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George Wells Beadle
United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)
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Alexis Carrel
French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944)
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Rachel Louise Carson
United States biologist remembered for her opposition to the use of pesticides that were hazardous to wildlife (1907-1964)
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Max Delbruck
United States biologist (born in Germany) who studied how viruses infect living cells (1906-1981)
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Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
German biologist and philosopher; advocated Darwinism and formulated the theory of recapitulation; was an exponent of materialistic monism (1834-1919)
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Thomas Henry Huxley
English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
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Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
English biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917)
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945)
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Louis Pasteur
French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895)
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Edgar Douglas Adrian
English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997)
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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)
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Roy Chapman Andrews
United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960)
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John James Audubon
United States ornithologist and artist (born in Haiti) noted for his paintings of birds of America (1785-1851)
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Sir Joseph Banks
English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)
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Claude Bernard
French physiologist noted for research on secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver (1813-1878)
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Charles Herbert Best
Canadian physiologist (born in the United States) who assisted F. G. Banting in research leading to the discovery of insulin (1899-1978)
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Robert Brown
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
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Sir David Bruce
Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)
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George Washington Carver
United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)
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Martin Cline
American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)
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Ferdinand Julius Cohn
German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants
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William Curtis
English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)
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Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert Cuvier
French naturalist known as the father of comparative anatomy (1769-1832)
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Charles Robert Darwin
English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
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Hugo De Vries
Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws and developed the mutation theory of evolution (1848-1935)
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Sir John Carew Eccles
Australian physiologist noted for his research on the conduction of impulses by nerve cells (1903-1997)
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Paul Ehrlich
German bacteriologist who found a `magic bullet' to cure syphilis and was a pioneer in the study of immunology (1854-1915)
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Willem Einthoven
Dutch physiologist who devised the first electrocardiograph (1860-1927)
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Sir Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin (1881-1955)
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Karl von Frisch
Austrian zoologist noted for his studies of honeybees (1886-1982)
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Luigi Galvani
Italian physiologist noted for his discovery that frogs' muscles contracted in an electric field (which led to the galvanic cell) (1737-1798)
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Konrad von Gesner
Swiss naturalist who was one of the founders of modern zoology (1516-1565)
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Jane Goodall
English zoologist noted for her studies of chimpanzees in the wild (born in 1934)
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Hans C. J. Gram
Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938)
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Asa Gray
United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
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John Scott Haldane
Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)
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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)
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Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
German physiologist and physicist (1821-1894)
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Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss physiologist noted for studies of the brain (1881-1973)
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Hudson Hoagland
United States physiologist (1899-1982)
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)
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David Hubel
United States neuroscientist noted for his studies of the neural basis of vision (born in 1926)
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William Henry Hudson
English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)
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Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859)
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Andrew Fielding Huxley
English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
French botanist who categorized plants into families and developed a system of plant classification (1748-1836)
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Alfred Charles Kinsey
United States zoologist best known for his interview studies of sexual behavior (1894-1956)
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Robert Koch
German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910)
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Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
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Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature (1707-1778)
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Jacques Loeb
United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924)
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Konrad Zacharias Lorenz
Austrian zoologist who studied the behavior of birds and emphasized the importance of innate as opposed to learned behaviors (1903-1989)
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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976)
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John James Rickard Macleod
Scottish physiologist who directed the research by F. G. Banting and C. H. Best that led to the discovery of insulin (1876-1935)
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Gregor Mendel
Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)
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Ilya Ilich Metchnikov
Russian bacteriologist in France who formulated the theory of phagocytosis (1845-1916)
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John Muir
United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914)
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Hermann Joseph Muller
United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)
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Johannes Peter Muller
German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)
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Hideyo Noguchi
United States bacteriologist (born in Japan) who discovered the cause of yellow fever and syphilis (1876-1928)
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Lorenz Okenfuss
German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
Russian physiologist who observed conditioned salivary responses in dogs (1849-1936)
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Gregory Goodwin Pincus
United States sexual physiologist whose hunch that progesterone could block ovulation led to the development of the oral contraceptive pill (1903-1967)
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Johannes Evangelista Purkinje
Bohemian physiologist remembered for his discovery of Purkinje cells and the Purkinje network (1787-1869)
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Hans Conrad Julius Reiter
German bacteriologist who described a disease now known as Reiter's syndrome and who identified the spirochete that causes syphilis in humans (1881-1969)
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Albert Bruce Sabin
United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906)
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Jonas Edward Salk
United States virologist who developed the Salk vaccine that is injected against poliomyelitis (born 1914)
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Matthias Schleiden
German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 formulated the cell theory (1804-1881)
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Theodor Schwann
German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure of plant and animal tissue (1810-1882)
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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952)
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Lazzaro Spallanzani
Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799)
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Georg Wilhelm Steller
German naturalist (1709-1746)
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Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680)
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Leo Szilard
United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964)
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Nikolaas Tinbergen
Dutch zoologist who showed that much animal behavior is innate and stereotyped (1907-1988)
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Tonegawa Susumu
Japanese molecular biologist noted for his studies of how the immune system produces antibodies (born in 1939)
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John Tradescant
English botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638)
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J. Craig Ventner
United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)
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Alfred Russel Wallace
English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913)
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August von Wassermann
German bacteriologist who developed a diagnostic test for syphilis (1866-1925)
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James Dewey Watson
United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)
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Ernst Heinrich Weber
German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878)
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August Friedrich Leopold Weismann
German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics; his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914)
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Ian Wilmut
English geneticist who succeeded in cloning a sheep from a cell from an adult ewe (born in 1944)
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Edward Osborne Wilson
United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929)
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Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist in the United States (1766-1813)
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Alexandre Emile Jean Yersin
French bacteriologist born in Switzerland; was a student of Pasteur; discovered the plague bacillus (1863-1943)
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Hans Zinsser
United States bacteriologist who helped develop immunization against typhus fever (1878-1940)
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bacteriologist
a biologist who studies bacteria
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botanist, phytologist, plant scientist
a biologist specializing in the study of plants
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cytologist
a biologist who studies the structure and function of cells
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ecologist
a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment
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geneticist
a biologist who specializes in genetics
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microbiologist
a specialist in microbiology
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molecular biologist
a biologist who studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life
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natural scientist, naturalist
a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)
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neurobiologist
a specialist in neurobiology
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physiologist
a biologist specializing in physiology
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radiobiologist
a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms
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sociobiologist
a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior
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systematist, taxonomer, taxonomist
a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior
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vivisectionist
a biologist who cuts open live animals for research
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animal scientist, zoologist
a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals
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cytogeneticist
a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity
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bug-hunter, bugologist, entomologist
a zoologist who studies insects
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ethologist
a zoologist who studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats
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herpetologist
a zoologist who studies reptiles and amphibians
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ichthyologist
a zoologist who studies fishes
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lumper
a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics
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malacologist
a zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks
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mammalogist
one skilled in the study of mammals
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mycologist
a botanist who specializes in the study of fungi
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neuroscientist
a neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain
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bird watcher, ornithologist
a zoologist who studies birds
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pomologist
someone versed in pomology or someone who cultivates fruit trees
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propagator
someone who propagates plants (as under glass)
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protozoologist
a zoologist who studies protozoans
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divider, splitter
a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
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virologist
a specialist in virology
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Gray, Louis Harold Gray
English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)