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Charles Darwin

Biologist, naturalist and geologist.  Evolution by means of natural selection. Human evolution.

England

1809-1882

Louis Pasteur

Microbiologist and chemist.  The germ theory of disease.  Vaccination using weakened bacteria

France

1822-1895

James Watson


Molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist.  

United States

1928-

Alexander Fleming

Biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, bacteriologist and immunologist.

United Kingdom-Scotland

1881-1955

Robet Hooke

Biologist, physicist and chemist.  Cells.  

England

1635-1703

Rachel Carson

Marine biologist and conservationist.  Effect of pesticides.

United States

1907-1964

Francis Crick

Molecular biologist, biophysicist and neuroscientist.  

United Kingdom

1916-2004

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Microbiologist.  Bacteria and other microorganisms.

Netherlands

1632-1723

Karl Landsteiner

Physician and biologist.  Blood types

Germany

1868-1943

Barbara McClintock

Biologist. Cytogenetics. Gene transposition. Role of telomere and centromere.

United States

1902-1992

E.O Wilson 

Biologist, conservationist, sociobiologist and mymecologist.  

United States

1929-

William Herschel

Astronomer, physicist and biologist.

Germany

1738-1822

Edward Jenner

Physician, immunologist and biologist.  Vaccination.

England

1749-1823

Robert Koch

Physician, microbiologist and bacteriologist.  The bacteria causing anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera.

Germany

1843-1910

Jean Baptiste Lamark

Biologist and naturalist. Invertebrates. Lamarckian evolution

France

1744-1829

Alexander Von Humboldt

Geographer, geologist, biologist, meteorologist and biogeographer.  

Germany

1769-1859

Ernst Haeckel

Biologist, physician, philosopher and naturalist.  

Germany

1834-1919

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist. The location of genes on chromosomes

United States

1866-1945

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Neurobiologist. Nerve growth factor. Mast cells

Italy

1909-2012


Lynn Margulis

Biologist. Genetic control of embryonic development. Toll genes.

Germany

1942-

Steven Jay Gould

Paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and science historian

United States

1941-2002

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Biologist. Genetic control of embryonic development. Toll genes

Germany

1942-