User:Sju hav/List of biologists

This is a list of noted biologists by country.

Argentina

• Bernardo Houssay got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the function of the pituitary hormones in regulating blood sugar (glucose) in animals; physiologist; died in 1971
• William Henry Hudson, ornithologist; died in 1922

Australia

• Elizabeth Blackburn, she got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared between three)
• John Carew Eccles, died in 1997
• Tim Flannery, is a former Australian of the Year
• Howard Walter Florey, died in 1968
• Barry Marshall he has a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that most stomach ulcers are caused by a strain of bacteria; physician and microbiologist

Austria

• Karl von Frisch, Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate, best known for pioneering studies of bees; died in 1982
• Hans Hass, died in 2013
• Eric Kandel, he has a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the neural correlates of memory
• Gregor Mendel, a monk who is often called the "father of genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants; died in 1884

Belgian

• Jules Bordet, died in 1961

Brazil

• Warwick Estevam Kerr, is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and of the Third World Academy of Sciences; member of the National Order of Scientific Merit; Genetics, Biology, Agronomy, Entomology
• Fritz Müller (1821–1897), German-Brazilian naturalist (abbr. in botany: F.J.Müll.)

Canada

• Sidney Altman, molecular biologist, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on RNA
• David H. Hubel, got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on the visual system; neurobiologist; died in 2013

Chile

• Juan Ignacio Molina, naturalist; died in 1829

Czechia

• Carl Ferdinand Cori, died in 1984
• Gerty Cori, died in 1957
• Gregor Mendel, a monk who is often called the "father of genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants; died in 1884
• Jan Evangelista Purkyně, anatomist and physiologist; died in 1869

Denmark

• Schack August Steenberg Krogh, 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; died in

France

• Claude Bernard, he got the Copley Medal; died in 1878
• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; dien in 1788
• Alexis Carrel; died in 1944
• Georges Cuvier, died in 1832
• Armand David, died in 1900
• Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, died in 1838
• François Jacob, got a Nobel Prize: died in 2013
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, evolutionist, coined many terms like biology and fossils; died in 1829
• Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, physician, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that the cause of malaria is a protozoon; died in 1922
• Leonardo da Vinci, known as an artist but also an anatomist. Dissected hundreds of specimens and drew copies of them; the copies are recognized as being good
• Rene Primevere Lesson, naturalist; died in 1849
• Jacques Monod, geneticist; died in 1976
• Luc Montagnier, he is one of the discoverers of HIV
• Louis Pasteur, biochemist; died in 1895
• Jean-Marie Pelt; botanist; he died in 2015
• Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, naturalist who described many North American species; died in 1840

Germany

• Anton de Bary, one of the first people to do research on slime moulds (Myxomycetes); wrote one important paper and later a book on the subject; Botany; died in 1888
• Günter Blobel, has a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, known for his definition of five races: the Caucasian race (or white race), the Mongolian or yellow race (= Chinese); the Malayan or brown race, the Ethiopian (or black race), and the American (or red race); Natural history, Physiology, Anthropology, Medicine; 1840
• Max Delbrück, died in 1981
• Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, died in 1876
• Paul Ehrlich, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist; died in 1915
• Walther Flemming, discoverer of mitosis and chromosomes; physician and anatomist; died in 1905
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 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; died in 1832
• Ernst Haeckel, physician, zoologist and evolutionist; died in 1919
• Oskar Heinroth, a founder of ethology; died in 1945
• Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer; died in 1859
• Robert Koch; Nobel Prize-winning physician and bacteriologist; died in 1910
• Albrecht Kossel, got the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research in cell biology; physician; died in 1927
• Hans Adolf Krebs ), got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the citric acid cycle in cellular respiration; biochemist; died in 1981
• Otto Fritz Meyerhof, physician and biochemist, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on muscles; died in 1951
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, she is a Nobel Prize-winner*Paracelsus, alchemist; died in 1541
• Paracelsus, alchemist; died in 1541
• Bernhard Rensch, biologist; died in 1990

Great Britain

• J.E. Gray, or John Edward Gray, British zoologist; died in 1875
• Frederick Griffith, bacteriologist; died in 1941

England

• Edgar Douglas Adrian, electrophysiologist, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on neurons; died in 1977
• Joseph Banks; Botany; died in 1820
• Henry Walter Bates, Batesian mimicry is named after him; died in 1892
• Mark Catesby, died in 1749
• Francis Crick, died in 2004
• Charles Darwin, died in 1882
• Erasmus Darwin, died in 1802
• Richard Dawkins, has a Michael Faraday Prize
• Ronald Fisher, Statistics, Genetics, and Evolutionary biology; died in 1962
• E. B. Ford, died in 1988
• Rosalind Franklin, contributor to the discovery of the structure of DNA; died in 1958
• Jane Goodall, is known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania
• John Gould, English ornithologist; died in 1881
• J. B. S. Haldane, evolutionary biologist and co-founder of population genetics; died in 1964
• William Donald Hamilton, evolutionary biologist; died in 2000
• Robert Hooke; known for Hooke's law; natural philosopher; died in 1703
• Joseph Dalton Hooker, died in 1911
• William Henry Hudson, ornithologist; died in 1922
• Julian Sorell Huxley, zoologist, died in 1975
• Thomas Henry Huxley, advocate of evolution, agnosticism and scientific education; zoologist; died in 1895
• James Lovelock (born 1919), known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates (or states) that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system; he is a chemist
• Richard Lydekker, naturalist; died in 1915
• Desmond Morris, is known for a book of his, The Naked Ape, and for his television programmes such as Zoo Time; zoologist and biologist
• Richard Owen, known for coining (or starting to use a word, that has come into general use) the term dinosaur; died in 1892
• Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder/first president of the Zoological Society of London; died in 1826
• John Ray, naturalist; died in 1705

Scotland

• Robert Broom; died in 1951
• Alexander Fleming, died in 1955
• Robert Fortune, botanist; died in 1880

Greece

• Aristotle, Greek philosopher; 322 BC

Holland

• Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, biologist, developer of the microscope; died in 1723

Italy

• Renato Dulbecco, died in 2012
• Camillo Golgi, physician and Nobel prize winner, pioneer in neurobiology; died in 1926
• Salvador Luria, microbiologist, Nobel prize winner; died in 1991
• Marcello Malpighi, anatomist and biologist; died in 1694
• Rita Levi-Montalcini, got a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her co-discovery of growth factors; neurologist; died in 2012
• Pliny the Elder; a natural philosopher that lived in a province of the Roman Empire; died in 79

Romania

• George Emil Palade - he and two others got one Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine; the cell biologist died in 2008.

Russia

• Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, microbiologist, best known for his work on the immune system and phagocytosis; received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; died in 1916
• Ivan Pavlov, discovered conditioning; won the Nobel Prize for his research on the digestive system; physiologist, psychologist and physician; died in 1936

South Africa

• Sydney Brenner, he has a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared among three)

Spain

• Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–), considered the father of neuroscience; histologist and Nobel laureate; died in 1934

Sweden

• Carl Adolph Agardh, botanist; died in 1859
• Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for research on the image formation by the lens of the eye"; died in 1930
• Carl Linnaeus (1707–), botanist; father of the binomial nomenclature system (abbreviated L. or Linn.); died in 1778

Switzerland

• Louis Agassiz, zoologist; died in 1873
• Charles Bonnet, died in 1793

United States

• John James Audubon, ornithologist; died in 1851
• Richard Axel, Nobel Prize–winning physiologist
• Julius Axelrod, biochemist, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on catecholamine neurotransmitters; died in 2004
• David Baltimore, he got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with two others)
• Norman Borlaug, died in 2009
• Linda B. Buck, has a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Rachel Carson; died in 1964
• George Washington Carver; died in 1943
• Martha Chase; died in 2003
• Edward Drinker Cope, died in 1897
• Theodosius Dobzhansky, died in 1975
• Gerald Edelman, he died in 2014
• Dian Fossey, zoologist; died in 1985
• Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist; died in 2002
• Temple Grandin, she is the inventor of the "hug box" device, known to be used by persons with autism
• Denham Harman, is called the father of the free radical theory of aging; Biogerontology (within Gerontology)
• Alfred Hershey, got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the genetics of viruses; died in 1997
• Arthur Kornberg, discovered DNA polymerase; died in 2007
• George Newbold Lawrence, ornithologist; died in 1855
• Edward B. Lewis, geneticist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner; died in 2004
• Othniel Charles Marsh, paleontology; died in 1899
• Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologist; died in 2005
• Barbara McClintock, biologist, winner of a Nobel Prize for her work on the transposon, or "jumping gene"; died in 1992
• Thomas Hunt Morgan, geneticist. He worked on the natural history, zoology, and macromutation in the fruit fly Drosophila; died in 1945
• John Muir, naturalist; died in 1914
• Kary Mullis, he is a Nobel Prize winner; biologist
• Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of American Museum of Natural History; eugenicist; died in 1935
• George Emil Palade - he and two others got one Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine; the cell biologist died in 2008.
• Martin Rodbell, biologist; died in 1998

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