General Biology/Gallery of Biologists


 * Francis Crick chemist and molecular biologist, discovered structure of DNA molecule
 * Charles Darwin the father of the science of evolutionary biology
 * Richard Dawkins zoologist and biology populariser
 * Stephen Jay Gould paleontologist and science populariser
 * J.B.S. Haldane geneticist and evolutionary biologist, founded population genetics and the modern synthesis
 * Bill Hamilton formulated theory of inclusive fitness and kin selection
 * Thomas Huxley "Darwin's Bulldog", early evolutionary biologist and science populariser
 * Lynn Margulis introduced the theory of eukaryotic cell origin through endosymbiosis
 * Barbara McClintock geneticist and molecular biologist, discovered transposons
 * Gregor Mendel discovered the basic rules of heredity
 * Ernst Mayr evolutionary biologist and science populariser
 * Mark Ridley science populariser
 * Fred Sanger founder of DNA and protein sequencing techniques
 * John Maynard Smith evolutionary biologist and science populariser
 * Alfred Russel Wallace evolutionary biologist
 * James Watson molecular biologist, discovered structure of DNA molecule
 * Edward Wilson founded "sociobiology"

This book is intended as a compilation of biographies describing the lives and work of influential biologists.