Richard Dawkins26 March 1941, British
Evolutionary Biologist
Carl Linnaeus23 May 1707, Swedish
Botanist
Avicenna0980 AD
Persian Plymath
Alexander Fleming06 August 1881, British, Scottish
Biologist, Pharmacologist, Discovered Penicillin
Jagadish Chandra Bose30 November 1858, Indian
Physicist
Robert Hooke28 July 1635, British
Philosopher
Norman Borlaug25 March 1914, American
Father of the Green Revolution
Francis Crick08 June 1916, British
Co-discoverer of the Structure of the DNA
Alfred Russel Wallace08 January 1823, British
Naturalist, Explorer, Geographer, Anthropologist
Alfred Kinsey23 June 1894, American
Sexologist
Ernst Haeckel16 February 1834, German
Biologist, Physician, Philosopher & Artist
E. O. Wilson10 June 1929, American
Biologist
Thomas Henry Huxley04 May 1825, British
Biologist
Trofim Lysenko29 September 1898, Russian
Experimenter
Thomas Hunt Morgan25 September 1866, American
Geneticist
Louis Agassiz28 May 1807, American
Geologist
Karl Landsteiner14 June 1868, American
Physician
Ernest Everett Just14 August 1883, American
Biologist
Ernst Mayr05 July 1904, American
Biologist
David Baltimore07 March 1938, American
Virologist
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan1952 AD, Indian, British, American
Structural biologist
Theodor Schwann07 December 1810, German
Physiologist
Alexis Carrel28 June 1873, French
Surgeon, Biologist
Peter Medawar28 February 1915, British
Biologist
Nikolaas Tinbergen15 April 1907, Dutch
Ornithologist
Camillo Golgi07 July 1843, Italian
Physician, Pathologist, Biologist
Jacques Monod09 February 1910, French
Biologist
Salvador Luria13 August 1912, Italian
Microbiologist
Marcello Malpighi10 March 1628, Italian
Physician
François Jacob17 June 1920, French
Biologist
Christian de Duve02 October 1917, Belgian
Biochemist
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Donald A. Glaser21 September 1926, American
Physicist & Molecular Biologist
Ferdinand Cohn24 January 1828, Polish
Founder of Bacteriology and Microbiology
Roger Guillemin11 January 1924, French
Physiologist
Albert Claude24 August 1899, Belgian
Cell Biologist
Sidney Altman07 May 1939, Canadian, American
Molecular Biologist
Daniel Nathans30 October 1928, American
Microbiologist
George Wald18 November 1906, American
Scientist
Hamilton O. Smith23 August 1931, American
Microbiologist
Eric F. Wieschaus08 June 1947, American
Development Biologist
Gustav Nossal04 June 1931, Australian
Immunologist
J.B.S. Haldane05 November 1892, British
Geneticist
George E. Palade19 November 1912, Romanian
Cell Biologist
André Lwoff08 May 1902, French
Microbiologist
Philip Allen Sharp06 June 1944, American
Geneticist, Molecular Biologist
Georges J. F. Kohler17 April 1946, German
Immunologist, Biologist
Sydney Brenner13 January 1927, British, South African
Biologist
Aubrey de Grey20 April 1963, British
Biologist
Jeremy Wade23 March 1956, British
Biologist, Television presenter, Writer
Eugene Sledge04 November 1923, American
Biologist, Soldier, Academic, University teacher,
Karl Patterson Schmidt19 June 1890, American
American zoologist
Bruce Edwards Ivins22 April 1946, American
Biologist, Scientist, Circus performer, Politician
Bruce Lipton21 October 1944, American
Biologist
James Lovelock26 July 1919, British
Biologist, Chemist, University teacher,
J. B. S. Haldane05 November 1892, Indian, British
Biologist, Geneticist, University teacher
Theophrastus0371 BC, Greek
Plant biologist
Jeff Corwin11 July 1967, American
biologist, television presenter, actor
Paul R. Ehrlich29 May 1932, American
Entomologist, Zoologist, University teacher
Siddhartha Mukherjee21 July 1970, Indian, American
Physician
Craig Venter14 October 1946, American
Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Richard Owen20 July 1804, British
Biologist
Shinya Yamanaka04 September 1962, Japanese
Biologist, Physician, Professor
Yoshinori Ohsumi09 February 1945, Japanese
Biologist
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild08 February 1868, British
Biologist, Banker, Politician, Zoologist,
Luc Montagnier18 August 1932, French
Physician, Biologist, Virologist, Researcher,
Erasmus Darwin12 December 1731, British
Physician
Paul Greengard11 December 1925, American
Neuroscientist
Tim Flannery28 January 1956, Australian
Biologist, Paleontologist, Zoologist,
Keith L. Moore05 October 1925, Canadian
Biologist
Pierre Joliot12 March 1932, French
Biologist, Biochemist, Professor
Oswald Avery21 October 1877, Canadian
Biologist, Physician, Geneticist
Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov01 August 1870
Biologist
Nikolai Vavilov13 November 1887, Russian
botanist, biologist, explorer, geneticist,
Carl Woese15 July 1928, American
American microbiologist
Lazzaro Spallanzani10 January 1729, Italian
Biologist, Zoologist, Scientist, Naturalist,
John Maynard Smith06 February 1920, British
Mathematician
Andrew Baldwin05 February 1977, American
Biologist, Officer, Model
Ludwig von Bertalanffy19 September 1901, Austrian, Canadian
Biologist, University teacher
Theodosius Dobzhansky24 January 1900, Ukrainian, American
Geneticist
Charles Lucien Bonaparte24 May 1803, French
Biologist, Ornithologist, Zoologist, Ichthyologist
Michael Levitt09 May 1947, American, South African
Physicist, Biologist, Bioinformatician, Chemist,
Matthias Jakob Schleiden05 April 1804, German
Biologist, Botanist, Philosopher, University
Paul Nurse25 January 1949, British
Geneticist
Joseph Dalton Hooker30 June 1817, British
Botanist, Explorer, Pteridologist, Bryologist
Friedrich Miescher13 August 1844, Swiss
Biologist, Biochemist, University teacher
Martinus Beijerinck16 March 1851
Biologist, Microbiologist, University teacher,
Massimo Pigliucci16 January 1964, American
Biologist, Philosopher, Geneticist, Writer,
August Weismann17 January 1834
Biologist, Zoologist, Geneticist
Conrad Gessner26 March 1516, Swiss
Linguist, Zoologist, Mountaineer, Physician,
Charles Davenport01 June 1866, American
Biologist
Hugo de Vries16 February 1848, Dutch
Botanist, Biologist, Geneticist, University
John Edward Gray12 February 1800, British
Author, zoologist
W. D. Hamilton01 August 1936, Egyptian, British
Biologist
Barry Commoner28 May 1917, American
Biologist