english biologists library

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.

Featured Article: 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 »

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James Lovelock

Lovelock, James (1919-), a British chemist, biologist, and inventor, set forth a hypothesis that he called Gaia (GAY uh) that views the earth as a living organism that functions as a unified whole.

Jane Goodall

Goodall, Jane (1934–), an English zoologist. Through her research on chimpanzees, begun in the 1960's, Goodall made many discoveries that advanced the understanding of nonhuman primates.

John Cairns

Cairns, John (1922-) is a British scientist whose distinguished career has included research in molecular biology, cancer, and public health.

John Cowdery Kendrew

Kendrew, John Cowdery (1917–1997), a British biochemist and physicist, was the first scientist to determine in detail the atomic structure of myoglobin, a complex muscle protein molecule.

John Ernest Walker

Walker, John Ernest (1941-) is a British biochemist who was a co-recipient, with American biochemist Paul Delos Boyer, of the 1997 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discoveries regarding adenosine triposphate (ATP) synthase, an enzyme fundamental in producing the cellular energy that drives critical physiological functions.

John Gould

Gould, John (1804-1881), a British ornithologist, was especially renowned for creating and publishing numerous exquisitely illustrated volumes on birds from around the world.

John Maynard Smith

Smith, John Maynard (1920-) was a world-renowned British evolutionary biologist and author of numerous books on evolution, both scientific and popular.

John Robert Vane

Vane, John Robert (1927-) was a British biochemist and pharmacologist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Swedish scientists Sune Karl Bergstrom and Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson for his discoveries regarding prostaglandins.

Julian Sorrell Huxley

Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell (1887–1975), an English biologist, educator, and writer.

Karl Pearson

Pearson, Karl (1857–1936), an English mathematician and scientist. Pearson helped develop modern statistics and applied it to biological data, particularly problems of heredity and evolution.

Lord Florey

Florey, Howard Walter Florey, Baron (1898–1968), a British pathologist. In the late 1930's Florey and the British biochemist Ernst B.

Max Ferdinand Perutz

Perutz, Max Ferdinand (1914-2002), was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist who shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1962 with British molecular biologist John Cowdery Kendrew.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Tinbergen, Nikolaas (1907-1988), was a Dutch-born British zoologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work in ethology, the study of the social and individual behavior of animals and how it relates to their environment.