FAMOUS Personalities in Bio
Father of Natural Philosophy
Thales of Miletus
Father of Biology and Zoology
Aristotle
Father of Ancient Taxonomy
Aristotle
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
Father of Cytology
Robert Hooke
Father of Microscopy
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Father if microbiology
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Father of Genetics
Gregor Mendel
Father of Botany/Plant Science
Theophrastus
Father of Modern Parasitology
Francesco Redi
Coined the term, survival of the fittest
Herbert Spencer
discovered the circulation of the blood
William Harvey
First perform public dissection on a human corpse
Andreas Vesalius
Father of Modern Taxonomy
Carol us Linnaeus
Theory of Inheritance of Acquired characteristics and the Theory of Use and Diuse
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
He said that all plants are made of cells; a botanist
Matthias Schleiden
all animals are made of cells; a zoologist
Theodore Schwann
cells came from pre-existing cells
Rudolf Virchow
discovered the nucleus within cells
Robert Brown
Father of evolution
Charles Darwin
First person to discover the smallpox vaccine
Edward Jenner
Father of Immunology
Edward Jenner
Father of Bacteriology
Robert Koch
Father of Modern Microbiology
Louis Pasteur
Father of Modern Immunology (Cholera, Anthrax, Rabies)
Louis Pasteur
Father of Antibiotics (Penicillin)
Alexander Fleming
Father of Mutation
Hugo de Vries
She discovered the structure of DNA in 1953 using X-ray diffraction
Rosalinda Franklin
He discovered in 1953 the twisted ladder structure of DNA with Francis James Watson
Francis Crick
He introduced the antiseptic technique
Joseph Lister
Father of Marine Micbiology
Claude Ephraim Zobell
He is the one who crystallized the Tobacco Mosaic virus
Wendell Meredith Stanley
He was a geneticist, botanist, and a pharmacist from Denmark. (Gene, Phenotype, Genotype)
Wilhelm Johannsen
He coined the term genetics
Imre Festetics
He coined the term scientist
William Whewell
He is the proponent of Catastrophism
George's Cuvier
He wrote AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION
Thomas Malthus
He is the proponent of theory of gradualism
James Hutton
He is the proponent of Unifrmitarianism
Charles Lyell