Sidney Altman is a Nobel Prize-winning Canadian-American molecular biologist.
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J. Michael Bishop is a Nobel Prize winning physician and scholar who made groundbreaking discoveries in cancer research.
1936-
Cellular and molecular biologist Günter Blobel won the Nobel Prize in 1999 for his discoveries about proteins and their placement in the cell.
1936-
1914-2009
Sydney Brenner is a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist and a science writer.
1927-
Macfarlane Burnet was an Australian physician and researcher who made groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of immunology and virology.
1899-1985
Rachel Carson was a marine biologist, environmentalist and writer who alerted the world to the environmental impact of fertilizers and pesticides.
1907-1964
1898-1983
Jeff Corwin is a conservationist and the television host and producer of The Jeff Corwin Experience on the Animal Planet network.
1967-
Francis Crick is responsible for discovering, along with James Watson, the double-helix structure of the DNA strand.
1916-2004
Charles Darwin is best known for his work as a naturalist, developing a theory of evolution to explain biological change.
1809-1882
Theodosius Dobzhansky was a 20th century scientist, professor and author who did pioneering work in genetics and evolution.
1900-1975
1901-1982
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1883-1941
Alexander Fleming was a doctor and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, receiving the Nobel Prize in 1945.
1881-1955
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Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, and the best-selling writer of popular science books.
1941-2002
Temple Grandin is a noted animal expert and advocate for autistic populations who has penned the books Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human.
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American biologist A.D. Hershey won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for his research done on viruses that infect bacteria.
1908-1997
1730-1799
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Biologist Alfred Kinsey wrote Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, which was based on research he and his colleagues conducted at the Institute for Sex Research.
1894-1956
1843-1910
1924-2005
1845-1916
1912-2008
Psychologist Jean Piaget identified stages of mental development, called Schema, and established the fields of cognitive theory and developmental psychology.
1896-1980
A pioneer in early hormonal and reproductive research, Gregory Pincus and his team of scientists are credited with formulating the first oral contraceptive for birth control.
1903-1967
1871-1953
Roger W. Sperry was a 20th century scientist who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research on brain hemispheres.
1913-1994
1903-1982
J. Craig Venter is a scientist and businessperson whose gene-sequencing process led to a decoding of the human genome.
1946-
Rudolf Virchow was a German pathologist and statesman, widely credited for his advancements in public health, particularly with his cell theory.
1821-1902
James D. Watson is a Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist and researcher credited with co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA.
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