LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Peter Agre	Biologist	30-Jan-1949		Water channels of cell membranes
Kenneth Alibek	Biologist	c. 1951		Biological weapons designer
Sidney Altman	Chemist	7-May-1939		Proved enzyme role of RNA
Daniel I. Arnon	Biologist	14-Nov-1910	20-Dec-1994	Photophosphorylation
Oswald Avery	Biologist	21-Oct-1877	20-Feb-1955	Antibodies and DNA
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
Bruce A. Beutler	Biologist	29-Dec-1957		Lipopolysaccharide receptors
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
Erwin Chargaff	Biologist	11-Aug-1905	20-Jun-2002	Biochemist at Columbia University
Stanley N. Cohen	Biologist	17-Feb-1935		Recombinant DNA
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
Donald M. Engelman	Biologist	c. 1941		Biochemistry Professor at Yale
Alexander Fleming	Scientist	6-Aug-1881	11-Mar-1955	Discovered penicillin
Walther Flemming	Biologist	21-Apr-1843	4-Aug-1905	Chromosomes and mitosis
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett	Biologist	c. 1955		Genomic researcher
Michael Gershon	Scientist	c. 1936		Gut neurobiology
Stephen Jay Gould	Biologist	10-Sep-1941	20-May-2002	Evolutionary scientist
Frederick Griffith	Biologist	c. 1877	16-Apr-1941	Discovered the transforming principle
J. B. S. Haldane	Biologist	5-Nov-1892	1-Dec-1964	Haldane's principle
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
Jules A. Hoffmann	Biologist	2-Aug-1941		Innate immunity
Johannes Holtfreter	Zoologist	9-Jan-1901	13-Nov-1992	Chemotaxis
Leroy Hood	Biologist	10-Oct-1938		Systems biology and Human Genome Project
Julian Huxley	Biologist	22-Jun-1887	14-Feb-1975	Evolutionary biologist
Bruce Ivins	Biologist	22-Apr-1946	29-Jul-2008	Anthrax researcher and suspect
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		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	Natural selection in bacteria
Roderick MacKinnon	Biologist	19-Feb-1956		Ion channels of cell membranes
Lynn Margulis	Biologist	5-Mar-1935	22-Nov-2011	Origin of eukaryotic organelles
John Maynard Smith	Biologist	6-Jan-1920	19-Apr-2004	Applied game theory to evolutionary biology
Ernst Mayr	Biologist	5-Jul-1904	3-Feb-2005	Evolutionary biologist
William D. McElroy	Biologist	22-Jan-1917	17-Feb-1999	Bioluminescence
Peter Medawar	Biologist	28-Feb-1915	2-Oct-1987	Acquired immunological tolerance
John Mendelsohn	Biologist	31-Aug-1936		Cancer researcher
Gail K. Naughton	Biologist	c. 1955		Advanced Tissue Sciences
David C. Page	Biologist	6-Jul-1956		Director, Whitehead Institute
Raymond Pearl	Biologist	3-Jun-1879	17-Nov-1940	Biogerontology
Cecil B. Pickett	Biologist	5-Oct-1945		Ezetrol, Singulair, and Vioxx
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
Ralph M. Steinman	Biologist	14-Jan-1943	30-Sep-2011	Dendritic cells
Nettie Stevens	Biologist	7-Jul-1861	4-May-1912	X and Y chromosomes
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
Craig Venter	Biologist	14-Oct-1946		Engineered the first man-made bacterial cell
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 von Wassermann	Biologist	21-Feb-1866	16-Mar-1925	Syphilis test
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	X and Y chromosomes
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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