This category is for sites focusing on the life and contributions of individual scientists of renown.
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- Avery, Oswald Theodore
- Carson, Rachel
- Chargaff, Erwin
- Crick, Francis
- Darwin, Charles
- Dawkins, Richard
- Franklin, Rosalind
- Garrod, Archibald
- Gould, Stephen Jay
- Hershey, Alfred Day
- Hooke, Robert
- Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste
- Lederberg, Joshua
- Leopold, Aldo
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- Linnaeus, Carl Biographical information on the "Father of Taxonomy" whose system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in use today.
- Hofmann, Albert Dr. Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD, psilocybin, and psilocin.
- Joseph Dalton Hooker A leading nineteenth century botanist, and close friend of Charles Darwin.
- Weigl, Rudolf Stefan Professor Rudolf Stefan Weigl (1883-1957) has developed the first effective vaccine against typhus.
- Fabre, Jean-Henri Casimir ( 1823 - 1915 ) The life and work of this entomologist. E-Texts and Gallery.
- Robert Hooke Site devoted to the life and work of Robert Hooke, one of the leading scientists of 17th century England, and first Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society.
- Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry Information on a book by Michael Bulmer about this nineteenth century scientist's work on genetics, evolution and biological statistics.
- Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) Grandfather of Charles Darwin and a philosopher, botanist, and naturalist in his own right.
- Edward Drinker Cope (1840 - 1897) Biographical information on this American paleontologist and evolutionist.
- Sistotrema confluens Tom Volk provides photographs and information on this strange tooth fungus in honor of the tercentenary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus.
- Eugene Odum Biologist who lived from 1913 - 2002 and pioneered the concept of the ecosystem.
- Ed Ricketts Marine biologist who lived from 1897 - 1948 and undertook research including the effect of wave shock on marine animals and plants.
- Ruth Patrick Biographical details of one of the pioneers of ecology and the study of ecosystems.
- Henry David Thoreau Biography, appreciation and bibliography of this naturalist who believed that humans are part of nature and that we function best when we remember this.
- John Burroughs Appreciation, bibliography and extracts from the works of this naturalist
- A Victorian Renaissance Man: John Obadiah Westwood Exhibits materials about the life and work of a prolific nineteenth-century entomologist, archaeologist, and biological illustrator.