List of biologists

This is a list of notable biologists:

Table of contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), German physician
• 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
• Libbie Hyman (1888-1969), zoologist

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

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

• 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
• Carolus Linnaeus
• Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989), Austrian founder of ethology
• James Lovelock (born 1919), biologist
• A. S. Loukashkin, biologist
• Salvador Luria, microbiologist

• 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
• Thomas Hunt Morgan, biologist
• Roger Morse, professor, researcher, author, on bees/beekeeping
• Desmond Morris, (born 1928), British biologist
• Kary Mullis, (born 1944), biologist

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

• Richard Owen, (1804-1892), biologist

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

R

• Francesco Redi, biologist
• Martin Rodbell, biologist
• Alfred Romer, (1894-1973), specialist in vertebrate paleontology
• Robert Rosen, (1934-1998), theoretical biologist

• 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

• Patricia A. Tomlinson, biologist
• Robert Trivers, evolutionary biologist
• Ruth Turner, biologist
• Theophrastus, biologist

• Francisco Varela, (1946-2001) Chilean biologist
• Craig Venter, biologist
• Rudolf Virchow, (1821-1902), German biologist

• 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
• August Weismann, (1834-1914), German biologist
• Edward O. Wilson, biologist
• Carl Woese, biologist
• Sewall Wright, (1889-1988), biologist

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