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Miscellaneous Biologists

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English, 1774-1857, naval officer and hydrographer, devised eponymous scale of wind force and a tabulated system of weather registration   Sir Francis Beaufort  
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Scottish geologist, 1797-1875, wrote Principles of Geology, denied necessity of stupendous upheavals, arguing that the greatest geological changes might have been produced by forces still at work   Sir Charles Lyell  
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Latin name of Gerhard Kremer, 16=512-94, Flemish geographer and map-maker, introduced map projection that bears his name, first to use the word "atlas"   Geradus Mercator  
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German mineralogist, 1773-1839, wrote The Natural History System of Mineralogy, established scale of hardness   Friedrich Mohs  
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American seismologist, 1900-85, devised absolute scale of earthquake strength   Charles Richter  
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German meteorologist and geophysicist, 1880-1930, proposed theory of continental drift, led to science of plate tectonics   Alfred Wegener  
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American horticulturalist, 1849-1926, pioneer in improving food plants through grafting and hybridization   Luther Burbank  
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English molecular biologist, built model of DNA   Francis Crick  
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English, 1809-82, naturalist, originator of theory of evolution by natural selection, wrote The Origin of Species   Charles Darwin  
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Scottish bacteriologist, 1881-1955, discovered penicillin   Alexander Fleming  
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Italian physiologist, 1737-98, investigated role of electrical impulses in animal tissue, connected frog to corresponding nerve and observed twitching   Luigi Galvani  
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English biologist, 1825-95, during HMS Rattlesnake expedition to South Seas, foremost scientific supporter of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection   Thomas Huxley  
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French naturalist, 1744-1829, made distinction between vertebrates and invertebrates, postulated that acquired characters can be inherited by later generations   Jean Lamarck  
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Swedish naturalist, 1707-78, introduced binomial nomenclature of generic and specific names for animals and plants which permitted hierarchical organization   Carolus Linnaeus  
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Austrian biologist and botanist whose principle of factorial inheritance, experiments in ybridity in plants led to Law of Segregation and Law of Independent Assortment   Gregor Mendel  
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French chemist, 1822-95, founder of modern bacteriology, proposed germ theory of diseases, method of killing harmful bacteria in wine and milk   Louis Pasteur  
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Russian physiologist, 1849-1936, study of conditioned reflexes   Ivan Pavlov  
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American biologist, b. 1928, won Nobel for work on structure of DNA, wrote The Double Helix   James Watson  
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