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This is a list of notable biologists. It includes zoologists,
botanists, and other specialties.
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- Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), zoologist
- Alexander Agassiz, zoologist
- Wilfred Backhouse Alexander, (1885-1965),
English ornithologist
- Joel Asaph Allen (1838-1921), birds, mammals
- Aristotle, (384 BC-322 BC), Greek philosopher
- Peter Artedi, (1705-1735), Swedish naturalist
- John James Audubon, (1786-1851), American
ornithologist
B
- Churchill Babington (1831-1881), British archaeologist
and conchologist?
- 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
- Philip Barker Webb, (1793-1854), English botanist
- John Bartram, (1699-1777), American botanist
- William Bartram, (1739-1823), American naturalist
- Anton de Bary, (1831-1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist
- Patrick Bateson,
biologist
- Nicolas Baudin, (1754-1803), French botanist
- Gaspard Bauhin, biologist
- Charles
Emerson Beecher (1856-1904), US invertebrate paleontologist
- Charles William Beebe, (1877-1962), biologist
- George Bentham, (1800-1884), English botanist
- Thomas Blakiston, (1832-1891), English naturalist
- Günter Blobel, German Nobel Prize-winning biologist
- Edward Blyth, (1810-1873), English zoologist
- Pieter Boddaert, (1730-1795 or 1796), naturalist
- Charles Lucien Bonaparte, (1803-1857), French
naturalist
- Franco Andrea Bonelli, (1784-1830), Italian
ornithologist
- Johann Friedrich von Brandt, (1802-1879),
German naturalist
- Christian Ludwig Brehm, (1787-1864), German
ornithologist
- Alfred Brehm, (1829-1884), German zoologist
- Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814-1880), American naturalist
- Robert Brown (botanist), (1773-1858)
- Morten Thrane Brunnich (1737-1827), Danish
zoologist
- Stephen L. Buchmann, co-author of Forgotten
Pollinators
- Buffon (1707-1788) French naturalist
- William Bullock (1773-1849), English naturalist
- Walter Buller (1838-1906), New Zealand naturalist
- James Bulwer (1794-1879), English naturalist and conchologist
- 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
- William Cooper (1798-1864), American conchologist
- 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 Delbrück, German biologist
- Theodosius Dobzhansky, (1900-1975), biologist
- Jonas C. Dryander, (1748-1810), Swedish botanist
- Renato Dulbecco, biologist
- Robin Dunbar, biologist
E
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 Frédéric Girard, (1822-1895), French
biologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist.
- Johann Friedrich Gmelin, (1748-1804), German
naturalist
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832),
(part-time;)
- Jane Goodall, (born 1934), US zoologist
- Philip Henry Gosse, (1810-1888), English naturalist
- 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
- Frederik Hasselquist (1722-1752), Swedish
naturalist
- Willi Hennig (1913-1976) German biologist, founder of cladistics
- Robert Hooke (1635-1703), British scholar
- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy biologist
- Alexander von Humboldt, (1769-1859]], German
naturalist
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), British scientist
- Alpheus Hyatt (1838-1902),
US neo-Lamarckian
- Libbie Hyman (1888-1969), zoologist
I
J
- François 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
- Pehr Kalm, (1716-1779), Swedish botanist
- 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
- Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), French
zoologist
- 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
O
P
- Paracelsus, (1493-1541), German alchemist
- Dr. Daniel Pauly, biologist
- Louis Pasteur, (1822-1895), French biochemist
- Christian Hendrik Persoon, (1761-1836),
biologist
- Charles Pickering (naturalist),
(1805-1878), American naturalist
- Gregory Goodwin Pincus, biologist
Q
R
S
- Charlest
Schuchert, paleontology
- Theodor Schwann, (1810-1882), German physiologist
- Matthias Jakob Schleiden, (1804-1881), German
co-founder of the cell theory
- Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, (1723-1788),
Italian-Austrian naturalist.
- George Shaw, (1751-1813), English botanist and zoologist
- Rupert Sheldrake, (born 1942), biologist
- Rolf Singer, (1906-1994), German born mycologist
- John Maynard Smith, biologist
- Daniel Solander, (1733-1782), Swedish botanist
- Lazzaro Spallanzani, (1729-1799), biologist
- Anders Sparman,
(1748-1859), German naturalist
- Roger W. Sperry, (1913-1994), biologist
- Georg Wilhelm Steller , (1709-1746), Russian
ornithologist
- 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
- Carl Peter Thunberg, (1743-1828), Swedish
naturalist.
V
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
- Alexander Wilson, (1766-1813), Scottish-American
ornithologist
- Edward O. Wilson, biologist
- Carl Woese, biologist
- Sewall Wright, (1889-1988), biologist
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