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English biologists have contributed some of biology's greatest findings. With the increasing importance of genetics, conservation and microbiology, English biologists may yet discover some of nature's most amazing secrets.
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Hopkins, Sir Frederick Gowland (1861–1947), an English biochemist. In 1906 he discovered that milk contains growth-promoting substances that are essential for good health. See more »
Aaron Klug
Klug, Aaron (1926-) is a Lithuanian-born British scientist and molecular biologist who made important advances in electron microscopy, the technique of using electrons rather than light waves to produce magnified images.
See more »Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd (1914-1998) was a British physiologist, a scientist who studies how different parts or organs of an organism work together to achieve a particular function.
See more »Alexander Fleming
Fleming, Sir Alexander (1881–1955), the British bacteriologist who discovered penicillin.
See more »Andrew Fielding Huxley
Huxley, Andrew Fielding (1917-) is a British physiologist, a scientist who studies the functions of living things or their parts.
See more »Archibald Vivian Hill
Hill, Archibald Vivian (1886-1977) was a British physiologist. He won the 1922 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discoveries on heat production and oxygen use in the muscles.
See more »Arthur Keith
Keith, Arthur (1866-1955) was a Scottish anatomist and physical anthropologist who began his career as a physician.
See more »Cesar Milstein
Milstein, César (1927-2002), was an Argentine and British molecular biologist who helped develop a method for producing monoclonal antibodies.
See more »Charles Scott Sherrington
Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott (1857–1952), a British physiologist. For his research on the neuron, he shared the 1932 Nobel Prize for physiology with Edgar D.
See more »Charles Sutherland Elton
Elton, Charles Sutherland (1900-1991) was a British biologist known as a pioneer in establishing the science of ecology, which deals with the relation of living things to their environment and to one another.
See more »Cyril Dean Darlington
Darlington, Cyril Dean (1903-1981) was a British biologist who formed and supported a number of basic ideas about chromosomes and their role in heredity.
See more »Desmond Morris
Morris, Desmond (1928-) is a British zoologist who is also a well-known author and broadcaster.
See more »Edgar Douglas Adrian
Edgar Douglas Adrian, a British physiologist, studied the function of neurons (nerve cells) in muscle stimulation and sensory organs.
See more »Eric Steven Lander
Lander, Eric Steven (1957-), an American geneticist, has been one of the driving forces behind the revolution in genomics, the study of all the genes in an organism and how they function together in health and disease.
See more »Francis Galton
Galton, Sir Francis (1822–1911), an English scientist. Galton won renown for his contributions to the understanding of human heredity and for his work in the fields of statistics and meteorology.
See more »Francis Harry Compton Crick
Crick, Francis Harry Compton (1916-), was a British biologist who played a major role in the 1953 discovery of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the substance that transmits genetic information from one generation to the next.
See more »Frederick Hopkins
Hopkins, Sir Frederick Gowland (1861–1947), an English biochemist. In 1906 he discovered that milk contains growth-promoting substances that are essential for good health.
See more »Frederick Sanger
Sanger, Frederick (1918-) is a British biochemist, a scientist who conducts research into the molecules that occur in the cells of animals, plants, and other organisms.
See more »Georgiana Molloy
Molloy, Georgiana (1805-1843) was a botanist and a member of a pioneering family in Western Australia.
See more »Hans Sloane
Sloane, Hans (1660-1753) was a British physician and botanist renowned especially for his voluminous collection of plant and animal specimens, fossils, minerals, precious stones, coins, and rare artifacts and antiquities of all kinds.
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