Biologists Biologists Ada Yonath is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosome. Born in Jerusalem, she is the Martin A. Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ada Yonath"
Adrianne Pope is an Australian human reproductive biologist. She is the supervisor of reproductive biology for the Queensland Fertility Group, a private medical consultant firm specialising in 'in vitro' fertilisation (IVF). After growing up in Brisbane, where she attended Kedron State High School, she later went to the University of Queensland, where she gained her PhD from in 1985 with a thesis on evolutionary genetics with Assoc. Prof Wharton B. Mather. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adrianne Pope"
Sir Almroth Edward Wright (1861-1947) was a British bacteriologist and immunologist. He is best known for advancing vaccination through the use of autogenous vaccines (prepared from the bacteria harboured by the patient) and through anti-typhoid immunization with typhoid bacilli killed by heat. ...more on Wikipedia about "Almroth Wright"
Anders Retzius ( Lund October 13, 1796 – Stockholm April 18, 1860), was a Swedish professor of anatomy and a supervisor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anders Retzius"
Angela Meder is a German primatologist, conservationist, and specialist on gorillas. Dr. Meder was one of the first to undertake in-depth research on captive gorillas (in the early 1980s). She focused on the effect of the captive environment on their behaviour and reproduction, and on the behavioural effects of hand-rearing, including the difficult problem of integrating hand-reared infants into established groups. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angela Meder"
Angela Vincent is a professor at Somerville College of Oxford University. She is the head of a research group, which is located in the Institute of Molecular Sciences and working on a wide range of biological disciplines encompassing molecular biology, biochemistry, cellular immunology and intracellular neurophysiology. The group's research is focused on autoimmune and genetic disorders of the neuromuscular junction and peripheral motor nerves. The principal autoimmune diseases studied are myasthenia gravis, the Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome and acquired neuromyotonia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angela Vincent"
Felix Anton Dohrn, ( September 29, 1840 - September 26, 1909) was a prominent Darwinist, and the founder and first director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy., ...more on Wikipedia about "Anton Dohrn"
Anton Kerner von Marilaun ( 1831 – 1898) was a Austrian botany scientist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anton Kerner von Marilaun"
Dr. Archie Fairley Carr ( June 16 1909 – May 21 1987) was a biologist and ecologist, and a leading expert on sea turtles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archie Fairley Carr"
Árpád Pusztai is one of the world's most widely respected protein scientists. He recently claimed that genetically modified potatoes might be dangerous, but when he published his study in The Lancet, his claims were not supported by the evidence. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Árpád Pusztai"
Friedrich Leopold August Weismann (* January 17, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main; † November 5, 1914 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German Biologist. Ernst Mayr ranks him the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. ...more on Wikipedia about "August Weismann"
Bjørn Grinde (born July 3, 1952 in Oslo) is a biologist working in the fields of genetics and evolution, with a particular interest in human evolution. He studied natural sciences as well as psychology and anthropology at the University of Oslo, resulting in a Dr.scient (1981) and a Dr.philos (1984) from the same university. Presently he works as a chief scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and as a professor at the University of Oslo. Many of his scientific papers have focused on molecular evolution, using viruses as a model system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bjørn Grinde"
Bruno Hofer ( 1861 – 1916) was a German fishery scientist, credited with being the founder of fish pathology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bruno Hofer"
Conrad Hal Waddington FRS FRSE ( 1905 — 1975), known to his friends as "Wad", was a developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher. He also laid the foundations for systems biology, and had wide interests that included poetry and painting, as well as left-wing political leanings. ...more on Wikipedia about "C. H. Waddington"
Dr. Charles Jules Henry Nicolle ( September 21, 1866 – February 28, 1936) was a French bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Nicolle"
Professor Sir Charles Wyville Thomson ( March 5, 1830 - March 10, 1882), professor of zoology and chief scientist on the Challenger expedition. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Wyville Thomson"
Charlotte Auerbach ( May 14, 1899 - March 17, 1994) was a geneticist born in Germany but who fled to Scotland because of anti-Semitism. She became well-known after 1942 when she, with AJ Clark and JM Robson, discovered that mustard gas could cause mutations in fruit flies. Because of this, and later work, the science of mutagenesis was founded. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charlotte Auerbach"
Clodoveo Carrión Mora ( 1883– 1957) was a paleontologist and naturalist who is regarded as the most prolific and erudite natural scientist of Ecuador of the 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clodoveo Carrión Mora"
Damodaran M Vasudevan, fondly called Professor Vasudevan is presently the Dean of the College of Medicine at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and the Principal of the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, India. ...more on Wikipedia about "D M Vasudevan"
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson ( May 2, 1860– June 21, 1948) was a biologist and mathematician and the author of the 1917 book, On Growth and Form, an influential work of striking originality. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he has been called "the first biomathematician." He died in St. Andrews, Scotland. ...more on Wikipedia about "D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson"
Sir David Bruce ( Melbourne, May 29, 1855 - November 27, 1931) was an English pathologist and microbiologist who investigated the Malta-fever and trypanosomes, identifying the cause of sleeping sickness. He won the Leeuwenhoek Medal in 1915. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Bruce (microbiologist)" There's a bit of shortopedia in all of us. shortopedia
David Chilton Phillips, the son of a tailor and Methodist preacher, was born in Ellesmere, Shropshire which gave rise to his title Baron Phillips of Ellesmere. He was educated at Oswestry Grammar School and then at the University College of South Wales and Monmouth where he studied physics, electrical engineering, and mathematics. His degree was interrupted between 1944 and 1947 for services in the Navy as a radar officer on HMS Illustrious. He returned to Cardiff to complete his degree and subsequently undertook postgraduate studies with Professor Arthur J. C. Wilson, a noted X-ray crystal physicist. After a brief postdoctoral period at the National Research Council in Ottowa (1951-55) he joined the Royal Institution. In 1968 he became the Professor of Molecular Biophysics in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford where he remained until his retirement in 1985. During that time he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and then its Biological Secretary from 1976 to 1983. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Chilton Phillips"
David Seth-Smith ( 1875- 1963) was a British zoologist and bird artist. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Seth-Smith"
Donald F. Jones, maize geneticist and practial corn breeder at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven. Beginning at the the station in 1914, he made high-yielding hybrid corn practical by his invention of the double-cross hybrid. ...more on Wikipedia about "Donald F. Jones"
Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson ( 14 June 1885 – 21 May 1970) was a writer, anthropologist and biologist whose writings combine the scrutiny of a scientist with the insight of the poet. He wrote six " Australian" novels and three scientific-philosophical works which highlight some inadequacies of Darwinism. ...more on Wikipedia about "E. L. Grant Watson"
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