LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Peter Agre	Biologist	30-Jan-1949		Water channels of cell membranes
Karl Ernst von Baer	Biologist	29-Feb-1792	28-Nov-1876	De Ovi Mammalium
David Baltimore	Biologist	7-Mar-1938		Co-discoverer, reverse transcriptase
William Bateson	Biologist	8-Aug-1861	8-Feb-1926	Founder of genetics
Michael Behe	Biologist	18-Jan-1952		Darwin's Black Box
Herbert W. Boyer	Biologist	10-Jul-1936		Recombinant DNA, first synthetic insulin
Michael S. Brown	Biologist	13-Apr-1941		Metabolism of cholesterol
Linda B. Buck	Biologist	29-Jan-1947		Odorant receptors and olfactory organization
Anton J. Carlson	Biologist	29-Jan-1875	2-Sep-1956	The Machinery of the Body
Barry Commoner	Biologist	28-May-1917		Science and Survival
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer	Biologist	24-Feb-1907	17-May-2004	Ichthyologist discovered Coelacanth
Richard Dawkins	Biologist	26-Mar-1941		Zoologist and evolutionary biologist
Heinrich Anton de Bary	Botanist	26-Jan-1831	19-Jan-1888	Founder of modern mycology
Havelock Ellis	Biologist	2-Feb-1859	8-Jul-1939	Studies in the Psychology of Sex
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett	Biologist	c. 1955		Genomic researcher
Stephen Jay Gould	Biologist	10-Sep-1941	20-May-2002	Evolutionary biologist and paleontologist
J. B. S. Haldane	Biologist	5-Nov-1892	1-Dec-1964	The Causes of Evolution
Ross Granville Harrison	Zoologist	13-Jan-1870	30-Sep-1959	Embryology and tissue culture techniques
Ethel Browne Harvey	Zoologist	14-Dec-1885	2-Sep-1965	Embryology of sea urchins
Leroy Hood	Biologist	10-Oct-1938		Systems biology and Human Genome Project
Julian Huxley	Biologist	22-Jun-1887	14-Feb-1975	Evolutionary biologist
Stephen Jones	Biologist	24-Mar-1944		Geneticist and pop science writer
David Starr Jordan	Biologist	19-Jan-1851	19-Sep-1931	Fishes of North and Middle America
Ernest Just	Biologist	14-Aug-1883	27-Oct-1941	Cell surfaces and egg fertilization
Paul Kammerer	Biologist	17-Aug-1880	23-Oct-1926	Proponent of Lamarckian inheritance
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck	Biologist	1-Aug-1744	18-Dec-1829	Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist
Chris Langton	Biologist	1948		Father of Artificial Life
Philip Leder	Biologist	19-Nov-1934		Harvard Geneticist
Joshua Lederberg	Biologist	23-May-1925	2-Feb-2008	Genetic properties of bacteria
Joseph Leidy	Biologist	9-Sep-1823	30-Apr-1891	Trichinosis and dinosaurs
Richard A. Lerner	Biologist	28-Aug-1938		President, Scripps Research Institute
Arnold J. Levine	Biologist	1939		Cancer researcher
Susan L. Lindquist	Biologist	5-Jun-1949		Protein folding
Salvador Luria	Biologist	13-Aug-1912	6-Feb-1991	Demonstrated natural selection in bacteria
John Maynard Smith	Biologist	6-Jan-1920	19-Apr-2004	Applied game theory to evolutionary biology
William D. McElroy	Biologist	22-Jan-1917	17-Feb-1999	Bioluminescence
John Mendelsohn	Biologist	31-Aug-1936		Cancer researcher
Raymond Pearl	Biologist	3-Jun-1879	17-Nov-1940	Biogerontology
Cecil B. Pickett	Biologist	c. 1949		President of R&D, Biogen Idec
George H. Poste	Biologist	c. 1944		Health Technology Networks
Reginald Punnett	Biologist	20-Jun-1875	3-Jan-1967	Early geneticist
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur	Biologist	28-Feb-1683	17-Oct-1757	L'Histoire des Insectes
Oscar Riddle	Biologist	27-Sep-1877	29-Nov-1968	Prolactin
Albert Sabin	Biologist	26-Aug-1906	3-Mar-1993	Developed oral polio vaccine
Phillip A. Sharp	Biologist	6-Jun-1944		Eukaryotic (split) genes
Rupert Sheldrake	Biologist	28-Jun-1942		Morphic Fields
Thomas E. Shenk	Biologist	c. 1947		Princeton Molecular Biologist
Harry Steenbock	Biologist	16-Aug-1886	25-Dec-1967	Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D
D'Arcy Thompson	Biologist	2-May-1860	21-Jun-1948	On Growth and Form
Nikolai Timofeev-Ressovsky	Biologist	20-Sep-1900	28-Mar-1981	Russian geneticist
George Wald	Biologist	18-Nov-1906	12-Apr-1997	Physiology of the retina
Lester Frank Ward	Sociologist	18-Jun-1841	18-Apr-1913	Dynamic Sociology
August Weismann	Biologist	17-Jan-1834	5-Nov-1914	Theory of Germ Plasm
Maurice Wilkins	Biologist	15-Dec-1916	5-Oct-2004	Took X-ray pictures of DNA
Edmund Beecher Wilson	Biologist	19-Oct-1856	3-Mar-1939	The Cell in Development and Inheritance
Edward O. Wilson	Biologist	10-Jun-1929		Father of Sociobiology
Sewall Wright	Biologist	21-Dec-1889	3-Mar-1988	Mathematics of evolution

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