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Other biologists, those living outside of major scientific nations, have also contributed greatly to biology. With the increasing importance of genetics, conservation and microbiology, other biologists may yet discover more of nature's secrets.
Featured Article: Severo Ochoa
Ochoa, Severo (1905-1993), a Spanish-born American biochemist shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Arthur Kornberg for discovering an enzyme that can synthesize RNA (ribonucleic acid). See more »
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Szent-Gyorgyi von Nagyrapolt, Albert (1893-1986), a Hungarian-American biochemist.
See more »Corneille Jean-Francois Heymans
Heymans, Corneille Jean-Frančois (1892-1968), was a Belgian physiologist. He won the 1938 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discoveries concerning the regulation of respiration, the process by which human beings and other living things obtain and use oxygen.
See more »George Emil Palade
Palade, George Emil (1912-), a Romanian-born cell biologist, shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Christian René de Duve of Belgium and Albert Claude of the United States for trailblazing work in cell biology.
See more »Gregor Johann Mendel
Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822-1884), an Austrian priest and botanist. Mendel founded the science of genetics.
See more »Henry William Harvey
Harvey, William Henry (1811-1866) was an Irish botanist who undertook extensive studies of algae in various parts of the world.
See more »Hideyo Noguchi
Noguchi, Hideyo (1876–1928), a Japanese-American bacteriologist. He conducted important studies of the causes of syphilis, trachoma, Oroya fever, and yellow fever.
See more »John Desmond Bernal
Bernal, John Desmond (buhr NAL) (1901-1971), an Irish-born physicist, made major contributions to X-ray crystallography.
See more »Jules-Jean-Baptiste-Vincent Bordet
Bordet, Jules-Jean-Baptiste-Vincent (bawr DAY) (1870-1961), a Belgian bacteriologist, was an expert in bacteriology, immunology, and serology and a pioneer in the field of immunity.
See more »Karl Wilhelm Nageli
Nägeli, Karl Wilhelm (1817-1891), a Swiss botanist, is remembered both for his contributions to the understanding of plant cells and for his rejection of Gregor Johann Mendel's laws of heredity.
See more »Kitasato Shibasaburo
Kitasato, Shibasaburo (1852-1931), a Japanese bacteriologist, discovered the bacillus that causes bubonic plague and did important work on other diseases.
See more »Konrad Zacharias Lorenz
Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias (1903-1989), an Austrian zoologist, was a founder of ethology, the study of animal behavior.
See more »Leo Szilard
Szilard, Leo (1898–1964), a Hungarian-American physicist who was instrumental in developing nuclear reactors.
See more »Leon Guerrero
Guerrero, Leon (1853-1935) was a Filipino pharmacist and botanist who earned the title “father of Philippine botany” in 1935.
See more »Robert Barany
Barany, Robert (1876-1936), an Austrian physiologist, investigated the roles of the brain and ear in human equilibrium.
See more »Severo Ochoa
Ochoa, Severo (1905-1993), a Spanish-born American biochemist shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Arthur Kornberg for discovering an enzyme that can synthesize RNA (ribonucleic acid).
See more »Steve Jones
Jones, Steve (1944-) is a British geneticist, snail biologist, and best-selling author.
See more »Susumu Tonegawa
Tonegawa, Susumu (1939-) is a Japanese biologist who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his research on the genetics of the immune system.
See more »Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich (1898–1976), a Soviet scientist. As director of the Institute of Genetics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he was the leading figure in Soviet biology from 1940 to 1965.
See more »Walter Richard Rudolf Hess
Hess, Walter Richard Rudolf (1881-1973), a Swiss physiologist, won the 1949 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering how certain parts of the brain control organs of the body.
See more »Werner Arber
Arber, Werner (1929-) is a Swiss molecular biologist whose discovery of restriction enzymes helped pave the way for genetic engineering.
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