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This category is for sites focusing on the life and contributions of individual scientists of renown.

Subcategories

• Avery, Oswald Theodore
• Carson, Rachel
• Chargaff, Erwin
• Crick, Francis
• Darwin, Charles
• Dawkins, Richard
• Franklin, Rosalind
• Garrod, Archibald
• Gould, Stephen Jay
• Hershey, Alfred Day
• Hooke, Robert
• Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste
• Lederberg, Joshua
• Leopold, Aldo
• McClintock, Barbara
• Mendel, Gregor
• Morgan, Thomas Hunt
• Nirenberg, Marshall W
• Pasteur, Louis
• Pennant, Thomas
• Sturtevant, Alfred Henry
• Sutton, Walter S.
• Von Tschermak, Erich
• Vries, Hugo de
• Wallace, Alfred Russel
• Watson, James Dewey
• Wilson, Edward O.

Resources in This Category

• A Victorian Renaissance Man: John Obadiah Westwood

  http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/archivedexhibits/westwood/
  Exhibits materials about the life and work of a prolific nineteenth-century entomologist, archaeologist, and biological illustrator.

• Ed Ricketts

  http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of-fame/ed-ricketts/
  Marine biologist who lived from 1897 - 1948 and undertook research including the effect of wave shock on marine animals and plants.

• Edward Drinker Cope (1840 - 1897)

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/cope.html
  Biographical information on this American paleontologist and evolutionist.

• Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/Edarwin.html
  Grandfather of Charles Darwin and a philosopher, botanist, and naturalist in his own right.

• Eugene Odum

  http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of-fame/eugene-odum/
  Biologist who lived from 1913 - 2002 and pioneered the concept of the ecosystem.

• Fabre, Jean-Henri Casimir ( 1823 - 1915 )

  http://www.e-fabre.com/en/
  The life and work of this entomologist. E-Texts and Gallery.

• Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry

  http://galton.org/biography/bulmer.htm
  Information on a book by Michael Bulmer about this nineteenth century scientist's work on genetics, evolution and biological statistics.

• Henry David Thoreau

  http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of-fame/henry-david-thoreau/
  Biography, appreciation and bibliography of this naturalist who believed that humans are part of nature and that we function best when we remember this.

• Hofmann, Albert

  http://www.stainblue.com/ah.html
  Dr. Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD, psilocybin, and psilocin.

• John Burroughs

  http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of-fame/john-burroughs/
  Appreciation, bibliography and extracts from the works of this naturalist

• Joseph Dalton Hooker

  http://www.jdhooker.org.uk/
  A leading nineteenth century botanist, and close friend of Charles Darwin.

• Linnaeus, Carl

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html
  Biographical information on the "Father of Taxonomy" whose system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in use today.

• Robert Hooke

  http://www.roberthooke.org.uk/
  Site devoted to the life and work of Robert Hooke, one of the leading scientists of 17th century England, and first Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society.

• Ruth Patrick

  http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of-fame/ruth-patrick/
  Biographical details of one of the pioneers of ecology and the study of ecosystems.

• Sistotrema confluens

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/dec2007.html
  Tom Volk provides photographs and information on this strange tooth fungus in honor of the tercentenary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus.

• Weigl, Rudolf Stefan

  http://lwow.home.pl/weigl/in-memoriam.html
  Professor Rudolf Stefan Weigl (1883-1957) has developed the first effective vaccine against typhus.

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