Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Biologists, including Alexander Fleming, Alfred Russel Wallace, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Ernst Haeckel and Alfred Kinsey.
Alexander Fleming06 August 1881, British, Scottish
Biologist, Pharmacologist, Discovered Penicillin
Jagadish Chandra Bose30 November 1858, Indian
Physicist
Alfred Russel Wallace08 January 1823, British
Naturalist, Explorer, Geographer, Anthropologist
Ernst Haeckel16 February 1834, German
Biologist, Physician, Philosopher & Artist
Alfred Kinsey23 June 1894, American
Sexologist
Thomas Henry Huxley04 May 1825, British
Biologist
Theodor Schwann07 December 1810, German
Physiologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan25 September 1866, American
Geneticist
Trofim Lysenko29 September 1898, Russian
Experimenter
Karl Landsteiner14 June 1868, American
Physician
Louis Agassiz28 May 1807, American
Geologist
Alexis Carrel28 June 1873, French
Surgeon, Biologist
Camillo Golgi07 July 1843, Italian
Physician, Pathologist, Biologist
Ferdinand Cohn24 January 1828, Polish
Founder of Bacteriology and Microbiology
Albert Claude24 August 1899, Belgian
Cell Biologist
J.B.S. Haldane05 November 1892, British
Geneticist
J. B. S. Haldane05 November 1892, Indian, British
Biologist, Geneticist, University teacher
Matthias Jakob Schleiden05 April 1804, German
Biologist, Botanist, Philosopher, University
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild08 February 1868, British
Biologist, Banker, Politician, Zoologist,
Oswald Avery21 October 1877, Canadian
Biologist, Physician, Geneticist
Nikolai Vavilov13 November 1887, Russian
botanist, biologist, explorer, geneticist,
Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov01 August 1870
Biologist
Joseph Dalton Hooker30 June 1817, British
Botanist, Explorer, Pteridologist, Bryologist
Friedrich Miescher13 August 1844, Swiss
Biologist, Biochemist, University teacher
Charles Lucien Bonaparte24 May 1803, French
Biologist, Ornithologist, Zoologist, Ichthyologist
August Weismann17 January 1834
Biologist, Zoologist, Geneticist
Hugo de Vries16 February 1848, Dutch
Botanist, Biologist, Geneticist, University
Ernest Everett Just14 August 1883, American
Biologist, Zoologist, University teacher, Marine
Friedrich Ratzel30 August 1844, German
Biologist, Geopolitician, Geographer, Zoologist,
Martinus Beijerinck16 March 1851
Biologist, Microbiologist, University teacher,
Jean-Henri Fabre22 December 1823, French
Entomologist, Writer, University teacher, Poet
Hans Christian Gram13 September 1853, Danish
Physician, Bacteriologist, University teacher,
Charles Galton Darwin18 December 1887, British
Physicist, University teacher
Jean Rostand30 October 1894, French
Philosopher, Biologist, Writer
Alister Hardy10 February 1896, British
Biologist, Marine biologist