List of biologists
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This is a list of notable biologists. It includes zoologists, botanists, and other specialties.
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A
- Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), zoologist
- Alexander Agassiz, zoologist
- Joel Asaph Allen (1838-1921), birds, mammals
- Aristotle, (384 BC-322 BC), Greek philosopher
B
- Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876), embryology
- Spencer Fullerton Baird, (1823-1887), birds and mammals
- David Baltimore (1938- ), Nobel prize
- Joseph Banks, (1743-1820), biologist, botanist
- Anton de Bary, (1831-1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist
- Patrick Bateson, biologist
- Gaspard Bauhin, biologist
- Charles Emerson Beecher (1856-1904), US invertebrate paleontologist
- Charles William Beebe, (1877-1962), biologist
- [[G�nter Blobel]], German Nobel Prize-winning biologist
- Robert Brown (botanist), (1773-1858)
- Stephen L. Buchmann, co-author of Forgotten Pollinators
- Buffon (1707-1788) French naturalist
- Luther Burbank, (1849-1926), American horticulturalist
C
- Rachel Carson, (1907-1964), biologist, author of Silent Spring
- Min Chueh Chang, biologist
- Frank Michler Chapman (1864-1945), ornithologist
- Stanley Cohen, biologist
- Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), fish, reptiles, paleontology
- Jacques Cousteau, French marine biologist and explorer
- Francis Crick, (born 1916), DNA scientist
- Georges Cuvier, (1769-1832), French naturalist.
D
- Anders Dahl, (1751-1789), (namesake of the Dahlia)
- Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), British co-discoverer of evolution
- Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), doctor, naturalist, grandfather of Charles
- Richard Dawkins, (born 1941), British evolutionary biologist
- [[Max Delbr�ck]], German biologist
- Theodosius Dobzhansky, (1900-1975), biologist
- Jonas C. Dryander, (1748-1810), Swedish botanist
- Renato Dulbecco, biologist
- Robin Dunbar, biologist
E
- Sylvia Earle, biologist
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, (1795-1876), German biologist and microscopist
- Paul Ehrlich, (1854-1915), German Nobel Prize-winning immunologist
- Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Baltic German biologist and explorer, 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
- E.B. Ford (1901-1988) British ecological geneticist
- 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
- [[Charles Fr�d�ric Girard]], (1822-1895), French biologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
- Jane Goodall, (born 1934), US zoologist
- Stephen Jay Gould, (1941-2002), US paleontologist
- John Graham
- Asa Gray, (1810-1888), US botanist
- J.E. Gray, (1800-1875), British zoologist
- Pavel Groselj, (1883-1940), biologists and belletrist.
H
- Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), German physician
- Hermann August Hagen (1817-1893), German entomologist
- J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964), biologist
- Christoher A. Hall
- 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
- Alpheus Hyatt (1838-1902), US neo-Lamarckian
- Libbie Hyman (1888-1969), zoologist
I
J
- [[Fran�ois Jacob]], (1920- ), French biologist, Nobel Prize
- Wilhelm Johannsen, (1857-1927), (coined the term gene)
- David Starr Jordan (1851-1931), ichthyologist, 1st president of Stanford
- Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, (1748-1836), botanist, biologist
- Ernest Everett Just, biologist
K
- Motoderu Kamo, cultivated kimjongilia
- Stuart Kauffman, biologist
- Motoo Kimura, biologist
- Karl Koch (botanist), (1809-1879), German botanist
- Robert Koch, (1843-1910), German Nobel Prize-winning physician and bacteriologist
- Arthur Kornberg, discovered DNA polymerase
L
- Friedrich Loeffler, German biologist
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), coiner of the term biology
- William Elford Leach (1790-1836) English zoologist and marine biologist
- Joseph Le Conte, (1823-1901), physiologist
- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), developer of the microscope
- Joseph Leidy (1823-1891), US paleontologist
- Charles Alexander Lesueur, biologist
- Richard Lewontin, biologist
- Aristid Lindenmayer, biologist
- Carolus Linnaeus
- Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989), Austrian founder of ethology
- James Lovelock (born 1919), biologist
- A. S. Loukashkin, biologist
- Salvador Luria, microbiologist
- Trofim Lysenko (1898-1976), Soviet biologist and agronomist
M
- Marcello Malpighi, biologist
- Lynn Margulis, biologist
- Othniel Charles Marsh, (1831-1899), paleontology
- William Diller Matthew (1871-1930)
- Ernst Mayr (1904- ) evolutionary biologist
- Maud Leonora Menten, biologist
- John C. Merriam, biologist
- August Karl Arnold Michaelis
- 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
- 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
- Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935), eugenicist, AMNH curator
- 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
- C. S. Rafinesque, (1783-1840), zoologist who described many North American species
- Francesco Redi, biologist
- Martin Rodbell, biologist
- Alfred Romer, (1894-1973), specialist in vertebrate paleontology
- Robert Rosen, (1934-1998), theoretical biologist
S
- Charlest Schuchert, paleontology
- 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
- Jan Swammerdam, (1637-1680), entomologist, microscopist
T
- Patricia A. Tomlinson, biologist
- John Torrey, (1796-1873), US botanist, first professional in New World
- Robert Trivers, evolutionary biologist
- Ruth Turner, biologist
- Theophrastus, biologist
- Johannes Thiele, (1860-1935), German zoologist and malacologist
V
- Francisco Varela, (1946-2001) Chilean biologist
- Craig Venter, biologist
- Rudolf Virchow, (1821-1902), German biologist
W
- James D. 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 evolution
- August Weismann, (1834-1914), German biologist
- Edward O. Wilson, biologist
- Carl Woese, biologist
- Sewall Wright, (1889-1988), biologist
X
Y
Z
- Floyd Zaiger, (1926 - ), fruit genetics
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_biologists" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biologists, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
