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Biologist
NAME OCCUPATION SUMMARY BORN DIED  
Peter Agre Biologist Water channels of cell membranes 30-Jan-1949 TBD ADD
Karl Ernst von Baer Biologist De Ovi Mammalium 29-Feb-1792 28-Nov-1876 DEAD
David Baltimore Biologist Co-discoverer, reverse transcriptase 07-Mar-1938 TBD ADD
William Bateson Biologist Founder of genetics 08-Aug-1861 08-Feb-1926 DEAD
Michael Behe Biologist Darwin's Black Box 18-Jan-1952 TBD ADD
Herbert W. Boyer Biologist Recombinant DNA, first synthetic insulin 10-Jul-1936 TBD ADD
Michael S. Brown Biologist Metabolism of cholesterol 13-Apr-1941 TBD ADD
Linda B. Buck Biologist Odorant receptors and olfactory organization 29-Jan-1947 TBD ADD
Anton J. Carlson Biologist The Machinery of the Body 29-Jan-1875 02-Sep-1956 DEAD
Barry Commoner Biologist Science and Survival 28-May-1917 TBD ADD
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer Biologist Ichthyologist discovered Coelacanth 24-Feb-1907 17-May-2004 DEAD
Richard Dawkins Biologist Zoologist and evolutionary biologist 26-Mar-1941 TBD ADD
Havelock Ellis Biologist Studies in the Psychology of Sex 02-Feb-1859 08-Jul-1939 DEAD
Donald M. Engelman Biologist Biochemistry Professor at Yale 1941 TBD ADD
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett Biologist Genomic researcher 1955 TBD ADD
Stephen Jay Gould Biologist Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist 10-Sep-1941 20-May-2002 DEAD
J. B. S. Haldane Biologist The Causes of Evolution 05-Nov-1892 01-Dec-1964 DEAD
Leroy Hood Biologist Systems biology and Human Genome Project 10-Oct-1938 TBD ADD
Julian Huxley Biologist Evolutionary biologist 22-Jun-1887 14-Feb-1975 DEAD
Stephen Jones Biologist Geneticist and pop science writer 24-Mar-1944 TBD ADD
David Starr Jordan Biologist Fishes of North and Middle America 19-Jan-1851 19-Sep-1931 DEAD
Ernest Just Biologist Cell surfaces and egg fertilization 14-Aug-1883 27-Oct-1941 DEAD
Paul Kammerer Biologist Proponent of Lamarckian inheritance 17-Aug-1880 23-Oct-1926 DEAD
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Biologist Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist 01-Aug-1744 18-Dec-1829 DEAD
Chris Langton Biologist Father of Artificial Life 1948 TBD ADD
Philip Leder Biologist Harvard Geneticist 19-Nov-1934 TBD ADD
Joshua Lederberg Biologist Genetic properties of bacteria 23-May-1925 02-Feb-2008 DEAD
Joseph Leidy Biologist Trichinosis and dinosaurs 09-Sep-1823 30-Apr-1891 DEAD
Richard A. Lerner Biologist President, Scripps Research Institute 28-Aug-1938 TBD ADD
Arnold J. Levine Biologist Cancer researcher 1939 TBD ADD
Susan L. Lindquist Biologist Protein folding 05-Jun-1949 TBD ADD
Salvador Luria Biologist Demonstrated natural selection in bacteria 13-Aug-1912 06-Feb-1991 DEAD
John Maynard Smith Biologist Applied game theory to evolutionary biology 06-Jan-1920 19-Apr-2004 DEAD
William D. McElroy Biologist Bioluminescence 22-Jan-1917 17-Feb-1999 DEAD
John Mendelsohn Biologist Cancer researcher 31-Aug-1936 TBD ADD
Raymond Pearl Biologist Biogerontology 03-Jun-1879 17-Nov-1940 DEAD
Cecil B. Pickett Biologist President of R&D, Biogen Idec 1949 TBD ADD
George H. Poste Biologist Health Technology Networks 1944 TBD ADD
Reginald Punnett Biologist Early geneticist 20-Jun-1875 03-Jan-1967 DEAD
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur Biologist L'Histoire des Insectes 28-Feb-1683 17-Oct-1757 DEAD
Oscar Riddle Biologist Prolactin 27-Sep-1877 29-Nov-1968 DEAD
Albert Sabin Biologist Developed oral polio vaccine 26-Aug-1906 03-Mar-1993 DEAD
Phillip A. Sharp Biologist Eukaryotic (split) genes 06-Jun-1944 TBD ADD
Rupert Sheldrake Biologist Morphic Fields 28-Jun-1942 TBD ADD
Thomas E. Shenk Biologist Princeton Molecular Biologist 1947 TBD ADD
Harry Steenbock Biologist Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D 16-Aug-1886 25-Dec-1967 DEAD
D'Arcy Thompson Biologist On Growth and Form 02-May-1860 21-Jun-1948 DEAD
Nikolai Timofeev-Ressovsky Biologist Russian geneticist 20-Sep-1900 28-Mar-1981 DEAD
George Wald Biologist Physiology of the retina 18-Nov-1906 12-Apr-1997 DEAD
August Weismann Biologist Theory of Germ Plasm 17-Jan-1834 05-Nov-1914 DEAD
Maurice Wilkins Biologist Took X-ray pictures of DNA 15-Dec-1916 05-Oct-2004 DEAD
Edmund Beecher Wilson Biologist The Cell in Development and Inheritance 19-Oct-1856 03-Mar-1939 DEAD
Edward O. Wilson Biologist Father of Sociobiology 10-Jun-1929 TBD ADD
Sewall Wright Biologist Mathematics of evolution 21-Dec-1889 03-Mar-1988 DEAD