List of 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
• G�nter Blobel, biologist

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 evolutionist
• Max Delbr�ck, biologist
• Theodosius Dobzhansky, (1900-1975), biologist
• Renato Dulbecco[?], biologist
• Robin Dunbar[?], biologist

E

• Sylvia Earle[?], biologist
• Paul Ehrlich, (1854-1915), entomologist.
• J.F.v.Eschscholtz, (namesake of the California poppy[?])

F

• 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), physician
• J. B. S. Haldane, (1892-1964), biologist
• Robert Hooke, (1635-1703), British scholar
• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, biologist
• Thomas Henry Huxley, (1825-1895), British scientist
• Libbie Hyman, (1888-1969), biologist

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 physician and bacteriologist

L

• Friedrich Loeffler[?], biologist
• Jean 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 Linn� (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
• Barbara McClintock, (1902-1992), biologist
• Gregor Mendel, discoverer of heredity
• Thomas Hunt Morgan, biologist
• Desmond Morris, (born 1928), British biologist
• Kary Mullis, (born 1944), biologist

N

• John Needham[?], biologist

O

• Richard Owen, (1804-1892), biologist

P

• Paracelsus, (1493-1541), 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

S

• Theodor Schwann, (1810-1882), physiologist
• Rupert Sheldrake, (born 1942), biologist
• Rolf Singer, (1906-1994), mycologist
• John Maynard Smith, biologist
• Roger W. Sperry, (1913-1994), biologist
• Nettie Stevens[?], biologist

T

• Ruth Turner[?], biologist
• Theophrastus, biologist

V

• Craig Venter, biologist
• Rudolf Virchow, (1821-1902), 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), biologist
• Edward O. Wilson, biologist
• Edward O. Wilson, biologist
• Carl Woese, biologist
• Sewall Wright, (1889-1988), biologist

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Y

Z