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.
Solomon Wasser
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet, Ukrainian and Israeli scientist, botanist, mycologist, doctor of biological sciences
Salvador Edward Luria
Italy
ItalyItalian-American biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969
Frederik Hopkins
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish biochemist who discovered growth-stimulating vitamins (A and D). In 1929 he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Jean Rostand
France
FranceBiologist
Stuart Alan Kauffman
USA
USAAmerican theoretical biologist and researcher
Stanley Cohen
USA
USAAmerican biochemist and zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1986 (shared with Rita Levi-Montalcini).
Irina Blohina
Russia
RussiaSoviet microbiologist, academician, laureate of the USSR State Prize
Daniel Nathans
USA
USANobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1978, jointly with Werner Arber and Hamilton O. Smith
Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Ryuppel
Germany
GermanyGerman zoologist
Jacques Loeb
USA
USAAmerican biologist. One of the founders of physical and chemical biology
Ivan Oliger
Russia
RussiaSoviet and Russian scientist, the oldest Russian zoologist
Jedrzej Sniadecki
Poland
PolandDoctor, biologist, chemist
Susan Lindquist
USA
USAAmerican molecular biologist
Vladimir Karavaev
Ukrainian, Russian, Soviet entomologist
Elshad Gurbanov
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani scientist, Doctor of Biological Sciences
Jale Refik Rogers
Cyprus
CyprusNorthern Cypriot molecular biologist and politician
Tomas Kirkwood
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish biologist.
Alexander Magnitskiy
Russia
RussiaLocal history biologist
August Wilhelm Eichler
Germany
GermanyGerman botanist, famous for his work in the field of plant systematization.
Detlev Wulf Bronk
USA
USAAmerican physiologist and biophysicist
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Ukraine
UkraineAmerican geneticist and evolutionist of Russian origin.
Charles Scott Sherrington
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physiologist
Yoshiki Sasai
Japan
JapanJapanese biologist
Hans Driesch
Germany
GermanyGerman biologist, founder of neovitalism
Franz Weidenreich
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist
Ivan Michurin
Scientist biologist and plant breeder
Herbert Jennings
USA
USAAmerican zoologist, one of the first researchers of the genetics of single-celled microorganisms. Foreign Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Karl Gegenbauer
Germany
GermanyGerman biologist
Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden
Germany
GermanyBelgian zoologist, paleontologist and educator
Karl Kessler
Zoologist
Erasmus Darwin
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physician, naturalist, philosopher, poet
George Wells Beadle
USA
USAAmerican geneticist, awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Feriz Krasniqi
Kosovo biologist
German Joseph Muller
USA
USAAmerican geneticist, student of Thomas Hunt Morgan, Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine (1946).
Karl Wilhelm Kupffer
Germany
GermanyGerman anatomist, histologist and embryologist.
Jared Diamond
USA
USAAmerican scientist, evolutionary biologist and geographer
Nikolay Kuleshov
Outstanding plant biologist
Ragnar Arthur Granit
Sweden
SwedenSwedish neurophysicist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1967 (shared with Keffer Hartline and George Wald)
Rene Reaumur
France
FranceFrench naturalist
Vladimir Dolin
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian Soviet entomologist, coleopterologist, specialist in click beetles
Vladimir Zhedenov
Russia
RussiaSoviet morphologist, doctor of biological sciences, professor.
Albert Coombs Barnes
USA
USAAmerican physician, inventor and collector
Sejfaddin Veli Aliyev
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani scientist, doctor of biological sciences, full member of ANAS.
Thomas Wharton
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish anatomist
Haldan Keffer Hartline
USA
USANobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1967, jointly with Ragnar Granit and George Wald
Giorgi Eliava
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian microbiologist, specialist in bacteriophages, one of the founders of phage therapy.
Gen Shangin-Berezovskiy
Russia
RussiaSoviet biologist
Walter Greite
Germany
GermanyGerman biologist and ornithologist
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
Daniel Koshland
USA
USAAmerican biochemist