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Charles Robert Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS JP [ 5 ] (/ ˈdɑːrwɪn / [ 6 ]DAR-win; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, [ 7 ] widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and ...
Jonas Salk (1914–1995), American biologist developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Robert Sapolsky (born 1957), American neuroscientist who studies sources of stress in wild baboons. Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian marine biologist [325] who studied the eggs and larvae of fish.
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Dutch Republic, on 24 October 1632. On 4 November, he was baptized as Thonis. His father, Philips Antonisz van Leeuwenhoek, was a basket maker who died when Antonie was only five years old. His mother, Margaretha (Bel van den Berch), came from a well-to-do brewer's family.
Rita R. Colwell, American environmental microbiologist who studied the ecology of cholera, former director of the National Science Foundation and president of the American Society for Microbiology. Wayne Nicholson, American biologist based on microbiology and cell biology. Yossef Av-Gay (born 1961), Israeli microbiologist and researcher.
Kurt Wise. Signature. Stephen Jay Gould (/ ɡuːld / GOOLD; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. [1] Gould spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University and ...
A new study—published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii in Naples, Italy—asserts that ancient DNA taken from some of the ...
Craig Venter (born 1946), US molecular biologist and entrepreneur, raced to sequence the genome. Jerome Vinograd (1913–1976), US, leader in biochemistry and molecular biology of nucleic acids. Peter Visscher (Ph.D. 1991), Dutch Australian geneticist who works on the genetic architecture of complex traits.