General Biology/Gallery of Biologists

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• Francis Crick chemist and molecular biologist, discovered structure of DNA molecule
• Charles Darwin the father of the science of evolutionary biology
• Richard Dawkins zoologist and biology populariser
• Stephen Jay Gould paleontologist and science populariser
• J.B.S. Haldane geneticist and evolutionary biologist, founded population genetics and the modern synthesis
• Bill Hamilton formulated theory of inclusive fitness and kin selection
• Thomas Huxley "Darwin's Bulldog", early evolutionary biologist and science populariser
• Lynn Margulis introduced the theory of eukaryotic cell origin through endosymbiosis
• Barbara McClintock geneticist and molecular biologist, discovered transposons
• Gregor Mendel discovered the basic rules of heredity
• Ernst Mayr evolutionary biologist and science populariser
• Mark Ridley science populariser
• Fred Sanger founder of DNA and protein sequencing techniques
• John Maynard Smith evolutionary biologist and science populariser
• Alfred Russel Wallace evolutionary biologist
• James Watson molecular biologist, discovered structure of DNA molecule
• Edward Wilson founded "sociobiology"

This book is intended as a compilation of biographies describing the lives and work of influential biologists.

[edit] External Links

• EvoWiki: List of Biologists