Easy Bio, Master Bio: Famous Biologists

BIOLOGISTS
These are people who study biology. Some biologists are well-known for their contribution in biology. These famous biologists are the cause of what biology is now.

Famous Biologists and their Contributions
1. Robert Hooke is the first biologist to coin the word "cell" for describing biological organisms

Robert Hooke

2. Anton Van Leeuwenhoek is the "Father of Microbiology". He is best known for the improvement of the microscope and for his contributions towards microbiology. He was the first to observe and describe single-celled organisms. He was also the first to record microscopic observations of muscle fibers, bacteria, spermatozoa and blood flow in capillaries.

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

3. Matthias Schleiden is one of the co-founders of the cell theory. He was the first to observe and describe single-celled organisms.

Matthias Schleiden

4. Theodor Schwann is also one of the developers and co-founders of the cell theory. He discovered the Schwann cells, the discovery and study of pepsin, the discovery of organic nature of yeast, and the invention of the word "metabolism"

Theodor Schwann

5. Aristotle is the "Father of Biology". He was able to describe plant and animal specimens received from all parts of the far-flung Alexandrian empire. He explicitly stated that different types of organisms would be expected to differ in their ability to survive, depending on the traits they possessed. This opened up the possibility of evolution of the type described by stabilization theory.

Aristotle

6. James Watson and Francis Crick were awarded for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material. Watson’s best-selling book, “The Double Helix”, is about his DNA structure discovery. Crick was an important theoretical molecular biologist and played a crucial role in research related to revealing the genetic code. He is widely known for use of the term “central dogma” to summarize an idea that genetic information flow in cells is essentially one-way, from DNA to RNA to protein.

Francis Crick

James Watson

7. Alexander Fleming is best-known for the discovery of the enzymelysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928.

Alexander Fleming

8. Robert Brown’s contributions to biology include the discovery of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming; the first observation of Brownian motion, early work of plant pollination and fertilization, and some of the early studies in palynology.

Robert Brown

9. Carolus Linnaeus is known as the father of modern taxonomy. The naming of species called binomial nomenclature was also introduced by Carolus Linnaeus.