General Biology/Gallery of Biologists
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This page may need to be - 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.
