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Biologists On E2

This is the Biologists Metanode, an index of writeups about biologists (including: biologists, medical researchers, microbiologists, botanists, astrobiologists, palaeontologists, embryologists, primatologists, etc.) on E2. This is a subnode of the top-level Scientists node, and is a collaborative effort by the usergroup E2science. To suggest additions or alterations, please /msg Oolong or E2_Science.

• Aristotle
  Ancient Greek philosopher, who first attempted to classify the natural world.
• Karl Ernst von Baer
  Biologist who studied the embryology of birds and mammals.
• Emil Adolf von Behring
  Nobel-winning physician and immunologist.
• Charles William Beebe
  Author, ornithologist and co-inventor of the bathysphere.
• William Michael Bright
  Chairman of the Department of Anatomy, Meharry Medical College, beginning in 1950.
• Rachel Carson
  Whose book Silent Spring drew a lot of attention to the dangers of insecticides.
• Francis Crick
  Co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA.
• Charles Darwin
  Whose Theory of Evolution changed the way we think about humanity and life in general.
• Richard Dawkins
  Outspoken evolutionary biologist and author of The Selfish Gene, among others.
• Johannes Fibiger
  Danish pathologist and bacteriologist; discoverer of carcinogens and inventor of the controlled experiment methodology.
• Alexander Fleming
  Discoverer of penicillin.
• Dian Fossey
  Primatologist who specialised in mountain gorillas.
• Rosalind Franklin
  Co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA.
• Karl von Frisch
  Ethologist who deciphered the dances of honey bees
• Birute Galdikas
  Primatologist who studied orangutans.
• Carleton Gajdusek
  Pediatrician, virologist, and Nobel laureate.
• Francis Galton
  Geneticist who invented eugenics, as well as being a cousin of Charles Darwin.
• Camillo Golgi
  Histologist whose staining techniques first showed the microscopic structure of brain tissue.
• Jane Goodall
  Primatologist who made a revolutionary study of chimpanzees.
• Stephen Jay Gould
  One of the 20th Century's leading evolutionary biologists, Gould also once made a guest appearance on the Simpsons.
• Temple Grandin
  Ethologist, designer of livestock handling equipment and writer on Asperger's Syndrome from her own point of view.
• Frederick Griffith
  Bacteriologist who did important research that set the stage for the later discovery of DNA.
• Julian Huxley
  Grandson of Thomas Henry, another great populariser and evolutionist.
• Thomas Henry Huxley
  Known as Darwin's Bulldog, the most important populariser of Charles Darwin's work and an important scientist in his own right.
• Shibasaburo Kitasato
  Japanese researcher who isolated the etiologic agent of plague, as-good-as-simulaneously with Alexandre Yersin. The credit is usually shared, though Yersin published first.
• Robert Koch
  Bacteriologist who identified the tuberculosis bacillus and did important work several other diseases.
• Hans Krebs
  
• Carolus Linnaeus
  Swedish botanist and Father of Taxonomy.
• Gregor Mendel
  The monk who laid the foundations of our understanding of heredity, although the work was not recognised in his day.
• Hermann Merxmüller
  German botanist who studied the flowering plants of Africa.
• Louis Pasteur
  Laid the foundation for microbiology by inventing the bacterial culture; also proved the role of microbes in fermentation, produced vaccines for at least three diseases and invented pasteurization.
• Matt Ridley
  English geneticist along similar lines to Richard Dawkins.
• Oliver Sacks
  Neurologist and popular author, played by Robin Williams in the film Awakenings.
• Roger Sperry
  American psychobiologist, qualified both in psychology and in physiology, who won a Nobel prize for his research into the brain.
• James Watson
  Co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA.
• Carl Wernicke
  Accomplished neuroanatomist who gave his name to a number of neurological disorders including Wernicke's encephalopathy and Wernicke's aphasia.
• Alexandre Yersin
  Isolated the etiologic agent of plague, Yersinia pestis (although he dubbed it Pasteurella pestis). See also Shibasaburo Kitasato.

Bi*ol"o*gist (?), n.

A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

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