Top ten biologists
1. Charles Darwin
It was known that Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12th February 1809. He was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist. He was best known for his contribution for the evolution of science. He was Known for ‘The Voyage of the Beagle On the Origin of Species The Descent of the Man ‘. In 1838 he conceived his theory of natural selection, based on the geographical distribution of Wildlife, and fossils collected on the voyage.
2. Rachel Carson
Carson was born on 27th May 1907. He was an American marine biologist, Conversationalist, and author. His book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with the Global environmental movement. Carson’s notable works are Under the Sea Wind in 1941, The Sea around us in 1951, and the edge of The sea in 1955, Silent Spring in 1962.
3. Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel was born on 20th July 1822. He was a scientist with Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas Abbey in Brno. Mendel worked mainly with seven characteristics of pea plants. They are plant height, pod shape and color, flower position and color, and seed shape and color. Mendel showed that when a true-breeding yellow pea is cross-bred with a true-breeding green pea, then their offspring will always produceyellow color. Mendel introduced the terms recessive and dominant. He published his work the actions of invisible factors which is now called genes in 1866.
4. James Watson
James Dewey Watson was born on 6th April 1928. He was an American Molecular biologist, zoologist, and geneticist. He co-authored with Franciscrick in 1953 and made the academic paper proposing the DNA molecule’s double helix structure.
He worked as a faculty of the Harvard University Biology department from 1956 to 1976. He served as a director for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1968. He started working as a president from 1994 for ten years.
5. Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred was born on 8th January 1823. He was a British neutralist, explorer, anthropologist, biologist, and geographer. The theory of evolution through natural selection was most famous for his works. His work was jointly published along with some of the works of Charles Darwin’s in 1858.
He was well-known for co-discovery of natural selection, pioneering works on biogeography, Wallace Line, and Wallace Effect. His awards are Royal Medal in 1868, Darwin Medal in 1890, Founder’s Medal in 1892, Linnaean Medal in 1892, Copley Medal in 1908, and order of merit in 1908.
6. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
He was born on 24th October 1632. He was a businessman who is a French nationalist and a scientist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. He was considered as the most self-taught in science, he is most commonly known as the Father of Microbiology. He was mostly regarded as the first microscopists and microbiologists.
He was well known for Microscopic discovery of Microorganisms. In his scientific career, his working fields are Microscopy and Microbiology. He was influenced by the History of biology and life sciences, Natural history, scientific revolution, and age of reason.
7. Stephen Jay Gould
He was born on 10th September 1941. He was an American Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. In his generation, he was considered as one of the most influential person and is also popular that he was widely read authors.
Stephen spent most of his career teaching at Harvard University. He also worked at the American Museum of Natural History. He was hired as the Vincent Astor visiting research professor in 1996. Although in that busy schedule, he shared teaching by dividing time.
8. E. O. Wilson
His full name was Edward Osborne Wilson. He was born on 10th June 1929. He is an American Biologist, theorist, author, and naturalist. Myrmecology is the specialty of E. O. Wilson. It is the study of ants in which he has been called as a World’s leading expert.
He was mostly called as the father of sociobiology and the father of biodiversity. He was most famous for his environmental advocacy and his secular-humanist.
He was known for popularizing sociobiology, character displacement, Island biogeography, and epic of evolution. He received many awards like Leidy award in 1979, Pulitzer award in 1979, crafoord prize in 1990, and many other prizes too.
9. Louis Pasteur
He was born on 27th December 1822. He was a French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist. HE renowned for his discoveries of the principles of microbial fermentation, pasteurization, and vaccination.
His awards are Rumford Medal in 1856, ForMemRs in 1869, Copley medal in 1874, Albert Medal in 1882, Leeuwenhoek Medal in 1895. His mainly worked fields are Biology, Chemistry, and Microbiology. His notable student is Charles Friedel. He worked at institutions like the University of Strasbourg, University of Lille, Pasteur Institute, and Ecole Normale Superieure.
10. Alexander Fleming
He was born on 6th August 1881. He was a Scottish physician, pharmacologist, and microbiologist. In 1923, the enzyme lysozyme was his best discovery. He has British citizenship. He was well known for his discovery of penicillin and Lysozyme.
He got many awards like FRS in 1943, Knight bachelor in 1944, and Nobel Prize in 1945. His working fields are Bacteriology and immunology. He discovered Penicillin accidentally on 28th September 1928. He died on 11th March 1955 at the age of 73 years. He died at London, England.
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