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This is a list of notable biologists with a biography in Wikipedia. It includes zoologists , botanists , biochemists , ornithologists , entomologists , malacologists , and other specialities . Contents:
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The following is a list of notable microbiologists who have made significant contributions to the study of microorganisms. Many of those listed have received a Nobel Prize for their contributions to the field of microbiology. The others are typically considered historical figures whose work in microbiology had a notable impact in the field.
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
c. 520 BC – Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries and discovered the optic nerve. c. 450 BC – Sushruta wrote the Sushruta Samhita, redacted versions of which, by the third century AD, describe over 120 surgical instruments and 300 surgical procedures, classify human surgery into eight categories, and introduce cosmetic surgery.
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.
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname. The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new plant name .
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