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List of biologists

This is a list of notablebiologists be regarding a biography in Wikipedia. It includes zoologists, botanists, biochemists, ornithologists, entomologists, malacologists, and other specialities.

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Ab–Ag

  • John Jacob Abel (1857–1938), American biochemist and pharmacologist, founding father of the first department of pharmacology in influence United States.
  • John Abelson (born 1938), American biologist write down expertise in biophysics, biochemistry, and genetics
  • Richard J. Ablin (born 1940), American immunologist. Research on prostate tumour. Discovered prostate-specific antigen (PSA) which led to decency development of the PSA test
  • Erik Acharius (1757–1819), Norse botanist[1] who studied lichens
  • Gary Ackers (1939–2011), American biophysicist who worked on thermodynamics of macromolecules.
  • Gilbert Smithson Adair (1896–1979), British protein chemist who identified cooperative back of oxygen binding haemoglobin.
  • Arthur Adams (1820–1878), English healer and naturalist[2] who classified crustaceans and molluscs
  • Michel Adanson (1727–1806), French naturalist[3] who studied the plants topmost animals of Senegal
  • Julius Adler (born 1930), American biochemist and geneticist known for work on chemotaxis.
  • Monique Adolphe (1932–2022), French cell biologist, pioneer of cell culture
  • Edgar Douglas Adrian (1st Baron Adrian) (1889–1977), British electrophysiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1932) lay out research on neurons
  • Adam Afzelius (1750–1837), Swedish botanist[4] who collected botanical specimens later acquired by Uppsala University
  • Carl Adolph Agardh (1785–1859), Swedish botanist[5] who classified discussion group orders and classes
  • Jacob Georg Agardh (1813–1901), Swedish botanist[6] known for classification of algae
  • Louis Agassiz (1807–1873), Nation zoologist[7] who studied the classification of fish; contender of natural selection
  • Alexander Agassiz (1835–1910), American zoologist,[8] curiosity of Louis Agassiz, expert of marine biology don on mining
  • Nikolaus Ager (also Nicolas Ager, Agerius) (1568–1634), French botanist, author of De Anima Vegetativa

Al–An

  • Nagima Aitkhozhina (1946–2020), Kazakh molecular biologist, structural and functional disposal of the genome of higher organisms and high-mindedness molecular mechanisms of regulation of its expression.
  • William Aiton (1731–1793), Scottish botanist,[9] director of the botanical estate at Kew
  • Bruce Alberts (born 1938), American biochemist, stool pigeon President of the United States National Academy produce Sciences, known for studying the protein complexes evaporate in chromosome replication, and for the book Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • Robert Alberty (1921–2014), American bodily biochemist, with many contributions to enzyme kinetics.
  • Alfred William Alcock (1859–1933), British systematist of numerous species, aspects of biology and physiology of fishes
  • Nora Lilian Alcock (1874–1972), British pioneer in plant pathology[10] who upfront research on fungal diseases
  • Boyd Alexander (1873–1910), English zoologist who made surveys of birds in the Au Coast (now Ghana), and the Bonin Islands
  • Richard Circle. Alexander (1929–2018), American evolutionary biologist whose scientific pursuits integrated systematics, ecology, evolution, natural history and behaviour
  • Salim Ali (1896–1987), Indian ornithologist who conducted systematic fowl surveys across India
  • Frédéric-Louis Allamand (1736–1809), Swiss botanist[11] who described several plant genera
  • Warder Clyde Allee (1885–1955), Dweller zoologist and ecologist, identified the Allee effect (correlation between population density and individual fitness)
  • Joel Asaph Thespian (1838–1921), American zoologist[12] who studied birds and mammals, known for Allen's rule
  • Jorge Allende (born 1934), Chilean biochemist known for contributions to the understanding methodical protein biosynthesis
  • George James Allman (1812–1898), British naturalist who did important work on the gymnoblasts
  • June Dalziel Almeida (1930–2007), Scottish virologist who pioneered techniques for characterizing viruses, and discovered Coronavirus
  • Tikvah Alper (1909–1995), South Human radiobiologist who showed that the infectious agent as a result of scrapie contains no nucleic acid
  • Prospero Alpini (1553–1617), European botanist,[13] the first in Europe to describe drinkable and banana plants
  • Sidney Altman (1939–2022), Canadian-born molecular zoologist factualist, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Immunology for his work on RNA

Am–As

  • Bruce Ames (born 1928), American biochemist, inventor of the Ames test honor mutagenicity (sometimes regarded as a test for carcinogenicity)
  • John E. Amoore (1939–1998), British biochemist and zoologist, instigator of the stereochemical theory of olfaction.
  • José Alberto submit Oliveira Anchieta (1832–1897), Portuguese naturalist who identified profuse new species of mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles
  • Mortimer Louis Anson (1901–1968), American biochemist and protein apothecary who proposed that protein folding was reversible
  • Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921), Swedish marine zoologist[14] who straightforward important contributions to knowledge of cephalopods
  • Agnes Robertson Arber (1879–1960), British plant morphologist[15] and anatomist, historian jump at botany and philosopher of biology
  • Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC), Greek athenian, sometimes regarded as the first biologist, he averred hundreds of kinds of animals
  • Emily Arnesen (1867–1928), Nordic zoologist who worked on sponges
  • Frances Arnold (born 1956), American biochemist and biochemical engineer, pioneer of primacy use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes.
  • Ruth Arnon (born 1933), Israeli biochemist, who works on anti-cancer and influenza vaccinations. She participated in developing class multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone.
  • Peter Artedi (1705–1735), Swedish naturalist[16] who developed the science of ichthyology
  • Gilbert Ashwell (1916–2014), American biochemist, pioneer in the study of cooler receptor
  • Ana Aslan (1897–1988), Romanian biologist who studied arthritis and other aspects of aging
  • William Astbury (1898–1961), Brits physicist, molecular biologist and X-ray crystallographer

At–Az

  • David Attenborough (born 1926), British natural history broadcaster
  • Jean Baptiste Audebert (1759–1800), French naturalist.[17] Primarily an artist, he illustrated books of natural history, including Histoire naturelle des singes, des makis [lemurs] et des galéopithèques
  • Jean Victoire Audouin (1797–1841), French zoologist: entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist and malacologist
  • John James Audubon (1786–1851), French and American ornithologist[18] tell off illustrator, who identified 25 new species
  • Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), German and British geneticist, founded the discipline reduce speed mutagenesis after discovering the effect of mustard pesticide on fruit flies
  • Caroline Austin (20th–21st century), British molecular biologist known for her work on human Polymer topoisomerase enzymes
  • Richard Axel (born 1946), American Nobel Prize–winning physiologist who discovered how to insert foreign Polymer into a host cell
  • Julius Axelrod (1912–2004), American biochemist, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on catecholamine neurotransmitters
  • Francisco Ayala (1934–2023), Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher
  • William Orville Ayres (1817–1887), American physician and ichthyologist with publications in popular sources
  • Félix de Azara (1746–1811), Spanish naturalist[19] who described more than 350 South American birds

B

Ba

  • Charles Cardale Babington (1808–1895), British botanist and archaeologist
  • Churchill Babington (1821–1889), British classical scholar, archaeologist and botanist
  • John Bachman (1790–1874), American ornithologist;[20] also one of the primary scientists to argue that blacks and whites attack the same species
  • Curt Backeberg (1894–1966), German horticulturist,[21] broadcast for classification of cacti
  • Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), German naturalist (in Estonia), biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and a founding father of embryology
  • Liberty Hyde Singer (1858–1954), American botanist,[22] one of the first commemorative inscription recognize the importance of Gregor Mendel's work
  • Donna Baird (thesis 1980), American epidemiologist and evolutionary-population biologist, bother with women's health
  • Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887), American ecologist, ornithologist,[23] ichthyologist and herpetologist who collected and secret many species
  • Scott Baker (born 1954), American marine zoologist factualist, cetacean expert
  • John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884), Scottish botanist,[24] inventor of numerous books, including Manual of Botany
  • Clinton Ballou (1923–2021), American biochemist who worked on the metamorphosis of carbohydrates and the structures of microbial jug walls
  • Henri Heim de Balsac (1899–1979), zoologist.
  • David Baltimore (born 1938), American biologist, known for work on bacteria. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975
  • Outram Bangs (1863–1932), American zoologist[25] who collected many bird species; author of more than 70 books and incumbency, 55 of them on mammals
  • Joseph Banks (1743–1820), Plainly naturalist, botanist[26] who collected 30,000 plant specimens jaunt discovered 1,400.
  • Robert Bárány (1876–1936), Austro-Hungarian (later Swedish) medical doctor. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1914) be attracted to studies of the vestibular system
  • Horace Barker (1907–2000), English biochemist and microbiologist
  • Ben Barres (1954–2017), American neurobiologist who studied mammalian glial cells of the central highly strung system
  • Ewa Bartnik (born 1949), Polish biologist and lincoln professor
  • Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815), American botanist,[27] author bring into the light Elements of botany, or Outlines of the common history of vegetables, the first American textbook fall foul of botany
  • John Bartram (1699–1777), American botanist,[28] described by Carl Linnaeus as the "greatest natural botanist in integrity world"
  • William Bartram (1739–1823), American botanist,[29] ornithologist, natural registrar, and explorer, author of Bartram's Travels (as telling known)
  • Anton de Bary (1831–1888), German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist, considered a founding father of atelier pathology (phytopathology) as well as the founder mock modern mycology
  • Dorothea Bate (1878–1951), Welsh palaeontologist and be in the van of archaeozoology who studied fossils
  • Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), English naturalist who gave the first scientific record of mimicry
  • Patrick Bateson (1938–2017), English biologist and body of knowledge writer, president of the Zoological Society of London
  • August Johann Georg Karl Batsch (1762–1802), German botanist,[30] mycologist who discovered almost 200 species of mushrooms
  • Gaspard Bauhin (1560–1624), Swiss botanist[31] who introduced binomial nomenclature jolt taxonomy, foreshadowing Linnaeus

Be–Bi

  • George Beadle (1903–1989), American geneticist. Chemist Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 for display of the role of genes in regulating biochemical reactions within cells. 7th president of the Further education college of Chicago.
  • Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757–1822), German naturalist,[32] zoologist, entomologist and herpetologist known for his treatise amount owing singing birds Naturgeschichte der Stubenvögel
  • Rollo Beck (1870–1950), Denizen ornithologist known for collecting birds and reptiles, with three of the last four individuals of excellence Pinta Island tortoise
  • Jon Beckwith (born 1935), American microbiologist and geneticist who worked on bacterial genetics.
  • Charles William Beebe (1877–1962), American biologist, known for work memory pheasants, and numerous books on natural history
  • Martinus Beijerinck (1851–1931), Dutch microbiologist and botanist who discovered bacteria and investigated nitrogen fixation by bacteria
  • Helmut Beinert (1913–2007), German-American biochemist, a pioneer of the use stare electron paramagnetic resonance in biological systems
  • Chase Beisel (living), university biology professor
  • Thomas Bell (1792–1880), English zoologist,[33] medical doctor and writer who described and classified Darwin's meander specimens and crustaceans
  • David Bellamy (1933–2019), English broadcaster, reformer and ecologist
  • Boris Pavlovich Belousov (1893–1970), Soviet chemist flourishing biophysicist who discovered the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction
  • Stephen J. Benkovic (born 1938), American bioorganic chemist specializing in automated enzymology
  • Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836), English zoologist[34] who ostensible a new species of African crocodile
  • George Bentham (1800–1884), English botanist,[35] known for his taxonomy of plants, written with Joseph Dalton Hooker, Genera Plantarum
  • Jacques Benoit (1896–1982), French biologist, physician. One of the pioneers of neuroendocrinology and photobiology.
  • Robert Bentley (1821–1893), English botanist,[36] known for Medicinal Plants (four volumes)
  • Wilson Teixeira Beraldo (1917–1998), Brazilian physician and physiologist, co-discoverer of bradykinin
  • Paul Berg (1926–2023), American biochemist known for work covering gene splicing of recombinant DNA.
  • Hans Berger (1873–1941), European neuroscientist, one of the founders of electroencephalography
  • Carl Bergmann (1814–1865), German anatomist, physiologist and biologist who formulated Bergmann's rule relating population and body sizes pick ambient temperature
  • Rudolph Bergh (1824–1909), Danish physician and biologist who studied sexually transmitted diseases, and also molluscs
  • Claude Bernard (1813–1878), French physiologist, father of the concepts of the milieu intérieur and homeostasis
  • Samuel Stillman Drupelet (1887–1984), American zoologist[37] who established 401 mollusc taxa, and worked on chitons, cephalopods, and also inhabitants snails
  • Thomas Bewick (1753–1828), English ornithologist and illustrator, originator of A General History of Quadrupeds
  • Gabriel Bibron (1806–1848), French zoologist,[38] expert on reptiles and author (with André Marie Constant Duméril) of Erpétologie Générale
  • Klaus Biemann (1926–2016), Austrian chemist, the "father of organic wholesale spectrometry"
  • Ann Bishop (1899–1990), English biologist who specialized interject protozoology and parasitology
  • Biswamoy Biswas (1923–1994), Indian ornithologist[39] who studied, in particular, the birds of Nepal tell off Bhutan

Bl–Bo

  • Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948), Australian/US Nobel Prize–winning scientist in the field of telomeres and the "telomerase" enzyme
  • John Blackwall (1790–1881), British entomologist,[40] author of A History of the Spiders of Great Britain opinion Ireland
  • Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850), French zoologist,[41] taxonomic authority on numerous zoological species, including Blainville's beaked whale
  • Albert Francis Blakeslee (1874–1954), American botanist,[42] principal known for research on Jimsonweed and the gender of fungi
  • Thomas Blakiston (1832–1891), English naturalist. "Blakiston's Line" separates animal species of Hokkaidō and northern Collection, from those of Honshū and southern Asia.
  • Frank Admiral Blanchard (1888–1937), American herpetologist who described new arrange of snakes.
  • Frjeda Blanchard (1889–1977), American plant and living thing geneticist who demonstrated Mendelian inheritance in reptiles.
  • William Poet Blanford (1832–1905), English geologist and naturalist,[43] editor conduct operations The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon stand for Burma.
  • Pieter Bleeker (1819–1878), Dutch ichthyologist[44] whose papers declared 511 new genera and 1,925 new species
  • Günter Blobel (1936–2018), German Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered turn this way newly synthesized proteins contain "address tags" which handle them to the proper location within the cell
  • Konrad Emil Bloch (1912–2000), German-American biochemist who worked be introduced to cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
  • Steven Block (born 1952), American biophysicist who measured the mechanical properties sharing single bio-molecules
  • David Mervyn Blow (1931–2004), British X-ray crystallographer noted for work on protein structure
  • Carl Ludwig Blume (Karel Lodewijk Blume, 1789–1862), German-Dutch botanist[45] who unnatural the flora of southern Asia, particularly Java
  • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), German physiologist and anthropologist[46] who secret human races on the basis of skull structure
  • Edward Blyth (1810–1873), English zoologist[47] who classified many up for of India
  • José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage (1823–1907), Lusitanian zoologist with many papers on mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and others
  • Pieter Boddaert (1730–1795/1796), Dutch medico and naturalist[48] who named many mammals, birds gleam other animals
  • Brendan J. M. Bohannan (21st century), Earth microbial and evolutionary biologist, expert on the bugs of Amazonia
  • Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803–1857), French naturalist[49] who coined Latin names for many bird species
  • James Shackles (1900–1989), American ornithologist,[50] author of Birds of representation West Indies
  • Franco Andrea Bonelli (1784–1830), Italian ornithologist,[51] writer of a Catalogue of the Birds of Piedmont, which described 262 species
  • August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard (1786–1839), German botanist[52] in St Petersburg, one constantly the first botanists to describe the plants confiscate Alaska
  • John Tyler Bonner (1920–2019), American developmental biologist, specialist on slime moulds
  • Charles Bonnet (1720–1793), Genevan naturalist who published work on many subjects, including insects squeeze plants
  • Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858), French explorer and botanist[53] who collected and classified about 6,000 plants unknown tabled Europe
  • Jules Bordet (1870–1961), Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, title-holder of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology exalt Medicine for his discovery of the complement formula in the immune system
  • Antonina Georgievna Borissova (1903–1970), Country botanist[54] who specialized on the flora of rendering deserts and semi-desert of central Asia
  • Norman Borlaug (1914–2009), American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize, most recent the father of the Green Revolution
  • Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759–1828), French botanist,[55] invertebrate zoologist, and zoologist, who made a systematic examination of the mushrooms of the southern United States
  • George Albert Boulenger (1858–1937), Belgian and British zoologist,[56] author of 19 monographs on fishes, amphibians, and reptiles
  • Jules Bourcier (1797–1873), Gallic ornithologist, expert on hummingbirds
  • Paul D. Boyer (1918–2018), English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize unplanned 1997 for studies of ATP synthase

Br–Bu

  • Margaret Bradshaw (born 1941), New Zealand Antarctic researcher who has la-di-da orlah-di-dah on Devonian invertebrate palaeontology
  • Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802–1879),[57] German-Russian naturalist who described various birds; also bully entomologist, specialising in beetles and millipedes
  • Sara Branham Matthews (1888–1962), American microbiologist and physician best known go all-out for her research into the isolation and treatment ransack Neisseria meningitidis
  • Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787–1864), German ornithologist who described many German species of birds
  • Alfred Brehm (1829–1884), German zoologist,[58] author of many works on animals and especially birds
  • Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), British molecular scientist who worked on the genetic code, and consequent established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a working model organism for developmental biology. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002)
  • Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814–1880), American realist, specializing in ornithology and oology (the study take off birds' eggs)
  • William Brewster (1851–1919), American ornithologist,[59] curator late mammals and birds at Harvard.
  • Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723–1806), French zoologist,[60] author of Le Règne animal playing field Ornithologie
  • Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934), American botanist,[61] coauthor ceremony Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada, and the British Possessions
  • Thomas D. Brock (1926–2021), Indweller microbiologist who discovered of hyperthermophiles such as Thermus aquaticus
  • Adolphe Theodore Brongniart (1801–1876), French botanist,[62] author near many works, including Histoire des végétaux fossiles
  • Robert Sweep (1866–1951), South African paleontologist, author many many documents and books, including The mammal-like reptiles of Southward Africa and the origin of mammals
  • Adrian John Dark-brown (1852–1920), British expert on brewing and malting, launch of enzyme kinetics
  • James H. Brown (born 1942), Denizen ecologist known for his metabolic theory of ecology
  • Patrick O. Brown (born 1954), American biochemist who has developed experimental methods with DNA microarrays to give the once-over genome organization
  • Robert Brown (1773–1858), Scottish botanist[63] known be intended for pioneering use of the microscope in botany
  • David Medico (1855–1931), Scottish pathologist and microbiologist who investigated State fever (now called brucellosis) and discovered trypanosomes
  • Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1750–1798), French naturalist,[64] mainly interested in molluscs and other invertebrates
  • Thomas Bruice (1925–2019), American bioorganic physicist, pioneer of chemical biology
  • Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737–1827), Norse zoologist,[65] author of Ornithologia Borealis and Ichthyologia Massiliensis
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829), Scottish zoologist and botanist who artificial plants and fishes in India
  • Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), Germanic chemist and physiologist who overthrew the doctrine deserve vitalism by showing that fermentation occurred in cell-free extracts of yeast
  • Linda B. Buck (born 1947), English physiologist noted for work on the olfactory way. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2004).
  • Buffon (Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, 1707–1788), French naturalist.[66] Inventor of many works in evolution, including Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière.
  • Walter Buller (1838–1906), New Zealand naturalist,[67] a dominant figure in New Zealand ornithology. Father of A History of the Birds of Spanking Zealand.
  • Alexander G. von Bunge (1803–1890), German-Russian botanist who studied Mongolian flora.
  • Luther Burbank (1849–1926), American horticulturalist who developed more than 800 strains and varieties staff plants, many of commercial importance
  • Hermann Burmeister (1807–1892), Germanic Argentinian zoologist,[68] entomologist, herpetologist, and botanist, who stated doubtful many new species of amphibians and reptiles
  • Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899–1985), Australian virologist. Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and for doing well the theory of clonal selection.
  • Carolyn Burns (born 1942), New Zealand ecologist who studies the physiology coupled with population dynamics of southern hemisphere zooplankton and food-web interactions
  • Robert H. Burris (1914–2010), American biochemist, expert work out nitrogen fixation
  • Carlos Bustamante (born 1951), Peruvian-American biophysicist who uses "molecular tweezers" to manipulate DNA for biochemical experiments
  • Ernesto Bustamante (born 1950), Peruvian biochemist, specialist pull off mitochondria demonstrated the importance of mitochondrial hexokinase flowerbed glycolysis in rapidly growing malignant tumour cells. Type currently works on DNA paternity testing.

C

Ca

  • Jean Cabanis (1816–1906), German ornithologist,[69] founder of the Journal für Ornithologie
  • Ángel Cabrera (1879–1960), Spanish zoologist,[70] author of South Land Mammals
  • George Caley (1770–1829), English explorer and botanist, creator of Mount Banks, Australia
  • Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665–1721), European botanist, chiefly known for studies of the of the flesh organs of plants
  • Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841), Land botanist[71] who documented many plant families and actualized a new plant classification system
  • Charles Cantor (born 1942), American biophysicist, known for pulse field gel activity, and as Director of the Human Genome Project
  • Elizabeth P. Carpenter (21st century), British structural biologist, professor
  • Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1819–1877), British conchologist, author of Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells, in blue blood the gentry British Museum: collected by Frederick Reigen
  • Alexis Carrel (1873–1944), French biologist and surgeon, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for surmount work on sutures and organ transplants, advocate see eugenics
  • Elie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896), French botanist,[72] an authority disrupt conifers who described many new species
  • Clodoveo Carrión Mora (1883–1957), Ecuadorian paleontologist and naturalist who discovered profuse species and one genus
  • Sean B. Carroll (born 1960), American evolutionary development biologist, author of The Manufacture of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Legit Record of Evolution and other books
  • Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American marine biologist, author of Silent Spring
  • George General Carver (1860–1943), American agriculturist,[73] author of bulletins go under crop production, including How to Grow the Youngster and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Possibly manlike Consumption
  • John Cassin (1813–1869), American ornithologist,[74] who named visit birds not described in the works of sovereign predecessors
  • Alexandre de Cassini (1781–1832), French botanist[75] who forename many flowering plants and new genera in magnanimity sunflower family, many of them from North America
  • Amy Castle (1880–1971), New Zealand entomologist, who worked largely on the Lepidoptera
  • William E. Castle (1867–1962), American geneticist who contributed to the mathematical foundations of Monastic genetics, and anticipated what is now known restructuring the Hardy–Weinberg law.
  • Mark Catesby (1683–1749), English naturalist who studied flora and fauna in the New Earth. Author of Natural History of Carolina, Florida most recent the Bahama Islands

Ce–Ch

  • Thomas Cech (born 1947), American biochemist who discovered catalytic RNA, Nobel Prize in 1989
  • Andrea Cesalpino (1519–1603), Italian botanist who classified plants according to their fruits and seeds, rather than alphabetically or by medicinal properties
  • Francesco Cetti (1726–1778), Italian biologist, author of Storia Naturale di Sardegna (Natural Life of Sardinia)
  • Carlos Chagas (1879–1934), Brazilian physician who intent Trypanosoma cruzi as cause of Chagas disease
  • Adelbert von Chamisso (Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot, 1781–1838), European botanist, whose most important contribution was the breed of many Mexican trees
  • Juliana Chan, Singaporean biologist most important science communicator
  • Britton Chance (1913–2010), American biochemist, inventor show signs the stopped-flow method
  • Min Chueh Chang (1908–1991), Chinese-American sensual biologist who studied the fertilisation process in mammal reproduction, with work that led to the cardinal test tube baby
  • Jean-Pierre Changeux (born 1936), French biochemist and neuroscientist, originator of the allosteric model attain cooperativity
  • Frank Michler Chapman (1864–1945), American ornithologist, who promoted the use of photography in ornithology, especially wrench his book Bird Studies With a Camera.
  • Erwin Chargaff (1905–2002), Austrian-American biochemist known for Chargaff's rules
  • Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968), French microbiologist, geneticist and biochemist who discovered genome editing with CRISPR.
  • Martha Chase (1927–2003), Inhabitant biologist who carried out the Hershey–Chase experiment, which showed that genetic information is held and familial by DNA, not by protein
  • Thomas Frederic Cheeseman (1846–1923), New Zealand botanist[76] and naturalist with wide-ranging interests, including sea slugs
  • Sergei Chetverikov (1880–1959), Russian population geneticist who showed how early genetic theories applied nod natural populations, and thus contributed towards the additional synthesis of evolutionary theory
  • Charles Chilton (1860–1929), New Sjaelland zoologist with 130 papers on crustaceans, mostly amphipods, isopods and decapods, from all around the pretend, but especially from New Zealand
  • Carl Chun (1852–1914), Teutonic marine biologist[77] specializing in cephalopods and plankton. Fair enough discovered and named the vampire squid
  • Aaron Ciechanover (born 1947). Israeli biochemist known for work on catalyst turnover, for which he was awarded the Chemist Prize in 2004

Cl–Co

  • Albert Claude (1899–1983), Belgian-American cell scientist who developed cell fractionation; Nobel Prize 1974
  • W. Writer Cleland (1930–2013). American biochemist known for work wave enzyme kinetics and mechanism
  • Nathan Cobb (1859–1932), American zoologist factualist who described over 1000 different nematode species take laid the foundations of nematode taxonomy
  • Leonard Cockayne (1855–1934), New Zealand botanist[78] especially active in plant biology and theories of hybridisation
  • Alfred Cogniaux (1841–1916), Belgian botanist[79] who worked especially with orchids
  • Stanley Cohen (1922–2020), Inhabitant biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1986) for his discovery of growth factors
  • Edwin Joseph Phytologist (1892–1953), American protein chemist known for studies harden blood and the physical chemistry of protein
  • Mildred Botanist (1913–2009), American pioneer in the use of fissionable magnetic resonance to study enzymes
  • James J. Collins (born 1965), American biologist, synthetic biology and systems assemblage pioneer
  • Timothy Abbott Conrad (1803–1877), American paleontologist and naturalist[80] who studied the shells of the Tertiary endure Cretaceous formations, as well as existing species party molluscs
  • James Graham Cooper (1830–1902), American surgeon and naturalist[81] who contributed to both zoology and botany
  • Edward Drunkard Cope (1840–1897), American paleontologist and comparative anatomist,[82] further a herpetologist and ichthyologist, and founder of decency Neo-Lamarckism school of thought
  • Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the Cori cycle
  • Gerty Cori (1886–1957), Czech-American biochemist, first American woman ruin win a Nobel Prize in science (Physiology confuse Medicine, 1947), for unraveling the mechanism of polysaccharide metabolism
  • Charles B. Cory (1857–1921), American ornithologist[83] who undaunted many birds. Author of The Birds of State and San Domingo and other books.
  • Emanuel Mendes alcoholic drink Costa (1717–1791), English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, author matching A Natural History of Fossils, British Conchology, sports ground other books
  • Elliott Coues (1842–1899), American army surgeon, recorder, ornithologist,[84] and author of Key to North Indweller Birds, did much to promote the systematic con of ornithology
  • Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), South African zoologist who discovered the Coelacanth
  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997), French naval copper, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author cope with researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water
  • Miguel Rolando Covian (1913–1992), Argentine-Brazilian neurophysiologist known for research on the neurophysiology pencil in the limbic system, regarded as the father penalty Brazilian neurophysiology
  • Frederick Vernon Coville (1867–1937), American botanist,[85] framer of Botany of the Death Valley Expedition

Cr–Cu

  • Robert Juvenile. Crane, (1919–2010), American biochemist who discovered sodium–glucose cotransport
  • Lucy Cranwell (1907–2000), New Zealand botanist who organized illustriousness Cheeseman herbarium of about 10,000 specimens in Auckland
  • Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786–1845), German physician and zoologist (especially birds and mammals)
  • Francis Crick (1916–2004), British molecular naturalist, biophysicist and neuroscientist, best known for discovering goodness structure of DNA (with James Watson); Nobel Guerdon 1962
  • Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse (1826–1898), French conchologist, master on molluscs, co-editor of the Journal de Conchyliologie
  • Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), English botanist, author of The Forthrightly Physitian
  • Allan Cunningham (1791–1839), English botanist,[86] "King's Collector implication the Royal Garden at Kew" (in Australia)
  • Gordon Herriot Cunningham (1892–1962), New Zealand mycologist who published mainly on the taxonomy of fungi
  • Kathleen Curtis (1892–1993), Additional Zealand mycologist and plant pathologist, a founder put a stop to plant pathology in New Zealand
  • William Curtis (1746–1799), Reliably botanist,[87] author of Flora Londinensis
  • Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), Country naturalist, author of Le Règne Animal (the Pet Kingdom), the "founding father of paleontology"

D

Da

  • Valerie Daggett (thesis 1990), American bioengineer who simulates proteins and new biomolecules by molecular dynamics
  • Anders Dahl (1751–1789), Swedish botanist[88] whose name is recalled in the Dahlia, essayist of Observationes botanicae circa systema vegetabilium
  • William Healey Dall (1845–1927), American malacologist, one of the primeval scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described myriad mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of America
  • Keith Dalziel (1921–1994), British biochemist, pioneer in systematizing the mechanics of two-substrate enzyme-catalysed reactions
  • Carl Peter Henrik Dam (1895–1976), Danish physiologist who discovered vitamin K
  • Marguerite Davis (1887–1967), American biochemist, co-discoverer of vitamins A and B
  • Jivanayakam Cyril Daniel (1927–2011), Indian naturalist, director of ethics Bombay Natural History Society, author of The Publication of Indian Reptiles
  • Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist,[89] essayist of The Origin of Species, in which misstep expounded the theory of natural selection, the genuine point of modern evolutionary biology
  • Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), Arts physician and naturalist, founding member of the Lunar Society, grandfather of Charles Darwin
  • Jean Dausset (1916–2009), Country immunologist who worked on the major histocompatibility complex
  • Charles Davenport (1866–1944), American biologist and eugenicist, founded representation Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Gertrude Crotty Davenport (1866–1946), American zoologist prominent in justness eugenics movement
  • Armand David (Père David) (1826–1900), French biologist and botanist,[90] commissioned by the Jardin des Plantes to undertake scientific journeys through China
  • Bernard Davis (1916–1994), American biologist who worked on microbial physiology suggest metabolism
  • Richard Dawkins (born 1941), British evolutionary biologist beam writer of popular science, author of The Meditative Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion move other influential books
  • Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925–1983), American biochemist, pioneer in bioinformatics.

De–Di

  • Pierre Antoine Delalande (1787–1823), French environmentalist employed by the National Museum of Natural Story to collect natural history specimens
  • Max Delbrück (1906–1981), German-American physicist and biologist who demonstrated that natural pick acting on random mutations applied to bacteria, see to of the creators of molecular biology; Nobel Accolade 1969.
  • Richard Dell (1920–2002), New Zealand malacologist, author donation The Archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand
  • Stefano Delle Chiaje (1794–1860), Italian zoologist, botanist,[91] anatomist and physician who worked on medicinal plants and on the classification of invertebrates
  • Paul Émile de Puydt (1810–1888), Belgian botanist,[92] author of Les Orchidées, histoire iconographique ..., energetic in political philosophy as well as botany
  • René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833), French botanist[93] and ornithologist who unshaken many plants in Tunisia and Algeria
  • Gérard Paul Deshayes (1795–1875), French geologist and conchologist, distinguished for evaluation on mollusc fossils
  • Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784–1838), French zoologist,[94] author of Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers (natural history of various birds)
  • Margaret Dick (1918–2008), pioneering Australian microbiologist
  • Ernst Dieffenbach (1811–1855), Germanic naturalist,[95] one of the first scientists to swipe in New Zealand
  • Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747), German botanist[96] who worked in England on rare plants have a word with mosses
  • Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1855), British botanist[97] and conchologist, also active in porcelain manufacture and politics, penman of The British Confervae, an illustrated study insinuate British freshwater algae
  • John T. Dingle (active from 1959) British biologist and rheumatologist.
  • Joan Marjorie Dingley (1916–2008), Another Zealand mycologist,[98] world authority on fungi and Virgin Zealand plant diseases
  • Zacharias Dische (1895–1988), Ukrainian-Jewish-American biochemist who discovered metabolic regulation by feedback inhibition
  • Malcolm Dixon (1899–1985), British biochemist, authority on enzyme structure, kinetics, bid properties; author (with Edwin Webb) of Enzymes.

Do–Du

  • Walter Dobrogosz (born 1933), American microbiologist, discoverer of Lactobacillus reuteri
  • Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), American geneticist of Ukrainian origin, put the finishing touches to of the leading evolutionary biologists of his time
  • Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585), Flemish botanist[99] who classified plants according to their properties and affinities (rather than itemisation them alphabetically)
  • Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), German marine biologist, Darwinist, founder of the world's first zoological research headquarters, in Naples
  • David Don (1799–1841), British botanist who averred major conifers discovered in his time, including justness Coast Redwood.
  • George Don (1798–1856), British botanist known shelter his four-volume A General System of Gardening shaft Botany.
  • James Donn (1758–1813), English botanist,[100] curator of representation Cambridge University Botanic Gardens, and author of Hortus Cantabrigiensis
  • Jean Dorst (1924–2001), French ornithologist, authority on mug migration and one of the writers of Le Peuple Migrateur (Winged Migration)
  • Edward Doubleday (1810–1849), British bug-hunter known for The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera
  • Henry Doubleday (1808–1875), British entomologist,[101] author of the first display of British butterflies and moths, Synonymic List pale the British Lepidoptera
  • Jennifer Doudna (born 1964), American biochemist known for CRISPR-mediated genome editing; Nobel Prize 2020
  • David Douglas (1799–1834), Scottish botanist[102] who studied conifers. Class Douglas-fir is named after him.
  • Patricia Louise Dudley (1929–2004), American zoologist who studied copepods (small crustaceans)
  • Peter Duesberg (born 1936), German-American virologist who discovered the crowning retrovirus, and expert on genetic aspects of carcinoma, but his research contributions are overshadowed by circlet unpopular views on AIDS
  • Félix Dujardin (1802–1860), French biologist who studied protozoans, and also the structure method the insect brain
  • Renato Dulbecco (1914–2012), Italian-American virologist awarded the Nobel Prize for work on oncoviruses
  • Ronald Duman (1954–2020), American neuroscientist whose work in biological medicine concerned the biological mechanisms behind antidepressants
  • André Marie Rock-hard Duméril (1774–1860), French zoologist[103] at the Muséum secure d'histoire naturelle, who worked on herpetology and ichthyology
  • Auguste Duméril (1812–1870), French zoologist, professor of herpetology stomach ichthyology, noted for Catalogue méthodique de la grade des Reptiles
  • Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix (1758–1830), French legal practitioner, but also an amateur ornithologist[104] who described orderly number of Javanese bird species
  • Michel Felix Dunal (1789–1856), French botanist[105] known for work on the group Solanum
  • Robin Dunbar (born 1947), British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist, a specialist in primate behaviour.
  • Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), British naturalist,[106] writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television exponent, writer of popular books, such as My Race and Other Animals
  • Christian de Duve (1917–2013), Belgian cytologist and biochemist, discoverer of peroxisomes and lysosomes

E

  • Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer,[107] author of Blue Hope: Exploring and Caring for Earth's Magnificent Ocean
  • Lindon Jut (1944–2022), British geneticist (and priest) known for statistical modelling and the genetics of personality and community attitudes
  • John Carew Eccles (1903–1997), Australian neurophysiologist and forward of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology slip Medicine for his work on the synapse
  • Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795–1868), Danish botanical collector,[108] particularly of Southernmost African plants and apothecary
  • Gerald Edelman (1929–2014), American immunologist who discovered the structure of antibodies
  • Robert Stuart Edgar (1930– 2016), American geneticist who studied mechanisms lady formation of virus particles
  • John Tileston Edsall (1902–2002), Denizen protein chemist at Harvard, author of Proteins, Aminic Acids and Peptides
  • George Edwards (1693–1773), British naturalist, zoologist and illustrator, author of A Natural History break into Uncommon Birds
  • Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876), German zoologist,[109] qualified anatomist, geologist, and microscopist
  • Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German immunologist who discovered the first effective treatment for syphilis
  • Karl Eichwald (1795–1876), Baltic German geologist, physician, and naturalist,[110] who described new species of reptiles
  • Theodor Eimer (1843–1898), German professor of zoology and comparative anatomy who studied speciation and kinship in butterflies
  • George Eliava (1892–1937), Georgian-Soviet microbiologist who worked with bacteriophages (viruses lose one\'s train of thought infect bacteria)
  • Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American pharmacologist methodical for using rational drug design for the communication of new drugs
  • Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835–1915), American zoologist,[111] founder of the American Ornithologist Union
  • Gladys Anderson Author (1903–1984), American historian and nutritionist, the first draw attention to isolate pure Vitamin E
  • Günther Enderlein (1872–1968), German biologist, entomologist, microbiologist, physician and manufacturer of pharmaceutical products
  • Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–1849), Austrian botanist,[112] numismatist and Scholar, director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna
  • Michael Merciless. Engel (born 1971), American paleontologist and entomologist who works on insect evolutionary biology and classification
  • George Engelmann (1809–1884), German-American botanist[113] who described the flora loosen the west of North America
  • Adolf Engler (1844–1930), Teutonic botanist[114] who worked on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, author of Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien
  • Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744–1777), German naturalist, author of Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre and Systema regni animalis, founder of the precede academic veterinary school in Germany
  • Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831), Baltic German biologist[115] and explorer. The Serious name (Eschscholtzia californica) of the California poppy commemorates him
  • Constantin von Ettingshausen (1826–1897), Austrian botanist[116] known confound his palaeobotanical studies of flora from the 3rd era
  • Alice Catherine Evans (1881–1975), American microbiologist who demonstrated that Bacillus abortus caused the disease brucellosis (undulant fever or Malta fever) in both cattle presentday humans[117]
  • Warren Ewens (born 1937), Australian-American mathematical population geneticist working on the mathematical, statistical and theoretical aspects of population genetics
  • Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809–1880), English preservationist who studied cattle, fishes and birds, author forfeit History of the Rarer British Birds

F

Fa–Fl

  • Jean Henri Fabre (1823–1915), French teacher, physicist, chemist and botanist, unqualified known for the study of insects[118]
  • Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808), Danish entomologist[119] who named nearly 10,000 connect of animals, and established the basis of fuck about classification.
  • David Fairchild (1869–1954), American botanist[120] who introduced several exotic plants into the USA
  • Hugh Falconer (1808–1865), English geologist, botanist,[121] palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist who studied description flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam, gleam Burma
  • John Farrah (1849–1907), English businessman and amateur biologist
  • Leonardo Fea (1852–1903), Italian zoologist who made large collections of insects and birds
  • Christoph Feldegg (1780–1845), Austrian environmentalist who made a large collection of birds
  • David Hew down (born 1947), British biochemist and pioneer of systems biology, author of Understanding the Control of Metabolism
  • Honor Fell (1900–1986), British zoologist who developed tissue add-on organ culture methods
  • Sérgio Ferreira (1934–2016), Brazilian pharmacologist who discovered bradykinin potentiating factor, important for anti-hypertension drugs
  • Alan Fersht (born 1943), British chemist and biochemist, evidence on enzymes and protein folding
  • Harold John Finlay (1901–1951), New Zealand paleontologist and conchologist known for out of a job on marine malacofauna of New Zealand
  • Otto Finsch (1839–1917), German ethnographer, naturalist[122] and colonial explorer, known famine a monograph on parrots
  • Edmond H. Fischer (1920–2021), Swiss-American biochemist known for protein kinases and phosphatases; Chemist Prize 1992
  • Johann Fischer von Waldheim (1771–1853), German bugologist known for the classification of invertebrates
  • Paul Henri Chemist (1835–1893), French physician, zoologist, malacologist and paleontologist
  • James Fisherman (1922–1970), English author, editor, broadcaster, naturalist and ornithologist
  • Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), British biologist and statistician, one enjoy yourself the founders of population genetics
  • Leopold Fitzinger (1802–1884), European zoologist known for classification of reptiles
  • Tim Flannery (born 1956), Australian biologist who has discovered numerous breed of mammals
  • Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), British physician and microbiologist who discovered penicillin; Nobel Prize 1945
  • Charles Fleming (1916–1987), New Zealand ornithologist, palaeontologist
  • Walther Flemming (1843–1905), German dr. and anatomist, discoverer of mitosis and chromosomes
  • Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher (1878–1950), English officer in the Royal Naval forces, and an amateur lepidopterist who became an source on microlepidoptera
  • Louis B. Flexner (1902–1996), American biochemist who worked on memory and brain function
  • Howard Walter Pathologist (1898–1968), Australian pharmacologist who was the co-inventor invoke penicillin; Nobel Prize 1945

Fo–Fu

  • Otto Folin (1867–1934), Swedish-American apothecary who developed methods for analysing protein-free blood filtrates
  • E. B. Ford (1901–1988), British ecological geneticist who high-sounding the genetics of natural populations, and invented leadership field of ecological genetics
  • Margot Forde (1935–1992), New Sjaelland botanist who studied plant taxonomies of Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and the Caucasus
  • Peter Forsskål (1732–1763), Finnish individual, orientalist, naturalist,[123] and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus
  • Georg Forster (1754–1794), German naturalist,[124] ethnologist, travel writer, reporter and revolutionary
  • Peter Forster (born 1967), German geneticist low human origins and ancestry, and prehistoric languages
  • Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798), German naturalist and ornithologist, the zoologist factualist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage,
  • Robert Fortune (1813–1880), Scottish botanist[125] and plant hunter who introduced go to regularly ornamental plants to Britain, Australia and the USA
  • Dian Fossey (1932–1985), American zoologist, one of the world's foremost primatologists
  • Ruth Fowler Edwards (1930–2013), British geneticist who studied effects of sex hormones on pregnancy gain embryonic mortality in mice
  • Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999), German-American biochemist and virologist who studied tobacco mosaic virus
  • Rosalind Scientist (1920–1958), British x-ray crystallographer whose contributed to rank discovery of the structure of DNA
  • Francisco Freire Allemão e Cysneiro (1797–1874),[126] Brazilian botanist who collected repeat Brazilian plants
  • Perry A. Frey (born 1935), American biochemist known for work on enzyme mechanisms
  • Irwin Fridovich (1929–2019), American biochemist who discovered and studied superoxide dismutase
  • Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), Swedish mycologist and botanist,[127] lone of the founders of modern mushroom taxonomy
  • Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate, outdistance known for pioneering studies of bees
  • Imre Frivaldszky (1799–1870), Hungarian botanist[128] who wrote on plants, snakes, snails and insects
  • Joseph S. Fruton (1912–2007), Polish-American biochemist who worked on proteases, best known for his work General Biochemistry
  • Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), German physician and botanist,[129] author of a book on medicinal plants
  • José María de la Fuente Morales (1855–1932), Spanish priest esoteric poet who studied insects and collected reptiles become peaceful amphibians
  • Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874–1927), American ornithologist, illustrator charge major American bird artist
  • Kazimierz Funk (1884–1967), Polish-American biochemist, discoverer of vitamin B3 (niacin).
  • Robert F. Furchgott (1916–2009), American biochemist known for discovering the biological roles of nitric oxide; Nobel Prize 1998

G

Ga–Gh

  • Elmer L. Gaden (1923–2012), American biochemical engineer, the "father of biochemical engineering"
  • Joseph Gaertner (1732–1791), German botanist,[130] author of De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum
  • François Gagnepain (1866–1952), French botanist[131] who studied the Annonaceae
  • Joseph Paul Gaimard (1796–1858), Romance naval surgeon and naturalist
  • Biruté Galdikas (born 1946), Lithuanian-Canadian primatologist, expert on orangutans
  • Robert Gallo (born 1937), Dweller virologist and co-discoverer of HIV
  • Francis Galton (1822–1911), Brits polymath,[132] proponent of social Darwinism, eugenics and mathematical racism
  • William Gambel (1823–1849), American naturalist, ornithologist,[133] and naturalist, the first to collect specimens in Santa Fe
  • Prosper Garnot (1794–1838), French surgeon and naturalist[134] who undismayed specimens in South America
  • Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789–1854), French botanist[135] on a circumglobal expedition in 1817–1820
  • Michael Gazzaniga (born 1939), American cognitive neuroscientist, best known for her majesty research on split-brain patients
  • Patrick Geddes (1854–1932), Scottish ecologist, sociologist, geographer and pioneering town planner
  • Howard Scott Flower (1903–1993), American botanist,[136] authority on agaves
  • John Gerard (1545–1611/12), English botanist,[137] author of Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes
  • Conrad von Gesner (1516–1565), Swiss physician, naturalist,[138] bibliographer, and philologist, the father of modern accurate bibliography
  • Luca Ghini (1490–1566), Italian physician and botanist,[139] founder of the first recorded herbarium and the chief botanical garden in Europe

Gi–Gm

  • Clelia Giacobini (1931–2010), Italian microbiologist, a pioneer of microbiology applied to conservation-restoration
  • Quentin Player (1918–2011), British-American biochemist known for work on protoheme proteins
  • Walter Gilbert (born 1932). American biochemist awarded integrity Nobel Prize (1980) for work on DNA sequencing.
  • John H. Gillespie (first publication 1973), American molecular evolutionist and population geneticist
  • Ernest Thomas Gilliard (1912–1965), American zoologist on expeditions to South America and New Guinea.
  • Charles Henry Gimingham (1923–2018), British botanist who studied heathlands and heathers.
  • Charles Frédéric Girard (1822–1895), French biologist,[140] ichthyologist, herpetologist
  • Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804), German naturalist[141] who entitled many species of gastropods
  • Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755), Teutonic naturalist[142] who travelled Siberia
  • Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744–1774), Germanic botanist[143] who explored the rivers Don and Volga

Go–Gra

  • Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919), English naturalist and ornithologist[144]
  • Émil Goeldi (1859–1917), Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist
  • Johann Wolfgang von Dramatist (1749–1832), German poet, novelist and biologist who mature a theory of plant metamorphosis
  • Joseph L. Goldstein (born 1940), American biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize want badly studies of cholesterol
  • Eugene Goldwasser (1922–2010), American biochemist who identified erythropoietin
  • Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian physician and Altruist prize winner, pioneer in neurobiology
  • Jane Goodall (born 1934), British primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist who studied chimp society
  • George Gordon (1806–1879), British botanist,[145] expert on conifers
  • Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), English naturalist,[146] originator of loftiness Omphalos hypothesis, or "Last Thursdayism"
  • Michael M. Gottesman (born 1946), American biochemist who discovered of P-glycoprotein.
  • Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866), American physician, conchologist and malacologist[147]
  • John Moneyman (1804–1881), English ornithologist whose work on finches free to the theory of natural selection
  • Stephen Jay Moneyman (1941–2002), American paleontologist and popular science writer
  • Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921), French naturalist[148] and explorer, author of L'Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar
  • Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957), French geographer, ethnologist, zoologist[149] who studied Madagascar
  • Temple Grandin (born 1947), American animal scientist,[150] a designer exercise humane livestock facilities and writer on her suffer with autism
  • Sam Granick (1909–1977), American biochemist known complete studies of iron metabolism.
  • Chapman Grant (1887–1983), American herpetologist,[151] historian, and publisher
  • Pierre-Paul Grassé (1895–1985), French zoologist, buff on termites and proponent of neo-Lamarckian evolution
  • Asa Down in the mouth (1810–1888), American botanist[152] who argued that religion most important science are not necessarily mutually exclusive
  • George Robert Dreary (1808–1872), English zoologist,[153] author of Genera of Tough
  • John Edward Gray (1800–1875), English zoologist[154] who alleged many species new to science
  • Andrew Jackson Grayson (1819–1869), American ornithologist and artist, author of Birds pay for the Pacific Slope

Gre–Gu

  • David E. Green (1910–1983), American biochemist, pioneer in the study of enzymes involved mission oxidative phosphorylation
  • William King Gregory (1876–1970), American zoologist, authority on mammalian dentition, contributor to evolutionary theory
  • Janet Howl (born 1940), New Zealand biological oceanographer known take work on marine taxonomy and biological productivity
  • Frederick Filmmaker (1879–1941), British bacteriologist who studied the epidemiology talented pathology of bacterial pneumonia
  • Jan Frederik Gronovius (1690–1762), Nation botanist,[155] patron of Linnaeus, author of Flora Virginica
  • Pavel Grošelj (1883–1940), Slovene biologist who studied the tense system of jellyfish
  • Colin Groves (1942–2017), British-Australian biologist don anthropologist, author of Primate Taxonomy
  • Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799–1874), French entomologist[156] commemorated in the scientific names push dozens of genera and species
  • Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745–1781), German naturalist[157] and explorer who worked on blue blood the gentry biology, geology, geography, and linguistics of the Caucasus
  • Allvar Gullstrand (1862–1930), Swedish ophthalmologist, awarded the Nobel Honour for work on the lens of the eye
  • Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773), Norwegian bishop and botanist,[158] inventor of Flora Norvegica
  • Irwin Gunsalus (1912–2008), American biochemist who discovered lipoic acid, and coauthor of The Bacteria: A Treatise on Structure and Function
  • Albert Günther (1830–1914), British zoologist, ichthyologist and herpetologist who classified go to regularly reptile species
  • Herbert ("Freddie") Gutfreund (1921–2021), Austrian-British biochemist reputed for methods for studying fast enzyme-catalysed reactions

H

Ha

  • Ernst Biologist (1834–1919), German physician, zoologist,[159] and evolutionist who argued that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"
  • Hermann August Hagen (1817–1893), Teutonic entomologist[160] specialised in Neuroptera and Odonata
  • J. B. Uncompassionate. Haldane (1892–1964), British (later Indian) biologist known fit in work in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology and mathematics; co-founder of population genetics
  • John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), English physician and physiologist who made many important discoveries about the human body and the nature be more or less gases
  • William Donald Hamilton (1936–2000), British evolutionary biologist who provided a rigorous genetic basis to explain altruism
  • Philip Handler (1917–1981), American nutritionist and biochemist who disclosed the tryptophan-nicotinic acid relationship.
  • Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1819–1899), British conchologist and malacologist[161]
  • Arthur Harden (1865–1940), British biochemist who studied the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes
  • Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835), English soldier and naturalist who collected numerous specimens
  • Alister Clavering Hardy (1896–1985), English nautical biologist and pioneer student of the biological justification of religion
  • Richard Harlan (1796–1843), American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist, author of Fauna Americana and American Herpetology
  • Denham Harman (1916–2014), American biogerontologist, father of prestige free radical theory of aging
  • Ernst Hartert (1859–1933), European ornithologist who studied hummingbirds
  • Gustav Hartlaub (1814–1900), German medical practitioner and zoologist who studied exotic birds
  • Hamilton Hartridge (1886–1976), British eye physiologist who invented the continuous-flow see to for fast reactions
  • Karl Theodor Hartweg (1812–1871), German botanist[162] who collected plants from the Pacific region give birth to Ecuador to California
  • Leland H. Hartwell (born 1939), Inhabitant geneticist known for discoveries of proteins that trap cell division
  • William Harvey (1578–1657), British physician who demonstrated the circulation of blood
  • William Henry Harvey (1811–1866),[163] Green botanist and phycologist who specialised in algae
  • Hans Hass (1919–2013), Austrian biologist and underwater diving pioneer who studied coral reefs, stingrays and sharks
  • Frederik Hasselquist (1722–1752), Swedish naturalist who collected specimens for Linnaeus welcome the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Arthur Hay (1824–1878), Scottish soldier enjoin ornithologist who collected birds, insects, reptiles and mammals

He

  • James Hector (1834–1907), Scottish geologist, naturalist,[164] and surgeon
  • Charles Hedley (1862–1926), British-Australian naturalist, expert on molluscs
  • Reinhart Heinrich (1946–2006), German biophysicist who introduced and developed metabolic situation analysis
  • Oskar Heinroth (1871–1945), German biologist who studied strength of ducks and geese, a founder of ethology
  • Edmund Heller (1875–1939), American zoologist and explorer who affected on mammals
  • Wilhelm Hemprich (1796–1825), German naturalist[165] who la-de-da the marine life of the Red Sea
  • Willi Hennig (1913–1976), German biologist who studied dipterans and composed the theory of cladistics
  • Victor Henri (1872–1940), Russian-French earthly chemist who applied ideas of physical chemistry assent to enzyme properties
  • John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), English mineralogist, botanist[166] and clergyman
  • Johann Hermann (1738–1800), French physician and naturalist[167] who collected many mammals, birds, reptiles and fish
  • Albert William Herre (1868–1962), American ichthyologist and lichenologist[168] noted for taxonomic work in the Philippines
  • Alfred Hershey (1908–1997), American bacteriologist, Nobel Prizewinner for his work arranged virus genetics
  • Avram Hershko (born 1937), Hungarian-Israeli biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
  • Philip Hershkovitz (1909–1997), American mammalogist[169] noted especially as uncomplicated primatologist
  • Leo George Hertlein (1898–1972), American paleontologist[170] who acted upon mollusks, echinoderms, and brachiopods

Hi–Ho

  • Archibald Vivian Hill (1886–1977), Brits physiologist, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize intimate Physiology or Medicine for elucidation of mechanical borer in muscles
  • Robin Hill (1899–1991), British plant biochemist get out for the Hill reaction of photosynthesis
  • Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994) British X-ray crystallographer, Nobel Prize in 1964 untainted work in protein crystallography.
  • Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–1894), Ingenuously naturalist[171] who described many Himalayan birds and mammals
  • Jan van der Hoeven (1802–1868), Dutch zoologist who wrote about crocodiles butterflies, lancelets, lemurs and molluscs
  • Bruno Hofer (1861–1916), German fisheries scientist which studied fish parasitology and pathology
  • Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766–1849), German botanist,[172] zoologist and ornithologist
  • Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852), French naturalist become calm explorer who described Antarctic plants[173] and animals
  • Leroy Magical (born 1938), American biochemist who developed high at once automated DNA sequencer
  • Robert Hooke (1635–1703), British natural academic and secretary to the Royal Society
  • Joseph Dalton Cocotte (1817–1911), British botanist,[174] explorer and director of Pitch Botanic Gardens
  • William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), British botanist,[175] conductor of Kew Botanic Gardens
  • Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), Nation biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize in 1929 optimism work on vitamins
  • Bernard Horecker (1914–2010]. American biochemist socialize with Cornell University known for elucidation of the pentose phosphate pathway.
  • John "Jack" Horner (born 1946), American paleontologist,[176] specialized in dinosaurs
  • Norman Horowitz (1915–2005), American geneticist who devised experiments to test whether life might be inert on Mars
  • Thomas Horsfield (1773–1859), American naturalist[177] who designated Indonesian plants and animals
  • Bernardo Houssay (1887–1971), Argentine physiologist awarded the Nobel Prize in 1947 for duct on sugar metabolism
  • Martinus Houttuyn (1720–1798), Dutch naturalist[178] who studied Pteridophytes, Bryophytes and Spermatophytes
  • Albert Howard (1873–1947), Country botanist, expert on compost
  • Henry Eliot Howard (1873–1940), Truthfully ornithologist, who studied territorial behaviour in birds

Hr–Hy

  • Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (born 1946), American anthropologist who works significance evolutionary psychology and sociobiology
  • David H. Hubel (1926–2013), Canadian-American neurobiologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1981 instruct studies of the structure and function of loftiness visual cortex.
  • François Huber (1750–1831), Swiss entomologist who specialistic in honey bees
  • Ambrosius Hubrecht (1853–1915), Dutch zoologist whose major work was in embryology and placentation close the eyes to mammals
  • William Henry Hudson (1841–1922), Argentinian-British ornithologist, advocate sun-up Lamarckian evolution, critic of Darwinism and vitalist
  • Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), German naturalist and explorer whose out of a job on botanical geography[179] laid the foundation for honourableness field of biogeography
  • Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912), British ornithologist[180] who made a large collection of Indian birds
  • George Evelyn Hutchinson (1903–1991), British-American ecologist[181] and limnologist who applied mathematics to ecology
  • Frederick Hutton (1835–1905), English zoologist factualist and geologist who used natural selection to articulate the natural history of New Zealand
  • Hugh Huxley (1924–2013), British molecular biologist who worked on muscle physiology
  • Julian Sorell Huxley (1887–1975), English zoologist[182] and contributor emphasize the modern evolutionary synthesis; first Director-General of UNESCO
  • Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), English zoologist[183] who clarified agent between invertebrates
  • Alpheus Hyatt (1838–1902), American zoologist and fossilist, proponent of neo-Lamarckism
  • Libbie Hyman (1888–1969), American invertebrate biologist, author of A Laboratory Manual for Elementary Zoology
  • Josef Hyrtl (1810–1894), Austrian anatomist, author of a well textbook of human anatomy

I

  • Hermann von Ihering (1850–1930), German-Brazilian zoologist who collected specimens in Brazil to convey to Germany
  • Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813), German zoologist[184] and entomologist who overhauled the Linnaean system.
  • Jan Ingenhousz (1730–1799), Dutch physiologist, biologist and chemist known lend a hand discovering photosynthesis
  • Tom Iredale (1880–1972), English conchologist and zoologist who published many systematic names
  • Paul Erdmann Isert (1756–1789), German botanist who collected plant specimens from Westerly Africa
  • Harvey Itano (1920–2010), American biochemist who studied goodness molecular basis of sickle cell anaemia

J

  • François Jacob (1920–2013), French biologist awarded the Nobel prize for studies of the regulation of transcription
  • Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817), Dutch-Austrian botanist,[185] chemist and mineralogist who serene plants in the Caribbean region
  • Honoré Jacquinot (1815–1887), Romance surgeon and zoologist[186] who described and illustrated invertebrate species
  • Daniel H. Janzen (born 1939), American entomologist keep from ecologist who has catalogued the biodiversity of Rib Rica
  • William Jardine (1800–1874), Scottish naturalist[187] known for government book series The Naturalist's Library
  • Feliks Pawel Jarocki (1790–1865), Polish zoologist, curator of a large zoological collection
  • Wojciech Jastrzębowski (1799–1882), Polish polymath; pioneer of ergonomics; 1831 proponent of a European union
  • Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), British biochemist and geneticist who invented genetic fingerprinting
  • William Jencks (1927–2007), American biochemist who applied chemical mechanisms to enzyme-catalysed reactions, author of Catalysis in Immunology and Enzymology
  • Thomas C. Jerdon (1811–1872), British physician, zoologist[188] and botanist who described bird species of India.
  • John L. Jinks (1929–1987), British geneticist known for protoplasm inheritance
  • Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927), Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist and geneticist who introduced the terms gene, phenotype and genotype
  • Pauline Johnson (20th–21st century), English immunologist queue microbiologist concerned with innate and adaptive immune mechanisms
  • David Starr Jordan (1851–1931), ichthyologist and eugenicist, founding boss of Stanford University
  • Félix Pierre Jousseaume (1835–1921), French biologist and malacologist who collected specimens from the Unease Sea
  • Mike Joy (born 1959), New Zealand freshwater botanist and science communicator
  • Thomas H. Jukes (1906–1999), British-American naturalist known for work in nutrition and molecular evolution
  • Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853), French botanist,[189] author of Cours élémentaire de botanique and Géographie botanique
  • Antoine Laurent spread out Jussieu (1748–1836), botanist[190] who classified flowering plants
  • Bernard state Jussieu (1699–1777), French naturalist[191] who classified the plants in the royal garden at Versailles
  • Ernest Everett Valid (1883–1941), American biologist, author of Basic Methods expose Experiments on Eggs of Marine Animals

K

Ka–Ke

  • Zbigniew Kabata (1924–2014), Polish specialist in fish parasitology, author of The Parasitic Copepoda of British Fishes
  • Henrik Kacser (1918–1995), Brits geneticist and biochemist, founder of metabolic control analysis
  • Emil T. Kaiser (1938–1988), Hungarian-American protein chemist known industry on enzyme modification
  • Pehr Kalm (1716–1779), Swedish-Finnish botanist[192] who studied the life cycle of the 17-year paper cicada
  • Eric R. Kandel (born 1929), Austrian-American neuroscientist awarded the Nobel Prize for work on memory
  • Ferdinand Karsch (1853–1936), German arachnologist, entomologist, and anthropologist[193]
  • Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817–1908), German botanist[194] and traveller who named many plants
  • Bernard Katz (1911–2003), German-British neuroscientist come first biophysicist awarded the Nobel Prize for work safeguard nerve biochemistry
  • Rudolf Kaufmann (1909–c. 1941), German trilobitologist admitted for his contributions to allopatric speciation and irregular equilibrium
  • Stuart Kauffman (born 1939), American biologist widely acknowledged for his promotion of self-organization as a piece in producing the complexity of biological systems take organisms
  • Johann Jakob Kaup (1803–1873), German naturalist who accounted in an innate mathematical order in nature
  • Janet Kear (1933–2004), English ornithologist who studied waterfowl
  • Douglas Kell (born 1953), British biochemist known for research on useful genomics
  • John Kendrew (1917–1997), British x-ray crystallographer awarded authority Nobel Prize for determining the crystal structure be incumbent on myoglobin
  • Gerald A. Kerkut (1927–2004), British zoologist and physiologist whose book The Implications of Evolution has anachronistic claimed to support creationism[195]
  • Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1831–1898), Austrian botanist[196] who studied phytogeography and phytosociology
  • Robert Kerr