Biology
Discover a comprehensive list of renowned celebrities who have made significant contributions to the field of biology. Explore their groundbreaking discoveries, influential theories, and enduring impact on the study of life.
Oscar Hertwig
Germany
GermanyGerman embryologist and cytologist who first established that during fertilization the fusion of the nuclei of the sperm and egg occurs
Francisco Varela
Chile
ChileChilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist
William Astbury
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish physicist, molecular biologist
Semen Serbin
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor
Regine Hildebra
Germany
GermanyGerman biologist and politician, member of the SPD
Alexander Magnitskiy
Russia
RussiaLocal history biologist
German Joseph Muller
USA
USAAmerican geneticist, student of Thomas Hunt Morgan, Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine (1946).
Solomon Wasser
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet, Ukrainian and Israeli scientist, botanist, mycologist, doctor of biological sciences
Jared Diamond
USA
USAAmerican scientist, evolutionary biologist and geographer
Iosif Halifman
Russia
RussiaRussian Soviet writer, popularizer of entomology
Karl von Frisch
Austria
AustriaGerman zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973
Ernst Haeckel
Germany
GermanyGerman evolutionary biologist, representative of natural scientific materialism, supporter and propagandist of the teachings of Charles Darwin
Gustav Jager
Germany
GermanyGerman biologist and publicist. Brother of the teacher Otto Jaeger and son of Karl Jaeger.
Cristian Rene De Duve
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian cytologist and biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974
Selman Waksman
USA
USAAmerican microbiologist, awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of streptomycin, the first effective anti-tuberculosis antibiotic
Karl Gegenbauer
Germany
GermanyGerman biologist
Daniel Karlton Gaidusek
USA
USANobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1976 jointly with Baruch Blumberg
Feriz Krasniqi
Kosovo biologist
Victor Zhdanov
Virologist, epidemiologist
Nikolay Kuleshov
Outstanding plant biologist
Jean Jules Linden
Luxembourg
LuxembourgBelgian biologist and botanist.
Gen Shangin-Berezovskiy
Russia
RussiaSoviet biologist
David Baltimore
USA
USAAmerican molecular biologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1975)
Yuriy Giginyak
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian hydrobiologist, polar explorer
Jean Rostand
France
FranceBiologist
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Ukraine
UkraineAmerican geneticist and evolutionist of Russian origin.
Wilfried Westheide
Germany
GermanyGerman biologist and chemist.
Paul Ehrlich
Germany
GermanyGerman physician and bacteriologist
Emil Adolf Behring
Germany
GermanyGerman bacteriologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 for the discovery of the protective properties of serums
Sejfaddin Veli Aliyev
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani scientist, doctor of biological sciences, full member of ANAS.
Daniel Koshland
USA
USAAmerican biochemist
Gerald Soffen
USA
USAAstrobiologist
Frederik Hopkins
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish biochemist who discovered growth-stimulating vitamins (A and D). In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Ivan Michurin
Scientist biologist and plant breeder
Jacques Loeb
USA
USAAmerican biologist. One of the founders of physical and chemical biology
Johann Meckel
Germany
GermanyGerman doctor and biologist
Max Theiler
USA
USANobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1951
Ludwig Bertalanffy
Canada
CanadaAustrian biologist
Sydney Brenner
Great Britain
Great BritainSouth African biologist, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.
Nikolay Koltsov
An outstanding Russian biologist, the author of the idea of matrix synthesis
Ralph Marvin Steinman
Canada
CanadaCanadian immunologist and biologist
Giorgi Eliava
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian microbiologist, specialist in bacteriophages, one of the founders of phage therapy.
Dmitriy Beling
Germany
GermanyFamous Ukrainian ichthyologist and hydrobiologist
Yunis Safarov
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanSoviet Azerbaijani microbiologist, teacher
Roges Guillemin
France
FranceNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1977, jointly with Andrew W. Shalley and Rosalyn S. Yalou
Rene Reaumur
France
FranceFrench naturalist
Eric F. Wieschaus
USA
USAAmerican biologist
Salvador Edward Luria
Italy
ItalyItalian-American biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969
Charles Scott Sherrington
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physiologist
John Michael Bishop
USA
USAAmerican immunologist and microbiologist