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Encyclopedia > List of biologists

This is a list of notable biologists. It includes zoologists, botanists, ornithologists, malacologists, naturalists and other specialities. A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of organisms. ...


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This is a list of botanists by their author abbreviation, including that established by Brummitt & Powell (1992), designed for citation in the botanical names they have published. ... This is a list of zoologists by their author abbreviation. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ...

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The King Abdulali (1914 – 2001) was an Indian ornithologist, and a cousin of Salim Ali. ... Erik Acharius (10 October 1757–14 August 1819) was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the taxonomy of Lichens and is known as the father of lichenology. Acarius was born in Gävle, matriculated at Uppsala University in 1773 and was one of the last of the students of Linnaeus. ... Pedro Alberch i Vié (1954-1998) was a Spanish naturalist. ... Johann Friedrich Adam, later called Michael Friedrich Adams was a late 18th century botanist from St. ... Hi I am Adanson. ... Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (born London, 30 November 1889, died London, 4 August 1977) was a British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. ... Current Clamp is a common technique in electrophysiology. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... This article is about cells in the nervous system. ... Adam Afzelius (1750-1837) was a Swedish botanist. ... Carl Adolph Agardh Carl Adolph Agardh (1785 - 1859) was a Swedish botanist specializing in algae and was eventually appointed bishop of Karlstad. ... Jacob Georg Agardh (1813 - 1901) was a Swedish botanist. ... Louis Agassiz After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Stanford President David Starr Jordan wrote, Somebody—Dr. Angell, perhaps—remarked that Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete. ... Alexander Agassiz Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910), son of Louis Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. ... Nikolaus Ager (1568 - 1634) was a French botanist born in Alsace, most well known for his treatise De Anima Vegetiva (1629). ... William Aiton (1731 - February 2, 1793) was a Scottish botanist. ... Dr. Bruce Alberts (b. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with United States National Academy of Sciences. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... Boyd Alexander (January 16, 1873 _ April 2, 1910) was an English Army officer, explorer and ornithologist. ... Horace Gundry Alexander (July 30, 1889 - September 30, 1989) was an English Quaker teacher and writer, pacifist and ornithologist. ... Richard D. Alexander is an Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Curator of Insects at the Museum of Zoology of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Prof. ... Wilfred Backhouse Alexander (February 4, 1885 - December 8, 1965) was an English ornithologist and entomologist. ... Alfred William Alcock (June 23, 1859 - March 24, 1933) was a British naturalist and carcinologist. ... Dr. Sálim Ali (full name Dr. Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali), November 12, 1896 - July 27, 1987 was the pre-eminent ornithologist of India. ... Frédéric-Louis Allamand (~ February 5, 1736 - after 1803) was a Swiss botanist. ... Warder Clyde Allee (June 5, 1885 - March 18, 1955) was an American zoologist and ecologist who taught animal ecology at the University of Chicago. ... The Allee effect is a phenomenon in biology named after W. C. Allee, who first wrote extensively on it. ... Joel Asaph Allen (July 19, 1838 - August 29, 1921) was an American zoologist and ornithologist. ... George James Allman (1812-November 24, 1898), M.D., Emeritus Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh, an eminent naturalist. ... Prospero Alpini, or Prosper Alpinus (November 23, 1553 - February 6, 1617), was an Italian physician and botanist. ... Sidney Altman Sidney Altman (born May 7, 1939) is a Canadian-born molecular biologist, who is currently the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... For other uses, see RNA (disambiguation). ... Bruce Ames, by ItalianScallion Bruce Ames (born December 16, 1928), is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Childrens Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). ... The Ames test is a biological assay to assess the mutagenic potential of chemical compounds. ... José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta (variations José dAnchieta, José Anchieta, José de Anchieta - b. ... Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (Garda on Gotland 2 November 1857 – 5 January 1921), Swedish marine zoologist. ... For other uses, see Aristotle (disambiguation). ... Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius (February 22, 1705 – September 27, 1735) was a Swedish naturalist and is known as the father of Ichthyology. ... Jean Baptiste Audebert (1759 - 1800) was a French artist and naturalist. ... Jean Victoire Audouin (April 27, 1797 - November 9, 1841) was a French naturalist, entomologist and ornithologist. ... John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. ... Charlotte Auerbach (1899 - 1994) was a geneticist born in Germany but fled to Scotland because of anti-Semitism. ... This article is about mutation in biology, for other meanings see: mutation (disambiguation). ... Gilbert Ashwell (1916-) is a biochemist at the National Institutes of Health. ... Biochemistry (from Greek: , bios, life and Egyptian kÄ“me, earth[1]) is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms. ... In biochemistry, a receptor is a protein on the cell membrane or within the cytoplasm that binds to a specific factor (a ligand), such as a neurotransmitter, hormone, or other substance, and initiates the cellular response to the ligand. ... Richard Axel, M.D. (born July 2, 1946, New York City) is an American scientist whose work on the olfactory system won him and Linda B. Buck, a former post-doctoral scientist in his research group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004. ... Julius Axelrod won a Nobel Prize in 1970 Julius Axelrod (May 30, 1912 – December 29, 2004) was an influential American biochemist. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... tyrosine is the precursor of catecholamines epinephrine norepinephrine dopamine Synthesis Catecholamines are chemical compounds derived from the amino acid tyrosine containing catechol and amine groups. ... Neurotransmitters are chemicals that are used to relay, amplify and modulate electrical signals between a presynaptic and a postsynaptic neuron. ... Hi i am Félix Manuel de Azara. ...

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Churchill Babington ( 11th March, 1821- 1889) was an English classical scholar and archaeologist, born at Roecliffe, in Leicestershire. ... Rev. ... Curt Backeberg (1894-1966) was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cacti. ... Karl Ernst von Baer (February 17, 1792 - November 26, 1876) was a Baltic German biologist and a founding father of embryology. ... Liberty Hyde Bailey. ... Spencer Fullerton Baird Spencer Fullerton Baird (February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American ornithologist and ichthyologist. ... John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884) was a Scottish botanist. ... David Baltimore (b. ... For clothing store, see JoS. A. Bank Clothiers. ... Robert Bárány Robert Bárány (April 22, 1876 – April 8, 1936) was an Austrian physician of Hungarian-Jewish descent. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... It has been suggested that Equilibrioception be merged into this article or section. ... Benjamin Smith Barton Benjamin Smith Barton (February 10, 1766 - December 19, 1815) was an American botanist. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Portrait of Bartram by Peale William Bartram (April 20, 1739 — July 22, 1823) was an American naturalist, the son of John Bartram. ... Anton de Bary Heinrich Anton de Bary (January 26, 1831 - January 19, 1888) was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist (fungal systematics and physiology). ... Henry Walter Bates (February 8, 1825 - February 16, 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer. ... Sir Patrick Bateson, FRS (b. ... The Zoological Society of London (sometimes known by the abbreviation ZSL) is a learned society founded in April 1826 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lord Auckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors and other eminent naturalists. ... Dr August Johann Georg Karl Batsch (28 October 1761 - 29 September 1802) was a German naturalist. ... Nicolas Baudin Nicolas-Thomas Baudin (February 17, 1754 - September 16, 1803) was a French explorer. ... Gaspard Bauhin Gaspard Bauhin, or Caspar Bauhin (January 17, 1560 – December 5, 1624), was a Swiss-French botanist. ... Johann Matthäus Bechstein (July 11, 1757 - February 23, 1822) was a German naturalist, forester, and ornithologist. ... Rollo Howard Beck (1870 - 1950) was a US ornithologist and explorer. ... William Beebe (July 29, 1877 – June 4, 1962), American naturalist, explorer, and author. ... Martinus Willem Beijerinck (March 16, 1851 - January 1, 1931) was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist. ... This article is about biological infectious particles. ... Thomas Bell (October 11, 1792 - March 13, 1880) was an English zoologist, surgeon and writer, born in Poole, UK. Bell, like his mother Susan, took a keen interest in natural history which his mother also encouraged in his younger cousin Philip Henry Gosse. ... David Bellamy Professor David J. Bellamy OBE (born 18 January 1933) is an English botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner. ... Edward Turner Bennett (1797 - August 21, 1836) was an English zoologist and writer. ... George Bentham George Bentham (September 22, 1800 – September 10, 1884) was an English botanist, perhaps the greatest systematic botanist of the 19th century. ... Wilson Teixeira Beraldo (b. ... Spacefilling model of bradykinin Bradykinin is a physiologically and pharmacologically active peptide of the kinin group of proteins, consisting of nine amino acids. ... Robert Bentley (1821-1893) was an English botanist. ... Hans Berger was born in May 21, 1873, in Neuses near Coburg, Thuringia, Germany. ... “EEG” redirects here. ... Claude Bernard Claude Bernard (July 12, 1813 - February 10, 1878) was a French physiologist. ... This article is about the zoologist Samuel Stillman Berry. ... Thomas Bewick (August 1753 - November 8, 1828) was an English wood engraver and ornithologist. ... Dr. Colin J. Bibby (20 November 1948_7 August 2004) was an English ornithologist. ... Gabriel Bibron (1806 - 1848) was a French zoologist. ... Johan(nes) Abraham Bierens de Haan (* March 17, 1883 in Haarlem, † June 13, 1958 in Siena, Italy) is a Dutch biologist and ethologist. ... Biswamoy Biswas (June 2, 1923 - August 10, 1994) was an Indian ornithologist. ...

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Elizabeth (Liz) H(elen) Blackburn (November 26, 1948 - ) is a professor of biology and leading researcher in the field of the telomere and the telomerase enzyme, and their relationships to aging and cancer. ... A telomere is a region of highly repetitive DNA at the end of a linear chromosome that functions as a disposable buffer. ... John Blackwall (January 20, 1790 - May, 1881) was a British naturalist. ... Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (September 12, 1777 - May 1, 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist. ... Albert Francis Blakeslee (9 November 1874–16 November 1954) was an American botanist. ... Binomial name Datura stramonium Datura stramonium is the name of a poisonous weed, sometimes used as a hallucinogen. ... Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota The Fungi (singular: fungus) are a large group of organisms ranked as a kingdom within the Domain Eukaryota. ... Thomas Wright Blakiston Thomas Wright Blakiston (born Lymington October 15 1832, died 1891) was an English explorer and naturalist. ... William Thomas Blanford (October 7, 1832 - June 23, 1905) was an English geologist and naturalist. ... Pieter Bleeker (1819 - 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia. ... Günter Blobel (born May 21, 1936) is a German biologist. ... The Nobel Prize (Swedish: ) was established in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, and it was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. ... Steve Block Dr. Steven M. Block (born 1952) is a professor at Stanford University with a joint appointment in the departments of Biological Sciences and Applied Physics. ... Carl Ludwig Blume (29 June 1789 - 3 February 1862) was a German-Dutch botanist. ... Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (May 11, 1752 - January 22, 1840) was a German physiologist and anthropologist. ... Edward Blyth. ... Pieter Boddaert (1730 - 1795 or 1796) was a physician and naturalist. ... Cándido Bolívar Pieltain (1897-1976. ... Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (May 24, 1803 – July 29, 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithologist. ... James Bond (January 4, 1900 – February 14, 1989) was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy James Bond. ... Franco Andrea Bonelli (November 10, 1784 - November 18, 1770) was an Germany ornithologist and collector. ... August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard (1786-1839) was a German botanist, who worked at Saint Petersburg, Russia. ... Bonnet Charles Bonnet (March 13, 1720 – May 20, 1793), Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a French family driven into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century. ... Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (August 22, 1773 - May 4, 1858) was a French explorer and botanist. ... Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet (Soignies (Belgium) 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... A complement protein attacking an invader. ... A scanning electron microscope image of a single neutrophil (yellow), engulfing anthrax bacteria (orange). ... Antonina Georgievna Borissova (1903-1970) was a Russian botanist, specialising in the flora of the deserts and semi-deserts of central Asia. ... Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25, 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. ... Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (January 29, 1759 - July 10, 1828) was a French botanist and invertebrate zoologist. ... George Boulenger. ... Jules Bourcier (1797 - March 9, 1873) was a French naturalist. ... Johann Friedrich von Brandt (May 25, 1802 - July 15, 1879) was a German naturalist. ... Christian Ludwig Brehm (January 24, 1787 - June 23, 1864) was a German pastor and ornithologist. ... Alfred Edmund Brehm Alfred Edmund Brehm (born February 2, 1829 in Unterrenthendorf, now called Renthendorf; died November 11, 1884 in Renthendorf) was a German zoologist and writer, the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... Thomas Mayo Brewer (November 21, 1814 - January 24, 1880) was an American naturalist. ... William Brewster (July 5, 1851 - 1919) was an American ornithologist. ... Mathurin Jacques Brisson Mathurin Jacques Brisson (April 30, 1723 – June 23, 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher. ... Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859 - 1934) was a US botanist and taxonomist who founded the New York Botanical Garden in Bronx, New York. ... Adolphe Théodore Brongniart (January 14, 1801 _ February 18, 1876) was a French botanist. ... Image:Broom R.jpg Robert Broom Prof. ... James Hemphill Brown, an ecologist, is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico. ... Robert Brown (1773–1858) Robert Brown (December 21, 1773–June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. ... Sir David Bruce (May 29, 1855, Melbourne - November 27, 1931) was a Scottish pathologist and microbiologist who investigated the Malta-fever and trypanosomes, identifying the cause of sleeping sickness. ... Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1749 or 1750 - 1798) was a French physician, zoologist and diplomat. ... Morten Thrane Brunnich. ... Dr Francis Buchanan, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (February 15, 1762 - June 15, 1829) was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer zoologist and botanist while living in India. ... Pollinator decline is based on observations made at the end of the twentieth century of the reduction in abundance of pollinators in many ecosystems worldwide. ... Linda B. Buck, Ph. ... Samuel Botsford Buckley (May 9, 1809 - February 18, 1884) was an American naturalist. ... Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, by François-Hubert Drouais (1727-1775). ... William Bullock (c. ... Sir Walter Lawry Buller (October 9, 1838 - July 19, 1906) was a New Zealand lawyer, naturalist and ornithologist. ... The Reverend James Bulwer (March 21, 1794 - June 11, 1879) was an English collector, naturalist and conchologist. ... Alexander Georg von Bunge (September 29, 1803 – June 7, 1890) was German-Russian zoologist. ... Luther Burbank - c1902 Luther Burbank - The Wizard of Horticulture Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849–April 11, 1926)[1] was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer of agricultural science. ... Hermann Burmeister. ... Carlos José Bustamante (born 1951 in Lima, Peru) is an American scientist. ... Ernesto Bustamante Ernesto Bustamante, Peruvian scientist born in Lima May 19, 1950. ...

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Jean Louis Cabanis. ... For aviation pioneer see Sir George Cayley George Caley (June 10, 1770 - May 23, 1829) was an English botanist and explorer in Australia. ... Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (February 12, 1665 - September 11, 1721) was a German botanist and physician. ... Frederick Camp Campion Steward (1904 - 1993) was a British botanist and plant physiologist. ... A. P. de Candolle A. P. de Candolle (February 4, 1778 - September 9, 1841) was one of the great botanists of all time. ... Alexis Carrel Alexis Carrel (June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... Sutures are the stitches doctors, and especially surgeons, use to hold skin, organs, blood vessels and all other tissues of the human body together, after they have been severed in minor or major surgery. ... An organ transplant is the transplantation of an organ (or part of one) from one body to another, for the purpose of replacing the recipients damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor. ... Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Eugenics Conference [7], 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ... Elie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896) was a French botanist, based in Paris. ... Dr. Clodoveo Carrión, 1925. ... Sean B. Carroll is the author of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom, the first popular summary narrative of Evolutionary Developmental Biology. ... Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are often credited with launching the global environmental movement. ... Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin in September 1961. ... George Washington Carver, 1906 George Washington Carver (c. ... John Cassin (September 6, 1813 - January 10, 1869) was an American ornithologist. ... Count Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781-1832) was a famous French botanist and naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) (then known as family Compositae). ... Professor William Ernest Castle (October 25, 1867 — June 3, 1962) was an early American geneticist. ... Mark Catesby (April 3, 1683 - December 1749) was an English naturalist. ... chicken ... Francesco Cetti (August 9, 1726 - November 20, 1778) was an Italian Jesuit priest, zoologist and mathematician. ... Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas (born July 9, 1879, Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; died November 8, 1934, Rio de Janeiro), was a Brazilian physician. ... Adelbert von Chamisso Adelbert von Chamisso (January 30, 1781 – August 21, 1838), was a German poet and botanist. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Frank Michler Chapman (June 12, 1864 – November 15, 1945) was a US ornithologist. ... Martha Cowles Chase (1927 – 2003) was a young laboratory assistant in the early 1950s when she and Alfred Hershey conducted one of the most famous experiments in 20th century biology. ... The Hershey-Chase experiment was a series of experiments conducted in 1952 by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase. ... The structure of part of a DNA double helix Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a nucleic acid molecule that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. ... Sergei Sergeevich Chetverikov ( 1880-1959) was a Russian population geneticist. ... Charles Chilton (1860–1929) was a New Zealand zoologist, the first rector to be appointed in Australasia [1], and the first person to be awarded a D.Sc. ... Carl Chun (October 1, 1852 – April 11, 1914) was a German marine biologist. ... Nathan Augustus Cobb (30 June 1859 – 4 June 1932) born in Spencer, Massachusetts is known as the father of nematology in the United States. He provided the foundations for nematode taxonomy and described over 1000 different nematode species. ... Classes Adenophorea    Subclass Enoplia    Subclass Chromadoria Secernentea    Subclass Rhabditia    Subclass Spiruria    Subclass Diplogasteria    Subclass Tylenchia The nematodes or roundworms (Phylum nematoda from Greek (nema): thread + -ode like) are one of the most common phyla of animals, with over 80,000 different described species (over 15,000 are parasitic). ... Alfred Celestin Cogniaux (April 7, 1841 - April 15, 1916) was a Belgian botanist. ... Stanley Cohen (born November 17, 1922) is an American-born researcher and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986). ... (Henry) Boardman Conover (January 18, 1892 - May 5, 1950) was an American soldier and amateur ornithologist. ... Timothy Abbott Conrad (1803 - 1877 was an American geologist, malacologist and crustacean researcher. ... James Graham Cooper (June 19, 1830 - July 19, 1902) was an American surgeon and naturalist. ... William Cooper (1798 - 1864) was an American conchologist and collector. ... Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840–April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. ... Charles Coquerel (1822–1867) was a French navy surgeon and entomologist. ... Carl Ferdinand Cori (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was an American biochemist born in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen (animal starch) - a derivative of glucose... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... The Cori cycle, named after its discoverers, Carl Cori and Gerty Cori, refers to the cycling of lactate produced by red blood cells and muscle (during anaerobic respiration) back into glucose. ... Dr. Gerty Cori Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, (August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an American biochemist born in Prague (then Austria-Hungary) who, together with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 for... The Nobel Prize (Swedish: ) was established in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, and it was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. ... Carl Ferdinand Cori (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was an American biochemist born in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen (animal starch) - a derivative of glucose... The Cori cycle, named after its discoverers, Carl Cori and Gerty Cori, refers to the cycling of lactate produced by red blood cells and muscle (during anaerobic respiration) back into glucose. ... Charles Barney Cory (January 31, 1857 _ July 31, 1921) was an American ornithologist. ... Elliott Coues Elliott Coues (September 9, 1842 - December 25, 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author. ... Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer (February 24, 1907-May 17, 2004) was the South African museum official who in 1938 brought to the attention of the world the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for seventy million years. ... Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1976. ... Miguel R. Covian Miguel Rolando Covian (1913-1992), was an Argentinian/Brazilian physiologist and medical educator and writer. ... Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (June 11, 1786 - May 4, 1845) was a German physician. ... Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004), (Ph. ... The structure of part of a DNA double helix Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a nucleic acid molecule that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. ... Nicholas Culpeper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Portait of Allan Cunningham Allan Cunningham (13 July 1791 – 27 June 1839) was an English botanist and explorer, primarily known for his travels in New South Wales to collect plants. ... William Curtis (January 11, 1746 - 1799) was an English botanist who was born at Alton. ... Georges Cuvier Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23, 1769–May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. ...

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Anders (Andreas) Dahl (March 17, 1751 _ May 25, 1789) was a Swedish botanist and student of Linnaeus. ... William Healey Dall, (August 21, 1845 - March 27, 1927), was a great American naturalist and a prominent malacologist. ... For other people of the same surname, and places and things named after Charles Darwin, see Darwin. ... This article is about Erasmus Darwin who lived 1731–1802; for his descendants with the same name see Erasmus Darwin (disambiguation). ... Charles B. Davenport at a 1921 eugenics conference. ... Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Eugenics Conference [7], 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ... The Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, New York was a center for eugenics and human heredity research in the first half of the twentieth century. ... The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is a research and educational institution, consisting of science laboratories located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York on Long Island, USA. The Laboratory has research programs focusing on cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, genomics and bioinformatics, and has a broad educational mission, including the recently... The standard author abbreviation David may be used to indicate this person in citing a botanical name. ... Bernard Davis (1916-1994) was a leading figure in biology, with his major contributions in microbial physiology and metabolism. ... Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. ... Pierre Antoine Delalande (1787 - 1823) was a French naturalist and explorer. ... Max Delbrück in the early 1940s at Vanderbilt University. ... Richard Kenneth Dell (July 11, 1920 - March 6, 2002) was a New Zealand malacologist. ... Stefano Delle Chiaje (1794 - 1860 was an Italian zoologist, botanist, anatomist and physician. ... Paul Émile de Puydt (Born in Mons, March 6, 1810 - Died in Mons, May 28, 1888) was a many-talented character. ... René Louiche Desfontaines (February 14, 1750 – November 16, 1833) was a French botanist. ... Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784 - June 4, 1838) was a French zoologist and author. ... Johann Karl Ernst Dieffenbach (1811 - 1855) was a German naturalist. ... Johann Jakob Dillen (Dillenius) (1687-April 2, 1747) was a German botanist. ... Walter Dobrogosz is a Professor Emeritus of North Carolina State University, most well-known for his discovery and further research on the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri. ... Binomial name Lactobacillus reuteri N/A L. reuteri is a gram-positive bacterial species that typically inhabits mice and pigs. ... Theodosius Grigorevich Dobzhansky (Russian — Феодосий Григорьевич Добржанский; sometimes anglicized to Theodore Dobzhansky; January 25, 1900 - December 18, 1975) was a noted geneticist and evolutionary biologist. ... This article is about the general scientific term. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Rembert Dodoens (Mechelen June 29, 1517 - Leyden March 10, 1585) was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. ... Felix Anton Dohrn, (b. ... David Don (21 December 1799 - 15 December 1841) was an English botanist, Professor of Botany at Kings College, London from 1836–1841, and librarian at the Linnean Society of London from 1822–1841. ... James Donn (1758–1813) was an English botanist. ... Professor Dr Jean Dorst (1924 - August 8, 2001) was a French ornithologist. ... Henry Doubleday (1808 – June 29, 1875) was a British entomologist and ornithologist. ... Portrait of David Douglas, circa 1825 Coast Douglas-fir cone, from a tree grown from seed collected by David Douglas in 1826 This article is about the botanist. ... Jonas Carlsson Dryander (March 5, 1748 - October 19, 1810) was a Swedish botanist. ... Renato Dulbecco (born February 22, 1914) is an Italian-born virologist. ... Ronald S. Duman is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology Director, Division of Molecular Psychiatry and Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities at Yale University. ... Biological psychiatry, or biopsychiatry is an approach to psychiatry that aims to understand mental disorder in terms of the biological function of the nervous system. ... Constant Duméril. ... Michel Felix Dunal (1789-1856) was a French botanist. ... Robin Dunbar is an evolutionary biologist, specialising in primate behaviour. ... Gerald Durrell – founder of the Jersey Zoo and pioneer of captive breeding The Gerald Durrell Memorial VHS cover, with a self portrait Gerald (Gerry) Malcolm Durrell OBE (January 7, 1925 – January 30, 1995) was a naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter. ...

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Sylvia Earle Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935 in Gibbstown, New Jersey) is an American oceanographer. ... Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903 – May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. ... Neurophysiology is a part of physiology as a science, which is concerned with the study of the nervous system. ... For other uses, see 1963 (disambiguation). ... Emil Adolf von Behring was the first person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the treatment of diphtheria. ... Illustration of the major elements in a prototypical synapse. ... Christian Friedrich Ecklon (Apenrade 1795–Cape Town 1868) was a Danish botanical collector and apothecary. ... Gerald Maurice Edelman (born July 1, 1929) is an American biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972 for his work on the immune system. ... George Edwards (April 3, 1693 - July 23, 1773) was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the father of British ornithology. Edwards was born at Stratford, Essex. ... Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg. ... Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich in his workroom Paul Ehrlich (March 14, 1854 – August 20, 1915) was a German scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ... Gustav Heinrich Theodor Eimer (1843-1898) was a German zoologist. ... Daniel Giraud Elliot (March 7, 1835 - December 22, 1915) was an American zoologist. ... Günther Enderlein (born 7 July 1872 in Leipzig; died 11 August 1968 in Wentdorf near Hamburg) was a German zoologist, entomologist and later a manufacturer of pharmaceutical products near Hamburg. ... Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (24 June 1804 - 28 March 1849; botanical abbreviation Endl. ... Michael S. Engel (born 24 September 1971 in Creve Coeur, Missouri) is a paleontologist and entomologist. ... George Engelmann George Engelmann (also known as Georg Engelmann) was a German-American botanist. ... Adolf Engler (1844 – 1930) was a German botanist, perhaps The German Botanist. He is very important, among other complishments, for his works on Plant Taxonomy and Phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (The natural plant families), edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl. ... Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben Institute of Veterinary Medicine of Georg-August-University Goettingen from 1771-1775, first and oldest academic Veterinary School in Germany Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (June 22, 1744 - August 19, 1777) was a German naturalist. ... Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1 November 1793 - 19 May 1831) was an Estonian physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. ... Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen (or Baron Constantin von Ettingshausen) (June 16, 1826 – February 1, 1897) was an Austrian geologist and botanist. ... Warren Ewens is a professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania. ... Thomas Campbell Eyton (September 10, 1809 - October 25, 1880) was an English naturalist. ...

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Jean Henri Fabre Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (December 22, 1823 - October 11, 1915) was a French entomologist and author. ... Johann Christian Fabricius. ... David Fairchild in 1889, while employed at the United States Department of Agriculture David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 - August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. ... Hugh Falconer (February 29, 1808 - January 31, 1865) was a Scottish palaeontologist and botanist, and the younger brother of the notable merchant Alexander Falconer. ... Leonardo F