| A | B | C | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Scientist | Birth-Death | Country |
2 | Humayun Abdulali | (1914–2001), | Indian ornithologist |
3 | Aziz Ab'Saber | (1924–2012), | Brazilian geographer, geologist and ecologist |
4 | Erik Acharius | (1757–1819), | Swedish botanist |
5 | Johann Friedrich Adam | (18th century–1806), | Russian botanist |
6 | Arthur Adams | (1820–1878), | English physician and naturalist |
7 | Henry Adams | (1813–1877), | English naturalist and conchologist |
8 | William Adamson | (1731–1793), | Scottish botanist (abbr. in botany: Aiton) |
9 | Michel Adanson | (1727–1806), | French naturalist (abbr. in botany: Adans.) |
10 | Monique Adolphe | ( born 1932), | French cell biologist |
11 | Edgar Douglas Adrian | (1889–1977), | British electrophysiologist, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on neurons |
12 | Adam Afzelius | (1750–1837), | Swedish botanist |
13 | Carl Adolph Agardh | (1785–1859), | Swedish botanist |
14 | Jacob Georg Agardh | (1813–1901), | Swedish botanist |
15 | Louis Agassiz | (1807–1873), | Swiss zoologist |
16 | Alexander Agassiz | (1835–1910), | American zoologist, son of Louis Agassiz |
17 | Nikolaus Ager | (1568–1634), | French botanist |
18 | Pedro Alberch i Vié | (1954–1998), | Spanish naturalist |
19 | Bruce Alberts | ( born 1938), | American biochemist, former President of the United States National Academy of Sciences |
20 | Nora Lilian Alcock | (1874–1972), | British pioneer in plant pathology |
21 | Boyd Alexander | (1873–1910), | English ornithologist |
22 | Horace Alexander | (1889–1989), | English ornithologist |
23 | Richard D. Alexander | ( born 1930), | American evolutionary biologist |
24 | Wilfred Backhouse Alexander | (1885–1965), | English ornithologist |
25 | Alfred William Alcock | (1859–1933), | British naturalist |
26 | Salim Ali | (1896–1987), | Indian ornithologist |
27 | Frédéric-Louis Allamand | (1736– after1803), | Swiss botanist (abbr. in botany: F.Allam.) |
28 | Warder Clyde Allee | (1885–1955), | American zoologist and ecologist, identified the Allee effect |
29 | Joel Asaph Allen | (1838–1921), | American; birds, mammals |
30 | George James Allman | (1812–1898), | British naturalist |
31 | June Dalziel Almeida | (1930–2007), | Scottish virologist |
32 | Tikvah Alper | (1909–1995), | South African radiobiologist |
33 | Prospero Alpini | (1553–1617), | Italian botanist |
34 | Sidney Altman | ( born 1939), | Canadian-born molecular biologist, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on RNA |
35 | Bruce Ames | ( born 1928), | American biochemist, inventor of the Ames test |
36 | José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta | (1832–1897), | Portuguese naturalist |
37 | George French Angas | (1822–1886), | English explorer, naturalist, conchologist and painter |
38 | Mary Arlene Appelhof | (1936–2005), | American biologist |
39 | Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf | (1857–1921), | Swedish marine zoologist |
40 | Agnes Robertson Arber | (1879–1960), | British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology |
41 | Aristotle | (384 BC–322 BC), | Greek philosopher |
42 | Emily Arnesen | (1867–1928), | Norwegian zoologist |
43 | Ruth Arnon | ( born 1933), | Israeli biochemist |
44 | Peter Artedi | (1705–1735), | Swedish naturalist |
45 | Gilbert Ashwell | (1916–2014), | American biochemist, pioneer in the study of cell receptor |
46 | Ana Aslan | (1897–1988), | Romanian biologist |
47 | Jean Baptiste Audebert | (1759–1800), | French naturalist |
48 | Jean Victoire Audouin | (1797–1841), | French zoologist |
49 | John James Audubon | (1786–1851), | American ornithologist |
50 | Charlotte Auerbach | (1899–1994), | German geneticist, founded the discipline of mutagenesis |
51 | Linda Avey | ( born 1960), | American biologist |
52 | Richard Axel | ( born 1946), | Nobel Prize–winning physiologist |
53 | Julius Axelrod | (1912–2004), | American biochemist, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on catecholamine neurotransmitters |
54 | William Orville Ayres | (1817–1887), | American physician and ichthyologist |
55 | Félix de Azara | (1746–1811), | Spanish naturalist |
56 | Churchill Babington | (1831–1881), | British archaeologist and conchologist |
57 | John Bachman | (1790–1874), | American naturalist |
58 | Curt Backeberg | (1894–1966), | German botanist (abbr. in botany: Backeb.) |
59 | Karl Ernst von Baer | (1792–1876), | embryologist |
60 | Liberty Hyde Bailey | (1858–1954), | American botanist (abbr. in botany: L.H.Bailey) |
61 | Spencer Fullerton Baird | (1823–1887), | birds and mammals |
62 | John Hutton Balfour | (1808–1884), | Scottish botanist (abbr. in botany: Balf.) |
63 | David Baltimore | ( born 1938), | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975 |
64 | Joseph Banks | (1743–1820), | biologist, botanist (abbr. in botany: Banks) |
65 | Robert Bárány | (1876–1936), | Austrian physician, received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the vestibular system |
66 | Ben Barres | ( born 1955), | American neurobiologist |
67 | Benjamin Smith Barton | (1766–1815), | American botanist (abbr. in botany: Barton) |
68 | John Bartram | (1699–1777), | American botanist (abbr. in botany: Bartram) |
69 | William Bartram | (1739–1823), | American naturalist (abbr. in botany: W.Bartram) |
70 | Anton de Bary | (1831–1888), | surgeon, botanist, microbiologist |
71 | Henry Walter Bates | (1825–1892), | English naturalist |
72 | Patrick Bateson | ( born 1938), | English biologist and science writer, President of the Zoological Society of London |
73 | August Johann Georg Karl Batsch | (1762–1802), | German botanist, mycologist |
74 | Nicolas Baudin | (1754–1803), | French botanist |
75 | Gaspard Bauhin | (1560–1624), | Swiss botanist, introduced binomial nomenclature into taxonomy, which was used by Linnaeus (abbr. in botany: C.Bauhin) |
76 | Johann Matthäus Bechstein | (1757–1822), | German naturalist (abbr. in botany: Bechst.) |
77 | Rollo Beck | (1870–1950), | American ornithologist |
78 | Charles William Beebe | (1877–1962), | biologist |
79 | Martinus Beijerinck | (1851–1931), | Dutch microbiologist and botanist, discovered viruses |
80 | Thomas Bell | (1792–1880), | English naturalist |
81 | David Bellamy | ( born 1933), | English botanist |
82 | Edward Turner Bennett | (1797–1836), | English zoologist |
83 | George Bentham | (1800–1884), | English botanist (abbr. in botany: Benth.) |
84 | Robert Bentley | (1821–1893), | English botanist (abbr. in botany: Bentley) |
85 | Jacques Benveniste | (1935–2004), | French immunologist |
86 | Wilson Teixeira Beraldo | (1917–1998), | Brazilian physician and physiologist, codiscoverer of bradykinin |
87 | Hans Berger | (1873–1941), | German neuroscientist, one of the founders of electroencephalography |
88 | Carl Bergmann | (1814–1865), | German anatomist, physiologist and biologist who developed the Bergmann's rule |
89 | Rudolph Bergh | (1824–1909), | Danish physician and zoologist |
90 | Claude Bernard | (1813–1878), | French physiologist and father of the concept of homeostasis |
91 | Samuel Stillman Berry | (1887–1984), | American marine zoologist |
92 | Thomas Bewick | (1753–1828), | English ornithologist |
93 | Colin Bibby | (1948–2004), | English ornithologist |
94 | Gabriel Bibron | (1806–1848), | French zoologist |
95 | Johannes Abraham Bierens de Haan | (1883–1953), | Dutch biologist and ethologist |
96 | Ann Bishop | (1899–1990), | English biologist |
97 | Biswamoy Biswas | (1923–1994), | Indian ornithologist |
98 | Liz Blackburn | ( born 1948), | Australian/US Nobel Prize–winning researcher in the field of telomeres and the "telomerase" enzyme |
99 | John Blackwall | (1790–1881), | British entomologist |
100 | Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville | (1777–1850), | French zoologist |
101 | Albert Francis Blakeslee | (1874–1954), | American botanist, best known for research on Jimsonweed and the sexuality of fungi |
102 | Thomas Blakiston | (1832–1891), | English naturalist |
103 | William Thomas Blanford | (1832–1905), | English naturalist |
104 | Pieter Bleeker | (1819–1878), | Dutch ichthyologist |
105 | Günter Blobel | ( born 1936), | German Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered that newly synthesized proteins contain "address tags" which direct them to the proper location within the cell. |
106 | Steven Block | ( born 1952), | American biophysicist who measured the mechanical properties of single bio-molecules |
107 | Carl Ludwig Blume | (1789–1862), | German-Dutch botanist (abbr. in botany: Blume) |
108 | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | (1752–1840), | German physiologist and anthropologist |
109 | Edward Blyth | (1810–1873), | English zoologist |
110 | José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage | (1823–1907), | Portuguese zoologist |
111 | Pieter Boddaert | (1730–1795 or 1796), | naturalist |
112 | Charles Lucien Bonaparte | (1803–1857), | French naturalist |
113 | James Bond | (1900–1989), | American ornithologist |
114 | Franco Andrea Bonelli | (1784–1830), | Italian ornithologist |
115 | August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard | (1786–1839), | German botanist |
116 | Charles Bonnet | (1720–1793), | Swiss naturalist |
117 | Aimé Bonpland | (1773–1858), | French botanist (abbr. in botany: Bonpl.) |
118 | Jules Bordet | (1870–1961), | Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the complement system in the immune system |
119 | Antonina Georgievna Borissova | (1903–1970), | Russian botanist |
120 | Norman Borlaug | ( born 1914), | American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and the father of the Green Revolution |
121 | Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc | (1759–1828), | French zoologist |
122 | George Albert Boulenger | (1858–1937), | Belgian zoologist |
123 | Jules Bourcier | (1797–1873), | French naturalist |
124 | Johann Friedrich von Brandt | (1802–1879), | German naturalist (abbr. in botany: Brandt) |
125 | Sara Branham Matthews | (1888–1962), | American microbiologist |
126 | Christian Ludwig Brehm | (1787–1864), | German ornithologist |
127 | Alfred Brehm | (1829–1884), | German zoologist |
128 | Sydney Brenner | ( born 1927), | British molecular biologist, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
129 | Thomas Mayo Brewer | (1814–1880), | American naturalist |
130 | William Brewster | (1851–1919), | American ornithologist |
131 | Mathurin Jacques Brisson | (1723–1806), | French zoologist |
132 | Nathaniel Lord Britton | (1859–1934), | American botanist (abbr. in botany: Britton) |
133 | Thomas D. Brock | ( born 1926), | American biologist, discoverer of hyperthermophiles |
134 | Adolphe Theodore Brongniart | (1801–1876), | French botanist (abbr. in botany: Brongn.) |
135 | Robert Broom | (1866–1951), | South African paleontologist |
136 | James H. Brown | - | , American ecologist |
137 | Robert Brown | (1773–1858), | botanist (abbr. in botany: R.Br.) |
138 | David Bruce | (1855–1931), | Scottish pathologist and microbiologist |
139 | Jean Guillaume Bruguière | (1750–1798), | French naturalist |
140 | Morten Thrane Brünnich | (1737–1827), | Danish zoologist |
141 | Francis Buchanan-Hamilton | (1762–1829), | Scottish zoologist and botanist |
142 | Stephen L. Buchmann, | - | co-author of The Forgotten Pollinators |
143 | Linda B. Buck | ( born 1947), | American physiologist and Nobel prize winner |
144 | Samuel Botsford Buckley | (1809–1884), | American naturalist (abbr. in botany: Buckley) |
145 | Buffon | (1707–1788), | French naturalist (abbr. in botany: Buffon) |
146 | William Bullock | (1773–1849), | English naturalist |
147 | Walter Buller | (1838–1906), | New Zealand naturalist |
148 | James Bulwer | (1794–1879), | English naturalist and conchologist |
149 | Alexander G. von Bunge | (1803–1890), | German-Russian zoologist |
150 | Luther Burbank | (1849–1926), | American horticulturalist |
151 | Hermann Burmeister | (1807–1892), | German zoologist |
152 | Carlos Bustamante | ( born 1951), | American biophysicist, discovered "molecular tweezers" to manipulate DNA |
153 | Ernesto Bustamante | ( born 1950), | Peruvian biochemist, specialist in mitochondria. Currently works on DNA paternity testing |
154 | Jean Cabanis | (1816–1906), | German ornithologist |
155 | George Caley | (1770–1829), | English botanist |
156 | Rudolf Jakob Camerarius | (1665–1721), | German botanist |
157 | Frederick Campion Steward | (1904–1993), | British botanist |
158 | A. P. de Candolle | (1778–1841), | Swiss botanist |
159 | Philip Pearsall Carpenter | (1819–1877), | conchologist |
160 | Alexis Carrel | (1873–1944), | French biologist and surgeon, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on sutures and organ transplants, advocate of eugenics |
161 | Elie-Abel Carrière | (1818–1896), | French botanist |
162 | Clodoveo Carrión Mora | (1883–1957), | Ecuadorian paleontologist and naturalist |
163 | Sean B. Carroll, | - | American evolutionary development biologist |
164 | Rachel Carson | (1907–1964), | biologist, author of Silent Spring |
165 | George Washington Carver | (1860–1943), | American botanist |
166 | John Cassin | (1813–1869), | American ornithologist |
167 | Alexandre de Cassini | (1781–1832), | French botanist (abbr. in botany: Cass.) |
168 | William E. Castle | (1867–1962), | American geneticist |
169 | Mark Catesby | (1683–1749), | English naturalist |
170 | Andrea Cesalpino | (1519–1603), | Italian botanist |
171 | Francesco Cetti | (1726–1778), | Italian zoologist |
172 | Carlos Chagas | (1879–1934), | Brazilian physician |
173 | Adelbert von Chamisso | (1781–1838), | German botanist |
174 | Min Chueh Chang | (1908–1991), | biologist |
175 | Frank Michler Chapman | (1864–1945), | ornithologist |
176 | Martha Chase | (1927–2003), | American biologist, conducted the Hershey-Chase experiment which linked DNA to heredity |
177 | Thomas Frederic Cheeseman | (1846–1923), | New Zealand botanist and naturalist. |
178 | Sergei Chetverikov | (1880–1959), | Russian population geneticist |
179 | Charles Chilton | (1860–1929), | New Zealand zoologist |
180 | Carl Chun | (1852–1914), | German marine biologist |
181 | Nathan Cobb | (1859–1932), | American biologist, considered the founder of the discipline of nematology |
182 | Alfred Cogniaux | (1841–1916), | Belgian botanist (abbr. in botany: Cogn.) |
183 | Stanley Cohen | ( born 1922), | American biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986) for his discovery of growth factors. |
184 | James J. Collins, | - | American biologist, synthetic biology and systems biology pioneer |
185 | Henry Boardman Conover | (1892–1950), | American ornithologist |
186 | Timothy Abbott Conrad | (1803–1877), | American malacologist |
187 | James Graham Cooper | (1830–1902), | American naturalist |
188 | William Cooper | (1798–1864), | American conchologist |
189 | Edward Drinker Cope | (1840–1897), | fish, reptiles, paleontology |
190 | Charles Coquerel | (1822–1867), | French navy surgeon and entomologist |
191 | Carl Ferdinand Cori | (1896–1984), | American biochemist, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the Cori cycle |
192 | Gerty Cori | (1886–1957), | American biochemist, first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, the prize was awarded to her and her husband Carl for their work on the Cori cycle |
193 | Charles B. Cory | (1857–1921), | American ornithologist |
194 | Emanuel Mendez da Costa | (1717–1791), | English botanist, naturalist, philosopher |
195 | Elliott Coues | (1842–1899), | American ornithologist |
196 | Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer | (1907–2004), | South African zoologist |
197 | Jacques Cousteau | (1910–1997), | French marine biologist and explorer |
198 | Miguel Rolando Covian | (1913–1992), | Argentine-Brazilian neurophysiologist, father of Brazilian neurophysiology |
199 | Frederick Vernon Coville | (1867–1937), | American botanist |
200 | Robert K. Crane, | ( born 1919), | American biochemist, discovered sodium-glucose cotransport. |
201 | Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar | (1786–1845), | German zoologist |
202 | Francis Crick | (1916–2004), | one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule and a neurobiologist |
203 | Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse | (1826–1898), | French conchologist |
204 | Nicholas Culpeper | (1616–1654), | English botanist |
205 | Allan Cunningham | (1791–1839), | English botanist |
206 | William Curtis | (1746–1799), | English botanist |
207 | Georges Cuvier | (1769–1832), | French naturalist |
208 | Valerie Daggett, | - | American bioengineer |
209 | Anders Dahl | (1751–1789), | namesake of the Dahlia |
210 | W.H. Dall | (1845–1927), | American naturalist and malacologist. |
211 | Charles Darwin | (1809–1882), | British naturalist, author and biologist |
212 | Erasmus Darwin | (1731–1802), | doctor, naturalist, grandfather of Charles |
213 | Charles Davenport | (1866–1944), | American biologist and eugenicist, founded the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
214 | Armand David | (1826–1900), | French zoologist and botanist |
215 | Bernard Davis | (1916–1994), | American biologist |
216 | Richard Dawkins | ( born 1941), | British evolutionary biologist |
217 | George Delahunty | ( born 1952), | American physiologist, endocrinologist, and professor of biology at Goucher College |
218 | Pierre Antoine Delalande | (1787–1823), | French naturalist |
219 | Max Delbrück | (1906–1981), | German physicist and biologist known for work on the replication mechanism of viruses |
220 | Richard Dell | (1920–2002), | New Zealand malacologist |
221 | Stefano Delle Chiaje | (1794–1860), | Italian |
222 | Paul Émile de Puydt | (1810–1888), | Belgian botanist |
223 | René Louiche Desfontaines | (1750–1833), | French botanist |
224 | Gérard Paul Deshayes | (1795–1875), | French geologist and conchologist. |
225 | Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest | (1784–1838), | French zoologist |
226 | Ernst Dieffenbach | (1811–1855), | German naturalist |
227 | Johann Jacob Dillenius | (1684–1747), | German botanist |
228 | Lewis Weston Dillwyn | (1778–1855), | British botanist and conchologist |
229 | Walter Dobrogosz | ( born 1933), | American microbiologist, discoverer of Lactobacillus reuteri |
230 | Theodosius Dobzhansky | (1900–1975), | American geneticist and evolutionary biologist |
231 | Rembert Dodoens | (1517–1585), | Flemish botanist |
232 | Anton Dohrn | (1840–1909), | German marine biologist |
233 | David Don | (1799–1841), | British botanist |
234 | James Donn | (1758–1813), | English botanist |
235 | Jean Dorst | (1924–2001), | French ornithologist |
236 | Henry Doubleday | (1808–1875), | British entomologist |
237 | David Douglas | (1799–1834), | Scottish botanist |
238 | Jonas C. Dryander | (1748–1810), | Swedish botanist |
239 | Patricia Louise Dudley | (1929–2004) | American zoologist |
240 | Félix Dujardin | (1802–1860), | biologist |
241 | Renato Dulbecco | (1914–2012), | biologist |
242 | Ronald Duman | - | , Biological psychiatry |
243 | André Marie Constant Duméril | (1774–1860), | French zoologist |
244 | Michel Felix Dunal | (1789–1856), | French botanist |
245 | Robin Dunbar | ( born 1947), | Italian virologist |
246 | Gerald Durrell | (1925–1995), | British naturalist |
247 | Sylvia Earle | ( born 1935), | American oceanographer |
248 | John Carew Eccles | (1903–1997), | Australian neurophysiologist and winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse |
249 | Christian Friedrich Ecklon | (1795–1868), | Danish botanist (abbr. in botany: Eckl.) |
250 | Gerald Edelman | ( born 1929), | Nobel Prize for immunology work, later work in neuroscience |
251 | George Edwards | (1693–1773), | British naturalist |
252 | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg | (1795–1876), | German biologist and microscopist |
253 | Paul Ehrlich | (1854–1915), | German Nobel Prize-winning immunologist |
254 | Karl Eichwald | (1795–1876), | Russian geologist and physician |
255 | Theodor Eimer | (1843–1898), | German zoologist |
256 | George Eliava | (1892–1937), | Georgian microbiologist |
257 | Daniel Giraud Elliot | (1835–1915), | American zoologist |
258 | Günther Enderlein | (1872–1968), | German zoologist and entomologist |
259 | Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher | (1804–1849), | Austrian botanist (abbr. in botany: Endl.) |
260 | Michael S. Engel | ( born 1971), | American paleontologist and entomologist |
261 | George Engelmann | (1809–1884), | German-American botanist |
262 | Adolf Engler | (1844–1930), | German botanist (abbr. in botany: Engl.) |
263 | Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben | (1744–1777), | German naturalist. |
264 | Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz | (1793–1831), | Baltic German biologist and explorer, namesake of the California poppy |
265 | Constantin von Ettingshausen | (1826–1897), | Austrian botanist |
266 | Warren Ewens | - | , American mathematical population geneticist |
267 | Thomas Campbell Eyton | (1809–1880), | English naturalist |
268 | Jean Henri Fabre | (1823–1915), | French entomologist |
269 | Johan Christian Fabricius | (1745–1808), | Danish entomologist |
270 | David Fairchild | (1869–1954), | American botanist |
271 | Hugh Falconer | (1808–1865), | Scottish paleontologist |
272 | Filippo Farsetti | (1703-1774), | Venetian art collector and botanist |
273 | Leonardo Fea | (1852–1903), | Italian zoologist |
274 | Christoph Feldegg | (1780–1845), | Austrian naturalist |
275 | Lewis J. Feldman | ( born 1945), | American botanist |
276 | Howard Barraclough (Barry) Fell | (1917–1994), | English zoologist and pre-Columbian contact theorist |
277 | Sérgio Ferreira | ( born 1934), | Brazilian pharmacologist |
278 | Harold John Finlay | (1901–1951), | New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist |
279 | Otto Finsch | (1839–1917), | German naturalist |
280 | Johann Fischer von Waldheim | (1771–1853), | German entomologist |
281 | James Fisher | (1922–1970), | English ornithologist |
282 | Paul Henri Fischer | (1835–1893) | : French physician, zoologist, malacologist and paleontologist |
283 | Ronald Fisher | (1890–1962), | British biologist and statistician, one of the founders of population genetics |
284 | Leopold Fitzinger | (1802–1884), | Austrian zoologist |
285 | Tim Flannery | (1956–), | Australian biologist |
286 | Jim Flegg, | - | British ornithologist |
287 | Alexander Fleming | (1881–1955), | British medical scientist |
288 | Walther Flemming | (1843–1905), | German physician and anatomist, discoverer of mitosis and chromosomes |
289 | Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher | (1878–1950), | English entomologist |
290 | Howard Walter Florey | (1898–1968), | pharmacologist who was the co-inventor of penicillin |
291 | Brian J. Ford | ( born 1939), | British biologist and writer |
292 | E. B. Ford | (1901–1988), | British ecological geneticist |
293 | Peter Forsskål | (1732–1763), | Swedish naturalist |
294 | Georg Forster | (1754–1794), | German naturalist (abbr. in botany: G.Forst.) |
295 | Peter Forster (geneticist) | ( born 1967), | German geneticist |
296 | Johann Reinhold Forster | (1729–1798), | German naturalist |
297 | Robert Fortune | (1813–1880), | Scottish botanist |
298 | Dian Fossey | (1932–1985), | American zoologist |
299 | Rosalind Franklin | (1920–1958), | contributor to the discovery of the structure of DNA |
300 | Francisco Freire Allemão e Cysneiro | (1797–1874), | Brazilian botanist |
301 | Elias Magnus Fries | (1794–1878), | one of the founders of modern mushroom taxonomy |
302 | Karl von Frisch | (1886–1982), | Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate, best known for pioneering studies of bees |
303 | Imre Frivaldszky | (1799–1870), | Hungarian botanist |
304 | Leonhart Fuchs | (1501–1566), | German botanist |
305 | José María de la Fuente Morales | (1855–1932), | Spanish biologist |
306 | Louis Agassiz Fuertes | (1874–1927), | American ornithologist |
307 | Joseph Gaertner | (1732–1791), | German botanist |
308 | François Gagnepain | (1866–1952), | French botanist |
309 | Joseph Paul Gaimard | (1796–1858), | French naturalist |
310 | Biruté Galdikas | ( born 1946), | Canadian primatologist, conducted pioneering studies on orangutans |
311 | Robert Gallo | ( born 1937), | American virologist and co-discoverer of HIV |
312 | William Gambel | (1823–1849), | American naturalist |
313 | Prosper Garnot | (1794–1838), | French naturalist |
314 | Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré | (1789–1854), | French botanist |
315 | Michael Gazzaniga, | - | American cognitive neuroscientist, best known for his research on split-brain patients |
316 | Howard Scott Gentry | (1903–1993), | American botanist |
317 | John Gerard | (1545–1611/12), | English botanist |
318 | Conrad von Gesner | (1516–1565), | Swiss naturalist (abbr. in botany: Gesner) |
319 | Luca Ghini | (1490–1566), | Italian botanist |
320 | Clelia Giacobini | (1931–2010), | Italian microbiologist, a pioneer of microbiology applied to conservation-restoration |
321 | John H. Gillespie, | American molecular evolutionist and population geneticist | |
322 | Charles Henry Gimingham | ( born 1923), | British botanist |
323 | Charles Frédéric Girard | (1822–1895), | French biologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist |
324 | Johann Friedrich Gmelin | (1748–1804), | German naturalist (abbr. in botany: J.F.Gmel.) |
325 | Johann Georg Gmelin | (1709–1755), | German naturalist (abbr. in botany: J.G.Gmel.) |
326 | Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin | (1744–1774), | German botanist (abbr. in botany: S.G.Gmel.) |
327 | Frederick DuCane Godman | (1834–1919), | English naturalist and ornithologist |
328 | Émil Goeldi | (1859–1917), | Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist |
329 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | (1749–1832), | known for his literary works but also a scientist. In biology: his theory of plant metamorphosis stipulated that all plant formation stems from a modification of the Leaf. |
330 | Camillo Golgi | (1843–1926), | Italian physician and Nobel prize winner, pioneer in neurobiology |
331 | Jane Goodall | ( born 1934), | British primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, best known for conducting a forty-year study of chimpanzee social and family life. |
332 | George Gordon | (1806–1879), | British botanist |
333 | Philip Henry Gosse | (1810–1888), | English naturalist |
334 | Augustus Addison Gould | (1805–1866), | American conchologist. |
335 | John Gould | (1804–1881), | English ornithologist |
336 | Stephen Jay Gould | (1941–2002), | American paleontologist |
337 | Alfred Grandidier | (1836–1921), | French naturalist and explorer |
338 | Guillaume Grandidier | (1873–1957), | French naturalist and explorer son of Alfred Grandidier |
339 | Temple Grandin | ( born 1947), | American animal scientist; world-renowned as a designer of humane livestock facilities and for her writings on her experience with autism |
340 | Chapman Grant | (1887–1983), | American herpetologist |
341 | Pierre-Paul Grassé | (1895–1985), | French zoologist |
342 | Asa Gray | (1810–1888), | American botanist |
343 | George Robert Gray | (1808–1872), | English zoologist |
344 | J.E. Gray | (1800–1875), | British zoologist |
345 | Andrew Jackson Grayson | (1819–1869), | American ornithologist |
346 | William King Gregory | (1876–1970), | American zoologist |
347 | Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon | (1862–1933), | British ornithologist |
348 | Frederick Griffith | (1879–1941), | British bacteriologist |
349 | Jeremy Griffith | ( born 1945), | Australian zoologist |
350 | Jan Frederik Gronovius | (1690–1762), | Dutch botanist |
351 | Pavel Grošelj | (1883–1940), | biologist and belletrist |
352 | Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville | (1799–1874), | French entomologist |
353 | Johann Anton Güldenstädt | (1745–1781), | German naturalist |
354 | Allvar Gullstrand | (1862–1930), | Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for research on the image formation by the lens of the eye" |
355 | Johann Ernst Gunnerus | (1718–1773), | Norwegian botanist |
356 | Albert C. L. G. Günther | (1830–1914), | British/German zoologist |
357 | Ernst Haeckel | (1834–1919), | German physician, zoologist and evolutionist |
358 | Hermann August Hagen | (1817–1893), | German entomologist |
359 | J. B. S. Haldane | (1892–1964), | British evolutionary biologist and co-founder of population genetics |
360 | William Donald Hamilton | (1936–2000), | British evolutionary biologist |
361 | Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley | (1819–1899), | British conchologist and malacologist |
362 | Thomas Hardwicke | (1755–1835), | English naturalist |
363 | Alister Clavering Hardy | (1896–1985), | English marine biologist and pioneer student of the biological basis of religion |
364 | Richard Harlan | (1796–1843), | American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist |
365 | Denham Harman | ( born 1916), | American biogerontologist, father of the free radical theory of aging |
366 | Maarten 't Hart | ( born 1944), | Dutch biologist and writer |
367 | Ernst Hartert | (1859–1933), | German ornithologist |
368 | Gustav Hartlaub | (1814–1900), | German zoologist |
369 | Karl Theodor Hartweg | (1812–1871), | German botanist |
370 | William Henry Harvey | (1811–1866), | Irish phycologist |
371 | Hans Hass | (1919–2013), | Austrian biologist |
372 | Frederik Hasselquist | (1722–1752), | Swedish naturalist |
373 | Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale | (1824–1878), | English ornithologist |
374 | James Hector | (1834–1907), | Scottish geologist, naturalist, and surgeon |
375 | Charles Hedley | (1862–1926), | naturalist, active in Australia |
376 | Oskar Heinroth | (1871–1945), | German biologist, a founder of ethology |
377 | Wilhelm Hemprich | (1796–1825), | German naturalist |
378 | Willi Hennig | (1913–1976) | German biologist, founder of cladistics |
379 | John Stevens Henslow | (1796–1861), | English mineralogist, botanist and clergyman |
380 | Johann Hermann | (1738–1800), | French physician and naturalist |
381 | Albert William Herre | (1868–1962), | American ichthyologist and lichenologist |
382 | Alfred Hershey | (1908–1997), | American bacteriologist, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the genetics of viruses |
383 | Philip Hershkovitz | (1909–1997), | American mammalogist noted especially as a primatologist |
384 | Leo George Hertlein | (1898–1972), | American paleontologist and malacologist |
385 | Archibald Vivian Hill | (1886–1977), | British physiologist, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for elucidation of mechanical work in muscles |
386 | Brian Houghton Hodgson | (1800–1894), | English naturalist |
387 | Jan van der Hoeven | (1802–1868), | Dutch zoologist |
388 | Bruno Hofer | (1861–1916), | German fisheries scientist |
389 | Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg | (1766–1849), | German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist |
390 | Jacques Bernard Hombron | (1798–1852), | French naturalist |
391 | Leroy Hood | ( born 1939), | American biochemist, developed high speed automated DNA sequencer |
392 | Robert Hooke | (1635–1703), | British natural philosopher and Secretary to the Royal Society |
393 | Joseph Dalton Hooker | (1817–1911), | British botanist, explorer and Director of Kew Botanic Gardens |
394 | William Jackson Hooker | (1785–1865), | British botanist, Director of Kew Botanic Gardens |
395 | John "Jack" Horner | ( born 1946), | American paleontologist, specialized in dinosaurs |
396 | Thomas Horsfield | (1773–1859), | American naturalist |
397 | Bernardo Houssay | (1887–1971), | Argentine physiologist, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the function of the pituitary hormones in regulating blood sugar (glucose) in animals. |
398 | Martinus Houttuyn | (1720–1798), | Dutch naturalist |
399 | Albert Howard | (1873–1947), | British botanist |
400 | Eliot Howard | (1873–1940), | English ornithologist |
401 | Sarah Blaffer Hrdy | ( born 1946), | U.S. anthropologist who made contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology |
402 | David H. Hubel | ( born 1926), | Canadian-Born American neurobiologist, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on the visual system |
403 | François Huber | (1750–1831), | Swiss naturalist |
404 | Ambrosius Hubrecht | (1853–1915), | Dutch zoologist |
405 | William Henry Hudson | (1841–1922), | Argentinian-British ornithologist |
406 | Alexander von Humboldt | (1769–1859), | German naturalist and explorer |
407 | Allan Octavian Hume | (1829–1912), | British ornithologist |
408 | Rob Hume, | - | British ornithologist |
409 | George Evelyn Hutchinson | (1903–1991), | American ecologist and limnologist |
410 | Frederick Wollaston Hutton | (1835–1905), | English biologist and geologist, later worked in New Zealand |
411 | Julian Sorell Huxley | (1887–1975), | English zoologist and contributor to the modern evolutionary synthesis; first D-G of UNESCO |
412 | Thomas Henry Huxley | (1825–1895), | English zoologist and advocate of evolution, agnosticism and scientific education |
413 | Alpheus Hyatt | (1838–1902), | American neo-Lamarckian |
414 | Libbie Hyman | (1888–1969), | invertebrate zoologist |
415 | Josef Hyrtl | (1810–1894), | Austrian anatomist |
416 | Hermann von Ihering | (1850–1930), | German naturalist |
417 | Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger | (1775–1813), | German entomologist |
418 | Jan Ingenhousz | (1730–1799), | Dutch-born British botanist |
419 | Tom Iredale | (1880–1972), | English conchologist and ornithologist |
420 | Paul Erdmann Isert | (1756–1789), | German botanist |
421 | François Jacob | ( born 1920), | French biologist, Nobel laureate |
422 | Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin | (1727–1817), | Dutch-born Austrian botanist |
423 | Honoré Jacquinot | (1815–1887), | French surgeon and zoologist |
424 | Daniel H. Janzen | ( born 1939), | American entomologist and ecologist |
425 | William Jardine | (1800–1874), | Scottish naturalist |
426 | Feliks Pawel Jarocki | (1790–1865), | Polish zoologist |
427 | Thomas C. Jerdon | (1811–1872), | British zoologist and botanist |
428 | Wilhelm Johannsen | (1857–1927), | (coined the term gene) |
429 | David Starr Jordan | (1851–1931), | ichthyologist, 1st president of Stanford |
430 | Félix Pierre Jousseaume | (1835–1921), | French zoologist and malacologist |
431 | Adrien-Henri de Jussieu | (1797–1853), | French botanist |
432 | Antoine de Jussieu | (1686–1758), | French naturalist |
433 | Antoine Laurent de Jussieu | (1748–1836), | botanist, biologist (abbr. in botany: Juss.) |
434 | Bernard de Jussieu | (1699–1777), | French naturalist |
435 | Ernest Everett Just | (1883–1941), | American biologist |
436 | Zbigniew Kabata | (1924–2014), | Polish parasitologist |
437 | Pehr Kalm | (1716–1779), | Swedish botanist |
438 | Eric R. Kandel | ( born 1929), | Austrian-born American neuroscientist. Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the neural correlates of memory |
439 | Ferdinand Karsch | (1853–1936), | German arachnologist, entomologist, and anthropologist |
440 | Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten | (1817–1908), | German botanist |
441 | Rudolf Kaufmann | (1909–c1941), | trilobitologist known for his contributions to allopatric speciation and punctuated equilibrium. |
442 | Stuart Kauffman | ( born 1939), | biologist widely known for his promotion of self-organization as a factor in producing the complexity of biological systems and organisms |
443 | Johann Jakob Kaup | (1803–1873), | German naturalist |
444 | Janet Kear | (1933–2004), | English ornithologist |
445 | Gerald A. Kerkut | (1927–2004), | British zoologist and physiologist |
446 | Anton Kerner von Marilaun | (1831–1898), | Austrian botanist |
447 | Robert Kerr | (1755–1813), | published The Animal Kingdom in 1792 |
448 | Warwick Estevam Kerr | ( born 1922), | Brazilian geneticist, specialist in bee genetics, introducer of African bees in Brazil |
449 | Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska | ( born 1925), | Polish paleontologist, led several paleontological expeditions to the Gobi desert |
450 | Motoo Kimura | (1924–1994), | Japanese mathematical biologist, working in the field of theoretical population genetics |
451 | Carolyn King, | - | New Zealand zoologist, professor at the University of Waikato, specialising in mammals, particularly small rodents and mustelids |
452 | Norman Boyd Kinnear | (1882–1957), | Scottish zoologist |
453 | William Kirby | (1759–1850), | English entomologist |
454 | Heinrich von Kittlitz | (1799–1874), | German naturalist |
455 | Wilhelm Kobelt | (1840–1916), | German zoologist and malacologist |
456 | Fritz Köberle | (1910–1983), | Austrian-Brazilian physician and pathologist, student of Chagas disease |
457 | Karl Koch | (1809–1879), | German botanist |
458 | Robert Koch | (1843–1910), | German Nobel Prize-winning physician and bacteriologist |
459 | Emil Theodor Kocher | (1841–1917), | German physician, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland" |
460 | Alexander Koenig | (1858–1940), | German naturalist |
461 | Albert von Kölliker | (1817–1905), | Swiss physiologist |
462 | Charles Konig | (1774–1851), | German naturalist |
463 | Arthur Kornberg | (1918–2007), | discovered DNA polymerase |
464 | Adriaan Kortlandt, | ( born 1918), | Dutch ethologist |
465 | Albrecht Kossel | (1853–1927), | German physician and winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research in cell biology |
466 | Hans Adolf Krebs | (1900–1981), | German biochemist and winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the citric acid cycle in cellular respiration |
467 | Gerard Krefft | (1830–1881), | German-born Australian zoologist and palaeontologist |
468 | Eduardo Krieger | ( born 1930), | Brazilian physician and physiologist |
469 | Kewal Krishan | ( born 1973), | Biological Anthropologist, specialized in Forensic Anthropology, serving at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India |
470 | Schack August Steenberg Krogh | (1874–1949), | Danish physiologist, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle |
471 | Heinrich Kuhl | (1797–1821), | German zoologist |
472 | Henri Laborit | (1914–1995), | French surgeon and physiologist |
473 | Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacépède | (1756–1825), | French naturalist |
474 | David Lack | (1910–1973), | British ornithologist |
475 | Frédéric de Lafresnaye | (1783–1861), | French ornithologist |
476 | Jean-Baptiste Lamarck | (1744–1829), | French evolutionist, coined many terms like biology and fossils |
477 | Aylmer Bourke Lambert | (1761–1842), | British botanist |
478 | Charles Lamberton | (fl. 1912–1956), | French paleontologist |
479 | Hugh Lamprey | (1928–1996), | British ecologist |
480 | Kai Larsen | (1926–2012), | Danish botanist |
481 | Charles Francis Laseron | (1887–1959), | American-born Australian naturalist and malacologist |
482 | John Latham | (1740–1837), | English naturalist |
483 | Pierre André Latreille | (1762–1833), | French entomologist |
484 | Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran | (1845–1922), | French physician, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that the cause of malaria is a protozoon |
485 | George Newbold Lawrence | (1806–1855), | American ornithologist |
486 | William Elford Leach | (1790–1836), | English zoologist and marine biologist |
487 | Colin Leakey | ( born 1933), | British tropical botanist and specialist in bean science |
488 | Joseph LeConte | (1823–1901), | physiologist |
489 | Tim Lee | ( born 1977), | comedian |
490 | Antoni van Leeuwenhoek | (1632–1723), | Dutch biologist, developer of the microscope |
491 | François Leguat | (c. 1637 – 1735), | French naturalist |
492 | Joseph Leidy | (1823–1891), | American paleontologist |
493 | Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler | (1771–1813), | Dutch naturalist |
494 | Juan Lembeye | (1816–1889), | Spanish naturalist |
495 | Leonardo da Vinci | (1452–1519), | known as an artist but also an anatomist. Dissected hundreds of specimens and drew exact copies of them |
496 | Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour | (1773–1826), | French botanist |
497 | Rene Primevere Lesson | (1794–1849), | French naturalist |
498 | Charles Alexandre Lesueur | (1778–1846), | French naturalist |
499 | François Le Vaillant | (1753–1824), | French ornithologist |
500 | Edward B. Lewis | (1918–2004), | American geneticist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner |
501 | Richard Lewontin | ( born 1929), | biologist |
502 | Wen-Hsiung Li, | - | Taiwanese molecular evolutionary biologist |
503 | Emmanuel Liais | (1826–1900), | French botanist |
504 | Martin Lichtenstein | (1780–1867), | German zoologist |
505 | John Lightfoot | (1735–1788), | English conchologist and botanist |
506 | David R. Lindberg, | - | American malacologist and biologist |
507 | Aristid Lindenmayer | (1925–1989), | Hungarian biologist |
508 | John Lindley | (1799–1865), | English botanist |
509 | Heinrich Friedrich Link | (1767–1850), | German botanist (abbr. in botany: Link) |
510 | Carl Linnaeus | (1707–1778), | Swedish botanist; father of the binomial nomenclature system (abbr L. or Linn.) |
511 | Jacques Loeb | (1859–1924), | German-American biologist |
512 | Friedrich Loeffler | (1852–1915), | German biologist |
513 | Konrad Lorenz | (1903–1989), | Austrian founder of ethology |
514 | Harri Lorenzi | ( born 1949), | Brazilian botanist |
515 | John Claudius Loudon | (1783–1843), | English botanist |
516 | James Lovelock | ( born 1919), | English chemist and father of the Gaia hypothesis |
517 | Percy Lowe | (1870–1948), | English ornithologist |
518 | Peter Wilhelm Lund | (1801–1880), | Danish zoologist and paleontologist |
519 | Salvador Luria | (1912–1991), | microbiologist, Nobel prize winner |
520 | Adolfo Lutz | (1855–1940), | Brazilian infectologist, pathologist and public health researcher |
521 | André Lwoff | (1902–1994), | French microbiologist, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
522 | Richard Lydekker | (1849–1915), | English naturalist |
523 | Trofim Lysenko | (1898–1976), | Soviet biologist and agronomist. His denouncement of genetics became known as Lysenkoism. |
524 | Jules François Mabille | (1831–1904), | French malacologist |
525 | John Macadam | (1827–1865), | Scottish-born Australian botanist |
526 | John M. MacDougal | ( born 1954), | American botanist |
527 | William MacGillivray | (1796–1852), | Scottish naturalist |
528 | Marcello Malpighi | (1628–1694), | Italian anatomist and biologist |
529 | Ramon Margalef | (1919–2004), | Spanish-Catalan biologist and ecologist |
530 | Leo Margolis | (1927–1997), | Canadian fisheries parasitologist |
531 | Lynn Margulis | ( born 1938), | American microbiologist |
532 | Alberto della Marmora | (1789–1863), | Italian naturalist |
533 | Othniel Charles Marsh | (1831–1899), | paleontology |
534 | Barry Marshall | ( born 1951), | Australian physician and microbiologist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that most stomach ulcers are caused by a strain of bacteria |
535 | Fermín Martín Piera | (1954–2001), | Spanish botanist |
536 | Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius | (1794–1868), | German botanist |
537 | John Martyn | (1699–1768), | English botanist |
538 | Thomas Martyn | (1735–1825), | English botanist, entomologist and conchologist |
539 | John Marwick | (1891–1978), | New Zealand palaeontologist and geologist |
540 | Teresa Maryańska, | - | Poland, paleontologist specializing in dinosaurs |
541 | Francis Masson | (1741 – c. 1805), | Scottish botanist |
542 | Gregory Mathews | (1876–1949), | Australian ornithologist |
543 | Paul Matschie | (1861–1926), | German zoologist |
544 | William Diller Matthew | (1871–1930), | American paleontologist |
545 | Polly Matzinger, | American immunologist | |
546 | Carl Maximowicz | (1827–1891), | Russian botanist |
547 | Harold Maxwell-Lefroy | (1877–1925), | English entomologist |
548 | Robert May | ( born 1936), | biologist, physicist, mathematician, President of Royal Society of London 2000–2005 |
549 | Ernst Mayr | (1904–2005), | evolutionary biologist |
550 | Barbara McClintock | (1902–1992), | American biologist, winner of a Nobel Prize for her work on the transposon, or "jumping gene" |
551 | James V. McConnell | (1925–1990), | American biological psychologist |
552 | Mark McMenamin | ( born 1958), | American paleontologist |
553 | Bruce McEwen, | - | neuroendocrinologist and stress hormone expert |
554 | Edmund Meade-Waldo | (1855–1934), | English ornithologist |
555 | Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov | (1845–1916), | Russian microbiologist, best known for his work on the immune system and phagocytosis, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908 |
556 | Johann Wilhelm Meigen | (1764–1845), | German entomologist |
557 | Gregor Mendel | (1822–1884), | Czech-Austrian monk who is often called the "father of genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants |
558 | Edouard Menetries | (1802–1861), | French entomologist |
559 | Maud Leonora Menten, biologist | - | - |
560 | Archibald Menzies | (1754–1852), | Scottish naturalist |
561 | Clinton Hart Merriam | (1855–1942), | American zoologist and ornithologist |
562 | John C. Merriam | (1869–1945), | American biologist |
563 | Franz Meyen | (1804–1840), | German botanist |
564 | Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee | (1901–1984), | American ornithologist |
565 | Otto Fritz Meyerhof | (1884–1951), | German/American physician and biochemist, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on muscles |
566 | Leonor Michaelis | (1875–1949), | German biologist |
567 | André Michaux | (1746–1802), | French botanist |
568 | Aleksandr Fyodorovich Middendorf | (1815–1894), | Russian zoologist |
569 | Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai | (1846–1888), | Russian marine biologist and anthropologist |
570 | Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr. | (1869–1956), | American zoologist. |
571 | Jacques Miller | ( born 1931), | Australian immunologist. |
572 | John Frederick Miller | (1759–1796), | English illustrator (primarily of botany) |
573 | Kenneth R. Miller | ( born 1948), | American evolutionary biologist. |
574 | Philip Miller | (1691–1771), | Scottish botanist (abbr. in botany: Mill.) |
575 | Alphonse Milne-Edwards | (1835–1900), | French zoologist |
576 | Henri Milne-Edwards | (1800–1885), | French zoologist |
577 | George Jackson Mivart | (1827–1900), | English biologist |
578 | Hugo von Mohl | (1805–1872), | German botanist |
579 | Paul Möhring | (1710–1792), | German naturalist |
580 | Juan Ignacio Molina | (1740–1829), | Chilean naturalist |
581 | Jacques Monod | (1910–1976), | geneticist |
582 | George Montagu | (1753–1815), | English naturalist |
583 | Luc Montagnier | ( born 1932), | French discoverer of HIV |
584 | Rita Levi-Montalcini | ( born 1909), | Italian-American neurologist who received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her co-discovery of growth factors |
585 | Tommaso di Maria Allery Monterosato | (1841–1927), | Italian malacologist |
586 | Pierre Dénys de Montfort | (1766–1820), | French naturalist |
587 | George Thomas Moore | (1871–1956), | American botanist |
588 | Alfred Moquin-Tandon | (1804–1863), | French naturalist |
589 | Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch | (1828–1878), | malacologist |
590 | Thomas Hunt Morgan | (1868–1945), | American geneticist. He worked on the natural history, zoology, and macromutation in the fruit fly Drosophila |
591 | Desmond Morris | ( born 1928), | British zoologist and biologist |
592 | Roger Morse | (1927–2000), | professor, researcher, author, on bees/beekeeping |
593 | Guy Mountfort | (1905–2003), | English ornithologist |
594 | Ladislav Mucina | ( born 1956), | Slovakian botanist |
595 | Ferdinand von Mueller | (1825–1896), | German-Australian botanist |
596 | John Muir | (1838–1914), | American naturalist |
597 | Otto Friedrich Müller | (1730–1784), | Danish naturalist (abbr. in botany: O.F.Müll.) |
598 | Fritz Müller | (1821–1897), | German-Brazilian naturalist (abbr. in botany: F.J.Müll.) |
599 | Hermann Müller (Thurgau) | (1850–1927), | Swiss botanist and oenologist |
600 | Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller | (1725–1776), | German zoologist |
601 | Salomon Muller | (1804–1864), | Dutch naturalist |
602 | Kary Mullis | ( born 1944), | biologist |
603 | Otto von Münchhausen | (1716–1774), | German botanist |
604 | John Murray | (1841–1914), | Scots-Canadian Marine Biologist |
605 | Gary Paul Nabhan | ( born 1952), | co-author of Forgotten Pollinators |
606 | Karl Wilhelm von Nageli | (1817–1891), | Swiss botanist |
607 | Johann Friedrich Naumann | (1780–1857), | German founder of scientific ornithology |
608 | John Needham | (1713–1781), | English naturalist |
609 | Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck | (1776–1858), | German botanist and zoologist |
610 | Masatoshi Nei, | - | American evolutionary biologist and molecular Population Geneticist |
611 | Randolph M. Nesse | ( born 1945), | American evolutionary biologist and psychiatrist |
612 | Charles F. Newcombe | (1851–1924), | British botanist |
613 | Alfred Newton | (1829–1907), | English zoologist |
614 | Margaret Morse Nice | (1883–1974), | American ornithologist |
615 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson | (1844–1899), | British zoologist |
616 | Elmer Noble | (1909–2001), | American parasitologist |
617 | Alfred Merle Norman | (1831–1918), | English clergyman and naturalist |
618 | Alfred John North | (1855–1917), | Australian ornithologist |
619 | Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard | ( born 1942), | German biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner |
620 | Thomas Nuttall | (1786–1858), | English botanist and zoologist |
621 | Nils Hjalmar Odhner | (1884–1973), | Swedish zoologist |
622 | Eugene P. Odum | (1913–2002), | American ecologist |
623 | Howard T. Odum | (1924–2002), | American ecologist |
624 | Anders Sandoe Oersted | (1816–1872), | Danish botanist (abbr. in botany: Oerst.) |
625 | William Ogilby | (1808–1873), | Irish naturalist |
626 | William Robert Ogilvie-Grant | (1863–1924), | Scottish ornithologist |
627 | Tomoko Ohta | ( born 1933), | Japanese molecular evolutionary biologist |
628 | Lorenz Oken | (1779–1851), | German naturalist |
629 | Giuseppe Olivi | (1769–1795), | Italian naturalist |
630 | Mark A. O'Neill, | - | British biologist and computer scientist |
631 | Aleksandr Oparin | (1894–1980), | Russian biologist and biochemist, best known for his work on the origin of life |
632 | Alcide d'Orbigny | (1802–1857), | French naturalist |
633 | George Ord | (1781–1866), | American ornithologist |
634 | Eleanor Anne Ormerod | (1828–1901), | English entomologist |
635 | Edward Latham Ormerod | (1819–1873), | FRS, English physician and entomologist |
636 | Henry Fairfield Osborn | (1857–1935), | eugenicist, AMNH curator |
637 | William Charles Osman Hill | (1901–1975), | British anatomist, primatologist, and a leading authority on primate anatomy during the 20th century |
638 | Halszka Osmólska | (1930–2008), | Polish paleontologist specializing in dinosaurs |
639 | Emile Oustalet | (1844–1905), | French zoologist |
640 | Richard Owen | (1804–1892), | biologist of nebres(triztan) organisms |
641 | George Emil Palade | ( born 1912), | Romanian-American biologist, discoverer of ribosomes, Nobel Prize |
642 | Paul Maurice Pallary | (1869–1942), | French-Algerian malacologist |
643 | Peter Simon Pallas | (1741–1811), | Russian zoologist |
644 | Edward Palmer | (1829–1911), | British botanist |
645 | Josif Pancic | (1814–1888), | Serbian botanist |
646 | Paracelsus | (1493–1541), | German alchemist |
647 | Louis Pasteur | (1822–1895), | French biochemist |
648 | William Paterson | (1755–1810), | British botanist and explorer |
649 | Robert Patterson | (1802–1872), | Irish naturalist |
650 | Daniel Pauly | ( born 1946), | French marine biologist |
651 | Ivan Pavlov | (1849–1936), | Russian physiologist, psychologist and physician, discovered conditioning, won the Nobel Prize for his research on the digestive system |
652 | Titian Peale | (1799–1885), | American naturalist |
653 | Louise Pearce | (1885–1959), | American pathologist |
654 | Donald C. Peattie | (1898–1964), | American botanist |
655 | Eva J. Pell | ( born 1948), | American plant pathologist |
656 | Paul Pelseneer | (1863–1945), | Belgian malacologist |
657 | Jean-Marie Pelt | ( born 1933), | French botanist |
658 | Thomas Pennant | (1726–1798), | Welsh naturalist and antiquary |
659 | Henri Perrier de la Bâthie | (1873–1958), | French botanist |
660 | George Perry (naturalist), | 19th century English naturalist | |
661 | Christian Hendrik Persoon | (1761–1836), | biologist |
662 | Paul Petard | (1912–1980), | French botanist |
663 | Wilhelm Peters | (1815–1883), | German naturalist |
664 | Ludwig Karl | - | Georg Pfeiffer, German physician, botanist and conchologist |
665 | Rodolfo Amando Philippi | (1808–1904), | German-Chilean zoologist |
666 | Constantine John Phipps | (1744–1792), | English explorer |
667 | David Andrew Phoenix, | ( born 1966), | Biochemist |
668 | Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge | (1860–?), | English entomologist |
669 | Octavius Pickard-Cambridge | (1828–1917), | English entomologist, uncle of above |
670 | Charles Pickering | (1805–1878), | American naturalist |
671 | Cándido Bolívar Pieltain | (1897–1976), | Spanish naturalist |
672 | Henry Augustus Pilsbry | (1862–1957), | American zoologist, malacologist |
673 | Gregory Goodwin Pincus | (1903–1967), | American biologist and co-inventor of the contraceptive pill |
674 | Ronald Plasterk, | ( born 1957), | Dutch molecular biologist, columnist and politician |
675 | Pliny the Elder (23–79), | Roman natural philosopher | |
676 | Reginald Innes Pocock | (1863–1947), | British taxonomist (mammals and arachnids) |
677 | Felipe Poey | (1799–1891), | Cuban zoologist |
678 | Joel Roberts Poinsett | (1779–1851), | American botanist |
679 | Henry de Puyjalon | (1841–1905), | Canadian ecologist and biologist |
680 | Giuseppe Saverio Poli | (1746–1825), | Italian physicist, biologist and natural historian |
681 | Winston Ponde | r, Australian malacologist | |
682 | Arthur William Baden Powell | (1901–1987), | New Zealand malacologist and paleontologist |
683 | Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford | (1833–1896), | English ornithologist |
684 | Karel Presl | (1794–1852), | Bohemian botanist |
685 | Alice Pruvot-Fol | (1873–1972), | French malacologist |
686 | Jan Evangelista Purkyně | (1787–1869), | Czech anatomist and physiologist |
687 | Frederick Traugott Pursh | (1774–1820), | German-American botanist |
688 | Paul Émile de Puydt | (1810–1888), | Belgian botanist |
689 | Nikolai Przhevalsky | (1839–1888), | Russian explorer |
690 | Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau | (1810–1892), | French naturalist |
691 | Jean René Constant Quoy | (1790–1869), | French zoologist |
692 | Gustav Radde | (1831–1903), | German naturalist |
693 | Thomas Stamford Raffles | (1781–1826), | British founder/first president of the Zoological Society of London |
694 | Constantine Samuel Rafinesque | (1783–1840), | French naturalist who described many North American species |
695 | Émile Louis Ragonot | (1843–1895), | French entomologist |
696 | Santiago Ramón y Cajal | (1852–1934), | Spanish histologist and Nobel laureate. Considered the father of neuroscience. |
697 | Edward Pierson Ramsay | (1842–1916), | Australian ornithologist |
698 | Austin L. Rand | (1905–1982), | Canadian zoologist |
699 | Suresh Rattan | ( born 1955), | Indian biogerontologist |
700 | John Ray | (1627–1705), | English naturalist |
701 | Francesco Redi | (1626–1697), | Italian physician known for his experiment in 1668 which is regarded as one of the first steps in refuting abiogenesis |
702 | Lovell Augustus Reeve | (1814–1865), | English conchologist |
703 | Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach | (1823–1889), | German orchidologist (abbr. in botany: Rchb. f.) |
704 | Ludwig Reichenbach | (1793–1879), | German botanist and ornithologist (abbr. in botany: Rchb.) |
705 | Anton Reichenow | (1847–1941), | German ornithologist |
706 | Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt | (1773–1854), | Dutch botanist |
707 | Bernhard Rensch | (1900–1990), | German biologist |
708 | Ralf Reski | ( born 1958), | German botanist and biotechnologist, developed Physcomitrella as model organism |
709 | Achille Richard | (1794–1852), | French botanist (abbr. in botany: A. Rich) |
710 | Jean Michel Claude Richard | (1787–1868), | noted French botanist and plant collector (abbr. in botany: J.M.C.Rich.) |
711 | Louis Claude Richard | (1754–1821), | French botanist (abbr. in botany: Rich.) |
712 | Olivier Jules Richard | (1836–1896), | French lichenologist (abbr. in botany: O.J.Rich.) |
713 | John Richardson | (1787–1865), | Scottish naturalist (abbr. in botany: Richardson) |
714 | Charles Richet | (1850–1935), | French physiologist, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of anaphylaxis |
715 | Charles Wallace Richmond | (1868–1932), | American ornithologist |
716 | Robert Ridgway | (1850–1929), | American ornithologist |
717 | Henry Nicholas Ridley | (1855–1956), | British botanist (abbr. in botany: Ridl.) |
718 | Austin Roberts | (1883–1948), | South African zoologist |
719 | Harold E. Robinson | ( born 1932), | American botanist and entomologist |
720 | Maurício Rocha e Silva | (1910–1983), | Brazilian physician and pharmacologist, codiscoverer of bradykinin |
721 | Martin Rodbell | (1925–1998), | biologist |
722 | Peter Friedrich Röding | (1767–1846), | German malacologist |
723 | George Romanes | (1848–1894), | Canadian naturalist, founded the discipline of comparative psychology |
724 | Alfred Romer | (1894–1973), | specialist in vertebrate paleontology |
725 | Robert Rosen | (1934–1998), | theoretical biologist |
726 | Joel Rosenbaum | ( born 1933), | cell biologist at Yale University |
727 | Harald Rosenthal | ( born 1937), | German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology |
728 | Miriam Louisa Rothschild | (1908–2005), | British entomologist |
729 | Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild | (1868–1937), | British zoologist |
730 | Joan Roughgarden | ( born 1946), | American ecologist and evolutionary biologist |
731 | William Roxburgh | (1759–1815), | Scottish botanist |
732 | Adriaan van Royen | (1704–1779), | Dutch botanist (abbr. in botany: Royen) |
733 | Karl Rudolphi | (1771–1832), | German physiologist |
734 | Eduard Rüppell | (1794–1884), | German naturalist |
735 | Joseph Sabine | (1770–1837), | English naturalist |
736 | Julius von Sachs | (1832–1897), | German botanist |
737 | Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | (1772–1844), | French naturalist |
738 | Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire | (1805–1861), | French zoologist |
739 | Carl Ulisses von Salis-Marschlins | (1762–1818), | Swiss naturalist interested in botany, entomology, and conchology |
740 | Edward James Salisbury | (1886–1978), | British botanist |
741 | Richard Anthony Salisbury | (1761–1829), | British botanist |
742 | Jonas Salk | (1914–1995), | American biologist, inventor of polio vaccine |
743 | Robert Sapolsky | ( born 1957), | American neuroscientist |
744 | Georg Ossian Sars | (1837–1927), | Norwegian marine biologist |
745 | Michael Sars | (1809–1869), | Norwegian taxonomist |
746 | William Saunders | (1822–1900), | American botanist |
747 | Horace-Bénédict de Saussure | (1740–1799), | Swiss naturalist |
748 | Marie Jules César Savigny | (1777–1851), | French zoologist |
749 | Thomas Say | (1787–1843), | American naturalist |
750 | George Schaller | ( born 1933), | American zoologist, widely considered the preeminent field biologist of the 20th century |
751 | Friedrich Schlechter | (1872–1925), | German botanist |
752 | Hermann Schlegel | (1804–1884), | German ornithologist |
753 | Matthias Jakob Schleiden | (1804–1881), | German co-founder of the cell theory |
754 | George Schoener | (1864–1941), | German-American botanist |
755 | Johann David Schoepf | (1752–1800), | German botanist and zoologist |
756 | Heinrich Wilhelm Schott | (1794–1865), | German botanist |
757 | Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber | (1739–1810), | German naturalist |
758 | Leopold von Schrenck | (1826–1894), | Russo-German zoologist |
759 | Charles Schuchert | (1858–1942), | paleontologist |
760 | Theodor Schwann | (1810–1882), | German physiologist |
761 | Neena Schwartz | ( born 1926), | American endocrinologist |
762 | Georg August Schweinfurth | (1836–1925), | German botanist |
763 | Philip Sclater | (1829–1913), | English zoologist |
764 | Giovanni Antonio Scopoli | (1723–1788), | Italian-Austrian naturalist |
765 | Henry Seebohm | (1832–1895), | English ornithologist |
766 | Prideaux John Selby | (1788–1867), | English botanist and ornithologist |
767 | Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov | (1827–1885), | Russian naturalist |
768 | Richard Bowdler Sharpe | (1847–1909), | English zoologist |
769 | George Shaw | (1751–1813), | English botanist and zoologist |
770 | George Ernest Shelley | (1840–1910), | English ornithologist |
771 | Sir Charles Scott Sherrington | (1857–1922), | British physiologist and neuroscientist, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on neurons |
772 | Philipp Franz von Siebold | (1796–1866), | German botanist |
773 | George Gaylord Simpson | (1902–1984), | American paleontologist |
774 | Rolf Singer | (1906–1994), | German born mycologist |
775 | John Kunkel Small | (1869–1938), | American botanist (abbr. in botany: Small) |
776 | Andrew Smith | (1797–1872), | Scottish zoologist |
777 | Edgar Albert Smith | (1847–1916), | British zoologist and conchologist |
778 | Frederick Smith | (1805–1879), | British entomologist |
779 | James Edward Smith | (1759–1828), | English botanist (abbr. in botany: Sm.) |
780 | Johannes Jacobus Smith | (1867–1947), | Dutch botanist (abbr. in botany: J.J.Sm.) |
781 | James Leonard Brierley Smith | (1897–1968), | South African ichthyologist |
782 | John Maynard Smith | (1920–2004), | biologist |
783 | John Otterbein Snyder | (1867–1943), | American zoologist |
784 | Solomon H. Snyder | ( born 1938), | American neuroscientist, co-discovered endorphins |
785 | Daniel Solander | (1733–1782), | Swedish botanist |
786 | Louis François Auguste Souleyet | (1811–1852), | French zoologist |
787 | Douglas Spalding | (1840–1877), | English biologist, discovered imprinting and conducted some of the earliest research on animal behavior |
788 | Lazzaro Spallanzani | (1729–1799), | Italian biologist |
789 | Anders Sparrman | (1748–1820), | Swedish naturalist |
790 | Walter Baldwin Spencer | (1860–1929), | English biologist and anthropologist |
791 | Roger W. Sperry | (1913–1994), | American neuropsychologist, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his split-brain research |
792 | Maximilian Spinola | (1780–1857), | entomologist |
793 | Johann Baptist von Spix | (1781–1826), | German naturalist |
794 | Herman Spoering | (1733–1771), | Finnish botanist |
795 | Kurt Sprengel | (1766–1833), | German botanist |
796 | Stewart Springer | (1906–1991), | American ichthyologist noted for expertise in shark classification, behavior, and distribution of species |
797 | Richard Spruce | (1817–1893), | English botanist |
798 | Agustin Stahl | (1842–1917), | Puerto Rican zoologist and botanist |
799 | Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby | (1775–1851), | English naturalist |
800 | Japetus Steenstrup | (1813–1897), | Danish zoologist |
801 | Franz Steindachner | (1834–1919), | Austrian zoologist |
802 | Leonhard Hess Stejneger | (1851–1943), | Norwegian zoologist |
803 | Georg Wilhelm Steller | (1709–1746), | Russian ornithologist |
804 | James Francis Stephens | (1792–1853), | English zoologist |
805 | Kaspar Maria von Sternberg | (1761–1838), | Bohemian botanist |
806 | Karl Stetter | ( born 1941), | German microbiologist |
807 | Nettie Maria Stevens | (1861–1912), | American biologist |
808 | Edward Charles Stirling | (1848–1919), | Australian anthropologist |
809 | Gerald Stokell | (1890–1972), | New Zealand horticulturist and ichthyologist |
810 | Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr | (1749–1821), | German naturalist |
811 | Eduard Strasburger | (1844–1912), | German botanist (abbr. in botany: Strasb.) |
812 | Erwin Stresemann | (1889–1972), | German ornithologist |
813 | John Struthers | (1823–1899), | Scottish anatomist |
814 | Samuel Stutchbury | (1798–1859), | English naturalist and geologist |
815 | Richard Summerbell | ( born 1956), | Canadian mycologist |
816 | Carl Jakob Sundevall | (1801–1875), | Swedish zoologist |
817 | Mriganka Sur | ( born 1953), | Indian cognitive neuroscientist specializing in neuroplasticity |
818 | Henry Suter | (1841–1918), | New Zealand zoologist, naturalist and palaeontologist |
819 | William John Swainson | (1789–1855), | English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist |
820 | Jan Swammerdam | (1637–1680), | Dutch biologist and microscopist |
821 | Olof Swartz | (1760–1816), | Swedish botanist (abbr. in botany: Sw.) |
822 | Robert Swinhoe | (1836–1877), | English naturalist |
823 | Colonel W. H. Sykes | (1790–1872), | English ornithologist |
824 | Wladyslaw Taczanowski | (1819–1890), | Polish zoologist |
825 | Armen Takhtajan | ( born 1910), | Russian botanist |
826 | Peter Gustaf Tengmalm | (1754–1803), | Swedish naturalist |
827 | Coenraad Jacob Temminck | (1778–1858), | Dutch zoologist |
828 | Theophrastus | (372 BC – 287 BC), | biologist and the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school, popularizer of science |
829 | Johannes Thiele | (1860–1935), | German zoologist and malacologist |
830 | Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas | (1858–1929), | British zoologist |
831 | Charles Wyville Thompson | (1832–1882), | Scottish marine biologist |
832 | William Thompson | (1805–1852), | Irish ornithologist and naturalist |
833 | Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars | (1758–1831), | French botanist |
834 | Carl Peter Thunberg | (1743–1828), | Swedish naturalist |
835 | Samuel Tickell | (1811–1875), | British ornithologist |
836 | Niko Tinbergen | (1907–1988), | Dutch ethologist |
837 | Agostino Todaro | (1818–1892), | Italian botanist |
838 | Susumu Tonegawa | ( born 1939), | Japanese biologist, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity" |
839 | John Torrey | (1796–1873), | American botanist, first professional in New World |
840 | Joseph Pitton de Tournefort | (1656–1708), | French botanist |
841 | John Kirk Townsend | (1809–1851), | American ornithologist |
842 | Thomas Stewart Traill | (1781–1862), | Scottish doctor and naturalist |
843 | Abraham Trembley | (1710–1784), | Swiss naturalist |
844 | Melchior Treub | (1851–1910), | Dutch botanist |
845 | Henry Baker Tristram | (1822–1906), | English ornithologist |
846 | Robert Trivers | ( born 1943), | evolutionary biologist |
847 | Édouard Louis Trouessart | (1842–1927), | French naturalist |
848 | Frederick W. True | (1858–1914), | American naturalist |
849 | George Washington Tryon Jr. | (1838–1888), | American malacologist |
850 | Bernard Tucker | (1901–1950), | English ornithologist |
851 | Edward Tuckerman | (1817–1886), | American botanist |
852 | Endel Tulving | ( born 1927), | Estonian-born Canadian neuroscientist, specializes in episodic memory |
853 | Marmaduke Tunstall | (1743–1790), | English ornithologist |
854 | Ruth Turner | (1915–2000), | marine biologist |
855 | William Turton | (1762–1835), | British naturalist |
856 | Jakob von Uexküll | (1864–1944), | Estonian biologist, founder of biosemiotics |
857 | Martin Vahl | (1749–1804), | Norwegian botanist |
858 | Sebastien Vaillant | (1669–1722), | French botanist |
859 | Achille Valenciennes | (1794–1865), | French zoologist |
860 | Francisco Varela | (1946–2001), | Chilean biologist |
861 | Nikolai Vavilov | (1887–1943), | Soviet botanist and geneticist, died in prison as a defender of "bourgeois pseudoscience" genetics against Lysenkoism |
862 | Damodaran M. Vasudevan | ( born 1942), | Indian physician, immunologist and educationist |
863 | Craig Venter | ( born 1946), | American biologist and businessman |
864 | Edouard Verreaux | (1810–1868), | French naturalist |
865 | Jules Verreaux | (1807–1873), | French botanist and ornithologist |
866 | Addison Emery Verrill | (1839–1926), | American zoologist |
867 | Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot | (1748–1831), | French ornithologist |
868 | Nicholas Aylward Vigors | (1785–1840), | Irish zoologist |
869 | Rudolf Virchow | (1821–1902), | German biologist and pathologist, founder of cell theory |
870 | Oswaldo Vital Brazil | (1865–1950), | Brazilian physician and immunobiologist, discoverer of several antivenoms against snake, scorpion and spider bites |
871 | Bert Vogelstein | ( born 1949), | American geneticist |
872 | Karel Voous | (1920–2002), | Dutch ornithologist |
873 | Mary Voytek, | American biogeochemist and microbial ecologist | |
874 | Hugo de Vries | (1848–1935), | Dutch botanist |
875 | Frans de Waal | ( born 1948), | Dutch ethologist, primatologist and psychologist |
876 | Coslett Herbert Waddell | (1858–1919), | Irish botanist |
877 | Jeremy Wade | ( born 1960) | Writer and TV presenter with a special interest in rivers and freshwater fish. |
878 | Johann Georg Wagler | (1800–1832), | German herpetologist |
879 | Warren H. Wagner | (1920–2000), | American botanist |
880 | Göran Wahlenberg | (1780–1851), | Swedish naturalist |
881 | Selman Waksman | (1888–1973), | American biochemist, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on antibiotics |
882 | Charles Athanase Walckenaer | (1771–1852), | French entomologist |
883 | George Wald | (1906–1997), | American biologist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on visual perception |
884 | Alfred Russel Wallace | (1823–1913), | British naturalist and biologist |
885 | Nathaniel Wallich | (1786–1854), | Danish botanist |
886 | Benjamin Dann Walsh | (1808–1869), | American entomologist |
887 | William Grey Walter | (1910–1977), | American neurophysiologist and roboticist, made a number of important discoveries in the field of electroencephalography |
888 | Deepal Warakagoda | ( born 1965), | Sri Lankan ornithologist |
889 | J. Robin Warren | ( born 1937), | Australian pathologist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that most stomach ulcers are caused by a strain of bacteria |
890 | Charles Waterton | (1782–1865), | English naturalist |
891 | James D. Watson | ( born 1928), | Nobel Prize-winning biologist, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule |
892 | Philip Barker Webb | (1793–1854), | English botanist (abbr. in botany: Webb) |
893 | Hugh Algernon Weddell | (1819–1877), | English botanist (abbr. in botany: Wedd.) |
894 | Robert Weinberg | ( born 1942), | American cancer biologist |
895 | August Weismann | (1834–1914), | German biologist |
896 | Friedrich Welwitsch | (1806–1872), | Austrian botanist |
897 | Karl Wernicke | (1848–1905), | German physician and neuroanatomist, discovered Wernicke's area |
898 | Victor Westhoff | (1916–2001), | Dutch botanist |
899 | Alexander Wetmore | (1886–1978), | American ornithologist |
900 | William Morton Wheeler | (1865–1937), | American entomologist and myrmecologist |
901 | Gilbert White | (1720–1795), | English naturalist |
902 | John White | (c. 1756–1832), | English botanist |
903 | Robert Wiedersheim | (1848–1923), | German anatomist. |
904 | Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied | (1782–1867), | German explorer and biologist. |
905 | Hans Wiehler | (1930–2003), | American botanist (abbr. in botany: Wiehler) |
906 | Eric F. Wieschaus | ( born 1947), | American developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner |
907 | Torsten Wiesel | ( born 1924), | Swedish-born American neurobiologist, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on information processing in the visual system |
908 | Charles Wilkes | (1798–1877), | American explorer and naturalist |
909 | Carl Ludwig Willdenow | (1765–1812), | German botanist and pharmacist (abbr. in botany: Willd.) |
910 | George C. Williams | ( born 1926), | American evolutionary biologist, credited with introducing the gene-centric view of evolution |
911 | Mark Williamson, British biologist | - | - |
912 | Francis Willughby | (1635–1672), | English ornithologist and ichthyologist |
913 | Alexander Wilson | (1766–1813), | Scottish-American ornithologist |
914 | David Sloan Wilson | ( born 1949), | American evolutionary biologist |
915 | E. A. Wilson | (1872–1912), | English naturalist |
916 | Edward O. Wilson | ( born 1929), | American entomologist and father of sociobiology, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize |
917 | Sergei Winogradsky | (1856–1953), | Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle of life concept and discovered the biological process of nitrification |
918 | Caspar Wistar | (1761–1818), | American anatomist and physician. The genus Wisteria is named after him |
919 | Henry Witherby | (1873–1943), | British ornithologist |
920 | William Withering | (1741–1799), | English botanist |
921 | Carl Woese | (1928–2012), | American microbiologist, identified the Archaea, a major division of organisms |
922 | Felisa Wolfe-Simon, | American biogeochemist and microbial geobiologist | |
923 | Wong Siew Te | ( born 1969), | Malaysian zoologist and Sun Bear expert |
924 | Flossie Wong-Staal | ( born 1947), | American virologist |
925 | Sewall Wright | (1889–1988), | American geneticist, co-founder of population genetics |
926 | V. C. Wynne-Edwards | (1906–1997), | Scottish zoologist, introduced the hypothesis of group selection in evolution |
927 | John Xantus de Vesey | (1825–1894), | American zoologist |
928 | William Yarrell | (1784–1856), | English naturalist |
929 | Floyd Zaiger | ( born 1926), | fruit geneticist |
930 | Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann | (1743–1815), | German zoologist |
931 | Karl Alfred von Zittel | (1839–1904), | German palaeontologist |
932 | Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini | (1797–1848), | German botanist |
933 | Margarete Zuelzer | (1877–1944), | German biologist and zoologist |