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.

Stamen Grigorov

Bulgaria

Famous Bulgarian scientist - doctor and microbiologist.

Apollinaris Bondartsev

Russian and Soviet scientist, phytopathologist, mycologist, popularizer of science, doctor of biological sciences

Charles Nicolle

France

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1928

Andre Lwoff

France

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965 jointly with François Jacob and Jacques Monod

Casimir Funk

Poland

American biochemist of Polish origin.

Ivan Oliger

Russia

Soviet and Russian scientist, the oldest Russian zoologist

Karl von Frisch

Austria

German zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973

Andrey Belozerskiy

Uzbekistan

Outstanding Soviet biologist, biochemist

Stuart Alan Kauffman

USA

American theoretical biologist and researcher

Nehemiah Grew

Great Britain

English botanist and doctor

Erasmus Darwin

Great Britain

English physician, naturalist, philosopher, poet

Walter Greite

Germany

German biologist and ornithologist

Charles Scott Sherrington

Great Britain

English physiologist

Yagub Elchiev

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani scientist, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor

Tomas Kirkwood

Great Britain

British biologist.

Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden

Germany

Belgian zoologist, paleontologist and educator

Johann Meckel

Germany

German doctor and biologist

Henrik Dam

Sweden

Danish biochemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 (together with E. Doisy) for the discovery of vitamin K

Wilfried Westheide

Germany

German biologist and chemist.

Nikolay Koltsov

An outstanding Russian biologist, the author of the idea of matrix synthesis

Vladimir Dolin

Ukraine

Ukrainian Soviet entomologist, coleopterologist, specialist in click beetles

Dmitriy Beling

Germany

Famous Ukrainian ichthyologist and hydrobiologist

Sydney Brenner

Great Britain

South African biologist, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology.

Kitasato Shibasaburo

Japan

Japanese bacteriologist

Stephen Gould

USA

American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and historian of science

Cristian Rene De Duve

Belgium

Belgian cytologist and biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974

Nils Wiesel

Sweden

Swedish neurobiologist and neurophysiologist, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Wendy Northcutt

USA

American pharmacologist and writer

Andrey Bannikov

Soviet and Russian biologist, professor

Daniel Nathans

USA

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1978, jointly with Werner Arber and Hamilton O. Smith

Giorgi Eliava

Georgia

Georgian microbiologist, specialist in bacteriophages, one of the founders of phage therapy.

Emil Adolf Behring

Germany

German bacteriologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 for the discovery of the protective properties of serums

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Ukraine

American geneticist and evolutionist of Russian origin.

Martin Heidenhain

Germany

The son of the physiologist R. Heidenhain (1834-1897), a Jew who converted to Christianity.

Carol Greider

USA

American scientist, molecular biologist

Anatoliy Voronin

Russia

Soviet and Russian soil scientist.

Karen Pryor

USA

American biologist. She worked with dolphins in an oceanarium for many years and mastered a way of communicating with animals and people that teachers still have a long way to go.