20 famous biologists biography

A history of biology in biography

EUGENE M. MCCARTHY, PHD

This section, Famous Biologists, offers biographies describing the lives, contributions, and discoveries of renowned biologists from all eras of biology.

Louis Agassiz (1807-1873).

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Swiss-born American zoologist, geologist, and paleontologist, with a special expertise in ichthyology. Founder and director of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, one of the most famous scientists of his day. Read more >>

Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605).

Italian naturalist and physician.

Together with Conrad Gesner, he led the Renaissance movement that put a new emphasis on the study of the nature. Read more >>

Mary Anning (1799-1847). British paleontologist. Often described as the greatest fossil hunter ever known.

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Werner Arber (1929-). Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans for the discovery of res