Famous Biologists List
| Bioligists Name |
During |
Place |
Achievements/Scientific Work |
| Darwin, Charles Robert |
1809-1882 |
England |
best known for his theory of evolutionary selection |
| Linnaeus, Carolus |
1707-1778 |
Sweden |
classified animals, plants, and minerals |
| Mendel, Gregor |
1823-1884 |
Austrian Empire |
Experiments on Plant Hybridization |
| Crick, Francis |
1916-2004 |
Northampton |
X-ray crystallography of proteins |
| Wallace, Alfred Russel |
1823-1913 |
Monmouthshire, Wales. |
research on Wallace effect |
| Hardin, Garrett |
1915-2003 |
Dallas, Texas, |
research on concept of life and evolution |
| Carson, Rachel |
1907-1964 |
Pennsylvania |
report field data on fish populations |
| Watson, James |
1928 |
Chicago, Illinois |
deduced the double helix structure of DNA |
| Beebe, Charles William |
1877-1962 |
Columbia |
research at the New York Zoological Society |
| Wilson, Edward O. |
1929 |
Birmingham, Alabama |
known for Coining the term 'sociobiology' |
| Banks, Joseph |
1743-1820 |
London |
approximately 80 species of plants bear Banks's name |
| Murawski, Darlyne A. |
1643 |
England |
research biologist |
| Ehrlich, Paul R. |
1932 |
Pennsylvania |
Population growth predictions |
| Florey, Howard |
1898-1968 |
South Australia |
Nobel Prize for Physiology |
| Blobel, Günter |
1936 |
Silesia |
U.S. Steel Foundation Award in Molecular Biology |
| Just, Ernest Everett |
1883-1941 |
South Carolina |
African American U.S. biologist. |
| Earle, Sylvia |
1935 |
Gibbstown, New Jersey |
American oceanographer. |
| Gregory Goodwin |
1903-1967 |
Woodbine, New Jersey |
experiments involving parthenogenesis |
| Comfort, Alex |
1920-2000 |
Cambridge |
House Physician at the London Hospital |
| Monod, Jacques |
1910-1976 |
Paris, France |
famous for his work on the Lac operon |
| Chang, Min Chueh |
1908-1991 |
Dunhòu, Taiyuan |
development of the combined oral contraceptive pill |
| Dulbecco, Renato |
1914 |
Italy, United States |
worked on Human Genome Project. |
| Rodbell, Martin |
1925-1998 |
Baltimore, Maryland |
discovery of G-proteins |
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