History of Biology

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    Galen Of Pergamon

    Galen Of Pergamon
    Prominant roman physician, surgeon and philosopher
  • Anton Von Lewnhoek

    Anton Von Lewnhoek
    The father of microscopy
  • Robert Hooke

    Robert Hooke
    First to describe a cell
  • Carolus Linneus

    Carolus Linneus
    Layed the foundations for the modern scheme of bionmial nomenclature
  • Jean Baptiste Lamark

    Jean Baptiste Lamark
    Evolution, inheritance and influence Geoffroy
  • John James Audubon

    John James Audubon
    Bird Anatomy and Ornathology
  • Mattias Schlieden

    Mattias Schlieden
    Founder of cell theory
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    The orignator of the biolgical theory of evolution
  • Theodor Schwann

    Theodor Schwann
    The develoment of cell theory
  • William Jenner

    William Jenner
    Makes the distiction between typhus and typhoid
  • Rudolf Virchow

    Rudolf Virchow
    Father of modern pathology
  • Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel
    The founder of genetics
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    One of the most important founders of medical microbiology
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    The founder of medical microbiology aand the germ theory of disease
  • Jacques Cousteau

    Jacques Cousteau
    Improved technology and helped improve scuba technology
  • Francis Crick

    Francis Crick
    A co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule
  • Dian Fossey

    Dian Fossey
    American zoologist who undertook and extensive study of gorilla groups
  • Jane Goodall

    Jane Goodall
    Expert on Chimpazee's and founder of the Jane Goodall institution
  • James Watson

    James Watson
    Codisovery of DNA
  • Alec Jeffreys

    Alec Jeffreys
    Developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting
  • James Thomson

    James Thomson
    Pioneer of stem cell reasearch
  • Kary Mullis

    Kary Mullis
    Developed DNA PCR Amplification