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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Peter Agre
Biologist
30-Jan-1949   Water channels of cell membranes
Kenneth Alibek
Biologist
c. 1951   Biological weapons designer
Sidney Altman
Chemist
7-May-1939   Proved enzyme role of RNA
Daniel I. Arnon
Biologist
14-Nov-1910 20-Dec-1994 Photophosphorylation
Oswald Avery
Biologist
21-Oct-1877 20-Feb-1955 Antibodies and DNA
Karl Ernst von Baer
Biologist
29-Feb-1792 28-Nov-1876 De Ovi Mammalium
David Baltimore
Biologist
7-Mar-1938   Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase
William Bateson
Biologist
8-Aug-1861 8-Feb-1926 Founder of genetics
Michael Behe
Biologist
18-Jan-1952   Darwin's Black Box
Bruce A. Beutler
Biologist
29-Dec-1957   Lipopolysaccharide receptors
Herbert W. Boyer
Biologist
10-Jul-1936   Recombinant DNA, first synthetic insulin
Michael S. Brown
Biologist
13-Apr-1941   Metabolism of cholesterol
Linda B. Buck
Biologist
29-Jan-1947   Odorant receptors and olfactory organization
Anton J. Carlson
Biologist
29-Jan-1875 2-Sep-1956 The Machinery of the Body
Erwin Chargaff
Biologist
11-Aug-1905 20-Jun-2002 Biochemist at Columbia University
Stanley N. Cohen
Biologist
17-Feb-1935   Recombinant DNA
Barry Commoner
Biologist
28-May-1917   Science and Survival
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer
Biologist
24-Feb-1907 17-May-2004 Ichthyologist, discovered Coelacanth
Richard Dawkins
Biologist
26-Mar-1941   Zoologist and evolutionary biologist
Heinrich Anton de Bary
Botanist
26-Jan-1831 19-Jan-1888 Founder of modern mycology
Havelock Ellis
Biologist
2-Feb-1859 8-Jul-1939 Studies in the Psychology of Sex
Donald M. Engelman
Biologist
c. 1941   Biochemistry Professor at Yale
Alexander Fleming
Scientist
6-Aug-1881 11-Mar-1955 Discovered penicillin
Walther Flemming
Biologist
21-Apr-1843 4-Aug-1905 Chromosomes and mitosis
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett
Biologist
c. 1955   Genomic researcher
Michael Gershon
Scientist
c. 1936   Gut neurobiology
Stephen Jay Gould
Biologist
10-Sep-1941 20-May-2002 Evolutionary scientist
Frederick Griffith
Biologist
c. 1877 16-Apr-1941 Discovered the transforming principle
J. B. S. Haldane
Biologist
5-Nov-1892 1-Dec-1964 Haldane's principle
Ross Granville Harrison
Zoologist
13-Jan-1870 30-Sep-1959 Embryology and tissue culture techniques
Ethel Browne Harvey
Zoologist
14-Dec-1885 2-Sep-1965 Embryology of sea urchins
Jules A. Hoffmann
Biologist
2-Aug-1941   Innate immunity
Johannes Holtfreter
Zoologist
9-Jan-1901 13-Nov-1992 Chemotaxis
Leroy Hood
Biologist
10-Oct-1938   Systems biology and Human Genome Project
Julian Huxley
Biologist
22-Jun-1887 14-Feb-1975 Evolutionary biologist
Bruce Ivins
Biologist
22-Apr-1946 29-Jul-2008 Anthrax researcher and suspect
Stephen Jones
Biologist
24-Mar-1944   Geneticist and pop science writer
David Starr Jordan
Biologist
19-Jan-1851 19-Sep-1931 Fishes of North and Middle America
Ernest Just
Biologist
14-Aug-1883 27-Oct-1941 Cell surfaces and egg fertilization
Paul Kammerer
Biologist
17-Aug-1880 23-Oct-1926 Proponent of Lamarckian inheritance
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Biologist
1-Aug-1744 18-Dec-1829 Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist
Chris Langton
Biologist
1948   Father of Artificial Life
Philip Leder
Biologist
19-Nov-1934   Harvard Geneticist
Joshua Lederberg
Biologist
23-May-1925 2-Feb-2008 Genetic properties of bacteria
Joseph Leidy
Biologist
9-Sep-1823 30-Apr-1891 Trichinosis and dinosaurs
Richard A. Lerner
Biologist
28-Aug-1938   Scripps Research Institute
Arnold J. Levine
Biologist
1939   Cancer researcher
Susan L. Lindquist
Biologist
5-Jun-1949   Protein folding
Salvador Luria
Biologist
13-Aug-1912 6-Feb-1991 Natural selection in bacteria
Roderick MacKinnon
Biologist
19-Feb-1956   Ion channels of cell membranes
Lynn Margulis
Biologist
5-Mar-1935 22-Nov-2011 Origin of eukaryotic organelles
John Maynard Smith
Biologist
6-Jan-1920 19-Apr-2004 Applied game theory to evolutionary biology
Ernst Mayr
Biologist
5-Jul-1904 3-Feb-2005 Evolutionary biologist
William D. McElroy
Biologist
22-Jan-1917 17-Feb-1999 Bioluminescence
Peter Medawar
Biologist
28-Feb-1915 2-Oct-1987 Acquired immunological tolerance
John Mendelsohn
Biologist
31-Aug-1936   Cancer researcher
Gail K. Naughton
Biologist
c. 1955   Advanced Tissue Sciences
David C. Page
Biologist
6-Jul-1956   Director, Whitehead Institute
Raymond Pearl
Biologist
3-Jun-1879 17-Nov-1940 Biogerontology
Cecil B. Pickett
Biologist
5-Oct-1945   Ezetrol, Singulair, and Vioxx
George H. Poste
Biologist
c. 1944   Health Technology Networks
Reginald Punnett
Biologist
20-Jun-1875 3-Jan-1967 Early geneticist
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
Biologist
28-Feb-1683 17-Oct-1757 L'Histoire des Insectes
Oscar Riddle
Biologist
27-Sep-1877 29-Nov-1968 Prolactin
Albert Sabin
Biologist
26-Aug-1906 3-Mar-1993 Developed oral polio vaccine
Phillip A. Sharp
Biologist
6-Jun-1944   Eukaryotic (split) genes
Rupert Sheldrake
Biologist
28-Jun-1942   Morphic Fields
Thomas E. Shenk
Biologist
c. 1947   Princeton Molecular Biologist
Harry Steenbock
Biologist
16-Aug-1886 25-Dec-1967 Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D
Ralph M. Steinman
Biologist
14-Jan-1943 30-Sep-2011 Dendritic cells
Nettie Stevens
Biologist
7-Jul-1861 4-May-1912 X and Y chromosomes
D'Arcy Thompson
Biologist
2-May-1860 21-Jun-1948 On Growth and Form
Nikolai Timofeev-Ressovsky
Biologist
20-Sep-1900 28-Mar-1981 Russian geneticist
Craig Venter
Biologist
14-Oct-1946   Engineered the first man-made bacterial cell
George Wald
Biologist
18-Nov-1906 12-Apr-1997 Physiology of the retina
Lester Frank Ward
Sociologist
18-Jun-1841 18-Apr-1913 Dynamic Sociology
August von Wassermann
Biologist
21-Feb-1866 16-Mar-1925 Syphilis test
August Weismann
Biologist
17-Jan-1834 5-Nov-1914 Theory of Germ Plasm
Maurice Wilkins
Biologist
15-Dec-1916 5-Oct-2004 Took X-ray pictures of DNA
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Biologist
19-Oct-1856 3-Mar-1939 X and Y chromosomes
Edward O. Wilson
Biologist
10-Jun-1929   Father of Sociobiology
Sewall Wright
Biologist
21-Dec-1889 3-Mar-1988 Mathematics of evolution



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