FAMOUS PERSONALITIES IN THE FIELD OF BIOLOGY

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Father of Natural Philosophy

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Thales of Miletus

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Father of Biology and Zoology
Father of Ancient Taxonomy

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Aristotle

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Father of Medicine
The theory of Four Humors:
Black bile, Yellow bile, Blood, Phlegm

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Hippocrates

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Father of Cytology
He coined the term cell

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Robert Hooke

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Father of Microscopy
He is the first person to observe protozoa and bacteria and calls them “ANIMALCULES”

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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Father of Genetics

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Gregor Mendel

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Father of Botany/Plant Science

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Theophrastus

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Father of Modern Parasitology
He challenged the SGT
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION THEORY suggested that loving things arose from non-living things

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Francisco Redi

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He coined the term “Survival of the fittest”

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Herbert Spencer

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He discovered the circulation of the blood

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William Harvey

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He was the first to perform public dissection on a human corpse, a practice that was unusual in the Middle Ages due to spiritual beliefs

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Andreas Vesalius

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He discovered that arteries carry blood
He was an ancient Greek physician anatomist, and philosopher

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Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus

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Father of Modern Taxonomy
He is the one who formalized the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature

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Carolus Linnaeus

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He is best known for his theory of inheritance of Acquired Characteristics and the Theory of Use and Disuse

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Jean - Baptiste Lamarck

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He said that plants are made of cells; a botanist

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Matthias Schleiden

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He said that all animals are madenof cells; a zoologist

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Theodore Schwann

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He said that cells came from pre-existing cells

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Rudolf Virchow

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He discovered the nucleus within cells
He is also famous for his dicovery of the browniab movement

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Robert Brown

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Father of Evolution

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Charles Darwin

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Formal system of naming organism

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Binomial Nomenclature by Carolus Linnaeus

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It is the process by which organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable physical or behavioral traits

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Natural Selection Theory

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He is the first person to discover the smallpox vaccine

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Edward Jenner

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Father of Bacteriology
He discovered Bacillus anthracis and Tubercle bacillus
“Germ Theory Disease” he proposed that microorganisms (germs) can lead to a disease

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Robert koch

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Father of Microbiology
He discovered the process of Pasteurization - it is a process in which water and other substances are treated with mild heat to eliminate pathogebs and other harmful microbes

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Louis Pasteur

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Father of Antibiotics He discovered penicillin An antibiotic drug

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Alexander Fleming

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Father of Mutation Mutation Theory - it states that living organisms can develop changes to their genes that greatly alter the organism. These changes are passed down to the next generation, and lead to the development of new species

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Hugo de Vries

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She discovered the structure of DNA in 1953 using X ray diffraction

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Rosalind Franklin

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He discovered in 1953 the twisted-ladder structure of DNA with francis James Watson

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Francis Crick

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He discovered in 1953 the twisted-ladder structure of DNA with francis Crick

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James Watson

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He introduced the antiseptic technique which includes steps and procedures to prevent contamination from pathogens or disease-causing organisms

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Joseph Lister

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Father of Marine Microbiology He discovered living organisms in extreme ocean depth and 65 species of bacteria

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Claude Ephraim ZoBell

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He is the one who crystallized the Tobacco Mosaic Virus Crystallization - It is the process of transforming the components of a virus into organized particles to describe their structure and other characteristics using an X-ray crystallography technique.

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Wendell Meredith Stanley

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He was a geneticist, botanist, and pharmacist from Denmark. His 1903 "pure line" genetics studies are what made him most famous, along with his use of the phrases gene, phenotype, and genotype

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Wilhem Johannsen

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He coined the term "genetics" Imre Festetics used the study of sheep to develop many of the fundamental ideas that make up the field of genetics

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Imre Festetics

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He coined the term "scientist"

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William Whewell

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Father of modern Ecology

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Eugene Odum

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Father of modern Ecology

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Eugene Odum

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Father of Ecology

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Alexander von Humboldt

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Father of Ecology

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Alexander von Humboldt