Famous Biologists - List of Famous Biologists - page 6
Biologists’ job involves the study of living organism and their relationship with natural world. They try to discover the mechanism of living creatures with their study of the origin, habits and genetic structure of those organisms. Study of wildlife is an important aspect of a biologist’s job. Methods like identification and observation play a major role in this concern. Various factors of environmental issue that affect wildlife are also important in this context. There are many biologists whose working area is concerned with zoo animals. They work for the preservation of endangered species in a systematic way. Based on their study, they prepare reports that are published in various scientific journals. Biologists working in healthcare sector work to prevent deadly diseases by identifying harmful virus. There are many biologists who serve in environmental management and conservation field. Their work involves providing solution for environmental problems and preservation of nature. Marine biologists conduct study on animals and plants that live in salt water. Biologists working in educational sector engage themselves in the publication of their study in different journals besides imparting education at classrooms. What follows is a collection of the biographies, timelines and trivia about some of the world’s most famous biologists.
The Most Famous Biologists | |||
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| Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
| Juliane Koepcke | October 10, 1954 | German, Peruvian | Juliane Koepcke is a German-Peruvian biologist, who was the lone survivor among the 92 passengers and crew of the ill-fated LANSA Flight 508 that crashed in the Peruvian rainforest on 24 December 1971 |
| Richard Dawkins | March 26, 1941 | British | Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist and evolutionary biologist |
| Theodor Schwann | December 7, 1810 | German | Theodor Schwann was a German physiologist who discovered the Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system |
| Norman Borlaug | March 25, 1914 | American | Norman Borlaug was an American biologist known as the “Father of the Green Revolution” |
| Alexander Fleming | August 6, 1881 | British, Scottish | Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist who discovered enzyme lysozyme and antibiotic penicillin |
| Carl Linnaeus | May 23, 1707 | Swedish | Carolus Linnaeus was a renowned Swedish biologist popularly known as the ‘Father of Modern Taxonomy’ who founded the binomial nomenclature |
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | 1952 | Indian, British, American | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a British-American structural biologist of Indian origin |
| E. O. Wilson | June 10, 1929 | American | E |
| André Lwoff | May 8, 1902 | French | André Michel Lwoff was a French microbiologist, geneticist and protozoologist, who received the ‘Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine’ in 1965 |
| Christian de Duve | October 2, 1917 | Belgian | Christian de Duve was a Belgian cytologist and biochemist known for his discoveries about the internal workings of cells |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a British-American structural biologist of Indian origin