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Biologists

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  • Kyle Lafferty-Whyte - Telomerase biologist who made the transition to systems biology commercial ventures. uk.linkedin.com/in/drkylelaffertywhyte/
  • Daniel Lagunzad (1957–2010) - Filipino botanist who provided studies of the role of animal dispersal in early forest succession and rehabilitation in South East Asia.
  • Gretchen Lambert - Ascidian taxonomy, biodiversity, and invasive species. Faculty at California State University at Fullerton, and Researcher at University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories.
  • Olivier Lambert (paleontologist) - described and named Livyatan melvillei
  • Bert Langerwerf - better known as "The Lizard Man"
  • Tanya Latty - Slime Mould researcher [http://www.australasianscience.com.au/article/issue-june-2010/slime-moulds-get-smart.html]
  • Robert J. Lavenberg (Robert Lavenberg) - described the South Pacific moray
  • Einar Hagbart Martin Lea / E. H. M. Lea - biologist, described and named Dysommina proboscideus and Pseudophichthys splendens among other species
  • Herman Lent - Brazilian entomologist and former student of Carlos Chagas who became devoted to the research of the triatomines and together with Peter Wygodzinsky made a revision of the Triatominae, a summary of 40 years of studies on the triatomines up to 1989.{{cite journal |title=Revision of the Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae), and their significance as vectors of Chagas' disease |journal=Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History|volume=163 |last1=Lent |first1=Herman |last2=Wygodzinsky |first2=Pedro W. |year=1979 |hdl=2246/1282}}
  • Gordon Ling - {{search|Gordon+Ling}}
  • Anatole Stephan Loukashkin (1902–1988) - biologist; {{search|Anatole+Stephan+Loukashkin}}
  • Jens Lundgren - [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071020103343.htm]
  • Gerrit François Makkink (1907–2006) - Dutch ethologist, hydrologist and agriculturist; {{search|Gerrit+François+Makkink}}
  • Marc Mangel - theoretical ecologist
  • Kini R. Manjunatha / Kini Manjunatha - snake venom researcher, professor, NUS, Singapore
  • Stephen Mayfield (born 1955) - American microbiologist among other things (currently at UCSD)
  • Jean-Michel Mazin - settled the debate in favor of pterosaurs walking on all fours - see the timeline of pterosaur research
  • Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra - described the Indian unpatterned moray in 2016 alongside Anil Mohapatra, D. G. Smith, and D. Ray
  • Anil Mohapatra - described the Indian unpatterned moray in 2016 alongside D. G. Smith, D. Ray, and Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra
  • Gaetano Montelione - American biophysical chemist (born 1957) Wikidata[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28940908]Linked-In [https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaetano-t-montelione-0346833/]Rutgers University Lab Home Page [http://www-nmr.cabm.rutgers.edu/] Google Scholar [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mrtpF44AAAAJ]Nexomics Biociences[http://www.nexomics.com/Management%20Team.html]Montelione Lab Publications (>350) [http://www-nmr.cabm.rutgers.edu/publications/index.htm]Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium[http://www.nesg.org/]Short Biosketch][http://www-nmr.cabm.rutgers.edu/about/cv.short.htm]Wikipedia Article: Michael and Kate Bárány Award Laureates[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_and_Kate_B%C3%A1r%C3%A1ny_Award]Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2006[https://www.aaas.org/fellow/montelione-gaetano]Searle Scholar 1989[http://www.searlescholars.net/person/310] Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award[http://dreyfus.org/announcements/PAST-TC.pdf]Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Research Fellow[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Runyon_Cancer_Research_Foundation#Award_programs_and_research]{{search|Gaetano+Montelione+Rutgers}}
  • Anna Moroni (scientist) — ion channel researcher and developer of BLINK2 optogenetic tool. {{doi|10.1038/s41592-018-0192-y}}
  • Joseph Moshe - [http://www.unfictional.com/joseph-moshe-mossad-bioweapon-swine-flu-vaccine-westwood]
  • Thomas Mrsic-Flogel - Neuroscientist, Director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
  • Mary B. Mullins - American molecular biologist; {{search|Mary+B.+Mullins}}
  • Georg Graf Munster - see timeline of pterosaur research

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  • Ronald Nadler - developmental biologist at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center
  • Tetsuji Nakabo - named Sphyraena iburiensis
  • Eric Neil - English physiologist (1918–1990) - coauthor with C. Heymans (sic) Reflexogenic Areas of the Cardiovascular System and with B. Folkow Circulation
  • Lindsay Shepherd Olive (L. S. Olive) (1917–1988) - U.S. mycologist with several important contributions to the study of slime molds, author of the Eumycetozoa hypothesis postulated in his book The Mycetozoans (1975).
  • Robert V. O'Neill (Robert O'Neill) - theoretical ecologist
  • James Herbert Orton (1884-1953)
  • Balthazar Osório - described and named Muraena robusta
  • Haris Parengal - Indian Biologist, Naturalist and Author; contributing outstanding research ideas to different disciplines, discovery in microbial soil stabilization and Biological Nitrogen Fixation by Diazotrophs
  • Nikolai Vasil'evich Parin - described Neocaristius heemstrai
  • Michele A. Pastore (Michele Pastore) - named Sphyraena intermedia
  • Vic Pedemors – marine biologist, animal behaviorist
  • Martin Pera - originator of ESI (aka HES) human ES lines; {{search|Martin+Pera}}
  • Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León - one of the biologists who gave the Pacific nurse shark the binomial name Ginglymostoma unami
  • P.M.Peterson - described and named Sporobolus alterniflorus
  • Felix Plieninger - formally divided the pterosaurs into two suborders, the long-tailed Rhamphorhynchoidea and the short-tailed Pterodactyloids
  • John J. Pogonoski (John Pogonoski) - gave the Indonesian wobbegong the binomial name Orectolobus leptolineatus
  • Jules Pretty - British agronomist; {{search|Jules+Pretty}}; [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pEdvFq4AAAAJ&hl=en gscholar profile]
  • Patricia Princehouse {{Missing article|Patricia+Princehouse}}
  • Artem Mikhailovich Prokofiev - described Gymnothorax emmae in 2010
  • August Quenstedt - paleobiologist who argued that pterosaurs walked on their hind limbs - see Timeline of pterosaur research
  • Emmanuel Ramírez-Antonio - one of the biologists who gave the Pacific nurse shark the binomial name Ginglymostoma unami
  • Achille P. Raselimanana, PhD (Achille Raselimanana) - Malagasy herpetologist and taxonomist. Professor at University of Antananarivo. Attained PhD from American Museum of Natural History under Christopher J. Raxworthy. President of Association Vahatra. Coauthor of many scientific papers and several books published by Vahatra. Associate Editor of the journal Malagasy Nature. Particularly significant contributions to understanding of Zonosaurus systematics.[http://www.vahatra.mg/permanentmembers.html][https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/R/A/au20037537.html] [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5ydpACYAAAAJ&hl=en][https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Achille_Philippe_Raselimanana]
  • Thaichira Bahuleyan Ratheesh - one of the people who gave the Arabian barracuda the binomial name Sphyraena arabiansis
  • Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, PhD (Fanomezana Ratsoavina) - Malagasy herpetologist and taxonomist. Attained PhD from Technische Universität Braunschweig under Miguel Vences. Lecturer at the University of Antananarivo. Major contributions to the taxonomy of Uroplatus geckos. Senior fellowship from VolkswagenStiftung. [https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/en/zoology/research/evolutionary-biology/translate-to-english-alumni][https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NffWNNcAAAAJ&hl=en][https://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/search/projectPDF.do?projectId=9036][https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21393143][https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-leaf-tailed-gecko-discovered-madagascar-180971338/][https://news.mongabay.com/2019/10/a-sly-species-of-leaf-tailed-gecko-uncovered-from-madagascar/]
  • Dipanjan Ray - described the Indian unpatterned moray in 2016 alongside Anil Mohapatra, D. G. Smith, and Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra
  • Jacques Rivaton - described the whitetip moray in 1979 alongside Pierre Fourmanoir
  • Vadim S. Rotenberg, MD, PhD, DSc. - author of the "search activity" concept; {{search|Vadim+S.+Rotenberg}}
  • John Rummel – astrobiologist, currently at East Carolina University; held various positions at NASA (1986–1993); Director of Research Administration and Education at the Marine Biological Laboratory (1994–1998); was NASA's Planetary Protection Officer (1998–2006); NASA Senior Scientist for Astrobiology (2006–2008); Director of the Institute for Coastal Science and Policy at ECU (2008–2013); [http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/biology/Rummel_John.cfm]; [https://www.seti.org/our-scientists/john-rummel]; [https://www.mars-one.com/about-mars-one/advisers/prof.-john-d.-rummel-phd-usa]; [http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=22095]; [https://www.seeker.com/space/exploration/heres-what-its-like-to-be-the-planetary-protection-officer-at-nasa]; [https://www.pnas.org/content/98/5/2128]; [https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2018.1944]; [https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/04/who-s-our-planetary-protection-officer.html]; [https://scicom.ucsc.edu/publications/QandA/2010/rummel.html]

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  • Jeffery M. Saarela (Jeffery Saarela) - described Sporobolus alterniflorus
  • Neville Sanjana 2015-2017 PECASE winner ([https://www.nygenome.org/labs/sanjana-lab/] [https://www.nygenome.org/neville-sanjana-phd-interviewed-labs-sars-cov-2-mutation-research-featured-in-washington-post-report-on-covid-19-and-children/] [https://www.nygenome.org/dr-neville-sanjana-interviewed-about-significance-of-new-coronavirus-variant-spreading-in-the-u-k/]) - see Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
  • Isidro Antonio T. Savillo (Isidro Antonio Savillo) - Wetland Conservation Honorable Advisor Award; organizer of ISMCBBPR (Molecule of the Year) and ISCSPM; {{search|Isidro+Antonio+Savillo}}
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Arne Schiøtz|fr}} - declared Leptopelis barbouri to be a valid species in 1975
  • William C. Schroeder (William Schroeder) - coauthor of Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, alongside Henry Bryant Bigelow
  • Erin Margaret Schuman — neurbiologist and managing director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (2015; Frankfurt, Germany){{cite journal |last1=Marx |first1=Vivien |title=Erin Margaret Schuman |journal=Nature Methods |date=May 2015 |volume=12 |issue=5 |page=375 |doi=10.1038/nmeth.3374 |department=The Author File |type=Paper }}
  • Jack Schuster - Entomologist specialized in Passalidae [http://www.uvg.edu.gt/publicaciones/personaje/anteriores/jack_schuster.html]
  • Werner Theodor Schmidt - {{search|Werner+Theodor+Schmidt}}
  • Arturo Angulo Sibaja - one of the biologists who gave the Pacific nurse shark the binomial name Ginglymostoma unami
  • Joseph Simcox - botanical explorer; see Kajari melon
  • Kerry Sink - South African marine ecologist
  • David G. Smith (D. G. Smith) - described the ringed moray and Gymnothorax mccoskeri in 1997, Kenyaconger heemstrai in 2003, and the Indian unpatterned moray in 2016
  • L. A. Smith - described the rough-scaled python
  • Gerald Sonnenfeld - {{search|Gerald+Sonnenfeld}}
  • Alex Sonnenwirth – microbiologist – {{doi|10.1128/JCM.00263-16}} – [http://beckerarchives.wustl.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=8534&q=#biographical-hist-note]
  • John D. Stevens (ichthyologist) - gave the elongate carpet shark the binomial name Parascyllium elongatum
  • Carl P. Swanson - Father of modern cytology
  • Kenneth B. Storey (biologist) - Canadian biologist; [http://http-server.carleton.ca/~kbstorey/]
  • Hassan Syed - CIO of Species360
  • Shigeho "Sho" Tanaka - named and described the Japanese velvet dogfish (Scymnodon ichiharai) alongside Kazunari Yano in 1984
  • Toru Taniuchi - named and described the whitetail dogfish (Scymnodalatias albicauda) alongside Jack Garrick in 1986
  • J. Paul Taylor (biologist - neurologist) - physician-scientist, Potamkin Prize winner ([https://www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S0896-6273(17)30742-0.pdf], [https://www.alzforum.org/news/community-news/paul-taylor-wins-2020-potamkin-prize])
  • Jeffrey Taubenberger - found complete genome of 1918 Spanish Flu - {{search|Jeffrey+Taubenberger}}
  • Yi-Kai Tea - Singaporean-Australian ichthyologist, taxonomist, and photographer; [https://schmidtocean.org/person/yi-kai-tea/] [https://www.yikaitea.com]
  • Cornelis Terhorst - immunologist; contributed to understanding of T-cell Receptors and cancer immunotherapy; Professor at Harvard Medical School - {{search|Cornelis+Terhorst}}
  • Ramachandran Thangaraja - one of the people who gave the Arabian barracuda the binomial name Sphyraena arabiansis
  • Stewart P. Thomas (born 1946) - Amercian zoologist and teacher; {{search|Stewart+P.+Thomas}}
  • Ken Thompson (botonist) - British botanist, ecologist and author of 'Where do Camels Belong? The Story and Science of Invasive Species,
  • Heinrich Julius Tode - named the fungi genus Xylostroma in 1790
  • T'Shaka Touré (Touré T) - author of Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1
  • Gian Toyos - biologist and environmental expert
  • Cornelius Van Neil - [http://www.f1000biology.com/about/biography/1158444158833871]; {{search|Cornelius+Van+Neil}}
  • Carl von Theodori - described the new species Pterodactylus banthensis from Franconia - see timeline of pterosaur research
  • Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia - named the Austriadactylus genus
  • Cyprien Verseux - astrobiologist, expert in biological life support systems, crewmember of the HI-SEAS IV mission, station leader of the XIVth winterover at Concordia Station (Antarctica); {{search|Cyprien+Verseux}}
  • Jonathan Vicente - Brazilian Biomedical Scientist and science communicator, a strong voice in Brazil COVID-19 response
  • Alexei Vyssotski (contemporary) — Russian neurophysiologist focused on determining mechanisms of memory formation through vocal learning in birds; developed equipment for recording vocalizations of individual birds via a 2 gram backpack (Neurologger). See: {{cite news |last=Vivien |first=Marx |title=Alexei Vyssotski |journal=Nature Methods |department=The Author File |date=November 2014 |volume=11 |issue=11 |page=1079 |doi=10.1038/nmeth.3150 }}{{closed access}}; {{cite journal |title=Reconstruction of vocal interactions in a group of small songbirds |last=Anisimov |first=VN |last2=Herbst |first2=JA |last3=Abramchuk |first3=AN |journal=Nature Methods |department=Brief Communications |date=November 2014 |volume=11 |issue=11 |pages=1135–7 |doi=10.1038/NMETH.3114 |display-authors=etal}}{{closed access}}
  • Georg Wagler - Argued that pterosaurs represented a distinct class of aquatic vertebrates that he called Gryphi. Like Collini, Wagler thought that pterosaurs swam underwater using their forelimbs as flippers. - see timeline of pterosaur research
  • Andreas Wagner (palaeontologist) - erected the new genus Dorygnathus for the species Pterodactylus banthensis - see timeline of pterosaur research
  • Martin Wells - British cephalopod biologist and researcher; {{search|Martin+Wells}}
  • Tom Wenseleers - Belgian evolutionary biologist, with many articles in prominent journals (Nature, Science, Nature Microbiology, etc); [https://bio.kuleuven.be/ento/wenseleers/twenseleers.htm]
  • George Reber Wieland - described the genus Archelon and the species Archelon ischyros
  • Henry Hopley White - dinoflagellate cysts
  • Rupert Wild - reviewed and redescribed all Tanystropheus specimens known at the time via several large monographs in the 1970s-80s
  • H. Garrison Wilkes - American maize botanist, student of Richard Evans Schultes; {{search|H.+Garrison+Wilkes}}
  • Auriel A. Willette - American food science biologist. [https://quicksilver.primer.ai/auriel_a_willette/]
  • G.W. Wilson - named Phloeophthora cactorum in 1914; see Phytophthora cactorum
  • Carrie D. Wolinetz current Deputy Director for Health & Life Sciences, White House Office of Science Policy. Former Chief of Staff and Director, Office Science Policy, National Institutes of Health. Received Ph.D. in Animal Science from (The Pennsylvania State University). Led policy efforts in combatting sexual harassment in science, data sharing, biosecurity, and clincial trials. [https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Carrie-D-Wolinetz-2082350797]
  • Dr. Mitchell Henry Wright – Renowned Geomicrobiologist who received his Ph.D. for his work investigating the physiological and molecular characteristics of manganese transforming bacteria from a radioactive hot spring (Paralana hot springs, South Australia, Australia) [https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/bitstream/handle/10072/368137/Wright_2014_02Thesis.pdf?sequence=1]. Born in Australia, Dr. Wright has worked in research facilities around the world, including in the United States (Oregon Health and Science University) [https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1558692] and Australia (Griffith University). He is an expert in thermophilic bacteria as well as pharmacognosy and has been the subject of news articles [https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/news/gold-coast/griffith-university-scientist-says-anthrax-work-hazard-of-the-job-to-discover-treatments/news-story/562ab418f4882213d9647732826cb631]. He has authored or co-authored over 30 publications in high-impact journals and has an h-index of 10. According to the author profiles on his most recent publication, he currently resides in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) where he works as a research scientist. [https://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/192417/vc-council-report-october-2015.pdf]; [https://trialect.com/members/13?page=77]; [https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=UDWe-tAAAAAJ&hl=en]; [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mitchell_Wright] [https://goldschmidt.info/2017/program/programViewAbstractsPDF?sessionId=2911]; [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27342559]; [https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au/handle/10072/79390]; [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27342559]; [https://docksci.com/chloroform-separation_59e9ae30d64ab2ada3864de8.html]; [https://www.asmscience.org/content/journal/jmbe/10.1128/jmbe.v18i2.1348]; [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mitchell_Wright/publication/282655891_Abstract_5th_Annual_Meeting_for_Queensland_Bushfoods_2015/links/5616534d08ae0f2140070671/Abstract-5th-Annual-Meeting-for-Queensland-Bushfoods-2015.pdf]; [https://aem.asm.org/content/aem/82/17/5402.full.pdf]. Furthermore, he has authored or co-authored papers describing novel bacteria (Aliidiomarina minuta, Pseudomonas laurentiana) and was integral in their discovery [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliidiomarina_minuta]; [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328634802_Pseudomonas_laurentiana_sp_nov_an_MnIII-oxidizing_Bacterium_Isolated_from_the_St_Lawrence_Estuary]; [https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1107952300?and_facet_journal=jour.1144579].
  • Philip F. Wareing (27 April 1914 — 29 March 1996) - He was appointed Professor of Botany in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in which post he remained until his retirement in 1981. He discovered large amounts of growth inhibitor in dormant buds of ash and potatoes. He called it dormin. In the early 60's Wareing and associates confirmed that applying dormin (later named Abscisic acid) to a bud induces dormancy. http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/45/507Salisbury, F.B. and Ross, C.W. (1992) Plant PhysiologyThe Handy Biology Answer Book, Patricia Barnes-Svarney,Thomas E. Svarney
  • Michael Watkins (zoologist) (Watkins M) - author of The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles
  • Xiang-Jiao Yang - Molecular and developmental biologist
  • Kazunari Yano - named and described the Japanese velvet dogfish (Scymnodon ichiharai) alongside Shigeho "Sho" Tanaka in 1984
  • Yoram Yom-Tov - Israeli zoologist
  • Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka - described the superphylum Asgard (archaea)
  • Chuanlun Zhang – An American-trained Chinese Biogeochemist and Geomicrobiologist who had worked at many research facilities in both the United States (NASA, ORNL, UGA, Texas A&M) and China (Southern University of Science and Technology) and is an expert in Archaea. He has authored or co-authored nearly 300 high-impact papers. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4602124/]; [https://nai.nasa.gov/directory/zhang-chuanlun/]; [http://www.rcn.montana.edu/Participants/Detail.aspx?id=93]; [http://www.sustc.edu.cn/en/news_events_1_6/2348]; [http://sustc.edu.cn/en/faculty_finder/f/zhang%20chuanlun]; [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chuanlun_Zhang]; [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chuanlun_Zhang3]; [https://www.sciencemag.org/author/chuanlun-zhang]]; [http://www.marsci.uga.edu/directory/people/chuanlun-zhang-0]; [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KICgHHAAAAAJ&hl=en]; [https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1024614]; [https://aem.asm.org/content/72/6/4419];

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