
James Lovelock (born 1919), biologist
A. S. Loukashkin, biologist
Salvador Luria, microbiologist

M

Marcello Malpighi, biologist
Lynn Margulis, biologist
Maud Leonora Menten, biologist
John C. Merriam, biologist
August Karl Arnold Michaelis not to be confused with :
Leonor Michaelis, biologist
Rita Levi-Montalcini, biologist
Ernst Mayr, (born 1904), biologist, born in Germany, did majority of work in the United States
Barbara McClintock, (1902-1992), biologist
Gregor Mendel, discoverer of heredity
Luc Montaigner French discoverer of HIV-virus
Thomas Hunt Morgan, biologist
Roger Morse, professor, researcher, author, on bees/beekeeping
Desmond Morris, (born 1928), British biologist
Kary Mullis, (born 1944), biologist

N

Gary Paul Nabhan, co-author of Forgotten Pollinators
John Needham, biologist

O

Richard Owen, (1804-1892), biologist

P

Paracelsus, (1493-1541), German alchemist
Louis Pasteur, (1822-1895), French biochemist
Christian Hendrik Persoon, (1761-1836), biologist
Gregory Goodwin Pincus, biologist

Q

R

Francesco Redi, biologist
Martin Rodbell, biologist
Robert Rosen, (1934-1998), theoretical biologist

S

Theodor Schwann, (1810-1882), German physiologist
Matthias Jakob Schleiden, (1804-1881), German co-founder of the cell theory
Rupert Sheldrake, (born 1942), biologist
Rolf Singer, (1906-1994), German born mycologist
John Maynard Smith, biologist
Lazzaro Spallanzani, (1729-1799), biologist
Roger W. Sperry, (1913-1994), biologist
Nettie Stevens, biologist

T

Ruth Turner, biologist

Theophrastus, biologist

V

Craig Venter, biologist
Rudolf Virchow, (1821-1902), German biologist

W

James Watson, (born 1928), Nobel Prize-winning biologist, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule
Alfred Russel Wallace, (1823-1913), British naturalist and biologist, co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of
August Weismann, (1834-1914), German biologist
Edward O. Wilson, biologist
Carl Woese, biologist
Sewall Wright, (1889-1988), biologist

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