List of zoologists by author abbreviation
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This is a list of authors of names published under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
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- Abe – Tokiharu AbeTokiharu Abewas a Japanese ichthyologist. He worked for the University Museum of the University of Tokyo. Abe became notable for his taxonomic studies on the pufferfish from East Asia, in particalur the genus Takifugu which he first described in 1949. He described further species like Sagamichthys abei,...
(1911-1996) - Abeille de Perrin, Ab. – Elzéar Abeille de Perrin (1843–1910)
- Able – Kenneth W. Able (b.1945)
- Abbott, C.C.Abbott – Charles Conrad AbbottCharles Conrad AbbottCharles Conrad Abbott was an American archaeologist and naturalist, born at Trenton, New Jersey. He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and served as a surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War...
(1843-1919) general zoology - C.Abbott – Charles AbbotCharles Abbot (botanist)Charles Abbot was a British botanist and entomologist.Educated at Winchester College and matriculated at New College, Oxford with an M.A. degree in 1788, he was in 1793 elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London. he received the degrees of B.D. and D.D...
(1761-1817) entomology - J.Abbott – John Abbot (1751–1841) entomology, ornithology
- W.Abbott, Abbott – William Louis AbbottWilliam Louis AbbottWilliam Louis Abbott was a wealthy American medical doctor, explorer, ornithologist and field naturalist. He is notable for his prodigious collections of biological specimens and ethnological artefacts from around the world, especially from the Malay Archipelago, as well as for his financial...
(1860–1936) mainly ornithology - Acerbi – Giuseppe AcerbiGiuseppe AcerbiGiuseppe Acerbi was an Italian naturalist, explorer and composer.-Biography:Acerbi was born in Castel Goffredo...
(1773–1846) - Acero – Arturo Acero Pizarro (b.1954)
- Adams, Ad. – Charles Baker AdamsCharles Baker AdamsCharles Baker Adams was an American educator and naturalist.-Biography:He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1814, the son of Charles J...
(1814–1853) malacology - A.Adams – Arthur AdamsArthur Adams (zoologist)Arthur Adams was an English physician and naturalist.Adams was assistant surgeon on board H.M.S. "Actaeon" in company with HMS Samarang in the British Navy during the survey of the Malay Archipelago, the Japan Sea, Korea and China,from 1843 to 1846. He edited the Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S....
(1820–1878) mostly marine animals - A.L.Adams – Andrew Leith AdamsAndrew Leith AdamsAndrew Leith Adams was a Scottish physician, naturalist and geologist. He was the father of the writer Francis Adams.-Life and career:...
(1827–1882) vertebrate paleontology - D.B.Adams – Daniel B. Adams (fl.1979) paleontology
- E.Adams – Edward Adams (1824–1856)
- H.Adams – Henry AdamsHenry Adams (zoologist)Henry Adams was an English naturalist and conchologist.With his brother Arthur Adams, also a noted conchologist, he wrote three volumes, 1858.-References:...
(1813-1877) malacology - Agassiz, Ag., L.Ag., Agass. – Louis AgassizLouis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
(1807–1873) ichthyology, paleontology - A.Agassiz, A.Ag. – Alexander Emanuel AgassizAlexander Emanuel AgassizAlexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz , son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.-Biography:...
(1835–1910) mostly marine animals - Agenjo – Ramon Agenjo Cecilia (1908–1984)
- Aguilera – Orangel Antonio Aguilera Socorro
- D.R.de Aguilera – Dione Rodrigues de Aguilera
- Ahl, E.Ahl – Ernst AhlErnst AhlChristoph Gustav Ernst Ahl was a German zoologist.He was the director of the department of ichthyology and herpetology in the Museum für Naturkunde....
(1898–1943) herpetology, ichthyology - J.N.Ahl, Ahl – Jonas Nicolaus Ahl
- Ahlquist – Jon Edward AhlquistJon Edward AhlquistJon Edward Ahlquist is an American molecular biologist and ornithologist who has specialized in molecular phylogenetics. He has collaborated extensively with Charles Sibley, primarily at Yale University.By 1987, both Ahlquist and Sibley had left Yale....
(fl. late 20th century) - Ahlstrom – Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom (1910-1979)
- Ahnelt – Harald Ahnelt
- Aizawa – Masahiro Aizawa
- Akama – Alberto Akama
- Akihito – Emperor AkihitoAkihitois the current , the 125th emperor of his line according to Japan's traditional order of succession. He acceded to the throne in 1989.-Name:In Japan, the emperor is never referred to by his given name, but rather is referred to as "His Imperial Majesty the Emperor" which may be shortened to . In...
of Japan (b.1933) - Albert – James S. Albert
- Albertis – Luigi Maria d'Albertis (1841–1901)
- Alcock – Alfred William AlcockAlfred William AlcockAlfred William Alcock was a British physician naturalist and carcinologist.Alcock was the son of a sea-captain, John Alcock in Bombay, India who retired to live in Blackheath...
(1859–1933) - Aldrovandi, Aldr. – Ulisse AldrovandiUlisse AldrovandiUlisse Aldrovandi was an Italian naturalist, the moving force behind Bologna's botanical garden, one of the first in Europe. Carolus Linnaeus and the comte de Buffon reckoned him the father of natural history studies...
(1522–1605) - Alexander, B.Alexander – Boyd AlexanderBoyd AlexanderBoyd Alexander was an English British Army officer, explorer and ornithologist.Lieutenant Boyd Francis Alexander was the oldest son of Lt Colonel Boyd Francis Alexander...
(1873–1910) ornithology - A.Alexander – Annie Montague AlexanderAnnie Montague AlexanderAnnie Montague Alexander was an American philanthropist and paleontological collector. She established the University of California Museum of Paleontology , Museum of Vertebrate Zoology , and financed their collections as well as a series of paleontological expeditions to the western United States...
(1867-1950) paleontology - C.Alexander, Alexander – Charles Paul AlexanderCharles Paul AlexanderCharles Paul Alexander was an American entomologist born September 25, 1889, in Gloversville, New York. He died on December 3, 1981.Charles Paul Alexander was the son of Emil Alexander and Jane Alexander . He entered Cornell University in 1909, earning a Bachelor of Sciences in 1913 and a Ph. D. in...
(1889–1981) entomology - H.Alexander – Horace AlexanderHorace AlexanderHorace Gundry Alexander was an English Quaker teacher and writer, pacifist and ornithologist. He was the youngest of four sons of Joseph Gundry Alexander...
(1889-1989) ornithology - W.Alexander – Wilfred Backhouse AlexanderWilfred Backhouse AlexanderWilfred Backhouse Alexander was an English ornithologist and entomologist. He was the brother of Horace Alexander....
(1885-1965) entomology, ornithology - Alencar – José Eduardo de Alencar Moreira (b.1953)
- Alfaro – Anastasio AlfaroAnastasio AlfaroAnastasio Alfaro was a Costa Rican zoologist, geologist and explorer.Alfaro was director of the National Museum of Costa Rica.-External links:*...
(1865–1951) - Alifanov – Vladimir R. Alifanov
- Allain – Ronan Allain (b.1974)
- Allen, J.A.Allen – Joel Asaph AllenJoel Asaph AllenJoel Asaph Allen was an American zoologist and ornithologist, born in Springfield, Massachusetts.He studied at Harvard University under Louis Agassiz...
(1838–1921) ornithology, American mammals - A.Allen – Arthur Augustus Allen (1885-1964) ornithology
- G.M.Allen – Glover Morrill AllenGlover Morrill AllenGlover Morrill Allen was an American zoologist.He was born at Walpole, New Hampshire, the son of Reverend Nathaniel Glover Allen and Harriet Ann Allen, and studied at Harvard University,...
(1879–1942) mainly mammals - G.R.Allen – Gerald R. Allen (b.1942) paleontology
- H.Allen – Harrison AllenHarrison AllenHarrison Allen was an American physician and anatomist, born in Philadelphia. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1861, and in 1862 became a surgeon in the United States Army and served until the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865...
(1841-1897) Chiroptera - J.A.Allen – John A. Allen malacology
- Allioni – Carlo AllioniCarlo AllioniCarlo Allioni was an Italian physician and professor of botany at the University of Turin. His most important work was Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii 1755, a study of the plant world in Piedmont, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237...
(1728–1804) - Allman, Allm. – George James AllmanGeorge James AllmanGeorge James Allman FRS , M.D., Emeritus Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh, was an eminent Irish naturalist.-Life:...
(1812–1898) - Almeida-Toledo – Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo
- Alströmer – Clas AlströmerClas AlströmerBaron Clas Alströmer was a Swedish naturalist who was a student of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University. From 1760–1764 he traveled throughout Southern Europe, collecting plants for Linnaeus. He established a botanical garden and natural museum near Gothenburg which was managed by the notable...
(1736–1794), a pupil of Linnaeus - Amadon – Dean AmadonDean AmadonDean Arthur Amadon was an American ornithologist and an authority on birds of prey.Amadon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Arthur and Mary Amadon. He received a BS from Hobart College in 1934 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1947...
(1912–2003) - Ambrosio – Alfredo Ambrosio
- Ameghino – Florentino AmeghinoFlorentino AmeghinoFlorentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist.Born in Luján, son of Italian immigrants, Ameghino was a self-taught naturalist, and focused his study on the lands of the southern Pampas...
(1854–1911) - Amyot – Charles Jean-Baptiste AmyotCharles Jean-Baptiste AmyotCharles Jean-Baptiste Amyot was a French lawyer and entomologist especially interested in Hemiptera....
(1799–1866) - Ancey – César Marie Félix AnceyCésar Marie Félix AnceyCésar Marie Félix Ancey was a French conchologist and entomologist.He was for 23 years ‘conservateur’ of collections for Charles Oberthür at Rennes...
(1860–1906) - Andersen – Knut Andersen
- Anderson, J.Anderson – John AndersonJohn Anderson (zoologist)John Anderson was a Scottish anatomist and zoologist who worked in India.He was born in Edinburgh and graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1861. His thesis however was in zoology...
(1833–1900) Asian mammals and reptiles - R.Anderson – Rudolph Martin AndersonRudolph Martin AndersonRudolph Martin Anderson was a Canadian zoologist and explorer.He was born in Decorah, Iowa in 1876, the son of John E.A. Anderson. He received a Ph.D...
(1876–1961) mammals - S.Anderson – Steven Clement Anderson (b.1936) herpetology
- W.Anderson – William AndersonWilliam Anderson (naturalist)William Anderson was a Scottish naturalist, one of seven children of schoolmaster Robert Anderson and Jean...
(1750-1778) general zoology - André – Jacques Ernest Edmond André (1844–1891)
- Andriyashev, Andriashev, Andrijaschew – Anatoly Petrovich Andriashev (1910-2009)
- Angas – George French AngasGeorge French AngasGeorge French Angas , was an English explorer, naturalist and painter.He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the eldest son of George Fife Angas, prominent in the establishment of the new colony of South Australia. Despite showing remarkable talent in drawing, he was placed in a London...
(1822–1886) - Annandale – Nelson AnnandaleNelson AnnandaleThomas Nelson Annandale CIE was a Scottish zoologist, entomologist and anthropologist.The eldest son of Thomas Annandale, the regius professor of clinical surgery at the University of Edinburgh, Nelson was educated at Rugby School, Balliol College, Oxford, and the University of Edinburgh.Annandale...
(1876–1924) - Anthony – Harold Elmer Anthony (1890-1970)
- Antunes – Miguel Telles AntunesMiguel Telles AntunesMiguel Telles Antunes is a Portuguese palaeontologist. He is specializes, among other things, in dinosaur palaeontology.Antunes is the director of the Museu Maynense da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa...
(b.1937) - Apesteguía – Sebastián Apesteguía
- Appellöf – Adolf AppellöfAdolf AppellöfJakob Johan Adolf Appellöf was a Swedish marine zoologist.Appellöf matriculated at Uppsala University in 1877, earned his Ph.D. in goatsville and became a docent of zoology in 1887. In 1889 he received the position of janitor at the Museum of Bergen...
(1857–1921) - Archbold – Richard ArchboldRichard ArchboldRichard Archbold was an American zoologist and philanthropist. He was independently wealthy, being the grandson of the capitalist John Dustin Archbold. He was educated at private schools and later attended classes at Columbia University though he never graduated...
(1907–1976) - Archer – William ArcherWilliam Archer (naturalist)William Archer was an Irish naturalist and microscopist especially interested in Protozoa and Desmids.Archer was one of the twelve founder members of the Dublin Microscopical Club. Between 1858 and 1885 he wrote over 230 scientific papers in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science ,...
(1830?–1897) microorganisms - M.Archer – Michael ArcherMike Archer (paleontologist)Mike Archer is an Australian paleontologist specialising in Australia vertebrates. He is a Professor at the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales...
(b.1945) mammals, paleontology - Arcucci – Andrea B. Arcucci
- Arrow – Gilbert John ArrowGilbert John ArrowGilbert John Arrow was an English entomologist.Gilbert was the son of John Garner Arrow of Streatham, London. He initially trained as an architect but took an interest in insects from 1896 during which time he was a Deputy Keeper on the staff of the Natural History Museum in London from 1896 until...
(1873–1948) - Artedi, Arctaedius, Art. – Peter ArtediPeter ArtediPeter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius was a Swedish naturalist and is known as the "father of Ichthyology."...
(1705-1735) - Asano – Nagao Asano
- Ashmead – William Harris AshmeadWilliam Harris AshmeadWilliam Harris Ashmead was an American entomologist born on 19 September 1855 at Philadelphia. He died 17 October 1908 at Washington D.C.After his studies in Philadelphia, Ashmead worked for the publisher J. B. Lippincott Co. Later, he settled in Florida where he formed his own publishing house...
(1855–1908) - Asso – Ignacio Jordán Claudio de Asso y del RioIgnacio Jordán Claudio de Asso y del RioIgnacio Jordán Claudio de Asso y del Río was a Spanish diplomat, naturalist, lawyer and historian. He sometimes used the pseudonym of Melchor de Azagra....
(1742-1814) - Atkinson – William Stephen AtkinsonWilliam Stephen AtkinsonWilliam Stephen Atkinson was a British lepidopterist who worked for much of his life in India.William was the eldest son of Rev. Thomas D, Atkinson, of Chesterton, in Suffolk. He became interested in nature at Cannock Chase, when his father became Vicar of Rugeley. He started collecting British...
(1820–1876) - Aubé, Aub. – Charles Aubé (1802–1869)
- Audebert, Audeb. – Jean-Baptiste AudebertJean-Baptiste AudebertJean Baptiste Audebert was a French artist and naturalist.Audebert was born at Rochefort. He studied painting and drawing at Paris, and gained considerable reputation as a miniature-painter. Employed in preparing plates for the Histoire des cloportes of Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, he acquired a...
(1759–1800) - Audubon, Audub. – John James AudubonJohn James AudubonJohn James Audubon was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats...
(1785–1851) - Aurivillius, P.Aurivillius, Auriv. – Per Olof Christopher AurivilliusPer Olof Christopher AurivilliusPer Olof Christopher Aurivillius was a Swedish entomologist.Aurivillius was born at Forsa. He was the Director of the Natural History Museum in Stockholm and he specialised in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He was, for a long time, the Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science...
(1853–1928) entomology - C.Aurivillius – Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius (1854-1899)
- S.Aurivillius – Sven Magnus AurivilliusSven Magnus AurivilliusSven Magnus Aurivillius was a Swedish zoologist born 12 August 1892 in Stockholm and died 4 March 1928 in Mörby.He was the director of the centre for marine zoology in Kristineberg in 1923 but left prematurely, just before the publishing of his thesis on Japanese sea fans. He was the eighth...
(1892-1928) marine zoology - Ausserer, Auss. – Anton AussererAnton AussererAnton Ausserer was an Austrian naturalist specialising in spiders.- Selected publications :...
(1907–1976) - Ayling – Tony Ayling (b.1947)
- Ayres, W.O.Ayres – William Orville AyresWilliam Orville AyresWilliam Orville Ayres was an American physician and ichthyologist. Born in Connecticut, he studied to become a doctor at Yale University School of Medicine....
(1805–1887) ichthyology - J.M.Ayres – José Márcio AyresJosé Márcio AyresJosé Márcio Ayres was a Brazilian primatologist and conservationist who founded the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in 1996, followed by the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve in 1997...
(1954-2003) primates - Azara, Az. – Félix de AzaraFélix de AzaraFélix Manuel de Azara was a Spanish military officer, naturalist and engineer. He was born in Barbunales, Aragon....
(1746–1821) - Azuma – Yoichi Azuma
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- Bachman – John BachmanJohn BachmanThe Rev. John Bachman was an American Lutheran minister, social activist and naturalist who collaborated with J.J. Audubon to produce Viviparous Quadrapeds of North America and whose writings, particularly Unity of the Human Race, were influential in the development of the theory of evolution. He...
(1790–1874) - Bailey – Steven Bailey (zoologist)
- R.G.Bailey – Roland G. Bailey
- R.M.Bailey – Reeve Maclaren Bailey
- Baillon – Louis Antoine Francois BaillonLouis Antoine François BaillonLouis Antoine François Baillon was a French naturalist and collector. He was born in Montreuil-sur-Mer and died in Abbeville....
(1778–1851) - Baird – Spencer Fullerton BairdSpencer Fullerton BairdSpencer Fullerton Baird was an American ornithologist, ichthyologist and herpetologist. Starting in 1850 he was assistant-secretary and later secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C...
(1823–1887) - Baker – Edward Charles Stuart Baker (1864–1944)
- Bakker – Robert T. BakkerRobert T. BakkerRobert T. Bakker is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic...
(b. 1945) - Balanov – Andrei A. Balanov
- C.C.Baldwin – Carole C. Baldwin
- W.J.Baldwin – Wayne J. Baldwin
- Z.H.Baldwin – Zachary Hayward Baldwin
- Ball – Valentine BallValentine BallValentine Ball was an Irish geologist, and a brother of Sir Robert Ball.Ball joined the Geological Survey of India, becoming an authority not only on geology but also on ornithology and anthropology. His best known work is Jungle-Life in India...
(1843–1895) - Balon – Eugene K. Balon
- Balouet – Jean Christophe Balouet ornithology, paleontology
- Balss – Heinrich BalssHeinrich BalssHeinrich Balss was a German zoologist, specialising in Crustacea, especially decapods. He was chief conservator at the Zoologische Staatssammlung at the University of Munich, and wrote the sections on decapods and stomatopods in Heinrich Georg Bronn's seminal work Klassen und Ordnungen des...
(1886–1957) - Balushkin – Arkadii Vladimirovich Balushkin
- Bandyopadhyay – Saswati Bandyopadhyay
- Bangs – Outram BangsOutram BangsOutram Bangs was an American zoologist.Bangs was born in Watertown, Massachusetts and studied at Harvard from 1880 to 1884...
(1863–1932) vertebrates (mainly birds and mammals) - Banks – Nathan BanksNathan BanksNathan Banks was an American entomologist noted for his work on neuroptera, megaloptera, hymenoptera, and acarina . He started work on mites in 1880 with the USDA...
(1868–1953) entomology - R.Banks – Richard C. Banks (b. 1940)
- Bannerman – David Armitage BannermanDavid Armitage BannermanDavid Armitage Bannerman OBE, MA, SD , Hon. LL.D. , FRSE, FZS was a British ornithologist.-Biography:After graduating from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1909, Bannerman travelled extensively in Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Atlantic Islands.Rejected on health grounds by the...
(1886–1979) ornithology - Bannikov – Alexandre Fedorovich Bannikov
- Bansok Ros Bansok
- Barbour – Thomas BarbourThomas BarbourThomas Barbour was an American herpetologist. From 1927 until 1946, he was director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology founded in 1859 by Louis Agassiz at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
(1884–1946) - F.K.Barker – Frederick Keith Barker ornithology
- M.J.Barker – Michael J. Barker
- Barnes & McDunnough – James Halliday McDunnoughJames Halliday McDunnoughJames Halliday McDunnough was a Canadian entomologist best known for his work with North American Lepidoptera, but who also made important contributions about North American Ephemeroptera....
(1877-1962) - Barrett – Paul M. Barrett
- Barrows – Walter Bradford Barrows (1855–1923)
- Barsbold – Rinchen Barsbold paleontology (mainly theropod dinosaurs)
- Bartenef – Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bartenev
- Bartlett – Edward BartlettEdward BartlettEdward Bartlett was an English ornithologist. He was the son of Abraham Dee Bartlett.Bartlett accompanied Henry Baker Tristram to Palestine in 1863-64, and collected in the Amazon basin and Peru in 1865-69...
(1836–1908) ornithology - A.D.Bartlett – Abraham Dee BartlettAbraham Dee BartlettAbraham Dee Bartlett was a British zoologist.Bartlett had a small natural history shop near to the British Museum where he sold the products of his taxidermy business....
(1812–1897) general zoology (mainly vertebrates) - Barton – Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815)
- Baskin – Jonathan N. Baskin
- Batchelder – Charles Foster Batchelder (1856–1954)
- Bate – Charles Spence BateCharles Spence BateCharles Spence Bate, or Spence Bate, FRS was a British zoologist and dentist, who who practiced first at Swansea, and then Plymouth, taking over his father's practice. He was an authority on the Crustacea, and a frequent correspondent of Charles Darwin, mostly concerning their shared interest in...
(1819–1889) - Bates – George Latimer BatesGeorge Latimer BatesGeorge Latimer Bates , LL.D., M.B.O.U. was an American naturalist.Bates studied at Knox College, Galesburg and at the Chicago Theological Seminary and in 1895 visited West Africa and lived in the south east Cameroon, making a living by farming...
(1863–1940) - Bateson – William BatesonWilliam BatesonWilliam Bateson was an English geneticist and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge...
(1861–1926) - Bean – Tarleton Hoffman BeanTarleton Hoffman BeanTarleton Hoffman Bean was an American ichthyologist, born at Bainbridge, Pennsylvania on 8 October 1846. He died in Albany, New York on 28 December 1916.-FAMILY AND EDUCATION :...
(1846–1916) - Beavan – Reginald C. Beavan (1841–1870)
- Bechstein – Johann Matthäus BechsteinJohann Matthäus BechsteinJohann Matthäus Bechstein was a German naturalist, forester, ornithologist and entomologist. In Great Britain, he was known for his treatise on singing birds .-Biography:Bechstein was born in Waltershausen in the district of Gotha in Thuringia...
(1757–1822) - Beddome – Richard Henry BeddomeRichard Henry BeddomeColonel Richard Henry Beddome was a British military officer in India, chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department and a naturalist...
(1830–1911) - Bedriaga – Jacques von BedriagaJacques von BedriagaJacques Vladimir von Bedriaga; was a Russian herpetologist who was a native of the village Kriniz. He studied sciences at Moscow University under the direction of Anatoli Bogdanov , and afterwards moved to Germany, where he studied at the University of Jena with Ernst Haeckel and Carl Gegenbaur...
(1854–1906) - Behr – Hans Hermann BehrHans Hermann BehrHans Hermann Behr was a German-American doctor, an entomologist and a botanist....
(1818–1904) - Bell – Thomas Bell (zoologist)Thomas Bell (zoologist)Thomas Bell FRS was an English zoologist, surgeon and writer, born in Poole, Dorset, UK.Bell, like his mother Susan, took a keen interest in natural history which his mother also encouraged in his younger cousin Philip Henry Gosse. Bell left Poole in 1813 for his training as a dental surgeon in...
(1792–1880) - Bemmel – Adriaan Cornelis Valentin van Bemmel
- Bendire – Charles Emil Bendire (1863–1940)
- Benitez – Hesquio Benitez
- Bennett – Edward Turner BennettEdward Turner BennettEdward Turner Bennett was an English zoologist and writer. He was the elder brother of the botanist John Joseph Bennett. Bennett was born at Hackney and practiced as a surgeon, but his chief pursuit was always zoology...
(1797–1836) general zoology - F.Bennett – Frederick Debell Bennett (1836–1897)
- Benson – Constantine Walter BensonConstantine Walter BensonConstantine Walter Benson OBE was a British ornithologist. He is considered the last of a line of British Colonial officials who made significant contributions to ornithology.-Education and career:...
(1909–1982) ornithology - R.Benson – Robert Bernard Benson (1904–1967)
- Bent – Arthur Cleveland BentArthur Cleveland BentArthur Cleveland Bent was an American ornithologist. He is notable for his encyclopedic 21-volume work, Life Histories of North American Birds, published 1919-1968 and completed posthumously....
(1866–1954) - Benton – Michael J. BentonMichael J. BentonMichael J. Benton is a British paleontologist, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol....
(b. 1939) - Beresford – Pamela Beresford
- Berg – Leo Semenovich Berg (1876–1950)
- Berkenhout – John BerkenhoutJohn BerkenhoutJohn Berkenhout was an English physician, naturalist and miscellaneous writer.Berkenhout was the son of John Berkenhout Snr, a Dutch merchant who had settled in Yorkshire, and Anne Kitchingman...
(1726–1791) - Berla – Herbert Franzioni Berla (1912–1985)
- Berland – Lucien BerlandLucien BerlandLucien Berland was a French entomologist and an arachnologist- Partial list of publications :* 1925 : Faune de France...
(1888–1962) - Berlepsch – Hans von BerlepschHans von BerlepschCount Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch was a German ornithologist.Berlepsch studied zoology at the University of Halle. He used his inherited wealth to sponsor bird collectors in South America, including Jan Kalinowski and Hermann von Ihering...
(1850–1915) - Berlioz – Jacques BerliozJacques BerliozJacques Berlioz was a French zoologist.Berlioz joined the staff of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in 1912, and in 1949 he became curator of mammals and birds. He retired in 1962....
(1891–1975) - Berry – Samuel Stillman BerrySamuel Stillman BerrySamuel Stillman Berry was a U.S. marine zoologist specialized on cephalopods.He was born in Unity, Maine but the family home was the Winnecook Ranch in Montana, which had been founded by his father Ralph in 1880. In 1897, he moved with his mother and two cousins to Redlands, California.Berry...
(1887–1984) - Berthold – Arnold Adolph BertholdArnold Adolph BertholdArnold Adolph Berthold or Arnold Adolf Berthold was a German physiologist and zoologist. He studied medicine in Göttingen in 1819 and wrote his thesis under the direction of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . Berthold became a private lecturer in 1825 and began to teach physiology at the University of...
(1803–1861) - Bertkau – Philipp BertkauPhilipp BertkauPhilipp Bertkau was a German zoologist who was a native of Cologne.He studied natural sciences at the University of Bonn, where in 1872 he earned his doctorate. In 1873 he became an assistant at the botanical institute in Munich, and during the following spring was an assistant at the zoological...
(b. 1849) - Bezzi – Mario BezziMario BezziMario Bezzi was an Italian professor of zoology at the University of Turin. He was also Director of the Turin Museum of Natural History...
(1868–1927) entomology - Bianco – Pier Giorgio Bianco
- Bibron – Gabriel BibronGabriel BibronGabriel Bibron was a French zoologist. He was born in Paris. Son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily. He classified a number of reptile species with André Marie Constant...
(1806–1848) - Bigot – Jacques-Marie-Frangile BigotJacques-Marie-Frangile BigotJacques Marie Frangile Bigot was a French naturalist and entomologist most noted for his studies of Diptera. Born in Paris, where he lived all his life, though he had a small house in Quincy-sous-Sénart, Essonne.He became a member of the Entomological Society of France in 1844. His first paper...
(1818–1893) - Bilek – Alois Bilek (1909–1974)
- Billberg – Gustaf Johan BillbergGustaf Johan BillbergGustaf Johan Billberg was a Swedish botanist, zoologist and anatomist, although professionally and by training he was a lawyer and had science and biology as a hobby....
(1772–1844) - Billings – Elkanah BillingsElkanah BillingsElkanah Billings is often referred to as Canada's first paleontologist. Billings was born on a farm by the Rideau River outside Bytown, now known as Billings Estate. His parents were named Lamira and Braddish Billings. His family included an older sister named Sabra and an older brother Braddish II...
(1820–1876) paleontology - Bingham – Charles Thomas BinghamCharles Thomas BinghamCharles Thomas Bingham was an Irish military officer and entomologist.Bingham’s military career began in India where he was a soldier in the Bombay Staff Corps and later with the Bengal Staff Corps...
(1848–1908) - Biswas – Biswamoy BiswasBiswamoy BiswasBiswamoy Biswas was an Indian ornithologist who was born in Calcutta, the son of a professor of Geology. In 1947, he was awarded a three year fellowship by Sunderlal Hora, then director of the Zoological Survey of India...
(1923–1994) - Blache – Jacques Blache (1922–1994)
- Black – Davidson BlackDavidson BlackDavidson Black, FRS was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis . He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a Fellow of the Royal Society...
(1884–1934) - Blackburn – Thomas BlackburnThomas Blackburn (entomologist)Thomas Blackburn was an English-born Australian entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles.Born near Liverpool, England, Blackburn became interested in entomology in his youth...
(1844–1912) entomology - Blackwall – John BlackwallJohn BlackwallJohn Blackwall was a British naturalist.Blackwall lived at Hendre House near Llanrwst in north Wales from 1833 until his death...
(1790–1881) - Blainville – Henri Marie Ducrotay de BlainvilleHenri Marie Ducrotay de BlainvilleHenri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville was a French zoologist and anatomist.Blainville was born at Arques, near Dieppe. In about 1796 he went to Paris to study painting, but he ultimately devoted himself to natural history, and attracted the attention of Georges Cuvier, for whom he occasionally...
(1777–1850) - Blanchard – Charles Émile Blanchard (1819–1900)
- Blanford – William Thomas BlanfordWilliam Thomas BlanfordWilliam Thomas Blanford was an English geologist and naturalist. He is best remembered as the editor of a major series on The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma.-Biography:Blanford was born in London...
(1832–1905) - Blasius – Johann Heinrich BlasiusJohann Heinrich BlasiusJohann Heinrich Blasius was a German zoologist. In 1836, he was appointed as a professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. In 1840, he founded the Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Braunschweig...
(1809–1870) general zoology (mainly vertebrates) - W.Blasius – August Wilhelm Heinrich BlasiusAugust Wilhelm Heinrich BlasiusAugust Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius was a German ornithologist.Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornithologist Johann Heinrich Blasius and his brother was the ornithologist Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius .In 1870 he became the director of the Museum of Brunswick, and in the...
(1845–1912) ornithology - Blatchley – Willis BlatchleyWillis BlatchleyWillis Stanley Blatchley was an American entomologist, malacologist and geologist...
(1859–1940) - Bleeker – Pieter BleekerPieter BleekerPieter Bleeker was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia – Atlas Ichthyologique des Orientales Neerlandaises – which was published 1862–1877....
(1819–1878) - Bloch – Marcus Elieser BlochMarcus Elieser BlochMarcus Elieser Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century.- Life :...
(1723–1799) - Blumenbach – Johann Friedrich BlumenbachJohann Friedrich BlumenbachJohann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German physician, physiologist and anthropologist, one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history, whose teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to classification of what he called human races, of which he determined...
(1752–1840) - Blyth – Edward BlythEdward BlythEdward Blyth was an English zoologist and pharmacist. He was one of the founders of zoology in India....
(1810–1873) - Bocage – Jose Vicente Barboza du Bocage (1823–1907)
- Bocourt – Marie Firmin BocourtMarie Firmin BocourtMarie Firmin Bocourt was a French zoologist and artist.In zoology, Bocourt collaborated with Auguste Duméril. In 1861, he was sent to Thailand , where he explored the fauna and brought back an important collection of specimens...
(1819–1904) - Boddaert – Pieter BoddaertPieter BoddaertPieter Boddaert was a Dutch physician and naturalist.Boddaert was the son of a Middelburg jurist and poet by the same name . Pieter Jr. obtained his M.D. at the University of Utrecht in 1764 and there became a lecturer on natural history. Fourteen letters survive of his correspondence with Carl...
(1730–1795/96) - Boettger – Oskar BoettgerOskar BoettgerOskar Boettger was a German zoologist who was a native of Frankfurt am Main. He was an uncle of the noted malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger ....
(1833–1910) - Boetticher – Hans von BoetticherHans von BoetticherHans von Boetticher was a German zoologist who worked on ornithology and entomology. Boetticher was employed at the natural history museum in Coburg....
(1886–1958) - Bogert – Charles Mitchill BogertCharles Mitchill BogertCharles Mitchill Bogert was an American herpetologist, and curator of herpetology and researcher for the American Museum of Natural History.-Early life and education:...
(1908–1992) herpetology - Bohadsch – Johann Baptist BohadschJohann Baptist BohadschJohann Baptist Bohadsch was a German professor of botany and pharmacology and a naturalist.-Early life and career:Johann was born in 1724 in Prague. His father was manager of the estates of Count Wenzel von Zwrtby. Johann was educated at a Jesuit seminary where he learned Latin and philosophy...
(1724-1768) marine zoology - Boheman – Karl Henrik Boheman (1796–1868)
- F.Boie – Friedrich BoieFriedrich BoieFriedrich Boie was a German scientist and brother of Heinrich Boie. He was born at Meldorf in Holstein and died at Kiel....
(1789–1870) general zoology (mainly ornithology, entomology) - H.Boie – Heinrich BoieHeinrich BoieHeinrich Boie was a German zoologist. He was the brother of Friedrich Boie. In the field of herpetology they described 49 new species of reptiles and several new species of amphibians....
(1794–1827) general zoology (mainly herpetology) - Boisduval – Jean Baptiste BoisduvalJean Baptiste BoisduvalJean Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval was a French lepidopterist and physician. He developed the Boisduval scale and identified many new species of butterflies. One of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, he was the co-founder of the Société Entomologique de France...
(1799–1879) - Bolle – Carl BolleCarl BolleCarl August Bolle was a German naturalist and collector.Bolle was born at Berlin into a wealthy brewing family. He studied medicine and natural science at Berlin and Bonn...
(1821–1909) - Bolotsky – Yuri L. Bolotsky
- Bolton – Barry BoltonBarry BoltonBarry Bolton is an English myrmecologist, the world's leading expert on the classification, systematics and taxonomy of ants, who long worked at The Natural History Museum...
- entomology - Bonaparte – Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1794–1857) ornithology
- J.Bonaparte – José BonaparteJosé BonaparteJosé Fernando Bonaparte, Ph.D. , is an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists like Rodolfo Coria...
(b. 1928) paleontology (South American dinosaurs) - Bond – James Bond (ornithologist)James Bond (ornithologist)James Bond was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy, James Bond.-Biography:...
(1900–1989) ornithology - Bonelli – Franco Andrea BonelliFranco Andrea BonelliFranco Andrea Bonelli was an Italian ornithologist, entomologist and collector.-Life:Very little is known about the early life of Bonelli: he was born in Cuneo and was interested from an early age in the fauna which surrounded him, making collecting trips, preparing specimens and noting his...
(1784–1830) ornithology, entomology - Bonhote – J. Lewis BonhoteJ. Lewis BonhoteJohn James Lewis Bonhote M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. was an English ornithologist.Bonhote was born in London and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was appointed private secretary to the Governor of the Bahamas in 1897, and was sub-director of the Zoological Gardens at...
(1875–1922) - Bonnaterre – Pierre Joseph BonnaterrePierre Joseph BonnaterreAbbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre was a French naturalist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique...
(1747–1804) - Borkhausen – Moritz Balthasar BorkhausenMoritz Balthasar BorkhausenMoritz Balthasar Borkhausen was a German naturalist. He assisted in the production of "Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen" by Johann Conrad Susemihl.-Works:*Naturgeschichte der europäischen Schmetterlinge...
(1760–1806) - Borodin – Nikolai Andreyevich Borodin (1861-1937)
- Borsuk-Bialynicka – Maria Magdalena Borsuk-Białynicka
- Bosc – Louis Augustin Guillaume BoscLouis Augustin Guillaume BoscLouis Augustin Guillaume Bosc was a French botanist, invertebrate zoologist, and entomologist.-Biography:...
(1759–1828) - Boucard – Adolphe BoucardAdolphe BoucardAdolphe Boucard was a French ornithologist who collected extensively in Mexico and Central America. He concentrated on collecting hummingbirds and sold scientific bird skins to Natural History museums and supplied the plume trade. He published the periodical The Hummingbird...
(1839–1905) - Bouček – Zdeněk Bouček - entomology
- Boulenger – George Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert BoulengerGeorge Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...
(1858–1937) - Bourcier – Jules BourcierJules BourcierJules Bourcier was a French naturalist.Bourcier was an expert on hummingbirds, and named a number of new species, either alone or with other ornithologists such as Adolphe Delattre and Martial Etienne Mulsant....
(1797–1873) - Bouvier – Eugène Louis BouvierEugène Louis BouvierEugène Louis Bouvier was a French entomologist and carcinologist. Bouvier was a professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle...
(1856–1944) - Bowdich – Thomas Edward BowdichThomas Edward BowdichThomas Edward Bowdich was an English traveller and author.He was born at Bristol and educated at Bristol Grammar School. In 1813 he married Sarah Wallis, who shared his subsequent career. In 1814, through his uncle, J...
(1791–1824) - Bowerbank – James Scott BowerbankJames Scott BowerbankJames Scott Bowerbank FRS was a British naturalist and palaeontologist.-Biography:Bowerbank was born in Bishopsgate, London, and succeeded in conjunction with his brother to his father's distillery, in which he was actively engaged until 1847.In early years astronomy and natural history,...
(1797–1877) - Brandt – Johann Friedrich von BrandtJohann Friedrich von BrandtJohann Friedrich von Brandt was a German naturalist.Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a gymnasium in Wittenberg and the University of Berlin. In 1831 he was appointed director of the Zoological Department at the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences, where he published in Russian...
(1802–1879) - Brauer – Friedrich Moritz BrauerFriedrich Moritz BrauerFriedrich Moritz Brauer . An Austrian entomologist who was Director of the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, at the time of his death...
(1832–1904) - A.E.Brehm – Alfred BrehmAlfred BrehmAlfred Edmund Brehm was aGerman zoologist, natural history illustrator and writer, the son ofChristian Ludwig Brehm....
(1829–1884) general zoology - C.L.Brehm – Christian Ludwig BrehmChristian Ludwig BrehmChristian Ludwig Brehm was a German pastor and ornithologist. He was the father of Alfred Brehm.Brehm was born near Gotha, and studied at the University of Jena. In 1813 he became the minister at Renthendorf, a village sixty miles south of Leipzig, where he remained until his death...
(1787–1864) ornithology - Bremer – Otto Vasilievich BremerOtto Vasilievich BremerOtto Vasilievich Bremer was a Russian naturalist and entomologist.He wrote Neue Lepidopteren aus Ost-Sibirien und dem Amur Lande, gesammelt von Radde und Maack, beschrieben von Otto Bremer. Bull. Sci. Acad. Sci...
(d. 1873) - Bremi-Wolf – Johann Jacob Bremi-Wolf (1791–1857)
- Brett-Surman – Michael K. Brett-Surman (b. 1950)
- Brevoort – James Carson Brevoort (1818–1887)
- Brewster – William Brewster (ornithologist)William Brewster (ornithologist)William Brewster was an American ornithologist. He was the curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1885 until his death. He was the co-founder, with Elliott Coues and Joel Asaph Allen, of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1883...
(1851–1919) ornithology - Briggs – John Carmon Briggs (b. 1920)
- Brischke – Carl Gustav Alexander BrischkeCarl Gustav Alexander BrischkeCarl Gustav Alexander Brischke was a German entomologist who worked on Diptera and Hymenoptera, mainly the Ichneumonidae and Braconidae.Briscke was from Danzig, West Prussia....
(1814–1897) - Brisson – Mathurin Jacques BrissonMathurin Jacques BrissonMathurin Jacques Brisson was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.Brisson was born at Fontenay-le-Comte. The earlier part of his life was spent in the pursuit of natural history, his published works in this department including Le Règne animal and Ornithologie...
(1723–1806) - Brittinger – Christian Casimir BrittingerChristian Casimir BrittingerChristian Casimir Brittinger was a German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist.- Botany :...
(1795–1869) - Brodkorb – Pierce BrodkorbPierce BrodkorbPierce Brodkorb , also stated as William Pierce Brodkorb, was an American ornithologist and paleontologist....
ornithology, paleontology - Brongniart – Alexandre BrongniartAlexandre BrongniartAlexandre Brongniart was a French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris...
(1770–1847) paleontology - C.Brongniart – Charles Jules Edmée BrongniartCharles Jules Edmée BrongniartCharles Jules Edmée Brongniart was a French entomologist and paleontologist.He wrote:* Tableaux de zoologie ....
(1859–1899) paleontology, entomology - Bronn – Heinrich Georg BronnHeinrich Georg BronnHeinrich Georg Bronn was a German geologist and paleontologist.Bronn was born at Ziegelhausen near Heidelberg. Studying at the university of Heidelberg he took his doctor's degree in the faculty of medicine in 1821, and in the following year was appointed professor of natural history...
(1800–1862) - Brooke – Victor BrookeVictor BrookeSir Victor Alexander Brooke, 3rd Baronet , was an Anglo-Irish naturalist and baronet. He was the father of Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, and grandfather of Sir Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.Brooke, whose family were...
(1843–1891) - Brookes – Joshua BrookesJoshua Brookes'Joshua Brookes was a British anatomist and naturalist.He studied under John Hunter in London. He became a teacher of anatomy in London, and the founder of the Brookesian Museum of Comparative Anatomy.This private museum is described in his 1830 catalogue Museum Brookesianum Embracing an Almost...
(1761–1833) general zoology - W.S.Brooks – Winthrop Sprague Brooks (1887–1965)
- Broom – Robert BroomRobert BroomProfessor Robert Broom was a Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow...
(1866–1951) - Brown – Barnum BrownBarnum BrownBarnum Brown , a paleontologist born in Carbondale, Kansas, and named after the circus showman P.T. Barnum, discovered the second fossil of Tyrannosaurus rex during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil hunters working from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century.Sponsored...
(1873–1963) - Bruch – Carl Friedrich BruchCarl Friedrich BruchCarl Friedrich Bruch was a German ornithologist.In 1828, he proposed a system of trinomial nomenclature for species, in contrast to the binomial system of Carolus Linnaeus....
(1789–1851) - Bruguière – Jean Guillaume BruguièreJean Guillaume BruguièreJean Guillaume Bruguière was a French physician, zoologist and diplomat.Bruguière was born in Montpellier.He was a doctor, connected to the University of Montpellier. His was interested in invertebrates, mostly snails ....
(1749–1798) - Brullé – Gaspard Auguste BrulléGaspard Auguste BrulléGaspard Auguste Brullé was a French entomologist.Passionnate about insects from a young age and through the intervention of Georges Cuvier, he participated in the Morea expedition organised by Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent in 1829.In 1832, he participated in the foundation of the Société...
(1809–1873) - Brünnich – Morten Thrane BrünnichMorten Thrane Brünnichthumb|180px|Morten Thrane Brünnich, painting by [[Jens Juel |Jens Juel]], 1799Morten Thrane Brünnich was a Danish zoologist and mineralogist....
(1737–1827) - Brusatte – Stephen L. BrusatteStephen L. BrusatteStephen Louis Brusatte , is an American paleontologist.-Biography:He is the author of the 2002 book Stately Fossils: A Comprehensive Look at the State Fossils and Other Official Fossils and the 2008 book Dinosaurs...
(b. 1984) - H.Bryant – Henry BryantHenry BryantHenry Bryant was an American physician and naturalist. He was the grandfather of Henry Bryant Bigelow.-Biography:Bryant was born in Boston, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1843...
(1820–1867) general zoology (mainly birds) - W.E.Bryant – Walter E. Bryant
- Bücherl – Wolfgang Bücherl
- Buckland – William BucklandWilliam BucklandThe Very Rev. Dr William Buckland DD FRS was an English geologist, palaeontologist and Dean of Westminster, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus...
(1784–1856) - Buffetaut – Eric Buffetaut
- Buller – Walter BullerWalter BullerWalter Lawry Buller KCMG was a New Zealand lawyer, naturalist and ornithologist.Buller was the author of A History of the Birds of New Zealand , with illustrations by John Gerrard Keulemans. In 1882 he produced the Manual of the Birds of New Zealand as a cheaper, popular alternative...
(1838–1906) - Bunzel – Emanuel BunzelEmanuel BunzelEmanuel Bunzel, born 1828, was an Austrian paleontologist.In 1871, he described a skull fragment found in an Austrian coal mine years before by colleagues Ferdinand Stoliczka and Eduard Suess as the type specimen for the dinosaur genus Struthiosaurus, the first discovered in the region. Another...
(b. 1828) - Burchell – William John BurchellWilliam John BurchellWilliam John Burchell was an English explorer, naturalist, traveller, artist and author. He was the son of Matthew Burchell, botanist and owner of Fulham Nursery, nine and a half acres of land adjacent to the gardens of Fulham Palace. Burchell served a botanical apprenticeship at Kew and was...
(1782–1863) - Burge – Donald L. Burge
- Burmeister – Hermann BurmeisterHermann BurmeisterKarl Hermann Konrad Burmeister was a German zoologist, entomologist, and herpetologist.Burmeister was born in Stralsund and became a professor of Zoology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1837 to 1861...
(1807–1892) - Burnett – Gilbert Thomas BurnettGilbert Thomas BurnettGilbert Thomas Burnett was a British botanist.Burnett was the first professor of botany at King's College London, from 1831 to 1835. He was the author of Outlines of Botany , and Illustrations of Useful Plants employed in the Arts and Medicine, published posthumously and illustrated by his sister...
(1800–1835) - Burton – Frederic Burton
- Burns – John McLauren Burns
- Butler – Arthur Gardiner ButlerArthur Gardiner ButlerArthur Gardiner Butler was an English entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist...
(1844–1925) - Büttikofer – Johann BüttikoferJohann BüttikoferDr. Johann Büttikofer was a Swiss zoologist.Büttikofer was born in Ranflüh in Emmenthal. After his retirement he settled in Bern.-Scientific career:...
(1850–1929) - Buturlin – Sergei Aleksandrovich ButurlinSergei Aleksandrovich ButurlinSergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin was a Russian ornithologist.A scion of one of the oldest families of Russian nobility, Buturlin spent most his life in Russia. He went to school in Simbirsk and studied jurisprudence in St...
(1872–1938)
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- Cabanis – Jean CabanisJean CabanisJean Louis Cabanis was a German ornithologist.Cabanis was born in Berlin. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1835 to 1839, and then travelled to North America, returning in 1841 with a large natural history collection. He was assistant and later director of the Berlin University Museum,...
(1816–1906) - Cabrera – Angel Cabrera (naturalist)Ángel Cabrera (naturalist)Ángel Cabrera was a Spanish zoologist.Cabrera was born in Madrid and studied at the city's university. He worked the National Museum of Natural Sciences from 1902, going on several collecting expeditions to Morocco....
(1879–1960) - Caldwell – David Keller Caldwell (b. 1928)
- Calman – William Thomas CalmanWilliam Thomas CalmanWilliam Thomas Calman was a Scottish zoologist, specialising in the Crustacea.He was born in Dundee, studying at the High School. In the scientific societies in the city, he met D'Arcy Thompson. He later became Thompson's lab boy, which allowed him to attend lectures at University College, Dundee...
(1871–1952) - Calvert – Philip Powell CalvertPhilip Powell CalvertPhilip Powell Calvert was an American entomologist, recognised as a leading authority on the Odonata ....
(1871–1961) - Calvo – Jorge Calvo
- Cambiaso – Andrea Cambiaso
- Camerano – Lorenzo CameranoLorenzo CameranoLorenzo Camerano was an Italian herpetologist and entomologist.Born in Biella in 1856 he studied in Bologna and Torino, where he settled in order to take, between 1871 and 1873, a painting course held by Fontanesi at the local Art Academy.Camerano worked as a painter for the Turin Zoology Museum,...
(1856–1917) - Camp – Charles Lewis CampCharles Lewis CampCharles Lewis Camp was a notable palaeontologist and zoologist, working from the University of California, Berkeley...
(1893–1975) - Campos – Diógenes de Almeida Campos
- Canestrini – Giovanni CanestriniGiovanni CanestriniGiovanni Canestrini was an Italian naturalist and biologist who was a native of Revò.He initially studied in Gorizia and Meran, then furthered his education in natural sciences at the University of Vienna...
(1835–1900) - Cantor – Theodore Edward CantorTheodore Edward CantorTheodore Edward Cantor was a Danish physician, zoologist and botanist.Cantor worked for the British East India Company. He made natural history collections in Penang and Malacca...
(1809–1860) - Caradja – Aristide Caradja (1861–1955)
- Carlson – Bruce A. Carlson (zoologist)
- Carpenter – Kenneth CarpenterKenneth CarpenterKenneth Carpenter is a paleontologist. He is the museum director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum and author or co-author of a number of books on dinosaurs and Mesozoic life...
(b. 1949) - Carr – Archie CarrArchie CarrArchie Fairly Carr, Jr. was an American herpetologist, ecologist and a pioneering conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida. In 1987 he was awarded the Eminent Ecologist Award by the Ecological Society of America...
(1909–1987) - Carriker – Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Jr. (1879–1965)
- Carter – Henry John CarterHenry John CarterHenry John Carter, FRS was a surgeon working in Bombay, India, who carried out work in geology and zoology. He worked as an army surgeon in Bombay from 1859 on Her Majesty's Indian Service, Bombay Establishment. He edited a collection of geological papers on Western India, including a summary of...
(1813–1895) - Carvalho – Ismar de Souza Carvalho
- Cassin – John CassinJohn CassinJohn Cassin was an American ornithologist.He is considered to be one of the giants of American ornithology, and was America's first taxonomist, describing 198 birds not previously mentioned by Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon...
(1813–1869) - Castelnau – François Louis Nompar de Caumont de Laporte (1810–1880)
- Cervigón – Fernando CervigónFernando CervigónDr. Fernando Cervigón is a Venezuelan ichthyologist and marine biologist. He has discovered and described numerous species of fish including the Caribbean roughshark and is author of numerous works on fish and Venezuela's ocean environment including Los Peces Marinos de Venezuela. He is the...
(b. 1930) - Chabanaud – Paul Chabanaud (1876–1959)
- Chamberlin – Ralph Vary ChamberlinRalph Vary ChamberlinRalph Vary Chamberlin was an American zoologist from Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1904. He was a professor of zoology at Brigham Young University from 1908-1911, and at the University of Utah from 1925-1938....
(1879–1967) - Chapin – James ChapinJames ChapinDr James Paul Chapin was an American ornithologist.-Life and career:One of the top ornithologists of the twentieth century. At age 19 he left Staten Island to become second in command of the American Museum of Natural History's six year expedition to the Congo...
(1889–1964) - Chapman – Frank ChapmanFrank ChapmanFrank Michler Chapman was a U.S. ornithologist and pioneering writer of field guides.Chapman was born in West Englewood, New Jersey and attended Englewood Academy. He joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History in 1888 as assistant to Joel Asaph Allen...
(1864–1945) - Charig – Alan Jack Charig (1927–1997)
- Charpentier – Toussaint de CharpentierToussaint de CharpentierToussaint de Charpentier was a German geologist and entomologist.He was the author of Libellulinae europaeae descriptae e depictae .-Biography:...
(1779–1847) - Chasen – Frederick Nutter ChasenFrederick Nutter ChasenFrederick Nutter Chasen was an English zoologist.Chasen was appointed Assistant Curator of the Raffles Museum in Singapore in 1921, and Director in 1932 in succession to Cecil Boden Kloss. He was an authority on Southeast Asian birds and mammals. He prepared the third and fourth volumes of...
(1896–1942) - Chatterjee – Sankar ChatterjeeSankar ChatterjeeSankar Chatterjee is a paleontologist, and is the Paul W. Horn Professor of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University. He earned his Ph. D. from the University of Calcutta in 1970 and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian...
(b. 1947) - Cherrie – George Kruck CherrieGeorge Kruck CherrieGeorge Kruck Cherrie was an American naturalist and explorer.Cherrie was born in Iowa. He took part in about forty expeditions, mostly to Central and South America, including Theodore Roosevelt's South American Expedition of 1913–1914, when Cherrie was collecting specimens for the American Museum...
(1865–1946) - Chiaie – Stefano Delle ChiajeStefano Delle ChiajeStefano Delle Chiaje was an Italian zoologist, botanist, anatomist and physician.Delle Chiaje was curator of the Napoli museum.-References:...
(1794–1860) - Chiappe – Luis M. Chiappe
- Children – John George ChildrenJohn George ChildrenJohn George Children was a British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist.Children studied at Queens' College, Cambridge. In 1822 he was working as a librarian in the Department of Antiquities at the British Museum when he was appointed assistant keeper of the Natural History Department in succession...
(1777–1852) - Christ – Johann Ludwig ChristJohann Ludwig ChristJohann Ludwig Christ was a German naturalist, gardener and pastor.He was a specialist in Hymenoptera who published in 1791 Naturgeschichte, Klassifikation und Nomenklatur der Insekten vom Bienen, Wespen und Ameisengeschlecht...
(1739–1813) - Chun – Carl ChunCarl ChunDr. Carl Chun was a German marine biologist.Chun was born in Höchst, today a part of Frankfurt, and studied zoology at the University of Leipzig where, after posts in Königsberg and Breslau, he was appointed professor for biology in 1892...
(1852–1914) - Chure – Daniel Joseph Chure
- Clapp – Cornelia ClappCornelia ClappCornelia Maria Clapp was an American zoologist and academic specializing in marine biology.Born in Montague, Massachusetts, Clapp was educated at Mount Holyoke Seminary, the forerunner of today’s Mount Holyoke College, and graduated in 1871...
(1849–1934) - E. Clark – Eugenie ClarkEugenie ClarkEugenie Clark , popularly known as The Shark Lady, is an American ichthyologist known for her research on poisonous fish of the tropical seas and on the behaviour of sharks.-Academic life:...
(b. 1922) ichthyology - H.L. Clark – Hubert Lyman ClarkHubert Lyman ClarkHubert Lyman Clark, Ph. D. was an American zoologist.Clark, son of William Smith Clark, was born at Amherst, Massachusetts, and educated at Amherst College and Johns Hopkins University....
(1870–1947) echinoderms - J.M. Clark – James Michael Clark
- Clemens – James Brackenridge ClemensJames Brackenridge ClemensJames Brackenridge Clemens was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He described many new species...
- Clements – Kendall D. Clements
- Clemmer – Glenn H. Clemmer
- Clerck – Carl Alexander ClerckCarl Alexander ClerckCarl Alexander Clerck was a Swedish entomologist and arachnologist.Clerck came from a family in the petty nobility and entered the University of Uppsala in 1726. Little is known of his studies; although a contemporary of Linnaeus, it is unknown whether he had any contact with him during his time...
(1709–1765) - Cloward – Karen C. Cloward
- Cobbold – Thomas Spencer CobboldThomas Spencer CobboldThomas Spencer Cobbold FRS , English man of science, was born at Ipswich, the third son of the Rev. Richard Cobbold , the author of the History of Margaret Catchpole....
(1828-1886) - Cochran – Doris M. Cochran (1898–1968)
- Cockerell – Theodore Dru Alison CockerellTheodore Dru Alison CockerellTheodore Dru Alison Cockerell was an American zoologist, born at Norwood, England, and brother of Sydney Cockerell. He was educated at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and then studied botany in the field in Colorado in 1887-90...
(1866–1948) - Coimbra-Filho – Adelmar Faria Coimbra-Filho
- Colbert – Edwin Harris ColbertEdwin Harris ColbertEdwin Harris Colbert was a distinguished American vertebrate paleontologist and prolific researcher and author. He received his A.B. from the University of Nebraska, then his Masters and Ph.D. from Columbia University, finishing in 1935.Born in Clarinda, Iowa, he grew up in Maryville, Missouri...
(1905–2001) - Colston – Peter R. Colston (b. 1935)
- Compagno – Leonard J. V. Compagno (fl. 1979–present)
- Conci – Cesare Conci (b. 1920)
- Conde – Otto Conde (1905–1944)
- Conover – Henry Boardman ConoverHenry Boardman ConoverBoardman Conover was an American soldier and amateur ornithologist.Conover was born in Chicago and studied at the Sheffield Scientific School in Yale. He had an interest in natural history from an early age, and collected bird specimens...
(1892–1950) - Conrad – Timothy Abbott ConradTimothy Abbott ConradTimothy Abbott Conrad was an American geologist, malacologist and carcinologist.- External links :* at Internet Archive...
(1803–1877) - Coombs – Walter P. Coombs, Jr.
- Cooper, J.G. Cooper – James Graham CooperJames Graham CooperJames Graham Cooper was an American surgeon and naturalist.Cooper was born in New York. He worked for the California Geological Survey with Josiah Dwight Whitney, William Henry Brewer and Henry Nicholas Bolander...
(1830–1902) general zoology, particularly ornithology - Cooper, W. Cooper – William Cooper (conchologist)William Cooper (conchologist)William Cooper was an American conchologist and collector.Cooper studied zoology in Europe from 1821 to 1824, and afterwards travelled to Nova Scotia, Kentucky and the Bahamas collecting specimens. Although he was not an author himself his specimens were of great help to others, such as John James...
(1798–1864) malacology - Cope – Edward Drinker CopeEdward Drinker CopeEdward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen...
(1840–1897) - Coquerel – Charles CoquerelCharles CoquerelCharles Coquerel was a French navy surgeon, algologist, and entomologist.Coquerel collected insects in Madagascar and neighbouring islands. A number of these were described after his death by Léon Fairmaire in his Notes sur les Coléopteres recueillis par Charles Coquerel a Madagascar et sur les...
(1822–1867) - Coria – Rodolfo CoriaRodolfo CoriaDr. Rodolfo Coria is an Argentine paleontologist.He is best known for having directed the field study and co-naming of the Argentinosaurus in 1993, and the Giganotosaurus , in 1996 among other landmark South American dinosaurs...
(b. 1959) - Cornalia – Emilio CornaliaEmilio CornaliaEmilio Cornalia was an Italian naturalist. He was born in Milan and died in the same city.He was conservator from 1851 to 1866, and director from 1866 till his death, of the Milan Museum of Natural History, and was interested in all areas of biology.He was one of the group of leading scientists...
(1824–1882) - Cory – Charles B. CoryCharles B. CoryCharles Barney Cory was an American ornithologist and golfer.-Biography:Cory was born in Boston. His father had made a fortune from a large import business, ensuring that his son never had to work. At the age of sixteen Cory developed an interest in ornithology and began a skin collection...
(1857–1921) - Costa – Achille CostaAchille CostaAchille Costa was an Italian entomologist appointed director of the Zoological Museum of Naples. He founded the entomological collections in Naples and described many new species....
(1823–1898) entomology, particularly NeuropteraNeuropteraThe insect order Neuroptera, or net-winged insects, includes the lacewings, mantidflies, antlions, and their relatives. The order contains some 6,010 species... - O.Costa, O.G. Costa – Oronzio Gabriele CostaOronzio Gabriele CostaOronzio Gabriele Costa was an Italian zoologist.At first a physician he taught zoology at the University of Naples. He wrote 126 papers on various subjects but principally on entomology...
(1787–1867) entomology and general zoology - W.J.E.M. Costa – Wilson José Eduardo Moreira da Costa
- Coues – Elliott CouesElliott CouesElliott Coues was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author.Coues was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He graduated at Columbian University, Washington, D.C., in 1861, and at the Medical school of that institution in 1863...
(1842–1899) - Cramer – Pieter CramerPieter CramerPieter Cramer , was a wealthy Dutch merchant in linen and Spanish wool, and an entomologist. Cramer was the director of the Zealand Society, a scientific society located in Flushing and a member of Concordia et Libertate, based in Amsterdam...
(1721-c.1779) entomology - F. Cramer – Frank Cramer
- Crampton – William G. R. Crampton
- Cresson – Ezra Townsend CressonEzra Townsend CressonEzra Townsend Cresson, also Ezra Townsend senior was an American entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera. He wrote Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, north of Mexico Philadelphia: Paul C. Stockhausen, Entomological printer and many other works. His son Ezra...
(Senior) (1838–1926) HymenopteraHymenopteraHymenoptera is one of the largest orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants. There are over 130,000 recognized species, with many more remaining to be described. The name refers to the heavy wings of the insects, and is derived from the Ancient Greek ὑμήν : membrane and... - Cresson – Ezra Townsend Cresson, Jr. (1876–1948) DipteraDipteraDiptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...
- Cretzschmar – Philipp Jakob CretzschmarPhilipp Jakob CretzschmarPhilipp Jakob Cretzschmar was a German physician.Cretzschmar was born at Sulzbach and studied medicine at the University of Würzburg. He taught anatomy and zoology at the Senckenberg Medical Institute of Frankfurt....
(1786–1845) - Crewe – Henry Harpur CreweHenry Harpur CreweHenry Harpur Crewe was an English clergyman and naturalist. He was rector of Breadsall and then Drayton Beauchamp from 1860 until his death.-Biography:...
(1828–1883) - Crotch – George Robert CrotchGeorge Robert CrotchGeorge Robert Crotch was a British entomologist.Born in Cambridge, England 1842 Crotch became interested in insects, especially Coleoptera, while an undergraduate at Cambridge University. He worked at the University Library, Cambridge...
(1842–1874) - Crowson – Roy CrowsonRoy CrowsonRoy Albert Crowson was a British biologist who specialized in the taxonomy of beetles.He lectured at the Zoology Department of the University of Glasgow from 1949. He collected beetles and their larvae from around the world and studied the relationships between them...
(1914–1999) - Crusafont – Miquel Crusafont Pairó (1910–1983)
- Currie – Philip J. Currie (b. 1949)
- Curry Rogers – Kristina Curry RogersKristina Curry RogersKristina A. Curry Rogers is a vertebrate paleontologist and currently Assistant Professor in geology and biology at Macalester College. She holds a B.Sc. in Biology from Montana State University, and a M.Sc. Ph.D. in Anatomical Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook...
(b. 1974) - Curtis – John Curtis (entomologist)John Curtis (entomologist)John Curtis was an English entomologist and illustrator.-Biography:Curtis was born in Norwich and learned his engraving skills in the workshop of his father, Charles Morgan Curtis...
(1791–1862) - Cuvier – Georges CuvierGeorges CuvierGeorges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier , known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist...
(1769–1832) vertebrate zoology, paleontology - F. Cuvier – Frédéric CuvierFrédéric CuvierFrédéric Cuvier was a French zoologist. He was the younger brother of noted naturalist and zoologist Georges Cuvier....
(1773–1838) - Czerkas – Stephen A. Czerkas
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- da Costa – Emanuel Mendez da CostaEmanuel Mendez da CostaEmanuel Mendez da Costa was an English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, and collector of valuable notes and of manuscripts, and of anecdotes of the literati....
(1717–1791) malacology - da Silva – Maria Nazareth F. da SilvaMaria Nazareth F. da SilvaMaria Nazareth Ferreira da Silva is a zoologist from Manaus, BrazilDa Silva has, for many years, specialised in the study of Amazonian mammals and has described several new species, including the Tefe Spiny Rat and Gardner's Spiny Rat....
(fl. 1990s-present) - Darwin – Charles DarwinCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
(1809-1882) - Dahl – Friedrich DahlFriedrich DahlKarl Friedrich Theodor Dahl was a German zoologist, and in particular an arachnologist....
(1856–1929) - Dahlbom – Anders Gustav Dahlbom (1808–1859)
- Dale – James Charles DaleJames Charles DaleJames Charles Dale was a wealthy English naturalist who devoted almost all of his adult life to entomology.James Dale was the son of wealthy landowners. He received his education at Cambridge University receiving his MA in 1818...
(1792–1872) - Dall – W.H. Dall (1845–1927)
- Dalla Torre – Karl Wilhelm von Dalla TorreKarl Wilhelm von Dalla TorreKarl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre was an Austrian taxonomist, entomologist and botanist.Dalla Torre studied natural sciences at the University of Innsbruck. He then worked in the University as an entomologist and in 1895 became Professor of Zoology at the University of Innsbruck...
(1850–1928) - Dana – James Dwight DanaJames Dwight DanaJames Dwight Dana was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world.-Early life and career:...
(1813–1895) - Daudin – Francois-Marie Daudin (1774–1804)
- David – Armand DavidArmand DavidFather Armand David was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist.-General Biography:...
(1826–1900) - Dawkins – Richard DawkinsRichard DawkinsClinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...
(b. 1941) - de Azevedo – Sérgio Alex Kugland de Azevedo
- de Beaufort – Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort (1879–1968)
- de Blainville – Henri Marie Ducrotay de BlainvilleHenri Marie Ducrotay de BlainvilleHenri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville was a French zoologist and anatomist.Blainville was born at Arques, near Dieppe. In about 1796 he went to Paris to study painting, but he ultimately devoted himself to natural history, and attracted the attention of Georges Cuvier, for whom he occasionally...
(1777–1850) - de Castelnau – François Louis de la Porte, comte de CastelnauFrançois Louis de la Porte, comte de CastelnauFrançois Louis Nompar de Caumont LaPorte, comte de Castelnau was a French naturalist, known also as François Laporte or Francis de Castelnau.-Life:Born in London, he studied natural history in Paris...
(1810–1880) - de Filippi – Filippo de FilippiFilippo de FilippiFilippo de Filippi was an Italian doctor, traveler and zoologist.Filippo De Filippi was born in Pavia. He succeeded Giuseppe Gené as professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Turin...
(1814–1867) - de Geer, De Geer – Charles De GeerCharles De GeerBaron Charles de Geer was a Swedish industrialist and entomologist.- Life :...
(1720–1778) - de Haan – Wilhem de HaanWilhem de HaanWilhem de Haan was a Dutch zoologist. He specialised in the study of insects and crustaceans, and was the first keeper of invertebrates at the Rijksmuseum in Leiden, now Naturalis. He was forced to retire in 1846, when he was partially paralysed by a spinal disease...
(1801–1855) - De Kay, DeKay, Dekay – James Ellsworth De KayJames Ellsworth De KayJames Ellsworth De Kay was an American zoologist.-Biography:...
(1792-851) - de Man – Johannes Govertus de ManJohannes Govertus de ManJohannes Govertus de Man was a Dutch biologist. He was assistant curator at the in Leiden, where he specialised in free-living nematodes and decapod crustaceans, although he also wrote papers on flatworms, sipunculids and, in his dissertation only, vertebrates...
(1850–1930) - de Naurois – René de NauroisRené de NauroisAbbé René de Naurois was a French Catholic priest, chaplain and ornithologist.-Second World War:During the Second World War Naurois assisted the French Resistance, helped organise the escape of Jews from occupied France to Switzerland and Spain, and was one of the 177 Kieffer Commandos who took...
(b. 1906) - de Nicéville – Lionel de NicévilleLionel de NicévilleCharles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta . He studied the butterflies of South Asia and wrote a three volume monograph on the butterflies of India, Pakistan, Burma and Sri Lanka.Born in a noble Huguenot family, his father was a physician. He was educated...
(1852–1901) - De Pourtalès – Louis François de PourtalèsLouis François de PourtalèsLouis François de Pourtalès was an American naturalist, born at Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was a pupil of Louis Agassiz, whom he accompanied in 1840 on glacial expeditions in the Alps and in 1847 to the United States, where in 1848 he entered the government Coast Survey...
(1824–1880) - Bory de Saint-Vincent – Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-VincentJean Baptiste Bory de Saint-VincentJean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent was a French naturalist. He was born at Agen...
(1780–1846) - de Valai – Silvina de Valai
- De Vis – Charles Walter De VisCharles Walter De VisCharles Walter de Vis , known as Devis before about 1882, was an English zoologist and ornithologist...
(1829–1915) - de Winton – William Edward de WintonWilliam Edward de WintonWilliam Edward de Winton was a British zoologist. He traveled widely, and discovered a number of previously undescribed cricetid species. His East Africa photo collection, from the late 1890s, is kept at the London Natural History Museum.-Notes:...
(1856–1922) - Delacour – Jean Theodore DelacourJean Théodore DelacourJean Théodore Delacour was an American ornithologist of French origin. He was renowned for not only discovering but also rearing some of the rarest birds in the world...
(1890–1985) - Denis – Michael DenisMichael DenisJohann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis, also: SinedSined is an anagram of Denis. the Bard, was an Austrian poet, bibliographer, and lepidopterist....
(1729–1800) - Depéret – Charles DepéretCharles DepéretCharles Jean Julien Depéret was a French geologist and paleontologist. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the Société géologique de France and dean of the Science faculty of Lyon....
(1854–1929) - Deppe – Ferdinand DeppeFerdinand DeppeFerdinand Deppe was a German naturalist, explorer and painter. He was the younger brother of Wilhelm Deppe.Deppe travelled to Mexico in 1824. He collected natural history specimens for the Berlin Museum with Count von Sack and William Bullock...
(1794–1861) - Des Murs – Marc Athanese Parfait Oeillet Des MursMarc Athanese Parfait Oeillet Des MursMarc Athanase Parfait Oeillet Des Murs was a French ornithologist.Des Murs published Iconographie Ornithologique in 1849 and Traité général d’oologie ornithologique au point de vue de la classification, General treatise on birds eggs from the point of view of classification, in 1860-External...
(1804–1878) - Desfontaines – René Louiche DesfontainesRené Louiche DesfontainesRené Louiche Desfontaines was a French botanist.Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures at the Jardin des Plantes given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier...
(1750–1833) - Desmarest – Anselme Gaëtan DesmarestAnselme Gaëtan DesmarestAnselme Gaëtan Desmarest was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and father of Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest...
(1784–1838) - Deville, E. Deville – Émile DevilleEmile DevilleEmile Deville was a French physician , naturalist and taxidermistEmile Deville, already an employee of Muséum national d'histoire naturelle joined the 1843 expedition of Francis de Laporte de Castelnau to South America with the doctor and botanist Hugh Algernon Weddell...
- Diard – Pierre-Médard DiardPierre-Médard DiardPierre-Médard Diard was a French naturalist and explorer.Diard studied zoology and anatomy under Georges Cuvier and assisted him in researches on the development of the foetus and on the eggs of quadrupeds. In 1816, he traveled to the East Indies....
(1794–1863) - Dieffenbach – Ernst DieffenbachErnst DieffenbachJohann Karl Ernst Dieffenbach was a German physician, geologist and naturalist, the first trained scientist to live and work in New Zealand, where he travelled widely under the auspices of the New Zealand Company, returning in 1841–42 and publishing in English his Travels in New Zealand in...
(1811–1855) - Dingus – Lowell Dingus
- Distant – William Lucas DistantWilliam Lucas DistantWilliam Lucas Distant was an English entomologist.-Biography:Distant was born in Rotherhithe, the son of a whaling captain Alexander Distant...
(1845–1922) - Djakonov – Alexander Michailovitsch Djakonov (1886–1956)
- Dobson – George Edward DobsonGeorge Edward DobsonGeorge Edward Dobson FRS was a zoologist, photographer and army surgeon.-Biography:...
(1844–1895) - Döderlein – Petar Döderlein (1809–1895)
- Dodson – Peter DodsonPeter DodsonPeter Dodson is an American paleontologist who has published many papers and written and collaborated on books about dinosaurs. An authority on Ceratopsians, he has also authored several papers and textbooks on hadrosaurs and sauropods, and is a co-editor of The Dinosauria, widely considered the...
(fl. 1980s-present) - Doherty – William DohertyWilliam DohertyWilliam Doherty was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and later also collected birds for the Natural History Museum at Tring ....
(1857–1901) - Dollman – Guy DollmanGuy DollmanCaptain John Guy Dollman BA, FLS , known as Guy Dollman, was a British zoologist and taxonomist. Dollman's Tree Mouse Dollman's Vlei Rat are named after him.-Life and work:...
(1886–1942) - Dollo – Louis DolloLouis DolloLouis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo was a French-born Belgian palaeontologist, known for formulating Dollo's law. He graduated as an engineer at École Centrale de Lille in France. In 1878, he supervised the excavation of the famous, multiple Iguanodon find, at Bernissart, Belgium. Recently, the...
(1857–1931) - Donisthorpe, Donis. – Horace DonisthorpeHorace DonisthorpeHorace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea, and for his many claims of discovering new species of beetles and ants.He is often considered...
(1870–1951) - Donovan – Edward DonovanEdward DonovanEdward Donovan was an Anglo Irish writer, natural history illustrator and amateur zoologist.-Biography:Born in Cork, Ireland, Donovan was an avid collector of natural history specimens purchased mainly at auctions of specimens from voyages of exploration...
(1768–1837) - d'Orbigny – Alcide d'OrbignyAlcide d'OrbignyAlcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology , palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology....
(1802–1857) - Dong – Zhiming Dong (b. 1937)
- Doria – Giacomo DoriaGiacomo DoriaMarquis Giacomo Doria was an Italian naturalist and politician.He was the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa in 1867, and director from then until his death...
(1840–1913) - Doubleday – Henry Doubleday (1808–1875)
- Douglas – John William DouglasJohn William DouglasJohn William Douglas was an English entomologist, chiefly interested in microlepidopteraJohn William Douglas was born 1814 in Putney. He became interested in insects whilst working at Kew Gardens and published many papers and books on entomology...
(1814-1905) - Drenowsky – Alexander Kirilow DrenowskiAlexander Kirilow DrenowskiAlexander Kirilow Drenowski was a Bulgarian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.Between 1904 and 1953 Drenowski wrote 77 scientific papers on the butterflies of Bulgaria.His most significant work was on the butterflies of the Bulgarian high mountains Rila , Pirin , Rhodope and Stara...
(1879–1967) - Drury – Dru DruryDru DruryDru Drury was a British entomologist, one of the foremost of his time.He was born in Wood Lane, London. His father was a silversmith, and Dru took over the business in 1748. He retired as a silversmith in 1789 to devote his time entirely to entomology...
(1725–1804) - du Bus de Gisignies – Bernard du Bus de GisigniesBernard du Bus de GisigniesJonkheer Bernard Aimé Léonard du Bus de Gisignies was a Dutch nobleman and later on a Belgian politician, ornithologist and paleontologist. He was the second son of Leonard Pierre Joseph du Bus de Gisignies...
(1808–1874) - du Chaillu – Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1831–1903)
- Dubois, C. F. Dubois – Charles Frédéric DuboisCharles Frédéric DuboisCharles Frédéric Dubois was a Belgian naturalist.He was the author of Planches colorées des oiseaux de l’Europe and Catalogue systématique des Lépidoptères de la Belgique , which was completed by his son, Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois , after...
(1804–1867) - Dufour – Léon Jean Marie DufourLéon Jean Marie DufourLéon Jean Marie Dufour was a French medical doctor and naturalist .Between 1799 and 1806 he studied medicine in Paris then returned to Saint-Sever in the Landes...
(1780–1865) - Dufresne – Louis DufresneLouis DufresneLouis Dufresne was a French ornithologist and taxidermist.Louis Dufresne was one of the naturalists on board the Astrolabe, which accompanied by the Boussole, left Brest in August 1785 on a voyage of discovery...
- Duftschmid – Caspar Erasmus DuftschmidCaspar Erasmus DuftschmidCaspar Erasmus Duftschmid properly Kaspar was an Austrian naturalist and physician who made significant contributions to entomology, especially Coleoptera.He was born in Gmunden 19 November 1767 and died in Linz 17 December 1821....
(1767–1821) - Duméril – André Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant DumérilAndré Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...
(1774–1860) - Dumont – Charles Dumont de Sainte CroixCharles Dumont de Sainte CroixCharles Henri Frédéric Dumont de Sainte-Croix was a French zoologist. A lawyer by trade, he was also an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist...
(1758–1830) - Duncker – Paul Georg Egmont Duncker (1870–1953)
- Duponchel – Philogène Auguste Joseph DuponchelPhilogène Auguste Joseph DuponchelPhilogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel was a French soldier and entomologist.Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel was born in 1774 in Valenciennes, Nord and died on 10 January 1846 in Paris. After studies in Douai, he joined, the French Army when he was sixteen years old. He took part in the campaigns...
(1774–1846) - Durrell – Gerald DurrellGerald DurrellGerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell, OBE was a naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter...
(1925–1995) - Duvernoy – Georges Louis DuvernoyGeorges Louis DuvernoyGeorges Louis Duvernoy was a French zoologist. He assisted Georges Cuvier in writing Leçons d'anatomie comparée. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1847 and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1851....
(1777–1855) - Dwight – Jonathan DwightJonathan DwightJonathan Dwight V was an American ornithologist.-Life:Jonathan Dwight was born December 8, 1858 in New York City. His father was civil engineer Jonathan Dwight , grandfather Jonathan Dwight , great grandfather Jonathan Dwight , and great-great grandfather also named Jonathan Dwight , all part of...
(1858–1929) - Dyar – Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr.Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr.Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr., born February 14, 1866 in New York City, died January 21, 1929, in Washington, D.C., was a son of Harrison Gray Dyar and his wife Eleonora Rosella . Dyar graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1889 with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry...
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- Earle - Sylvia Alice Earle (b. 1935)
- Eaton - Jeffrey Glenn Eaton (b. 1948)
- Edwards - William Henry EdwardsWilliam Henry EdwardsWilliam Henry Edwards was an important entomologist in the United States.Edwards was born in Hunter, Greene County, New York. He is remembered for his trip to the Amazon in 1846, that he recorded in his book A Voyage Up the River Amazon, with a residency at Pará , that inspired Wallace and Bates...
(1822–1909) - Ehrenberg - Christian Gottfried EhrenbergChristian Gottfried EhrenbergChristian Gottfried Ehrenberg , German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time.- Early collections :...
(1795–1876) - Eichwald - Karl EichwaldKarl EichwaldKarl Eduard von Eichwald was a Russian geologist and physician.Eichwald was a Baltic German born at Mitau in Courland...
(1795–1876) - Eigenmann - Carl H. EigenmannCarl H. EigenmannCarl H. Eigenmann was an ichthyologist who, along with his wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann, described many of the fishes of North America and South America for the first time....
(1863–1927) - R.S. Eigenmann, R. Smith - Rosa Smith EigenmannRosa Smith EigenmannRosa Smith Eigenmann was the first notable female ichthyologist; first publishing in her own right, she later collaborated with her husband Carl H. Eigenmann, and some 150 species of fish are today credited "Eigenmann & Eigenmann" as a result.She was born in Monmouth, Illinois, the last of nine...
(1858–1947) - Ellerman - John Ellerman (1910–1973)
- Elliot - Daniel Giraud ElliotDaniel Giraud ElliotDaniel Giraud Elliot was an American zoologist.Elliot was one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the American Ornithologists' Union. He was also curator of zoology at the Field Museum in Chicago.Elliot used his wealth to publish a series of sumptuous...
(1835–1915) - Emery - Carlo EmeryCarlo EmeryCarlo Emery was an Italian entomologist.Born in Naples, Carlo Emery was professor of Zoology at the University of Bologna. He later worked in Geneva...
(1848–1925) - A.R. Emery - Alan R. Emery
- Enslin - Eduard Enslin (1879–1970)
- Erdős - Jozsef Erdős
- Erichson - Wilhelm Ferdinand ErichsonWilhelm Ferdinand ErichsonWilhelm Ferdinand Erichson was a German entomologist.He was the author of many articles about insects mainly in Archiv für Naturgeschichte.-Works:*Genera Dytiscorum. Berlin...
(1809–1848) - Erxleben - Johann Christian Polycarp ErxlebenJohann Christian Polycarp ErxlebenJohann Christian Polycarp Erxleben was a German naturalist from Quedlinburg.Erxleben was Professor of physics and veterinary medicine at the University of Göttingen. He wrote Anfangsgründe der Naturlehre and Systema regni animalis...
(1744–1777) - Eschmeyer - William N. Eschmeyer
- Eschscholtz - Johann Friedrich von EschscholtzJohann Friedrich von EschscholtzJohann Friedrich Eschscholtz was a Livonian physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.Eschscholtz was born in Dorpat , Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire...
(1793–1831) - Esper - Eugen Johann Christoph Esper (1742–1810)
- Evermann - Barton Warren EvermannBarton Warren EvermannBarton Warren Evermann was an American ichthyologist. He was born in Monroe County, Iowa, and graduated from Indiana University in 1886. For 10 years, he served as teacher and superintendent of schools in Indiana and California. He was professor of biology at the Indiana State University in...
(1853–1932) - Eversmann - Eduard Friedrich EversmannEduard Friedrich EversmannAlexander Eduard Friedrich Eversmann was a biologist and explorer.Eversmann was born in Westphalia and studied at the universities of Marburg, Halle, Berlin and Dorpat. He received his degree of Philosophy and Master of Liberal Sciences at Halle in 1814, and at Dorpat graduated as a Doctor of...
(1794–1860) - Evseenko - Sergei Afanasievich Evseenko
- Eyton - Thomas Campbell EytonThomas Campbell EytonThomas Campbell Eyton JP, DL was an English naturalist whose fields were cattle, fishes and birds. He was a friend and correspondent of Charles Darwin though he opposed his theories....
(1809–1880)
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- Fabre - Jean-Henri Casimir FabreJean Henri FabreJean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author.-Life:Fabre was born in Saint-Léons in Aveyron, France....
(1823–1915) - Fabricius - Johan Christian FabriciusJohan Christian FabriciusJohan Christian Fabricius was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others...
(1745–1808) - Fahringer - Josef FahringerJosef FahringerJosef Fahringer was an Austrian entomologist from Vienna.He obtained a doctorate at the University of Vienna in 1904 and taught in Vienna from 1904 to 1907. He then taught at Brüx from 1907 to 1910 , at Brünn from 1910 to 1913 and again at Vienna from 1918 to 1936...
(1876–1950) - Fåhraeus - Olof Immanuel von FåhraeusOlof Immanuel von FåhraeusOlof Immanuel Fåhraeus , was a Swedish politician and entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera....
(1796-1884) - Fairmaire - Leon FairmaireLéon FairmaireLéon Marc Herminie Fairmaire was a French entomologist.A specialist in Coleoptera he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean . This is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle...
(1820–1906) - Falla - Robert Alexander FallaRobert Alexander FallaSir Robert Alexander Falla was a New Zealand museum administrator and ornithologist.He was assistant zoologist with the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Sir Douglas Mawson 1929-1931. He was the founding President of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand...
(1901–1979) - Fallén - Carl Frederick Fallén (1764–1830)
- Feinberg - M. Norma Feinberg
- C.Felder - Cajetan Freiherr von FelderCajetan Freiherr von FelderBaron Cajetan von Felder, German: Cajetan Freiherr von Felder was an Austrian jurist, politician, and entomologist...
(1814–1894) Lepidoptera - R.Felder - Rudolf FelderRudolf FelderRudolf Felder was an Austrian jurist and entomologist. He was mainly interested in Lepidoptera, amassing, with his father, Cajetan Felder a huge collection.-Works:...
(1842–1871) Lepidoptera - Fenwick - Jack Fenwick
- Fernandes-Matioli - Flora Maria de Campos Fernandes-Matioli
- Ferrari-Perez - Fernando Ferrari-PerezFernando Ferrari-PérezFernando Ferrari-Pérez was appointed head of the Mexican Geographical and Exploring Commission in the early 1880s, with a commission to catalogue the native mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, and plants of Mexico. He was the author of the Catalogue of Animals collected by the Geographical and...
(d. 1927) - Ferraris - Carl J. Ferraris, Jr.
- Férussac - Jean Baptiste Louis d'Audebard Férussac (1745–1815)
- Filhol - Henri FilholHenri FilholHenri Filhol was a French medical doctor, malacologist and naturalist. He served as the expedition doctor and naturalist on the French 1874 Transit of Venus expedition to Campbell Island, New Zealand, with a peak on the island, Filhol Peak, being named after him...
(1843–1902) - Finsch - Otto FinschOtto FinschFriedrich Hermann Otto Finsch was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer.-Biography:...
(1839–1917) - Fioroni - Pio Fioroni (1933–2003)
- G.Fischer, Fischer de Waldheim, Fischer von Waldheim - Johann Fischer von WaldheimJohann Fischer von WaldheimJohann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim was a German anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist....
(1771–1853) - J.Fischer - Johann Baptist Fischer (d.1832)
- J.G.Fischer - Johann Gustav Fischer (1819–1889)
- M.Fischer - Maximilian FischerMaximilian FischerMaximilian Fischer , is an Austrian entomologist and a specialist on parasitic wasps . He curated the Hymenoptera collections of the Natural History Museum Vienna from 1955-1994. He has described more than 1000 new species of Braconidae flies in more than 300 publications.-External links:* pdf...
(1929-) - Fitch - Asa FitchAsa FitchDr. Asa Fitch Dr. Asa Fitch Dr. Asa Fitch (February 24, 1809 – April 8, 1879. His early studies were of both natural history and medicine, which he studied at the newly formed Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1827. However, in 1838 he decided to start studying agriculture and...
(1809-1879) - Fitzinger - Leopold FitzingerLeopold FitzingerLeopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger was an Austrian zoologist.Fitzinger was born in Vienna and studied botany at the university of Vienna under Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin...
(1802–1884) - J.H.Fleming - James Henry FlemingJames Henry FlemingJames Henry Fleming was a Canadian ornithologist. His father was Scottish and sixty years old when he was born. J. H. Fleming became interested in birds at age 12. He was an associate member of the Royal Canadian Institute at 16...
(1872–1940) - Fleming - John Fleming (naturalist)John Fleming (naturalist)John Fleming was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman, naturalist, zoologist and geologist. He was born near Bathgate in Linlithgowshire and died in Edinburgh...
(1785–1857) - Fonscolombe - Etienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de FonscolombeEtienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de FonscolombeEtienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Hymenoptera and pest insects....
- Forbes - Edward ForbesEdward ForbesProfessor Edward Forbes FRS, FGS was a Manx naturalist.-Early years:Forbes was born at Douglas, in the Isle of Man. While still a child, when not engaged in reading, or in the writing of verses and drawing of caricatures, he occupied himself with the collecting of insects, shells, minerals,...
(1815-1854) - Forbes - Henry Ogg ForbesHenry Ogg ForbesHenry Ogg Forbes was a Scottish explorer, ornithologist, and botanist. Educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh, he was primarily active in the Moluccas and New Guinea, he served as director of the Canterbury Museum in New Zealand between...
(1851–1932) - Forel - Auguste-Henri ForelAuguste-Henri ForelAuguste-Henri Forel was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist, notable for his investigations into the structure of the human brain and that of ants. For example, he is considered a co-founder of the neuron theory...
(1848–1931) - Forsius - Runar Forsius (1884–1935)
- Forsskål - Peter ForsskålPeter ForsskålPeter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl, was a Swedish explorer, orientalist, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.-Early life:...
(1732–1763) - Forsyth Major - Charles Immanuel Forsyth MajorCharles Immanuel Forsyth MajorCharles Immanuel Forsyth Major was a Swiss zoologist and vertebrate palaeontologist.Major was born in Glasgow and studied at Basel and Zurich Universities in Switzerland and later Göttingen in Germany...
(1843–1923) - Forster - Johann Reinhold ForsterJohann Reinhold ForsterJohann Reinhold Forster was a German Lutheran pastor and naturalist of partial Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America...
(1729–1798) - C.A.Forster - Catherine A. Forster
- G.Forster - Georg ForsterGeorg ForsterJohann Georg Adam Forster was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific...
(1754–1794) - R.R.Forster - Raymond Robert ForsterRaymond Robert ForsterRaymond Robert Forster was a spider expert.He wrote his first paper on spiders at the age of 17. He studied at Victoria University...
(1922–2000) http://www.arachnology.org/ISA/obituaries/forster.html - Förster - Arnold FörsterArnold FörsterArnold Förster was a German entomologist, who worked mainly on Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.-Life:Arnold Förster, who was born on 20 January 1810 in Aachen, Germany, where he died on 12 August 1884. He was Oberlehrer , or upper teacher, in Aachen for his entire adult life. He worked ceaselessly on...
(1810–1884) - Fourmanoir - Pierre FourmanoirPierre FourmanoirPierre Fourmanoir was a French ichthyologist working mainly in New Caledonia. He has described many new species of fish including several sharks.-References:*...
(b. 1924) - Fowler - Henry Weed FowlerHenry Weed FowlerHenry Weed Fowler was an American zoologist born in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania.He studied at Stanford University under David Starr Jordan...
(1879–1965) - Fox - Wade FoxWade FoxWade Fox was a U.S. zoologist and herpetologist from the University of California, Berkeley. He specialized in the anatomy of snakes and the systematics of the western Garter snakes....
(1920–1964) - Fraas - Eberhard FraasEberhard FraasEberhard Fraas was a German geologist and paleontologist. He worked as a curator at the Stuttgarter Naturaliensammlung and discovered the dinosaurs of the Tendaguru formation in then German East Africa ....
(1862–1915) - Franganillo-Balboa - Pelegrin Franganillo-Balboa (1873–1955)
- Franklin - James Franklin (naturalist)James Franklin (naturalist)James Franklin was a British soldier. He was the brother of Sir John Franklin.James Franklin entered the service of the British East India Company as a cadet in 1805. He served with distinction on various Indian surveys and was elected a member of the Royal Society. He was in the 1st Bengal...
(c.1783–1834) - Fraser - Louis FraserLouis FraserLouis Fraser was a British zoologist and collector. In his early years Fraser was Curator of the Museum of the Zoological Society of London. He participated in the Niger River Expedition as the African Civilization Society's scientist on Allen and Thomson's 1841–1842 Expedition. Upon his return he...
(1810–1866) - F.C.Fraser - Frederick C. Fraser
- Freyer - Christian Friedrich FreyerChristian Friedrich FreyerChristian Friedrich Freyer was a German entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera....
(1794–1885) Entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera - Friedmann - Herbert FriedmannHerbert FriedmannHerbert Friedmann was an American ornithologist. He worked at the Smithsonian Institution for more than 30 years. In 1929 he became a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union and served as the President of the A.O.U. from 1937 to 1939. He published 17 books and was noted for study of Avian...
(1900–1987) - Frivaldszky - Imre FrivaldszkyImre FrivaldszkyDr Emerich Frivaldszky von Frivald was a Hungarian botanist and entomologist.-Biography:...
(1799–1870) - Frohawk - Frederick William FrohawkFrederick William FrohawkFrederick William Frohawk was an English zoological artist and lepidopterist.Frohawk was the author of Natural History of British Butterflies , The Complete Book of British Butterflies and Varieties of British Butterflies .Frohawk was born at Brisley Hall, East Dereham, Norfolk, the son of a...
(1861–1946) - Fruhstorfer - Hans FruhstorferHans FruhstorferHans Fruhstorfer was a German explorer, insect trader and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He collected and described many new species of exotic butterflies, especially in Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World...
(1866—1922) - Fürbringer - Max FürbringerMax FürbringerMax Carl Anton Fürbringer was a German anatomist. He studied with Karl Gegenbaur and published his studies in comparative anatomy in Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Systematik der Vögel, 1888.-Notes:...
(1846–1920) - Füssli, Fuessly, Füsslins - Johann Kaspar FüssliJohann Kaspar FüssliJohann Kaspar Füssli, also written Johann Caspar Fuesslins, was a Swiss painter, entomologist and publisher....
(1743–1786)
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- Gadow - Hans Friedrich GadowHans Friedrich GadowHans Friedrich Gadow was a German ornithologist.Gadow was born in Pomerania, the son of an inspector of the Prussian royal forests. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Jena and Heidelberg. At Jena he studied under Ernst Haeckel and at Heidelberg under the anatomist Karl Gegenbaur...
(1855–1928) - Gahan - Charles Joseph GahanCharles Joseph GahanCharles Joseph Gahan was born on 20 January 1862 at Roscrea County Tipperary, Ireland. His father, Michael Gahan was the Master of Erasmus Smith's School in Tipperary. He was educated first at Queens College Galway, where he achieved distinction, and then at the Royal School of Mines in Kensington...
(1862–1939) - Gaimard - Joseph Paul GaimardJoseph Paul GaimardJoseph Paul Gaimard was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.Along with Jean René Constant Quoy he served as naturalist on the ships L'Uranie under Louis de Freycinet 1817-1820, and L'Astrolabe under Jules Dumont d'Urville 1826-1829...
(1796–1858) - F. Galton, Galton - Francis GaltonFrancis GaltonSir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
(1822–1911) - P. M. Galton - Peter GaltonPeter GaltonPeter M. Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist working in America, who has to date written or co-written about a hundred papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.With Robert Bakker in a joint article...
- Gambel - William GambelWilliam GambelWilliam Gambel was an American naturalist and collector.Gambel was born in Philadelphia. In 1838 he travelled with the naturalist Thomas Nuttall on a collecting trip to North Carolina. In March 1841 he set off alone to collect plants for Nuttall. He travelled west, taking a more southerly route to...
(1823–1849) - Gao - Keqin Gao (b. 1955)
- Garman - Samuel Garman (1846–1927)
- Garnot - Prosper GarnotProsper GarnotProsper Garnot was a French surgeon and naturalist.Garnot was born at Brest. He was an assistant surgeon under Louis Isidore Duperrey on La Coquille during its circumnavigation of the globe . Along with Rene Primevere Lesson he collected numerous natural history specimens in South America and the...
(1794–1838) - Garstang - Walter GarstangWalter GarstangWalter Garstang , a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, was a marine biologist and zoologist who was one of the first to study the functional biology of marine invertebrate larvae...
(1868–1949) - Gaston - Robert Gaston (b. 1967)
- Gasparini - Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini
- Gauthier - Jacques GauthierJacques GauthierJacques Armand Gauthier is a vertebrate paleontologist, comparative morphologist, and systematist, and one of the founders of the use of cladistics in biology....
(b. 1948) - Gegenbaur - Carl Gegenbaur (1825–1903)
- Gené - Giuseppe GenéGiuseppe GenéCarlo Giuseppe Géné was an Italian naturalist and author.Géné was born at Turbigo in Lombardy and studied at the University of Pavia. He published a number of papers on natural history, particularly entomology...
(1800–1847) - É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-HilaireÉtienne Geoffroy Saint-HilaireÉtienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories...
(1772–1844) - I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-HilaireIsidore Geoffroy Saint-HilaireIsidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. He coined the term ethology.He was born in Paris, the son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire...
(1805–1861) - Georgi - Johann Gottlieb GeorgiJohann Gottlieb GeorgiJohann Gottlieb Georgi was a German geographer and chemist.Georgi was professor of chemistry at St Petersburg. He accompanied both Johann Peter Falck and Peter Simon Pallas on their respective journeys through Siberia. Gergi was particularly interested in Lake Baikal...
(1729–1802) - Germar - Ernst Friedrich GermarErnst Friedrich GermarErnst Friedrich Germar was a German professor and director of the Mineralogical Museum at Halle. As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly in the Coleoptera and Hemiptera. He monographed the heteropteran family Scutelleridae.Amongst Germar’s publications...
(1786–1853) - Gerstäcker - Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstäcker (1828–1895)
- Gertsch - Willis J. GertschWillis J. GertschWillis John Gertsch was an American arachnologist. He classified a number of species, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider....
(1906–1998) - Gervais - Paul GervaisPaul GervaisFor the Canadian parliamentarian see Paul Mullins GervaisPaul Gervais full name François Louis Paul Gervaise was a French palaeontologist and entomologist.-Biography:...
(1816–1879) - Géry - Jacques Géry ichthyology
- Geyer -Carl GeyerCarl GeyerCarl Geyer was a German entomologist who wrote and illustrated various supplements to Jacob Hübner s works on Lepidoptera.Carl Geyer was , by profession an artist. He is not to be confused with Charles Andreas Geyer , a botanist and plant collector.-References:*Evenhuis, N. L. 1997 Litteratura...
entomology - Geyer - Charles Andreas Geyer (1809–1853) Botany U.S.A.
- Giglioli - Enrico Hillyer GiglioliEnrico Hillyer GiglioliEnrico Hillyer Giglioli was an Italian zoologist and anthropologist.Giglioli was born in London and first studied there. He obtained a degree in science at the University of Pisa in 1864 and started to teach zoology in Florence in 1869...
(1845–1909) - Gilbert - Charles Henry GilbertCharles Henry GilbertCharles Henry Gilbert was a pioneer ichthyologist and fishery biologist of particular significance to natural history of the western United States. He collected and studied fishes from Central America north to Alaska and described many new species...
(1859–1928) - Gilchrist - John Dow Fisher Gilchrist (1866–1926)
- Gill - Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837–1914)
- Gillette - David D. Gillette
- Gilmore - Charles W. GilmoreCharles W. GilmoreCharles Whitney Gilmore was an American paleontologist, who named dinosaurs in North America and Mongolia, including the Cretaceous sauropod Alamosaurus, Alectrosaurus, Archaeornithomimus, Bactrosaurus, Brachyceratops, Chirostenotes, Mongolosaurus, Parrosaurus, Pinacosaurus, Styracosaurus and...
(1874–1945) - Girard - Charles Frédéric GirardCharles Frédéric GirardCharles Frédéric Girard was a French biologist specializing in ichthyology and herpetology.Born in Mulhouse, France, he studied at the College of Neuchâtel, Switzerland as a student of Louis Agassiz. In 1847, he accompanied Agassiz as his assistant to Harvard...
(1822–1895) - Giraud - Joseph Etienne GiraudJoseph-Étienne GiraudJoseph-Étienne Giraud was a French doctor and entomologist specializing in Hymenoptera with an additional interest in Coleoptera.Giraud practised medicine in Vienna and Paris...
(1808–1877) - Girault - Alec Arsène Girault entomology
- Gloger - Constantin Wilhelm Lambert GlogerConstantin Wilhelm Lambert GlogerConstantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger was a German zoologist and ornithologist.Gloger was the first person to recognise the structural differences between swallows and swifts, and also the first to put up artificial bat boxes.He was the originator of Gloger's rule, which states that dark pigments...
(1803–1863) - Gmelin - Johann Friedrich GmelinJohann Friedrich GmelinJohann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...
(1748–1804) - Godart - Jean Baptiste GodartJean Baptiste GodartJean-Baptiste Godart was a French entomologist.Born at Origny, Godart became impassioned by butterflies in his youth. He was charged by Pierre André Latreille with writing the article on these insects in the Encyclopédie Méthodique...
(1775–1825) - Godefroit - Pascal Godefroit
- Godman - Frederick DuCane GodmanFrederick DuCane GodmanFrederick DuCane Godman D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., M.R.I., F.R.H.S., M.B.O.U. was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist....
(1834–1919) - Goeze - Johann August Ephraim GoezeJohann August Ephraim GoezeJohann August Ephraim Goeze was a German zoologist from Aschersleben.He was the son of Johann Heinrich and Catherine Margarete . He studied theology at University of Halle. He married Leopoldine Maria Keller in 1770, by whom he had four children. In 1751, he became a pastor at Aschersleben in...
(1731–1793) - Göhlich - Ursula Bettina Göhlich
- Goldfuss - Georg August GoldfussGeorg August GoldfussGeorg August Goldfuss was a German palaeontologist and zoologist.-Biography:Goldfuss was born at Thurnau near Bayreuth. He was educated at Erlangen, where he graduated Ph.D. in 1804 and became professor of zoology in 1818. He was subsequently appointed professor of zoology and mineralogy at the...
(1782–1848) - Goode - George Brown GoodeGeorge Brown GoodeGeorge Brown Goode , was an ichthyologist, although most of his time was spent as a museum administrator and he was very interested in the history of science, especially the history of the development of science in America. Goode graduated from Wesleyan University and studied at Harvard University...
(1851–1896) - Gosse - Philip Henry GossePhilip Henry GossePhilip Henry Gosse was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology...
(1810–1888) - A. A. Gould - Augustus Addison GouldAugustus Addison GouldAugustus Addison Gould was an American conchologist and malacologist.-Biography:...
(1805–1866) conchology - Gould - John GouldJohn GouldJohn Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...
(1804–1881) birds and mammals - A. Grandidier - Alfred GrandidierAlfred GrandidierAlfred Grandidier was a French naturalist and explorer.From a very wealthy family, he and his brother, Ernest Grandidier , undertook a voyage around the world...
(1836–1921) - G. Grandidier - Guillaume GrandidierGuillaume GrandidierGuillaume Grandidier was a French geographer , ethnologist , zoologist who studied the island of Madagascar.He was the son of the wealthy industrialist Alfred Grandidier also a zoologist and expert on Madagascar...
(1873–1957) - Grandin - Temple GrandinTemple GrandinTemple Grandin is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior...
1947- - Granger - Walter W. GrangerWalter W. GrangerWalter Willis Granger was an American vertebrate paleontologist who participated in important fossil explorations in the United States, Egypt, China and Mongolia.-Early life and career:...
(1872–1941) - Grant - Chapman GrantChapman GrantChapman Grant was an American herpetologist, historian, and publisher. He was the last living grandson of United States President Ulysses S. Grant...
(1887–1983) herpetology - Grant - Ulysses S. Grant IVUlysses S. Grant IVUlysses S. Grant IV , was the son of Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. and the grandson of General of the Army and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant. He was an American geologist and paleontologist known for his work on the fossil mollusks of the California Pacific Coast...
(1893–1977) malacology, paleontology - Gravenhorst - Johann Ludwig Christian GravenhorstJohann Ludwig Christian GravenhorstJohann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst , sometimes Jean Louis Charles or Carl, was a German entomologist, herpetologist and zoologist.- Life:...
(1777–1857) - G. R. Gray - George Robert GrayGeorge Robert GrayGeorge Robert Gray FRS was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years...
(1808–1872) entomology, ornithology - J. E. Gray - John Edward GrayJohn Edward GrayJohn Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
(1800–1875) - Green - Edward Ernest GreenEdward Ernest GreenEdward Ernest Green was an English mycologist and entomologist who specialised in Coccidae.Green was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. From 1880 Green managed his family's tea and coffee plantations in Ceylon....
(1861–1949) - Gregory - William K. Gregory (1876–1970)
- Griffith - Edward Griffith (1790–1858)
- Grimpe - Georg Grimpe, 1889–1936
- Grinnell - Joseph GrinnellJoseph GrinnellJoseph Grinnell was a field biologist and zoologist. He made extensive studies of the fauna of California, and is credited with introducing a method of recording precise field observations known as the Grinnell System...
(1877–1939) - Griscom - Ludlow GriscomLudlow GriscomLudlow Griscom was an American ornithologist known as a pioneer in field ornithology.-Biography:Griscom was born in New York City, the son of Clement Acton Griscom and Genevieve Sprigg Ludlow. He was a protege of Frank Chapman, later working for Thomas Barbour at Harvard University's Museum of...
(1890–1959) - Grobben - Karl GrobbenKarl GrobbenKarl Grobben was an Austrian biologist. He graduated from, and later worked at, the University of Vienna, chiefly on molluscs and crustaceans...
(1854–1945) - A. Grote, Grote - Augustus Radcliffe GroteAugustus Radcliffe GroteAugustus Radcliffe Grote was a British entomologist who worked mainly in America.Grote investigated, discovered and designated various butterflies and moths in North America, particularly in the USA, Mexico and Cuba.-Works:* The effect of the glacial epoch upon the distribution of insects in North...
(1841–1903) entomology - H. Grote - Hermann Grote ornithology
- Grube - Adolph Eduard GrubeAdolph Eduard GrubeAdolph Eduard Grube was a Polish Zoologist.-References:...
(1812-1880) zoology - Grumm-Grzhimailo - G. E. Grumm-GrshimailoG. E. Grumm-GrshimailoGrigory Yefimovich Grumm-Grzhimaylo was a Russian entomologist, best known for his expeditions to Central Asia , West Mongolia and Tuva, and the Russian Far East.-Life and work:...
(1860—1936) entomology - Guenee, Guenée - Achille GuenéeAchille GuénéeAchille Guenée was a French lawyer and entomologist.-Biography:Achille Guenée was born in Chartres and died in Châteaudun....
(1809–1880) - Guerin, Guérin-Méneville - Félix Édouard Guérin-MénevilleFélix Édouard Guérin-MénevilleFélix Édouard Guérin-Méneville was a French entomologist.Guérin-Méneville changed his surname from Guérin in 1836. He was the author of the illustrated work Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier 1829–1844, a complement to the work of Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille, which lacked...
(1799–1874) - Güldenstädt - Johann Anton GüldenstädtJohann Anton GüldenstädtJohann Anton Güldenstädt was a Baltic German naturalist and explorer in Russian service....
(1745–1781) - Gunnerus - Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773)
- Gunter - Gordon P. Gunter (1909–1998)
- Günther - Albert C. L. G. GüntherAlbert C. L. G. GüntherAlbert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther , was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist....
(1830–1914) - Gurney - John Henry GurneyJohn Henry GurneyJohn Henry Gurney was an English banker, amateur ornithologist, and Liberal Party politician.-Life:Gurney was the only son of Joseph John Gurney of Earlham Hall, Norwich, Norfolk. At the age of ten he was sent to a private tutor at Leytonstone near the Epping Forest, where he met Henry Doubleday,...
(1819–1890) - J. H. Gurney Jr - John Henry Gurney Jr. (1848–1922)
- Gyllenhaal - Leonard GyllenhaalLeonard GyllenhaalLeonard Gyllenhaal was a Swedish military officer and entomologist.Born on the Ribbingsberg manor in Västergötland in west Sweden, Leonard Gyllenhaal was son of an army officer and belonged to a family of the lower nobility...
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- Habe – Tadashige Habe (born 1916)
- Hablizl – Carl Ludwig HablizlCarl Ludwig HablizlCarl Ludwig Hablizl or Hablitz , also known as Karl Ivanovich Gablits, was a Russian botanist.He was born in Königsberg. He was the author of Physical description of Taurichesky area, its position and three empires of nature ....
(1752–1821) - Hachisuka – Masauyi Hachisuka
- Hadiaty – Renny Hadiaty
- Hadie – Wartono Hadie
- Haeckel – Ernst HaeckelErnst HaeckelThe "European War" became known as "The Great War", and it was not until 1920, in the book "The First World War 1914-1918" by Charles à Court Repington, that the term "First World War" was used as the official name for the conflict.-Research:...
(1834–1919) - Hagen – Hermann August HagenHermann August HagenHermann August Hagen was a German entomologist who specialised in Neuroptera and Odonata. In 1845 he began to collaborate with Edmond de Sélys Longchamps .-Biography:...
(1817–1893) - Hahn – Carl Wilhelm HahnCarl Wilhelm HahnDr. Carl Wilhelm Hahn was a German zoologist and author of the first German monograph on spiders. C. W. Hahn was an all-round natural scientist – not at all unusual for his time. Surprisingly he seems to have been almost forgotten...
(1786–1835) - Haldeman – Samuel Stehman HaldemanSamuel Stehman HaldemanSamuel Stehman Haldeman , American naturalist and philologist, was born at Locust Grove, Pennsylvania.Haldeman was educated at Dickinson College. He visited Texas in 1851 to investigate the presidency of an institution there, but declined the position...
(1812–1880) - Haliday – Alexander Henry HalidayAlexander Henry HalidayAlexander Henry Haliday, also known as Enrico Alessandro Haliday and Alexis Heinrich Haliday sometimes Halliday , was an Irish entomologist. He is primarily known for his work on Hymenoptera, Diptera and Thysanoptera, but Haliday worked on all insect orders and on many aspects of entomology.Haliday...
(1807–1870) - Hallowell – Edward Hallowell (herpetologist) (1808–1860)
- Hamilton, Hamilton-Buchanan – Francis Buchanan-HamiltonFrancis Buchanan-HamiltonDr Francis Buchanan, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist while living in India.The standard botanical author abbreviation Buch.-Ham. is applied to...
(1762–1829) - Hammer – William R. HammerWilliam R. HammerDr. William Roy Hammer is a professor at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. He is credited with the discovery of the Cryolophosaurus in 1991. He is originally from Detroit, Michigan.- References :...
- Hampson – George Francis HampsonGeorge Francis HampsonSir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills of the Madras presidency , where he became interested in moths and butterflies...
(1860–1936) - Handlirsch – Anton HandlirschAnton HandlirschAnton Handlirsch, exactly Anton Peter Josef Handlirsch was an Austrian entomologist.His father was Peter Handlirsch , mother was Rosina Handlirsch . His father worked as a cook of the Schwarzenberg family...
(1865–1935) - Hanley – Sylvanus Charles Thorp HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp HanleySylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley was a British conchologist and malacologist who published the first book on shells using the then new technique of photographs. He authored Conchologia indica with William Theobald which was a treatise on the shells of British India...
(1819–1899) - Hansemann – Johann Wilhelm Adolf Hansemann (1784–1862)
- Hansen – Hans Jacob HansenHans Jacob Hansen-References:*.-Literature:...
(1855–1936) - Harcourt – Edward William Vernon HarcourtEdward William Vernon HarcourtEdward William Vernon Harcourt was an English naturalist and Conservative politician.Harcourt was born in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, the son of the Rev. William Vernon Harcourt who was a scientist, and grandson of Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York. He was educated at Christ Church,...
(1825–1891) - Hardwicke – Thomas HardwickeThomas HardwickeMajor-General Thomas Hardwicke was an English soldier and naturalist who was resident in India from 1777 to 1823. After returning to England he collaborated with John Edward Gray in the publication of Illustrations of Indian Zoology .At the age of 22, he joined the East India Company...
(1755–1835) - Harlan – Richard HarlanRichard HarlanRichard Harlan was an American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist....
(1796–1843) - Harper – Francis HarperFrancis Harper (biologist)Francis Harper was an American naturalist. His research included studies of the Okefenokee Swamp and fieldwork in the north eastern United States and in northern Canada, and he also studied the 18th century American naturalists John and William Bartram...
(1886–1972) - Harris, M.Harris – Moses HarrisMoses HarrisMoses Harris was an English entomologist and engraver.In the Natural System of Colours he examined the work of Isaac Newton and tried to reveal the multitude of colours which can be created from three basic ones...
(1734–1785) entomology - T.W.Harris – Thaddeus Williams Harris (1795–1856)
- Harrison – Colin James Oliver Harrison (1926–2003)
- Hartert – Ernst HartertErnst HartertErnst Johann Otto Hartert was a German ornithologist. Hartert was born in Hamburg. He was employed by Lionel Walter Rothschild as ornithological curator of his private museum at Tring from 1892 to 1929....
(1859–1933) - Hartig – Theodor HartigTheodor HartigTheodor Hartig was a German forestry biologist and botanist. He was the son of Georg Ludwig Hartig , a German agriculturist...
(1805–1880) - Hartlaub – Gustav HartlaubGustav HartlaubKarel Johan Gustav Hartlaub was a German physician and ornithologist.Hartlaub was born in Bremen, and studied at Bonn and Berlin before graduating in medicine at Göttingen. In 1840, he began to study and collect exotic birds, which he donated to the Bremen Natural History Museum. He described some...
(1814–1900) - Hassall – Arthur Hill HassallArthur Hill HassallArthur Hill Hassall was a British physician, chemist and microscopist who is primarily known for his work in public health and food safety....
(1817-1894) - Hatcher – John Bell HatcherJohn Bell HatcherJohn Bell Hatcher was an American paleontologist and fossil hunter best known for discovering Torosaurus.-Biography:...
(1861–1904) - Hatschek – Berthold Hatschek (1854–1941)
- Haubold – Hartmut Haubold
- Haworth – Adrian Hardy HaworthAdrian Hardy HaworthAdrian Hardy Haworth was an English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist.He was the son of Benjamin Haworth of Haworth Hall...
(1767–1833) - Hay – William Perry HayWilliam Perry HayWilliam Perry Hay was an American zoologist known for work on crayfish and reptiles. He was the son of Oliver Perry Hay.- References :...
(1872–1947) - Head – Jason J. Head
- Heads – Sam W. HeadsSam W. HeadsSam W. Heads is a British entomologist and insect palaeontologist, a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and an Officer of the Orthopterists' Society....
- Heaney – Lawrence Richard Heaney
- Heckel – Johann Jakob HeckelJohann Jakob HeckelJohann Jakob Heckel was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist from Mannheim.Though not a formally trained zoologist he worked his way up through the ranks to eventually become the director of the Fish Collection at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna...
(1790–1857) - Heemstra – Phillip C. Heemstra
- Hellén – Wolter Edward Hellén (1890–1979)
- Hellmayr – Carl Edward HellmayrCarl Edward HellmayrCarl Eduard Hellmayr was an Austrian ornithologist.-Life and work:Hellmayr was born in Vienna and studied at the University of Vienna, although he did not finish his degree...
(1878–1944) - Hemprich – Wilhelm HemprichWilhelm HemprichWilhelm Friedrich Hemprich was a German naturalist and explorer.Hemprich was born in Glatz , Prussian Silesia, and studied medicine at Breslau and Berlin...
(1796–1825) - Henle – Friedrich Gustav Jakob HenleFriedrich Gustav Jakob HenleFriedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was a German physician, pathologist and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay "On Miasma and Contagia" was an early argument for the germ theory of disease...
(1809–1885) - Henshaw – Henry Wetherbee HenshawHenry Wetherbee HenshawHenry Wetherbee Henshaw was an American ornithologist.Henshaw studied at Cambridge High School where he met William Brewster. In 1869 he was forced to give up school due to ill health, and went on a collecting trip to Louisiana. This marked the start of his career as a field naturalist.In 1870...
(1850–1930) - Hentz – Nicholas Marcellus HentzNicholas Marcellus HentzNicholas Marcellus Hentz was a French American arachnologist. Hentz was born in Versailles, France. He immigrated to the United States in 1816 and became a pioneering zoologist in the field of arachnology....
(1797–1856) - Herbst – Johann Friedrich Wilhelm HerbstJohann Friedrich Wilhelm HerbstJohann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst was a German naturalist and entomologist from Petershagen, Minden-Ravensberg....
(1743–1807) - Herdman – William Abbott HerdmanWilliam Abbott HerdmanSir William Abbott Herdman was a Scottish marine zoologist and oceanographer.Archibald Geikie taught him geology during his time at the University of Edinburgh. Herdman graduated at Edinburgh in 1879 and became the assistant of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson...
(1858–1924) - Hering – Erich Martin HeringErich Martin HeringErich Martin Hering was a German entomologist who specialised in leafmining insects,He was a curator in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, where his collections of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera are conserved.His collections of Agromyzidae are shared between MfN and the...
(1893–1967) - Hermann – Johann HermannJohann HermannJohann, or Jean, Hermann was a French physician and naturalist. He was professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg. He was the author of Tabula affinitatum animalium and Observationes zoologicae quibus novae complures, published posthumously in 1804...
(1738–1800) - Herre – Albert William Christian Theodore HerreAlbert William HerreAlbert William Christian Theodore Herre was an American ichthyologist and lichenologist.Herre was born in 1868 in Toledo, Ohio....
(1869–1962) - Herrich-Schäffer – Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-SchäfferGottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-SchäfferDr Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer was a German entomologist and physician. He was born, and died, in Regensburg. Herrich-Schäffer studied and collected particularly butterflies and moths...
(1799–1874) - Hershkovitz – Philip HershkovitzPhilip HershkovitzPhilip Hershkovitz was an American mammalogist. Born in Pittsburgh, he attended the Universities of Pittsburgh and Michigan and lived in South America collecting mammals. In 1947, he was appointed a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and he continued to work there until his...
(1909–1997) - Hertlein – Leo George HertleinLeo George HertleinLeo George Hertlein was an American paleontologist and malacologist who studied the Recent and fossil mollusks of the eastern Pacific Ocean.Hertlein was born on a farm in Pratt County, Kansas...
(1898–1972) - Heude – Pierre Marie HeudePierre Marie HeudePierre Marie Heude was a French Jesuit missionary and zoologist.Born at Fougères in the Department of Ille-et-Vilaine, Heude became a Jesuit in 1856 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1867. He went to China in 1868...
(1836–1902) - Heuglin – Theodor von HeuglinTheodor von HeuglinMartin Theodor von Heuglin , was a German explorer and ornithologist.-Biography:...
(1824–1876) - Heuvelmans – Bernard HeuvelmansBernard HeuvelmansBernard Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French scientist, explorer, researcher, and a writer probably best known as "the father of cryptozoology"...
(1916–2001) - Hewitson – William Chapman HewitsonWilliam Chapman HewitsonWilliam Chapman Hewitson was a British naturalist, born on 9 January 1806 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and died on 28 May 1878. A wealthy collector, this naturalist was particularly devoted to the Coleoptera and the Lepidoptera and, also, to bird's nests and eggs...
(1806–1878) - Heydenreich – Gustav Heinrich HeydenreichGustav Heinrich HeydenreichGustav Heinrich Heydenreich was a German entomologist.Gustav Heinrich Heydenreich specialised in Lepidoptera.His collection is conserved in Senckenberg Museum. He wrote Lepidopterorum Europaerum Catalogus methodicus, published in Leipzig in 1851, in which he described new...
(fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
mid-19th century) - Heymons – Richard HeymonsRichard HeymonsRichard Heymons was a German zoologist.He studied in Berlin from 1886 to 1891 and provided overall direction of the Institute of Zoology at the higher educational farm in Berlin from 1915 to 1935....
(1867–1943) - Hildebrand – Samuel Frederick Hildebrand (1883–1949)
- Hilgendorf – Franz Martin HilgendorfFranz Martin HilgendorfFranz Martin Hilgendorf was a German zoologist and paleontologist. Hilgendorf's research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of evolution published by Charles Darwin in 1859.-Life and work:Franz Hilgendorf was born...
(1839–1904) - Hilsenberg – Carl Theodor Hilsenberg (1802–1824)
- Hinton – Martin Hinton (1883–1961)
- Hirohito – Shōwa Emperor HirohitoHirohito, posthumously in Japan officially called Emperor Shōwa or , was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito, in Japan he is now referred to...
(1901–1989) - Hiyama – Yoshio Hiyama (born 1909)
- Hodgson – Brian Houghton HodgsonBrian Houghton HodgsonBrian Houghton Hodgson was an early naturalist and ethnologist working in British India and Nepal where he was an English civil servant. He described many species, especially birds and mammals from the Himalayas, and several birds were named after him by others such as Edward Blyth...
(1800–1894) - Hoese – Douglass F. Hoese
- Hoffmannsegg – Johann Centurius HoffmannseggJohann Centurius HoffmannseggJohann Centurius Hoffmann Graf von Hoffmannsegg was a German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist.Hoffmannsegg was born at Rammenau and studied at Leipzig and Göttingen. He travelled through Europe acquiring vast collections of plants and animals. He visited Hungary, Austria and Italy in...
(1766–1849) - Hoffstetter – Robert HoffstetterRobert HoffstetterRobert Hoffstetter was a 20th century taxonomist who was influential in categorizing reptiles. He labeled the Bolyeriidae family of snakes.-References:...
(fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
19th century) - Holbrook – John Edwards HolbrookJohn Edwards HolbrookJohn Edwards Holbrook American zoologist, herpetologist, physician, and naturalist, was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, the son of Silas Holbrook, a teacher, and Mary Edwards....
(1794–1871) - Holland – William Jacob HollandWilliam Jacob HollandWilliam Jacob Holland was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished zoologist and paleontologist, as well as an ordained Presbyterian minister.-Life:Holland was born August 16, 1848 in Jamaica, West Indies, the...
(1848–1932) - Holmberg – Eduardo Ladislao HolmbergEduardo Ladislao HolmbergEduardo Ladislao Holmberg was an Argentine natural historian and novelist, one of the leading figures in Argentine biology. Together with Florentino Ameghino he undertook the inventory of Argentine flora and fauna, and explored all the ecoregions in the country...
(1852–1937) - Holmgren – August Emil HolmgrenAugust Emil HolmgrenAugust Emil Holmgren was a Swedish entomologist mainly interested in the Hymenoptera, especially Ichneumonidae.He was professor in the Forstakademie in StockholmHolmgren was the author of:...
(1829–1888) - Holthuis – Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis (1921–2008)
- Hombron – Jacques Bernard HombronJacques Bernard HombronDoctor Jacques Bernard Hombron was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.Hombron served on the French voyage of the Astrolabe and Zelee between 1837 and 1840 to investigate the perimeter of Antarctica. He described a number of plants and animals with Honoré Jacquinot.-See also:* European and...
(1798–1852) - Horn – George Henry HornGeorge Henry HornGeorge Henry Horn was a U.S. entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles.Born in Philadelphia, Horn attended the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a degree in medicine in 1861...
(1840–1897) - Horner – Jack Horner (paleontologist)Jack Horner (paleontologist)John "Jack" R. Horner is an American paleontologist who discovered and named Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young. He is one of the best-known paleontologists in the United States...
(born 1946) - Horsfield – Thomas HorsfieldThomas HorsfieldThomas Horsfield M. D. was an American physician and naturalist.Horsfield was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the grandson of Timothy Horsfield, Sr., a colonel and justice of the peace in Bethlehem, and a friend mentioned in Benjamin...
(1773–1859) - Horváth – Géza HorváthGéza HorváthGéza Horváth was a Hungarian doctor and entomologist internationally recognized for his work on bugs .He also contributed extensively to the study of Hungarian scale insect fauna...
(1847 - 1937) - Hose – Charles HoseCharles HoseCharles Hose was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist.He was born in Hertfordshire, England, and was educated at Felsted in Essex. Admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1882, he almost immediately migrated to Jesus College, and later left Cambridge without taking a degree...
(1863–1929) - Houttuyn – Martinus HouttuynMartinus HouttuynMaarten Houttuyn or Houttuijn , Latinised as Martinus Houttuyn, was a Dutch naturalist.Houttuyn was born in Hoorn, studied medicine in Leiden and moved to Amsterdam in 1753. He published many books on natural history. His areas of interest encompassed Pteridophytes, Bryophytes and Spermatophytes...
(1720–1798) - Howard – Hildegarde Howard (1901–1998)
- Howell, A.H.Howell – Arthur H. Howell (1872–1940)
- Hoyle – William Evans HoyleWilliam Evans HoyleDr William Evans Hoyle was the first director of the National Museum of Wales between 1909 and 1926. Trained as a medical anatomist, Hoyle is most famous for his monographic studies on cephalopods from major exploring expeditions of his era including the Challenger, the Albatross, the British...
(1855–1926) - Hu – Yaoming Hu
- Hübner – Jacob HübnerJacob HübnerJacob Hübner was a German entomologist. He was the author of Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge , a founding work of entomology.-Scientific career:...
(1761–1826) - Hubbs – Carl Leavitt HubbsCarl Leavitt Hubbs-Youth:He was born in Williams, Arizona. He was the son of Charles Leavitt and Elizabeth Hubbs. His father had a wide variety of jobs . The family moved several times before settling in San Diego where he got his first taste of natural history...
(1894–1979) - Huene, von Huene – Friedrich von HueneFriedrich von HueneFriedrich von Huene was a German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.-Biography:...
(1875–1969) - Huey Laurence Markham Huey (1892–1963)
- Hulke – John Whitaker Hulke (1830–1895)
- Hume – Allan Octavian HumeAllan Octavian HumeAllan Octavian Hume was a civil servant, political reformer and amateur ornithologist in British India. He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, a political party that was later to lead the Indian independence movement...
(1829–1912) - Humphrey – Philip Strong Humphrey (born 1926)
- Hunt – Adrian P. Hunt
- Hutt – Steve Hutt
- J.S.Huxley – Julian Sorell Huxley (1887–1975) general zoology
- T.H.Huxley – Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) general zoology
- Hwang – Sunny H. Hwang
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- Ida - Hitoshi Ida (b. 1940)
- Iredale - Tom IredaleTom IredaleTom Iredale was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an autodidact who never went to university and lacked formal training...
(1880–1972) - Illiger - Johann Karl Wilhelm IlligerJohann Karl Wilhelm IlligerJohann Karl Wilhelm Illiger was a German entomologist and zoologist.Illiger was the son of a merchant in Brunswick. He studied under the entomologist Johann Hellwig, and later worked on the zoological collections of Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg...
(1775–1813) - Ivantsoff - Walter Ivantsoff
- Ivie - Michael Aaron Ivie
- Ivie - Wilton IvieWilton IvieWilton Ivie was an American entomologist, who descriped Arachnida-species. . He was employed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York.Wilton Ivie: B.S., M.S. in biology from University of Utah....
- Iwai - Tamotsu Iwai
- Irwin - Steve IrwinSteve IrwinStephen Robert "Steve" Irwin , nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian television personality, wildlife expert, and conservationist. Irwin achieved worldwide fame from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series which he co-hosted...
(1962-2006)
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- Jacobs – Jean-Charles JacobsJean-Charles JacobsJean-Charles Jacobs was a Belgian doctor and entomologist, a pupil of Constantin Wesmael. He graduated in medicine from the University of Brussels, but never abandoned the study of insects, and was one of the founders of the Société entomologique de Belgique...
(1821–1907) entomology (Diptera, Hymenoptera) - Jacquin – Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817) mainly tropical American taxa
- Jacquinot – Honoré JacquinotHonoré JacquinotHonoré Jacquinot was a French surgeon and zoologist. Jacquinot was the younger brother of the naval officer Charles Hector Jacquinot, and sailed with him as a naturalist on La Zelee on Dumont d'Urville's Astrolabe expedition . With J. B...
(1815–1887) mainly marine biology - Jain – Sohan Lal JainSohan Lal JainSohan Lal Jain is an Indian paleontologist, who worked for many years at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. The large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur genus Jainosaurus, was named in his honour after it was identified as a distinct genus. It was earlier thought to be a species of...
vertebrate paleontology - Jakowlew – Alexander Iwanowitsch Jakowlew (1863–1909)
- James – Helen F. James (paleo)ornithology
- Jameson – Robert JamesonRobert Jamesonthumb|Robert JamesonProfessor Robert Jameson, FRS FRSE was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist.As Regius Professor at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, Jameson is notable for his advanced scholarship in natural history, his superb museum collection, and for his tuition of Charles...
(1774–1854) general zoology - Janensch – Werner JanenschWerner JanenschWerner Ernst Martin Janensch was a German paleontologist and geologist.Janensch's most famous contributions stemmed from the expedition he led with Edwin Hennig to the Tendaguru Beds in what is now Tanzania...
(1878–1969) vertebrate paleontology (East African sauropods) - Janson – Oliver Erichson JansonOliver Erichson JansonOliver Erichson Janson was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.He was the son of Edward Wesley Janson and took over the family natural history and publishing business....
(1850–1926) entomology (Coleoptera) - Jardine – William Jardine (naturalist)William Jardine (naturalist)Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegirth, Dumfriesshire was a Scottish naturalist.-Work:...
(1800–1874) general zoology - Jebb – Matthew H. P. Jebb
- Jenkins – James Travis Jenkins (1876–1959)
- A. P. Jenkins – Aaron Peter Jenkins
- Jensen – James A. JensenJames A. JensenJames A. Jensen , was an American paleontologist. His extensive collecting program at BYU in the Utah-Colorado region which spanned 23 years was comparable in terms of the number of specimens collected to that of Barnum Brown during the early 20th century. He was given the name "Dinosaur Jim"...
(1918–1998) vertebrate paleontology - Jerdon – Thomas C. JerdonThomas C. JerdonThomas Caverhill Jerdon was a British physician, zoologist and botanist. He is best remembered for his pioneering works on the ornithology of India...
(1811–1872) general zoology (South Asia) - Q. Ji – Qiang Ji
- S. Ji – Shu-an Ji
- Jiménez de la Espada – Marcos Jiménez de la EspadaMarcos Jiménez de la EspadaMarcos Jiménez de la Espada was a Spanish zoologist, explorer and writer, born in Cartagena, Spain, although he spent most of his life in Madrid, where he died. He is known for participating in the Pacific Scientific Commission, with whom he traveled America from 1862 to 1865...
(1831–1898) vertebrate zoology - Jocqué – Rudy Jocqué
- G. D. Johnson – G. David Johnson
- Johnston – George Johnston (naturalist)George Johnston (naturalist)George Johnston was a Scottish physician and naturalist.Johnston was one of the founders of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club and became its first president. His books include The Flora of Berwick-upon-Tweed, History of British Zoophytes, and History of British Sponges and Lithophytes....
- Jordan – David Starr JordanDavid Starr JordanDavid Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...
(1851–1931) ichthyology - K. Jordan – Karl JordanKarl JordanHeinrich Ernst Karl Jordan was a German entomologist.Jordan was born in Hanover and educated at Göttingen University. In 1893 he began work at the Walter Rothschild's Museum at Tring, specialising in Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Siphonaptera...
(1861–1959) entomology (Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Siphonaptera) - Jouanin – Christian JouaninChristian JouaninChristian Jouanin is a prominent French ornithologist and expert on petrels. He worked for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris and is a former Vice President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature...
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- Karsch - Friedrich KarschFriedrich KarschFerdinand Karsch or Karsch-Haack was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist....
- Katayama - Masao Katayama (b. 1912)
- Kaup - Johann Jakob KaupJohann Jakob KaupJohann Jakob Kaup was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum,...
(1803–1873) - Kay - E. Alison KayE. Alison KayE. Alison Kay was a malacologist, environmentalist, and professor at the University of Hawaii. She was born in Eleele and grew up on the island of Kauai in the Territory of Hawaii, graduated from Punahou School in 1946, and obtained her first B.A. from Mills College in 1950. She then went on to...
(1928–2008) - Keferstein - Wilhelm Moritz KefersteinWilhelm Moritz KefersteinWilhelm Moritz Keferstein was a German naturalist.He wrote Zoologische Beiträge gesammelt im Winter 1859/60 in Neapel und Messina... in 1861 at Leipzig....
(1833–1870) - Kelaart - Edward Frederick KelaartEdward Frederick KelaartLieutenant Colonel Edward Frederick Kelaart was a Ceylonese-born physician and naturalist.Kelaart was of Dutch and German heritage, and served in the Ceylon Medical Service. He was a staff assistant surgeon in Gibraltar from 1843 to 1845, later transferred to Ceylon. He was an active member of the...
(1819–1860) - Kellner - Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner
- Kennedy - Clarence Hamilton Kennedy (1879–1952)
- Kennicott - Robert KennicottRobert KennicottRobert Kennicott was an American naturalist.-Biography:Kennicott was born in New Orleans and grew up in "West Northfield" , Illinois, a town in the prairie north of the then nascent city of Chicago....
(1835–1866) - Kerr - Robert KerrRobert Kerr (writer)Robert Kerr FRS was a scientific writer and translator from Scotland.Kerr was born in Roxburghshire as the son of a jeweller. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and practised at the Edinburgh Foundling Hospital as a surgeon...
(1755–1813) - Kessler - Karl Fedorovich KesslerKarl Fedorovich KesslerKarl Fedorovich Kessler was a German-Russian zoologist and author of zoological taxa signed Kessler, who was mostly active in Kiev, Ukraine and conducted most of his studies of birds in Ukrainian regions of the Russian Empire - Kiev Governorate, Volyn Governorate, Kherson Governorate, Poltava...
(1815–1881) - Keulemans - John Gerrard KeulemansJohn Gerrard KeulemansJohannes Gerardus Keulemans was a Dutch bird illustrator.-Biography and Work:...
(1842–1912) - Keyserling - Eugen von KeyserlingEugen von KeyserlingEugen von Keyserling was a German arachnologist.He was the author of Die Spinnen Amerikas, and completed Die Arachniden Australiens on behalf of Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.-External links:...
(1833–1889) - Kieffer - Jean-Jacques KiefferJean-Jacques KiefferJean-Jacques Kieffer was a French naturalist and entomologist who specialised in the study of parasitic insects. Educated as a priest, Kieffer taught natural science in Bitche, Lorraine while working on the description and classification of insects...
(1857–1925) - Kielan-Jaworowska - Zofia Kielan-JaworowskaZofia Kielan-JaworowskaZofia Kielan-Jaworowska is a Polish paleobiologist. In the mid-1960s Kielan-Jaworowska led a series of Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert...
(b. 1925) - King - Phillip Parker King (1793–1856)
- Kinnear - Norman Boyd KinnearNorman Boyd KinnearSir Norman Boyd Kinnear was a Scottish zoologist and ornithologist.Kinnear was the son of the wealthy Edinburgh architect Charles George Hood Kinnear and came from the same banking family as Sir William Jardine.While studying at Trinity College, Glenalmond, he worked as a voluntary assistant at...
(1882–1957) - Kirby - William Kirby (1759–1850)
- W. F. Kirby - William Forsell KirbyWilliam Forsell KirbyWilliam Forsell Kirby was an English entomologist and folklorist.He was born in Leicester. He was the eldest son of Samuel Kirby, who was a banker. He was educated privately, and became interested in butterflies and moths at an early age. The family moved to Brighton, where he became acquainted...
(1844–1912) - Kirkaldy - George Willis KirkaldyGeorge Willis KirkaldyGeorge Willis Kirkaldy was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera. He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society....
- Kirkland - James Ian Kirkland (b. 1954)
- Kittlitz - Heinrich von KittlitzHeinrich von KittlitzFriedrich Heinrich Freiherr von Kittlitz was a German artist, naval officer, explorer and naturalist. He was a descendant of a family of old Prussian nobility ....
(1799–1874) - O. Kleinschmidt - Otto KleinschmidtOtto KleinschmidtOtto Kleinschmidt was a German theologist, pastor and ornithologist. He introduced a typological species concept into German ornithology. His Formenkreis theory influenced the early ideas of Erwin Stresemann. Others have considered him one of the first biogeographers...
(1870–1954) - Kloss - Cecil Boden KlossCecil Boden KlossCecil Boden Kloss was an English zoologist. He was an expert on the mammals and birds of Southeast Asia.In the early 1900s Kloss accompanied the American naturalist William Louis Abbott in exploring the Andaman and Nicobar islands. From 1908 he worked under Herbert Christopher Robinson at the...
(1877–1949) - Klotzsch - Johann Friedrich KlotzschJohann Friedrich KlotzschJohann Friedrich Klotzsch was a German pharmacist and botanist.His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom.-Selected works:...
(1805–1860) - Klug - Johann Christoph Friedrich KlugJohann Christoph Friedrich KlugJohann Christoph Friedrich Klug was a German entomologist born 5 May 1775 in Berlin and died 3 February 1856 in the same city.He described the butterflies and some other insects of Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich's Symbolæ Physicæ...
(1775–1856) - Kner - Rudolf Kner (1810–1868)
- Knoch - August Wilhelm KnochAugust Wilhelm KnochAugust Wilhelm Knoch was a German naturalist born in Braunschweig. He was a professor of physics at Collegium Carolinum.He was the author of the following works in entomology:...
(1742–1818) - Kobayashi - Yoshitsugu Kobayashi
- C. L. Koch - Carl Ludwig KochCarl Ludwig KochCarl Ludwig Koch was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was responsible for classifying a great number of spiders, including the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula and Common house spider. He was born in Kusel, Germany and died in Nuremberg, Germany.Carl Ludwig Koch was an inspector of water...
(1778–1857) - L. Koch - Ludwig Carl Christian KochLudwig Carl Christian KochLudwig Carl Christian Koch was a German entomologist and arachnologist.He was born in Regensburg, Germany and died in Nuremberg, Germany. He studied in Nuremberg, initially law, but then turned to medicine and science...
(1825–1908) - Koelz - Walter Norman KoelzWalter Norman KoelzWalter Norman Koelz was an American zoologist and museum collector.Walter Koelz's parents were immigrants from the Black Forest region of Germany, and his father was a village blacksmith in Waterloo. Walter Koelz studied zoology and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University...
(1895–1989) - Kolbe - Hermann Julius KolbeHermann Julius KolbeHermann Julius Kolbe was a German entomologist from Halle, Westphalia. He was curator at the Berlin Zoological Museum from 1890 until 1921 specialising in Coleoptera, Psocoptera and the “Neuroptera”...
(1855–1939) - Kollar - Vincenz Kollar (1797–1860)
- Konings -- Ad KoningsAd KoningsAd Konings is an ichthyologist originally trained in medicine and biology. Konings is best known for his research on African rift lake cichlids. After studies in Amsterdam he has spent most of his life in Rotterdam.- Early life :Konings started keeping cichlids when he was 14 years old in 1970...
- Kono - Hiromichi KonoHiromichi Konowas a Japanese entomologist and anthropologist. His academic training, at Hokkaido Imperial University, was in entomology, and he became a faculty member in the Biology Department at that institution. His emphasis within entomology was on Coleoptera, his doctoral work concerning a Japanese billbug...
(1905-1963) - Konow - Friedrich Wilhelm KonowFriedrich Wilhelm KonowFriedrich Wilhelm Konow was a German entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera especially Tenthredinidae....
(1842–1908) - Kotlyar - Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kotlyar
- Kotthaus - Adolf Kotthaus
- Kraglievich - Lucas Kraglievich
- Kraatz - Ernst Gustav KraatzErnst Gustav KraatzErnst Gustav Kraatz was a German entomologist.Kraatz was born in Berlin on 13 March, 1831 and died in the same city where he was a Professor at the University of Berlin. He was mainly interested in Coleoptera...
(1831–1909) - Krauss - Friedrich von KraussChristian Ferdinand Friedrich KraussChristian Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss , was a German scientist, traveller and collector.-Early life:...
(1812–1890) - Krauss - Hermann August KraussHermann August KraussHermann August Krauss was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Orthoptera and Dermaptera.Krauss was a physician.His collection is in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.-Selected publications:...
(1848–1939) - Krabbe - Niels KrabbeNiels KrabbeNiels Kaare Krabbe is an ornithologist and bird conservationist based at the Vertebrate Department of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, researching various aspects of ornithology, especially bioacoustics and conservation; systematics and altitudinal replacements of Scytalopus...
(b. 1951) - Krefft - Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft(1830–1881)
- Kriechbaumer - Joseph KriechbaumerJoseph KriechbaumerJoseph Kriechbaumer , Munich was a German entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera especially Ichneumonidae.A Dr.phil...
(1819–1902) - Krohn - August David KrohnAugust David KrohnAugust David Krohn was a Saint Petersburg born zoologist of German origin. He was the son of Abraham Krohn, the founder of Russia's first brewery, who had left the island of Rügen to serve in the court of Catherine the Great. He was the uncle of the fennoman folklorist Julius Krohn...
(1803–1891) - Ksepka - Daniel T. Ksepka
- Kuhl - Heinrich KuhlHeinrich KuhlHeinrich Kuhl was a German naturalist and zoologist.Kuhl was born in Hanau. He became assistant to Coenraad Jacob Temminck at the Leiden museum. In 1817 he published a monograph on bats and in 1819 he published Conspectus psittacorum...
(1797–1821) - Kuiter - Rudolf Herman Kuiter (b. 1943)
- Kulczynski - Wladislaus Kulczynski
- Kuroda - Nagamichi KurodaNagamichi Kurodawas a Japanese ornithologist. His works included Birds of the Island of Java and Parrots of the World in Life Colours . He described the Crested Shelduck in 1917....
(1889–1978) - Kurzanov - Sergei Mikhailovich Kurzanov
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- Labillardière - Jacques LabillardièreJacques LabillardièreJacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière was a French naturalist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the La Pérouse expedition...
(1755–1834) - Lacépède - Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacépède (1756–1825)
- Lacordaire - Jean Theodore LacordaireJean Théodore LacordaireThéodore Lacordaire or Jean Théodore Lacordaire was a Belgian entomologist of French extraction....
(1801–1870) - Lafresnaye - Frédéric de LafresnayeFrédéric de LafresnayeBaron Nöel Frédéric Armand André de Lafresnaye was a French ornithologist and collector.Lafresnaye was born into an aristocratic family at Chateau de La Fresnaye in Falaise, Normandy. He took an early interest in natural history, particularly entomology...
(1783–1861) - Laicharting - Johann Nepomuk von LaichartingJohann Nepomuk von LaichartingJohann Nepomuk von Laicharting was an Austrian entomologist. He was born in Innsbruck on 4 February 1754 and died in the same city on 7 May 1797, and was a Professor of Natural Science in Innsbruck. He described new species and genera,of Coleoptera in Verzeichniss und Beschreibung der...
(1754–1797) - Lamarck - Jean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste LamarckJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck , often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist...
(1744–1829) - Lamanna - Matthew Carl Lamanna
- Lambe - Lawrence Morris Lambe (1863–1919)
- Lambrecht - Kálmán Lambrecht
- Lameere - Auguste LameereAuguste LameereAuguste Alfred Lucien Lameere is a Belgian entomologist, born in 1862 in Ixelles, and died in 1942.He was a professor and dean of the faculty of sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles...
(1864–1942) - Landbeck - Christian Ludwig LandbeckChristian Ludwig LandbeckChristian Ludwig Landbeck was a prominent German ornithologist.He took part in an expedition to Chile and described many species of birds in collaboration with Rodolfo Amando Philippi...
(1807–1890) - Langer - Max Cardoso Langer
- Langston - Wann Langston, Jr.Wann Langston, Jr.Wann Langston, Jr. is an American paleontologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked on a number of different reptiles and amphibians in his long career, beginning with the 1950 description of the theropod dinosaur Acrocanthosaurus...
(b. 1921) - Laporte - François Louis Nompar de Caumont de Laporte (1810–1880)
- Lapparent, de Lapparent - Albert-Félix de LapparentAlbert-Félix de LapparentAlbert-Félix de Lapparent was a French palaeontologist. He was also a Sulpician priest. He undertook a number of fossil-hunting explorations in the Sahara desert. He contributed greatly to our knowledge of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures...
(1905–1975) - Larson - Helen K. Larson
- Latham - John LathamJohn Latham (ornithologist)John Latham was an English physician, naturalist and author. He was born at Eltham in Kent, and was the eldest son of John Latham, a surgeon there, and his mother was a descendant of the Sothebys, in Yorkshire....
(1740–1837) - Latreille - Pierre André LatreillePierre André LatreillePierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis...
(1762–1833) - Laurenti - Joseph Nicolai Laurenti (1735–1805)
- Laurillard – Charles Léopold Laurillard (1783–1853)
- Lavocat - René LavocatRené LavocatRené Lavocat is a French paleontologist who described several genera of African dinosaurs including the sauropod Rebbachisaurus.-References:...
- Lawrence - George Newbold LawrenceGeorge Newbold LawrenceGeorge Newbold Lawrence was an American businessman and amateur ornithologist.Lawrence conducted Pacific bird surveys for Spencer Fullerton Baird and John Cassin, and the three men co-authored Birds of North America in 1858.Lawrence left his collection of 8,000 bird skins to the American Museum of...
(1806–1895) - Laxmann - Erich Laxmann (1737–1796)
- Layard - Edgar Leopold LayardEdgar Leopold LayardEdgar Leopold Layard CMG, FZS, MBOU was a British naturalist mainly interested in ornithology. Born in Florence, Italy, to a family of Huguenot descent, he was the sixth son of Henry Peter John Layard of the Ceylon Civil Service with his wife Marianne,...
(1824–1900) - Lea - Arthur Mills LeaArthur Mills LeaArthur Mills Lea was an Australian entomologist.Lea was born in Surry Hills, New South Wales, the second son of Thomas Lea, from Bristol, England, and his wife Cornelia, née Dumbrell, of Sydney....
(1868-1932) - LeConte - John Lawrence LeConteJohn Lawrence LeConteJohn Lawrence LeConte was the most important American entomologist of the 19th century, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during his lifetime, including some 5,000 species of beetles...
(1825–1883) - Leach - William Elford LeachWilliam Elford LeachWilliam Elford Leach FRS was an English zoologist and marine biologist.Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of a solicitor. At the age of twelve he went to school in Exeter, studying anatomy and chemistry. By this time he was already collecting marine samples from Plymouth Sound and along...
(1790–1836) - Leach - Edwin S. Leach (1878–1971)
- Lee - Yuong-Nam Lee
- Leech - John Henry LeechJohn Henry LeechJohn Henry Leech John Henry Leech John Henry Leech (5 December 1862- 29 December 1900, Salisbury was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera.His collections from China , Japan and Kashmir are in the Natural History Museum , London.These contain also insects from...
(1862–1900) - Lehtinen - Pekka T. Lehtinen
- Leidy - Joseph LeidyJoseph LeidyJoseph Leidy was an American paleontologist.Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska contained many species not previously described and many previously...
(1823–1891) - Leisler - Johann Philipp Achilles LeislerJohann Philipp Achilles LeislerJohann Philipp Achilles Leisler was a German naturalist.Leisler named a number of birds, including the Temminck's Stint which he named after his friend Coenraad Jacob Temminck. He is commemorated in Leisler's Bat Nyctalus leisleri, first described by Heinrich Kuhl.His daughter, Luise von...
(1771–1813) - Le Leouff - Jean Le Leouff
- Lembeye - Juan LembeyeJuan LembeyeJuan Lembeye , was a Spanish naturalist.Lembeye was the author of Aves de la Isla de Cuba , the only book of bird illustrations to be published in Cuba. Born in Galicia, Lembeye lived in Cuba from the 1830s to the 1860s, and became interested in birds while he was there...
(1816–1889) - Lepeletier - Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier (1770–1845)
- Lesson - René-Primevère LessonRené-Primevère LessonRené Primevère Lesson was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.Lesson was born at Rochefort, and at the age of sixteen he entered the Naval Medical School there...
(1794–1849) - Le Souef - William Henry Dudley Le Souef (1856–1923)
- Lesueur - Charles Alexandre LesueurCharles Alexandre LesueurCharles Alexandre Lesueur was a French naturalist, artist and explorer.Pictured here is the oil portrait by Charles Willson Peale of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur...
(1778–1846) - Leuckart - Rudolf LeuckartRudolf LeuckartKarl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart was a German zoologist who was born in Helmstedt. He was a nephew to naturalist Friedrich Sigismund Leuckart ....
(1822–1898) - Leussler - R. A. Leussler
- C.K.Li (also C.-K.Li or C.Li) - Chuankui Li
- D.Q.Li (also D.-Q.Li or D.Li) - Daqing Li
- P.P.Li (also P.-P.Li or P.Li) - Pipeng Li
- Lichtenstein - Martin LichtensteinMartin LichtensteinMartin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein was a German physician, explorer, zoologist, and herpetologist.-Biography:...
(1780–1867) - Lilljeborg - Wilhelm LilljeborgWilhelm LilljeborgWilhelm Lilljeborg was a Swedish zoologist. He is particularly known for his work on the Cladocera of Sweden, and on the Balaenoptera. Lilljeborg was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1861.-References:...
(1816–1908) - Link - Johann Heinrich Friedrich LinkJohann Heinrich Friedrich LinkJohann Heinrich Friedrich Link was a German naturalist and botanist.Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link , who taught him the love for nature through collection of 'natural objects'...
(1767–1850) - Linnaeus - Carolus LinnaeusCarolus LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...
(1707–1778) - Lindl. - John LindleyJohn LindleyJohn Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...
(1799-1865) - Linsley - Earle Gorton Linsley (1910–2000)
- Lintner - Joseph Albert LintnerJoseph Albert LintnerJoseph Albert Lintner was an American entomologist. He held the position of State Entomologist from 1881 following the creation of this post by the federal government. He served until 1898...
(1822–1898) - Ljungh - Sven Ingemar LjunghSven Ingemar LjunghSven Ingemar Ljungh, also spelled Liungh was a Swedish civil servant, naturalist and collector. During his schooling in Jönköping, he was a private student of the lexicographer Håkan Sjögren from whom he learned the Latin language. At high school in Växjö, he received a good education in botany...
(1757–1828) - Loche - Victor LocheVictor LocheVictor Loche was a French soldier and naturalist. He was the author of Histoire naturelle des mammifères de l'Algérie and Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux de l'Algérie . Loche first described the Sand Cat , which he identified as a distinct species while exploring the North Sahara.-References:...
(1806–1863) - Lönnberg - Einar LönnbergEinar LönnbergAxel Johann Einar Lönnberg was a Swedish zoologist.Lönnberg was born in Stockholm. He was head of the Vertebrate Department of the Swedish Natural History Museum from 1904 to 1932....
(1864–1942) - Lowe - Richard Thomas LoweRichard Thomas LoweRichard Thomas Lowe was a British botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and clergyman. In 1825 he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge and in the same year took holy orders. He became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands in 1832, where he was a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the...
(1802–1874) - Lowe - Percy LowePercy LowePercy Roycroft Lowe was an English surgeon and ornithologist.Lowe was born at Stamford, Lincolnshire and studied medicine at Jesus College, Cambridge. He served as a civil surgeon in the Second Boer War, and it was whilst in South Africa that he became interested in ornithology...
(1870–1948) - Y.Y.Lu (also Y.-Y.Lu or Y.Lu) - Yuyan Lu
- Lü (also J.C.Lü, J.-C.Lü or J.Lü) - Junchang Lü
- S.Q.Lü (also S.-Q.Lü or S.Lü) - Shunqin Lü
- Lubbock - John Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
(1834–1913) - Lucas - Hippolyte LucasHippolyte LucasPierre-Hippolyte Lucas was a French entomologist.Lucas was an assistant-naturalist at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. From 1839 to 1842 he studied fauna as part of the scientific Commission on the exploration of Algeria.His brother was Prosper Lucas.-Works:*Histoire naturelle des...
(1814–1899) - F.A. Lucas - Frederic Augustus LucasFrederic Augustus LucasFrederic Augustus Lucas, Sc.D. was an American museum director.-Early years:Frederic A. Lucas was born March 25, 1852 at Plymouth, Massachusetts.-Career:...
(1852–1929) - S.G. Lucas - Spencer G. LucasSpencer G. LucasSpencer George Lucas is an American paleontologist and stratigrapher, and curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. His main areas of study are late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils, stratigraphy, and continental deposits,...
- Lull - Richard Swann LullR. S. LullRichard Swann Lull was an American paleontologist from the early 20th century, active at Yale University, who is largely remembered now for championing a Pre-Neo-Darwinian Synthesis view of evolution, whereby mutation could unlock mysterious genetic drives that, over time, would lead populations...
(1867–1957) - Lund - Peter Wilhelm LundPeter Wilhelm LundPeter Wilhelm Lund was a Danish paleontologist, zoologist, archeologist and who spent most of his life working and living in Brazil...
(1801–1880) - Lütken - Christian Frederik LütkenChristian Frederik LütkenChristian Frederik Lütken was a Danish naturalist, born 4 October 1827 in Sorø, died 1901.After a career in the Danish army until 1852, he decided to dedicate his life to natural history and left the army at the grade of first lieutenant. From 1856-1862, he was Private docent at the University of...
(1827–1901) - Lydekker - Richard LydekkerRichard LydekkerRichard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:...
(1849–1915) - Lyon - Marcus Ward Lyon (1875–1942)
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- Mabile – Jules François MabilleJules François MabilleJules François Mabille was a French malacologist who discovered several species of molluscs....
(1831–1904) - Mackovicky – Peter J. Mackovicky
- Makela – Robert R. Makela (1940–1987)
- Malaise – René MalaiseRené MalaiseRené Edmond Malaise was a Swedish entomologist, explorer and art collector who is mostly known for his invention of the Malaise trap and his systematic collection of thousands of insects.-Early career:...
(1892–1978) - Maleev – Evgenii Aleksandrovich Maleev (1915–1966)
- Mannerheim – Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (naturalist)Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (naturalist)Count Carl Gustaf Mannerheim was a Swedish entomologist of German ancestry and governor of Viipuri province....
(1797–1854) - Mantell – Gideon MantellGideon MantellGideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist...
(1790–1852) - Marcus – Ernst Marcus (1856–1928)
- Marinescu – Florian Marinescu (biologist)
- Markevich – Aleksandr Prokofyevich MarkevichAleksandr Prokofyevich MarkevichAleksandr Prokofyevich Markevich was a Ukrainian zoologist, he was a prolific Ukrainian helminthologist/copepodologist. Academician of the Ukrainian SSR, Professor, Doctor of Sciences.-Biography:...
(1905–1999) - Marples – Brian J. Marples
- Marsh – Othniel Charles MarshOthniel Charles MarshOthniel Charles Marsh was an American paleontologist. Marsh was one of the preeminent scientists in the field; the discovery or description of dozens of news species and theories on the origins of birds are among his legacies.Born into a modest family, Marsh was able to afford higher education...
(1831–1899) - Marshall – Guy Anstruther Knox MarshallGuy Anstruther Knox MarshallSir Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall , was an Indian-born British entomologist and authority on Curculionidae....
(1871–1959) - Marhsall – Thomas Ansell MarshallThomas Ansell MarshallThomas Ansell Marshall was an English reverend and entomologist, mainly interested in Hymenoptera.-Works:*1870 Ichneumonidium Brittanicorum Catalogus. London...
(1827–1903) - Martill – David Michael Martill
- Martin – William Charles Linnaeus MartinWilliam Charles Linnaeus MartinWilliam Charles Linnaeus Martin was an English naturalist.-Biography:William Charles Linnaeus Martin was the son of William Martin who had published early colour books on the fossils of Derbyshire...
(1798–1864) mainly mammals - C.Martin – Claro Martin
- L.Martin – Larry MartinLarry MartinLarry Martin is an American vertebrate paleontologist and curator of the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas. Among Martin's work is research on the Triassic reptile Longisquama and theropod dinosaur Caudipteryx...
(b.1943) paleontology - Martinez – Ruben D. Martinez
- Marvin – Nigel Marvin (b.1960)
- Maryanska – Teresa MaryańskaTeresa MaryanskaTeresa Maryańska is a Polish paleontologist who has specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs, particularly pachycephalosaurians and ankylosaurians. A member of the 1964, 1965, 1970, and 1971 Polish–Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi Desert, she has described many finds from these rocks, often with...
- Mason – Francis MasonFrancis MasonFrancis Mason , American missionary and a naturalist, was born in York, England. His grandfather, also Francis Mason, was the founder of the Baptist Society in York, and his father, a shoemaker by trade, was a Baptist lay preacher there.-Early life:After working with his father as a shoemaker for...
(1799-1874) - Massy – Anne Letitia Massy
- Mateus – Octávio MateusOctávio MateusOctávio Mateus is a Portuguese dinosaur paleontologist and biologist . He received his PhD at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2005...
(b.1975) - Mathews – Gregory MathewsGregory MathewsGregory Macalister Mathews CBE was an Australian amateur ornithologist.Mathews made his fortune in mining shares, and moved to England around 1900....
(1876–1949) - Matley – Charles Alfred MatleyCharles Alfred MatleyCharles Alfred Matley was a British paleontologist and geologist in India, the British West Indies and Wales.He married Sarah A. Loach in Birmingham in 1891....
(b.1866) - Matschie – Paul MatschiePaul MatschiePaul Matschie was a German zoologist. He worked at the Zoological Museum in Berlin....
(1861–1926) - Matsubara – Kiyomatsu Matsubara (1907–1968)
- Matsumura – Shonen MatsumuraShonen Matsumurawas a Japanese entomologist .Born in Akashi, Hyōgo, Dr. Shonen Matsumura established Japan’s first course on entomology at Hokkaido University .The courses were both applied and theoretical...
(1872–1960) - Matsuura – Keiichi Matsuura
- Mayr – Ernst MayrErnst MayrErnst Walter Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist...
(1904–2005) vertebrates, mainly birds - G. Mayr – Gerald Mayr prehistoric vertebrates, mainly birds
- McCulloch – Alan Riverstone McCullochAlan Riverstone McCullochAlan Riverstone McCulloch was a prominent Australian ichthyologist.McCulloch was born in Sydney, and began his scientific career at the age of 13 as an unpaid assistant to Edgar Ravenswood Waite in the Australian Museum there; Waite encouraged McCulloch to study zoology...
(1885–1925) - McLachlan – Robert Mac LachlanRobert Mac LachlanRobert McLachlan was an English entomologist, born on April 10 , 1837 in Ongar , Essex. He died on May 23 , 1904 in Lewisham , close to London. He was the son of Hugh Mc Lachlan. He was educated in Ilford and inherited sufficient money to enable him to devote himself enitirely to the study...
(1837–1904) - Meade-Waldo – Edmund Meade-WaldoEdmund Meade-WaldoEdmund Gustavus Bloomfield Meade-Waldo was an English ornithologist and conservationist.Meade-Waldo was born in Hever Castle and educated at Eton College and Cambridge University. He collected birds in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the Canary Islands and Spain, the presumably-extinct Canarian...
(1855–1934) - Mearns – Edgar Alexander MearnsEdgar Alexander MearnsEdgar Alexander Mearns was a notable American ornithologist and field naturalist....
(1856–1916) - Meek – Seth Eugene MeekSeth Eugene MeekSeth Eugene Meek was an American ichthyologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He was the first compiler of a book on Mexican freshwater fishes. Together with his assistant, Samuel F. Hildebrand, he produced the first book on the freshwater fishes of Panama.He often collaborated...
(1859–1914) - Meguro – Katsusuke Meguro
- Méhely – Lajos Méhely (1862–1946)
- Meigen – Johann Wilhelm MeigenJohann Wilhelm MeigenJohann Wilhelm Meigen was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera.-Early years:Meigen was born in Solingen, the fifth of eight children of Johann Clemens Meigen and Sibylla Margaretha Bick. His parents, though not poor, were not wealthy either. The ran a small shop in...
(1764–1845) - Mello-Leitão – Cândido Firmino de Mello-LeitãoCândido Firmino de Mello-LeitãoCândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão, , was a Brazilian zoologist who is considered the founder of Arachnology in South America, publishing 198 papers on the taxonomy of Arachnida...
(1886–1948) - Melsheimer – Frederick Ernst MelsheimerFrederick Ernst MelsheimerFrederick Ernst Melsheimer, M.D. was an American entomologist noted for his work on Coleoptera. He was President of the American Entomological Society in 1853. Frederick Ernest Melsheimer's most important work was Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of the United States...
(1782-1873) - Menezes – Naercio Aquino de Menezes (b.1937)
- Ménétries – Édouard MénétriesÉdouard MénétriesÉdouard Ménétries was a French entomologist, zoologist, and herpetologist.Ménétries was born in Paris, and became a student of Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille. On their recommendation he was chosen as the zoologist on a Russian expedition to Brazil in 1822, led by Baron von Langsdorff...
(1802–1861) - Merrem – Blasius MerremBlasius MerremBlasius Merrem was a German naturalist.Merrem was born at Bremen, and studied at the university of Göttingen under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. He developed an interest in zoology, particularly ornithology...
(1761–1824) - Merrett – Nigel MerrettNigel MerrettNigel R. Merrett is a British zoologist and ichthyologist and former director of the fish section of the British Natural History Museum....
- Merriam – Clinton Hart MerriamClinton Hart MerriamClinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist, ornithologist, entomologist and ethnographer.Known as "Hart" to his friends, Dr. Clinton Hart Merriam was born in New York City in 1855. His father, Clinton Levi Merriam, was a U.S. congressman. He studied biology and anatomy at Yale University and...
(1855–1942) - Metcalfe – John William Metcalfe (1872–1952)
- Metschnikoff, Mechnikov – Ilya Ilyich MechnikovIlya Ilyich MechnikovIlya Ilyich Mechnikov was a Russian biologist, zoologist and protozoologist, best remembered for his pioneering research into the immune system. Mechnikov received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908, shared with Paul Ehrlich, for his work on phagocytosis...
(1845–1916) - Meyen – Franz MeyenFranz MeyenFranz Julius Ferdinand Meyen was a German physician and botanist.Meyen was born in Tilsit. In 1830 he wrote Phytotomie, the first review of plant anatomy...
(1804–1840) - Meyer, von Meyer – Christian Erich Hermann von MeyerChristian Erich Hermann von MeyerChristian Erich Hermann von Meyer was a German palaeontologist.He was born at Frankfurt am Main.In 1832 von Meyer issued a work entitled Palaeologica, and in course of time he published a series of memoirs on various fossil organic remains: molluscs, crustaceans, fishes and higher vertebrata,...
(1801–1869) paleontology - A.B.Meyer - Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840–1911) birds, primates, entomology (mainly Wallacea)
- F.A.Meyer, F.A.A.Meyer, Meyer - Friedrich Albrecht Anton MeyerFriedrich Albrecht Anton MeyerFriedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer was a German doctor and naturalist.His academic thesis in Göttingen was Dissertatio inauguralis medico-therapeutica De cortice angusturae....
(1768–1795) birds, primates - Meyer de Schauensee - Rodolphe Meyer de SchauenseeRodolphe Meyer de SchauenseeRodolphe Meyer de Schauensee was an American ornithologist.He was born in Rome, and his family moved to the United States in 1913. He was curator of birds at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia for nearly fifty years. He was particularly noted for his study of South American birds...
(1901–1984) birds - Meyrick – Edward MeyrickEdward MeyrickEdward Meyrick FRS was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern Microlepidoptera systematics....
(1854–1938) - Michener – Charles Duncan MichenerCharles Duncan MichenerCharles Duncan Michener is an American entomologist born in Pasadena, CA.-Biography:Much of his career has been devoted to the systematics and natural history of bees. His first peer-reviewed publication was in 1934, at the age of 16. He received his B.S. in 1939 and his Ph.D. in Entomology in...
(b.1918) - Middendorf, Midd. – Alexander von MiddendorffAlexander von MiddendorffAlexander Theodor von Middendorff was a Baltic German zoologist and explorer.- Early life :Middendorff's mother Sophia Johanson was an Estonian peasant girl who had been sent to Saint Petersburg for education by her parents. There she met with the future director of the St...
(1815–1894) - Midgley – Steven Hamar Midgley
- Miles – Clifford Miles
- Miller – Gerrit Smith MillerGerrit Smith MillerGerrit Smith Miller, Jr. was an American zoologist.He was born in Peterboro, New York in 1869. He graduated from Harvard University in 1894 and worked under Clinton Hart Merriam at the United States Department of Agriculture...
(1869–1956) mammals - A.H.Miller – Alden H. Miller
- J.F.Miller – John Frederick MillerJohn Frederick MillerJohn Frederick Miller was an English illustrator, mainly of botanical subjects.Miller was the son of the artist Johann Sebastian Müller . Miller, along with his brother James, produced paintings from the sketches made by Sydney Parkinson on James Cook's first voyage...
(1759–1796) mainly vertebrates - L.H.Miller – Loye H. Miller paleontology, mainly birds
- R.R.Miller – Robert Rush MillerRobert Rush MillerRobert Rush Miller "was an important figure in American ichthyology and conservation from 1940 to the 1990s."...
(1916–2003) fish - Millet – Pierre-Aimé Millet (1783–1873)
- Milne-Edwards – Henri Milne-EdwardsHenri Milne-EdwardsHenri Milne-Edwards was an eminent French zoologist.Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of William Edwards, an English planter and militia colonel in Jamaica and Elisabeth Vaux, a French. He was born in Bruges, Belgium, where his parents had retired. At that time, Bruges was a part of the...
(1800–1885) mammals and crustaceans - A.Milne-Edwards – Alphonse Milne-EdwardsAlphonse Milne-EdwardsAlphonse Milne-Edwards was a French mammalologist, ornithologist and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges .Milne-Edwards obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father...
(1835–1900) birds - Milner – Angela C. Milner
- Miranda-Ribeiro – Alípio de Miranda Ribeiro (1874–1939)
- P.Miranda-Ribeiro – Paulo de Miranda Ribeiro (1901–1965)
- Mitchell – Thomas Mitchell (explorer) (1792–1855)
- Mitchill – Samuel Latham MitchillSamuel Latham MitchillSamuel Latham Mitchill was an American physician, naturalist, and politician from New York. He was born in Hempstead, New York...
(1764–1831) - Mitra – Tridib Ranjan Mitra
- Mizuno – Nobuhiko Mizuno
- Mochizuki – Kenji Mochizuki
- Mocsáry – Alexander MocsáryAlexander MocsáryAlexander Mocsary, sometimes was a Hungarian entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera....
(1841–1915) - Mohr – Erna Mohr (1894–1968)
- Molina – Juan Ignacio MolinaJuan Ignacio MolinaFr. Juan Ignacio Molina was a Chilean Jesuit priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist and geographer...
(1740–1829) - Molnar – Ralph E. Molnar
- Mondolfi – Edgardo Mondolfi (1918–1999)
- Montagu – George Montagu (1753–1815)
- Moore – Frederic MooreFrederic MooreFrederic Moore FZS was a British entomologist. It has been said that Moore was born at 33 Bruton Street but may be incorrect given that this was the address of the menagerie and office of the Zoological Society of London from 1826 to 1836.Moore was appointed an assistant in the East India Company...
(1830–1907) butterflies and moths - J.C.Moore – Joseph Curtis Moore (1914–1995) rodents
- Mori – Tamezo MoriTamezo Mori, was a Japanese naturalist in Korea while it was under Japanese Rule . He taught at a prep school for Keijō Imperial University in Seoul, Korea from 1909 until he was expelled by the American forces in 1945. Primarily an ichthyologist, he published numerous works on the zoology of the Korean...
(d.1940) - Moreno – Perito Francisco MorenoFrancisco MorenoFrancisco Pascacio Moreno was a prominent explorer and academic in Argentina, where he is usually referred to as Perito Moreno...
(1852–1919) - Morley – Claude MorleyClaude MorleyClaude Morley was an English antiquary and entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera and Diptera....
(1874–1951) - Morrow – James Edwin Morrow, Jr. (b.1918)
- Mortensen – Ole Theodor Jensen Mortensen (1868–1952)
- Möschler – Heinrich Benno MöschlerHeinrich Benno MöschlerHeinrich Benno Möschler was a German entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera.Möschler was a butterfly dealer and a member of the Entomological Society of Stettin....
(1831-1888) - Motschulsky – Victor Ivanovitsch MotschulskyVictor Ivanovitsch MotschulskyVictor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in beetles....
(1810–1871) - Mourer-Chauviré – Cécile Mourer-Chauviré
- Moyer – Jack T. Moyer (1929–2004)
- Muche – Werner Heinz Muche (1911–1987)
- Müller – Johannes Peter MüllerJohannes Peter MüllerJohannes Peter Müller , was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, and ichthyologist not only known for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge.-Early years and education:...
(1801–1858) mainly fish - O.F.Müller – Otto Friedrich MüllerOtto Friedrich MüllerOtto Friedrich Müller, also Mueller was a Danish naturalist.-Biography:Müller was born in Copenhagen. He was educated for the church, became tutor to a young nobleman, and after several years' travel with him settled in Copenhagen in 1767, and married a lady of wealth.His first important works,...
(1730–1784) insects, fauna of Scandinavia - P.L.S.Müller, Müller – Philipp Ludwig Statius MullerPhilipp Ludwig Statius MüllerPhilipp Ludwig Statius Muller was a German zoologist.Statius Muller was born in Esens, and was Professor of Natural Science at Erlangen. Between 1773 and 1776, he published a German translation of Linnaeus's Natursystem...
(1725–1776) birds, insects, some mammals and others - S.Müller – Salomon MüllerSalomon MüllerDr Salomon Müller was a German naturalist.Müller was the son of a saddler in Heidelberg. In 1823 Müller, along with Heinrich Boie and Heinrich Christian Macklot, was sent by Coenraad Jacob Temminck to collect specimens in the East Indies. Müller visited Indonesia in 1826, New Guinea and Timor in...
(1804–1864) mainly fauna of Indonesia - Mulsant – Étienne MulsantÉtienne MulsantMartial Étienne Mulsant was a French entomologist and ornithologist.Initially employed in commerce, Mulsant wrote writes Lettres à Julie sur l'entomologie, suivies d'une description méthodique de la plus grande partie des insectes de France, ornées de planches… Martial Étienne Mulsant (March 2,...
(1797–1880) - Munday – Philip L. Munday
- Murphy – Robert Cushman MurphyRobert Cushman MurphyRobert Cushman Murphy was an American ornithologist and former Lamont curator of birds for the American Museum of Natural History....
(1887–1973) - Murray – J. A. Murray (naturalist)J. A. Murray (naturalist)James A. Murray was a zoologist and museum curator in Karachi.He was a Member of the Bombay Natural History Society and Anthropological Society of Bombay, a manager at the Victoria Natural History Institute and curator at the Kurrachee Municipal Library and Museum.-Publications:*Murray, J.A. The...
- Muttkowski – Richard Anthony Muttkowski (b. 1887)
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- Nabokov - Vladimir NabokovVladimir NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...
(1899–1977) - Naef - Adolf NaefAdolf NaefAdolf Naef was a Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist, famous for his work on cephalopods and systematics.Adolf Naef studied at the University of Zurich, under the guidance of Arnold Lang , a former Professor of Jena University and close friend of Ernst Haeckel...
(1883–1949) - Nagao - Takumi Nagao
- Naish - Darren NaishDarren NaishDarren Naish is a vertebrate palaeontologist and science writer. He obtained a geology degree at the University of Southampton and later studied vertebrate palaeontology under British palaeontologist David Martill at the University of Portsmouth, where he obtained both an M. Phil...
- J. F. Naumann - Johann Friedrich NaumannJohann Friedrich NaumannJohann Friedrich Naumann was a German scientist and editor.Naumann is regarded as the founder of scientific ornithology in Europe...
(1780–1857) - Natterer - Johann NattererJohann NattererJohann Natterer was an Austrian naturalist and explorer.In 1817, Emperor Franz IIfinanced an expedition to Brazil on the occasion of the wedding of his daughter Archduchess Leopoldina to the Portuguese crown prince, Dom Pedro of Alcantara...
(1787–1843) - Navás - R. P. Longinos Navás (1858–1938)
- Nehring - Alfred Nehring (1845–1904)
- Nelson - Edward William NelsonEdward William NelsonEdward William Nelson was an American naturalist and ethnologist. He was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. In 1871 together with his family, he became homeless due to the Chicago Fire....
(1855–1934) - Nesov, Nessov - Lev Alexandrovich Nesov (1947–1995)
- Neumoegen - Berthold Neumoegen (d. 1895)
- Newman - Edward Newman (1801–1876)
- A. Newton - Alfred NewtonAlfred NewtonAlfred Newton FRS was an English zoologist and ornithologist.Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907...
(1829–1907) - E. Newton - Edward NewtonEdward NewtonSir Edward Newton KCMG was a British colonial administrator and ornithologist.He was born at Elveden Hall, Suffolk the sixth and youngest son of William Newton, MP. He was the brother of ornithologist Alfred Newton....
(1832–1897) - Nichols - Albert Russell NicholsAlbert Russell NicholsAlbert Russell Nichols was an English museum curator and zoologist who worked mainly in Ireland.Nichols was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in mathematics as 16th wrangler in 1882. Nichols came from England to Dublin in 1883 as Assistant in the Museum of Science and Art...
(1859–1933) - Nichols - John Treadwell NicholsJohn Treadwell NicholsJohn Treadwell Nichols was an American ichthyologist.-Biography:Nichols was born as son of John White Treadwell Nichols in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1906 he studied vertebrate zoology at Harvard College where he graduated to Bachelor of Arts...
(1883–1958) - Nielsen - Cesare Nielsen (1898–1984)
- Nikolskii - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Nikolskii (1858–1942)
- Nilsson - Sven NilssonSven NilssonSven Nilsson was a Swedish zoologist and archaeologist, who was director of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet , professor of Natural history at Lund University , and rector of the university...
(1787–1883) - Nitsche - Heinrich Nitsche (1845–1902)
- Noble - Gladwyn Kingsley NobleGladwyn Kingsley NobleGladwyn Kingsley Noble was an American zoologist.- Works :*"American Egret at Martha's Vineyard, Mass" The Auk Vol. 31 N. 1: 100...
(1894–1940) - Nopcsa - Franz Nopcsa von Felső-SzilvásFranz Nopcsa von Felso-SzilvásBaron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás was a Hungarian-born aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, and paleontologist...
(1877–1933) - Norell - Mark A. Norell (b. 1957)
- Norman - John Richardson Norman (1899–1944)
- D. Norman - David B. NormanDavid B. NormanDavid Bruce Norman is a British paleontologist, currently Director of the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University. He is a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge where he teaches geology in the Natural Sciences tripos. He is a member of the Palaeontological Association. He has studied Iguanodon...
(b. 1952) - North - Alfred John NorthAlfred John NorthAlfred John North was an Australian ornithologist.North was born in Melbourne and was educated at Melbourne Grammar School...
(1855–1917) - Novas - Fernando Emilio Novas
- Nowinski - Aleksander Nowiński
- Nuttall - Thomas NuttallThomas NuttallThomas Nuttall was an English botanist and zoologist, who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841....
(1786–1859) - Nylander - William NylanderWilliam NylanderWilliam Nylander was a Finnish botanist and entomologist.Nylander taught at the University of Helsinki for a number of years before later moving to Paris, where he was to live until his death in 1899....
(1822–1899)
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- Oberholser – Harry Church OberholserHarry Church OberholserHarry Church Oberholser was an American ornithologist.Oberholser worked for the United States Bureau of Biological Survey from 1895 to 1941, first as an ornithologist, later as a biologist, and finally as an editor. He was the author of a number of books and articles...
(1870–1963) - Oberthür – Charles OberthürCharles OberthürCharles Oberthür was a French entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera. He was the son of François-Charles Oberthür.Oberthür named 42 new genera of moths -Works:...
(1845–1924) - Obraztsov – Nicholas Sergeyevich Obraztsov (b. 1906)
- Ochiai – Akira Ochiai (b. 1923)
- Ogilby – William OgilbyWilliam OgilbyWilliam Ogilby was an Irish barrister and naturalist.Ogilby was honorary secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1839 to 1846....
(1808–1873) general zoology - J.D. Ogilby – James Douglas OgilbyJames Douglas OgilbyJames Douglas Ogilby was an Australian ichthyologist.Ogilby was born in Belfast, Ireland, and was the son of zoologist William Ogilby. He received his education at Winchester College, England, and Trinity College, Dublin.Ogilby worked for the British Museum before joining the Australian Museum in...
(1853–1925) ichthyology - Ogilvie-Grant – William Robert Ogilvie-GrantWilliam Robert Ogilvie-GrantWilliam Robert Ogilvie-Grant was a Scottish ornithologist.-Career:Ogilvie-Grant was educated at Cargilfield and Fettes College, Edinburgh, where he studied zoology and anatomy. In 1882 he became an Assistant at the Natural History Museum. He studied ichthyology under Albert C. L. G...
(1863–1924) - Ognev – Sergej OgnewSergej OgnewSergej Ivanovich Ognew was a Russian zoologist and naturalist, remembered for his work on mammalogy. He graduated from Moscow University in 1910, the same year in which he published his first monograph. In 1928, he was ranked a professor at the Pedagogical Institute. He published a variety of...
(1886–1951) - Oguma – Mamoru Oguma (1885–1971)
- Okamoto – Makoto Okamoto
- Oken – Lorenz OkenLorenz OkenLorenz Oken was a German naturalist.Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss in Bohlsbach in Baden and studied natural history and medicine at the universities of Freiburg and Würzburg. He went on to the University of Göttingen, where he became a Privatdozent , and shortened his name to Oken...
(1779–1851) - Okumura – Teiichi Okumura
- Olfers – Ignaz von OlfersIgnaz von OlfersIgnaz Franz Werner Maria von Olfers was a German naturalist, historian and diplomat. Olfers was born in Münster. In 1816 he travelled to Brazil as a diplomat....
(1793–1872) - Oliver – Walter OliverWalter OliverWalter Reginald Brook Oliver was an Australian-born New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, malacologist and museum curator.Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Oliver emigrated with his family to Tauranga in 1896...
(1883–1957) - Olivi – Giuseppe OliviGiuseppe OliviGiuseppe Olivi was an Italian naturalist.Olivi was born at Chioggia. He was the author of Zoologia Adriatica . He died in Padua.-References:...
(1769–1795) - Olivier – Guillaume-Antoine OlivierGuillaume-Antoine OlivierGuillaume-Antoine Olivier was a French entomologist.He was the author of Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Insectes and Le Voyage dans l'Empire Othoman, l'Égypte et la Perse . He was a close friend of Johan Christian Fabricius and a patron of Pierre André Latreille.-References:...
(1756–1814) - Olson – Storrs Olson (b. 1944)
- Oppel – Nicolaus Michael OppelNicolaus Michael OppelNicolaus Michael Oppel was a German naturalist. He was a student of, and worked as an assistant to, André Marie Constant Duméril at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France, cataloging and classifying species of reptiles...
(1782–1820) - Ord – George OrdGeorge OrdGeorge Ord was an American ornithologist.Ord was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a rope maker and Ord joined him in the business, continuing after his father's death in 1806...
(1781–1866) - Osbeck – Pehr OsbeckPehr OsbeckPehr Osbeck was a Swedish explorer, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.-Naturalist in Canton:He was born in the parish of Hålanda in Västergötland and studied at Uppsala with Carolus Linnaeus...
(1723–1805) - Osborn – Henry Fairfield OsbornHenry Fairfield OsbornHenry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. ForMemRS was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist.-Early life and career:...
(1857–1935) - Osgood – Wilfred Hudson OsgoodWilfred Hudson OsgoodWilfred Hudson Osgood was an American zoologist.Osgood was working as a biologist in the United States Department of Agriculture from 1897 to 1909. Then he moved to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, where he was assistant curator of mammalogy and ornithology from 1909 to 1921, and...
(1875–1947) - Osi – Attila Ősi
- Osmólska – Halszka OsmólskaHalszka OsmólskaHalszka Osmólska was a Polish paleontologist who had specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs.She was born in Poznań. A member of the 1965 and 1970 Polish–Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi Desert, she described many finds from these rocks, often with Teresa Maryańska...
(d. 2008) - Osthelder – Ludwig Osthelder (1877-1954)
- Ostrom – John OstromJohn OstromJohn H. Ostrom was an American paleontologist who revolutionized modern understanding of dinosaurs in the 1960s, when he demonstrated that dinosaurs are more like big non-flying birds than they are like lizards , an idea first proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in the 1860s, but which had garnered...
(1928–2005) - Oudemans – Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (1858–1943)
- Oustalet – Emile OustaletÉmile OustaletJean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet was a French zoologist.Oustalet was born at Montbéliard, in the department of Doubs. He studied at the Ecole des Hautes-Etudes and his first scientific work was on the respiratory organs of dragonfly larvae...
(1844–1905) - Owen – Richard OwenRichard OwenSir Richard Owen, FRS KCB was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...
(1804–1892)
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- Packard - Alpheus Spring PackardAlpheus Spring PackardAlpheus Spring Packard, LL.D. was an American entomologist and palaeontologist. He was the son of Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. and the brother of William Alfred Packard. He was born in Brunswick, Maine and was Professor of Zoology and Geology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island from...
(1839–1905) - Palisot de Beauvois - Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de BeauvoisPalisot de BeauvoisAmbroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois 27 July 1752 Arras - 21 January 1820 Paris, was a French naturalist.Palisot collected insects in Oware, Benin, Saint Domingue, and the United States, during the period 1786 – 1797. Trained as a botanist, Palisot published a significant...
(1752–1820) - Pallas - Peter Simon PallasPeter Simon PallasPeter Simon Pallas was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.- Life and work :Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors and took an interest in natural history, later attending the University of Halle and the University...
(1741–1811) - Palmer - Theodore Sherman PalmerTheodore Sherman PalmerTheodore Sherman Palmer was an American zoologist.Palmer was born in Oakland, California and studied at the University of California. In 1889 he joined the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy of the United States Department of Agriculture under Clinton Hart Merriam. In 1891 he led an...
(1868–1955) - Panzer - Georg Wolfgang Franz PanzerGeorg Wolfgang Franz PanzerGeorg Wolfgang Franz Panzer was a German botanist and entomologist.He was born at Etzelwang in the Palatinate and died at Hersbruck, near Nuremberg.A physician, he practised at Hersbruck...
(1755–1829) - Parenti - Lynne R. Parenti
- Parks - William Arthur Parks (1868–1939)
- Pascoe - Francis Polkinghorne PascoeFrancis Polkinghorne PascoeFrancis Polkinghorne Pascoe was a Cornish entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera.-Biography:He was born in Penzance Cornwall and trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Appointed surgeon in the Navy he served on Australian, West Indian and Mediterranean stations...
(1813-1893) - Patzner - Robert A. Patzner
- Paul - Gregory S. PaulGregory S. PaulGregory Scott Paul is a freelance researcher, author and illustrator who works in paleontology, and more recently has examined sociology and theology. He is best known for his work and research on theropod dinosaurs and his detailed illustrations, both live and skeletal...
(b. 1954) - Peale - Titian PealeTitian PealeTitian Ramsay Peale was a noted American artist, naturalist, entomologist and photographer. He was the sixteenth child and youngest son of noted American naturalist Charles Willson Peale.-Biography:...
(1799–1885) - Pearson - Oliver Paynie Pearson (1915–2003)
- Pelzeln - August von PelzelnAugust von PelzelnAugust von Pelzeln was an Austrian ornithologist.August Edler Pelzeln was in charge of the mammal and bird collections at the Imperial Natural History Museum in Vienna...
(1825–1891) - Pennant - Thomas PennantThomas PennantThomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
(1726–1798) - M. L. Penrith - Mary Louise Penrith (b. 1942)
- Perez-Moreno - Bernardino P. Pérez Moreno
- Perle - Altangerel PerleAltangerel PerleAltangerel Perle is a Mongolian palaeontologist.He is employed at the National University of Mongolia. He has described species such as Goyocephale lattimorei, Achillobator giganticus and Erlikosaurus andrewsi. He has been honored by Polish palaeontologist Halszka Osmólska, who named the species...
(b. 1945) - Péron - François PéronFrançois PéronFrançois Auguste Péron was a French naturalist and explorer. He is credited with the first use of the term anthropology.-Explorations:...
(1775–1810) - Perty - Joseph Anton Maximillian PertyMaximilian PertyJosef Anton Maximilian Perty was a German naturalist and entomologist. He was a professor of natural history at the University of Bern.-Works:...
(1804–1884) - Peters - Wilhelm PetersWilhelm PetersWilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters was a German naturalist and explorer.He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens...
(1815–1883) - D.S. Peters - Dieter Stefan Peters paleontology, including birds
- J.L. Peters - James Lee PetersJames Lee PetersJames Lee Peters was an American ornithologist.Peters was Curator of Birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard University...
(1889–1952) ornithology - Petrunkevitch - Alexander PetrunkevitchAlexander PetrunkevitchAlexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch was an eminent arachnologist of his time. From 1910 to 1939 he described over 130 spider species.-Biography:...
(1875–1964) - Pfeffer - Georg Johann PfefferGeorg Johann PfefferGeorg Johann Pfeffer was a German zoologist, primarily a malacologist, a scientist who studied mollusks.Pfeffer was born in Berlin. In 1887 he became curator of the Natural History Museum of Hamburg , which was established in 1843 and destroyed during World War II...
(1854–1931) - Philippi - Rodolfo Amando PhilippiRodolfo Amando PhilippiRodolfo Amando Philippi was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist....
(1808–1904) - Pic - Maurice PicMaurice PicMaurice Pic was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He contributed to Mary-Louis Fauconnet's Catalogue raisonné des coléoptères de Saône-et-Loire and wrote many short papers, many in L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne describing world beetles...
(1866–1957) - Pickard-Cambridge - Octavius Pickard-CambridgeOctavius Pickard-CambridgeThe Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS was an English clergyman and zoologist.Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth rectory, Dorset, the fifth son of Revd George Pickard, rector and squire of Bloxworth: the family changed their name to Pickard-Cambridge in 1848...
(1828–1917) - Pierce - Frank Nelson Pierce (1861–1943)
- Pilsbry - Henry Augustus PilsbryHenry Augustus PilsbryHenry Augustus Pilsbry was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a century...
(1862–1957) - Platnick - Norman I. PlatnickNorman I. PlatnickNorman I. Platnick is an American arachnologist, and the Peter J. Solomon Family Curator of the invertebrate zoology department of the American Museum of Natural History. A 1973 Ph.D...
- Pocock - Reginald Innes PocockReginald Innes PocockReginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. was a British zoologist.Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's School, Oxford. He received tutoring in zoology from Sir Edward Poulton, and was allowed...
(1863–1947) - Poda - Nikolaus Poda von NeuhausNikolaus Poda von NeuhausNikolaus Poda von Neuhaus was an Austrian entomologist born in Vienna.Von Neuhaus was the author of Insecta Musei Graecensis , the first purely entomological work to follow the binomial nomenclature of Carolus Linnaeus.-External links:**...
(1723–1798) - Poey - Felipe PoeyFelipe Poey-Biography:Poey was born in Havana, the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid. He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the...
(1799–1891) - Poeppig - Eduard Friedrich PoeppigEduard Friedrich PoeppigEduard Friedrich Poeppig was a German botanist, zoologist and explorer.-Biography:He was born in Plauen, Saxony. He studied medicine and natural history at the University of Leipzig, graduating with a medical degree. On graduation, the rector of the university gave him a botanical mission to North...
(1798–1868) - Pol - Diego Pol
- Pomel - Auguste PomelAuguste PomelAuguste Nicolas Pomel was a French geologist and paleontologistPomel was born in Issoire. He worked as a mines engineer in Algeria and became a specialist in north African vertebrate fossils...
(1821–1898) - Pompeckj - Josef Felix PompeckjJosef Felix PompeckjJosef Felix Pompeckj was a German paleontologist and geologist. He was born in Groß-Köllen . He studied geology and paleontology and received his doctorate in 1890. He worked in Tübingen, Munich and Hohenheim. In 1893 he became an extraordinary professor and in 1897 the keeper in Monachium Museum...
(1867–1930) - Pontoppidan - Erik PontoppidanErik PontoppidanErik Pontoppidan was a Danish author, bishop, historian and antiquary, born in Aarhus August 24, 1698; died in Copenhagen December 20, 1764. He was educated in Fredericia , after which he was a private tutor in Norway, and then studied in Holland, and in London and Oxford, England...
(1698–1764) - Pope - Clifford Hillhouse Pope (1899–1974)
- Potts - Thomas Henry PottsThomas Henry PottsThomas Henry Potts was a British-born New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, entomologist, and botanist....
(1824–1888) - Pouyaud - Laurent Pouyaud
- Powell - Jaime Eduardo Powell
- Pruvot-Fol - Alice Pruvot-FolAlice Pruvot-FolAlice Pruvot-Fol was a French opisthobranch malacologist.She was the author of many new species, mostly described on the basis of preserved animals....
(1873–1972) - Przewalski - Nikolai PrzhevalskyNikolai PrzhevalskyNikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky and Prjevalsky, ; —), was a Russian geographer of Polish background and explorer of Central and Eastern Asia. Although he never reached his final goal, Lhasa in Tibet, he travelled through regions unknown to the west, such as northern Tibet, modern Qinghai and...
(1839–1888) - Pucheran - Jacques PucheranJacques PucheranJacques Pucheran was a French zoologist.Pucheran accompanied the expedition on the Astrolabe between 1837 and 1840, under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville, with fellow-naturalists Jacques Bernard Hombron and Honoré Jacquinot...
(1817–1894) - Purcell - William Frederick PurcellWilliam Frederick PurcellWilliam Frederick Purcell was a South African arachnologist and biologist.-External links:...
(1866–1919)
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- Quatrefages - Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de BréauJean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de BréauJean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau was a French naturalist.- Life :He was born at Berthézène, in the commune of Valleraugue , the son of a Protestant farmer. He studied medicine at Strasbourg, where he took the double degree of M.D...
(1810–1892) - Quoy - Jean René Constant QuoyJean René Constant QuoyJean René Constant Quoy was a French zoologist.Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard he served as naturalist aboard La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey during its circumnavigation of the globe , and the Astrolabe under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville...
(1790–1869)
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- Raath – Michael A. Raath
- Rachmatika – Ike Rachmatika
- Rackett – Thomas Rackett (1757-1841)
- Radcliffe – Lewis RadcliffeLewis RadcliffeLewis Radcliffe was a naturalist, malacologist, and ichthyologist. He was Deputy Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Fisheries until 1932 and was the assistant naturalist under Hugh McCormick Smith for the 1907-1910 Philippines Expedition. During his life, he described numerous new species...
(1880-1950) - Radde – Gustav RaddeGustav RaddeGustav Ferdinand Richard Radde was a German naturalist and explorer.Radde was born in Danzig, the son of a schoolmaster. He had little formal education, and began a career as an apothecary...
(1831-1903) - Rafinesque – Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-SchmaltzConstantine Samuel Rafinesque-SchmaltzConstantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe, was a nineteenth-century polymath who made notable contributions to botany, zoology, the study of prehistoric earthworks in North America and Mesoamerican ancient linguistics.Rafinesque was eccentric, and is often portrayed as an...
(1783-1840) - Raffles – Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826)
- Rainbow – William Joseph RainbowWilliam Joseph RainbowWilliam Joseph Rainbow was an entomologist and arachnologist whose work includes the first catalogue of Australian spiders.-Life:...
(1856-1919) - Rajasuriya – Arjan Rajasuriya
- Rambur – Jules Pièrre RamburJules Pierre RamburJules Pierre Rambur was a French entomologist.Rambur was born in Chinon. He studied the insect fauna of Corsica and Andalusia. He was the author of Histoire naturelle des insectes...
(1801-1870) - Ramos – Robson Tamar da Costa Ramos
- Ramsay, E.P.Ramsay – Edward Pierson RamsayEdward Pierson RamsayEdward Pierson Ramsay was an Australian zoologist who specialised in ornithology.-Early life:Pierson was born in Dobroyd Estate, Long Cove, Sydney and educated at St Mark's Collegiate School, The King's School, Parramatta...
(1842-1916) - Rand – Austin L. RandAustin L. RandAustin Loomer Rand was a Canadian zoologist.He was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia in 1905 and grew up in nearby Wolfville, where he was mentored by the noted local ornithologist Robie W. Tufts...
(1905-1982) - Randall – John E. Randall (b. 1924)
- Rathbun – Mary RathbunMary RathbunMary J. Rathbun was an American zoologist who specialized in crustaceans. She worked at the Smithsonian Institution, often unaided, from 1884 until her death...
(1860-1943) - Rathke – Martin Heinrich Rathke (1793-1860)
- Ratzeburg – Julius Theodor Christian RatzeburgJulius Theodor Christian RatzeburgJulius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg was a German zoologist, botanist, entomologist, and forester.-Biography:...
(1801-1871) - Rauhut – Oliver W. M. Rauhut
- Razoumowsky – Grigory RazumovskyGrigory RazumovskyCount Grigory Kirillovich Razumovsky was a Ukrainian nobleman, political philosopher, botanist, zoologist and geologist known from his writings in the West as Gregor or Grégoire, who lost his Russian citizenship for openly criticizing the czarist system under emperor Alexander I, which he saw as...
(1759-1837) - Reakirt – Tryon ReakirtTryon ReakirtTryon Reakirt was an American entomologist.He was interested in the Lepidoptera of the Americas and the Philippines and published nine articles in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia and a tenth in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the...
(1844-1870s?) - Rebel – Hans RebelHans RebelHans Rebel was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.Rebel, who had an early interest in natural history and butterflies, first became a lawyer. He devoted his spare time to studying Lepidoptera and established the entomological section of the Botanical and Zoological Society of...
(1861-1940) - Regan – C. Tate ReganC. Tate ReganCharles Tate Regan was a British ichthyologist, working mainly around the beginning of the 20th century. He did extensive work on fish classification schemes....
(1878-1943) - Regel – Eduard August von RegelEduard August von RegelEduard August von Regel was a German horticulturalist and botanist. He ended his career serving as the Director of the Russian Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg...
(1815-1892) - Régimbart – M. Régimbart
- Reichenbach – Ludwig ReichenbachLudwig ReichenbachHeinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach was a German botanist and ornithologist.He was the son of Johann Friedrich Jakob Reichenbach, the author in 1818 of the first Greek-German dictionary. He was the father of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, equally a botanist and an eminent orchid...
(1793-1879) - Reichenow – Anton ReichenowAnton ReichenowAnton Reichenow was a German ornithologist.Reichenow was the son-in-law of Jean Cabanis, and worked at the Humboldt Museum from 1874 to 1921. He was an expert on African birds, making a collecting expedition to West Africa in 1872 and 1873, and writing Die Vögel Afrikas...
(1847-1941) - Reig – Osvaldo Alfredo Reig (1929-1992)
- Reinhardt – Johannes Theodor ReinhardtJohannes Theodor ReinhardtJohannes Theodor Reinhardt was a Danish zoologist and herpetologist. He was the son of Johannes Christopher Hagemann Reinhardt....
(1816-1882) - Reinhart – Roy Herbert Reinhart (b. 1919)
- Renyaan – Samuel J. Renyaan
- Retzius – Anders Jahan RetziusAnders Jahan RetziusAnders Jahan Retzius was a Swedish chemist, botanist and entomologist.-Biography:Born in Kristianstad, he matriculated at Lund University in 1758, where he graduated as a filosofie magister in 1766. He also trained as an apothecary apprentice. He reveived the position of docent of chemistry at...
(1742-1821) - Riabinin – Anatoly Nikolaevich Riabinin
- Rich – Thomas Hewitt Rich
- P. Rich – see Vickers-Rich
- Richardson – John Richardson (naturalist)John Richardson (naturalist)Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of...
(1787-1865) - Richmond – Charles Wallace RichmondCharles Wallace RichmondCharles Wallace Richmond was an American ornithologist. He is best remembered for a compilation of the Latin names of birds that is called the Richmond Index.-Life and work:...
(1868-1932) - Ridgway – Robert Ridgway (1850-1929)
- Riggs – Elmer Samuel Riggs (1869-1963)
- Riley – Joseph Harvey RileyJoseph Harvey RileyJoseph Harvey Riley was an American ornithologist.Born in Falls Church, Virginia, Riley was employed at the Smithsonian Institution from 1896 until his death, becoming Associate Curator of the Division of Birds in 1932.-Sources:*...
(1873-1941) - Ripley – Sidney Dillon RipleySidney Dillon RipleySidney Dillon Ripley was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist. He served as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964-1984.-Biography:...
(1913-2001) - Ris – Friedrich RisFriedrich RisFriedrich Ris was a Swiss physician and entomologist who specialised in Odonata.He was Director of a psychiatric clinic in Rheinau, Switzerland....
(1867-1931) - Risso – Antoine RissoAntoine RissoGiuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.Risso was born in Nice, County of Nice, a part of the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him...
(1777-1845) - Rivero – Juan A. RiveroJuan A. RiveroDr. Juan A. Rivero, the founder of the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo at the University of Puerto Rico's Mayagüez Campus, was born on March 5, 1923 in Puerto Rico.-Education:...
(fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
mid-late 20th century) - Roberts – Austin RobertsAustin RobertsAustin Roberts was a South African zoologist. He is best known for his Birds of South Africa, first published in 1940. He also studied the mammalian fauna of the region: his work The mammals of South Africa was published posthumously in 1951...
(1883-1948) - Robertson – David Ross Robertson (b. 1946)
- Robinson – Herbert Christopher RobinsonHerbert Christopher RobinsonHerbert Christopher Robinson was a British zoologist and ornithologist. He is principally known for conceiving and initiating the major ornithological reference The Birds of the Malay Peninsula....
(1874-1929) - Robison – Henry W. Robison
- Robson – Guy Coburn RobsonGuy Coburn RobsonGuy Coburn Robson was a British zoologist, specializing in Mollusca, who first named and described Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, the Colossal Squid....
(1888-1945) - Röding – Peter Friedrich RödingPeter Friedrich RödingPeter Friedrich Röding was a German malacologist who lived in Hamburg. Very little is known about this naturalist.Many of Röding's descriptions are of species which were first named by earlier authors such as Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Martini and Martin Lister...
(1767-1846) - Roewer – Carl Friedrich RoewerCarl Friedrich RoewerCarl Friedrich Roewer was a German arachnologist. He concentrated on harvestmen, where he described almost a third of today's known species, but also almost 700 taxa of spiders and numerous Solifugae....
(1881-1963) - Rogenhofer – Alois Friedrich RogenhoferAlois Friedrich RogenhoferAlois Friedrich Rogenhofer was an Austrian entomologist. He was a curator at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he was the first keeper of the Lepidoptera. Rogenhofer was mainly interested in Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera.Beside him Josef Mann worked as a keen technician and collector...
(1832-1890) - Roger – Julius RogerJulius RogerJulius Roger was a German medical doctor, entomologist and folklorist who worked in Ratibor, in Upper Silesia, most notable for having arranged to build hospitals in Groß Rauden, Pilchowitz, plus the current public hospital in Rybnik .He is also notable for collaborating with entomologist Ernst...
(1819–1865) - Rohde – Klaus RohdeKlaus RohdeKlaus Rohde is a German biologist at the University of New England , Australia, known particularly for his work on marine parasitology,evolutionary ecology/zoogeography, and phylogeny/ultrastructure of lower invertebrates.He studied zoology, botany, physics, physiological chemistry in Potsdam...
(b. 1932) - Rohwer – Sievert Allen RohwerSievert Allen RohwerSievert Allen Rohwer Sievert Allen Rohwer Sievert Allen Rohwer (22 December 1887 , Telluride - 12 February 1951 was an American entomologist who specialised in HymenopteraHe was a senior insect taxonomist with the United States Department of Agriculture. Rohwer wrote Technical papers on...
(1887-1951) - Rondelet – Guillaume RondeletGuillaume RondeletGuillaume Rondelet , known also as Rondeletus , was Regus Professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in southern France and Chancellor of the University between 1556 and his death in 1566. He achieved renown as an anatomist and a naturalist with a particular interest in botany and zoology...
(1507-1566) - Roniewicz – Ewa Roniewicz
- Rossi – Pietro Rossi (scientist) (1738-1804)
- Rossignol – Martial Rossignol
- Rossman – Douglas Athon Rossman (b. 1936)
- Rothschild – Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron RothschildWalter Rothschild, 2nd Baron RothschildLionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild FRS , a scion of the Rothschild family, was a British banker, politician, and zoologist.-Biography:...
(1868-1937) - Roxas – Hilario Atanacio Roxas (b. 1896)
- Rozhdestvensky – Anatole Rozhdestvensky
- Rudolphi – Karl RudolphiKarl RudolphiKarl Asmund Rudolphi was a Swedish-born naturalist, who is credited with being the "father of helminthology"....
(1771-1832) - Rüppell – Eduard RüppellEduard RüppellWilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell was a German naturalist and explorer. Rüppell is occasionally transliterated to "Rueppell" for the English alphabet....
(1794-1884) - Russell – Dale Alan Russell (b. 1937)
- Ryder – John Adam Ryder (1852-1895)
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- Sakamoto - Katsuichi Sakamoto
- Salgado - Leonardo J. Salgado
- Salmoni - Dave SalmoniDave SalmoniDave Salmoni is a Canadian animal trainer, entertainer and television producer. He has his own production company, Triosphere, which is based in South Africa and specializes in wildlife films.-Personal life:...
- Salter - John William SalterJohn William SalterJohn William Salter was an English naturalist, geologist, and palaeontologist.Salter was apprenticed in 1835 to James De Carle Sowerby, and was engaged in drawing and engraving the plates for Sowerby's Mineral Conchology, the Supplement to Sowerby's English Botany, and other natural history works...
(1820–1869) - Salvadori - Tommaso SalvadoriTommaso SalvadoriCount Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethel. He took an early interest in birds and published a catalogue of the birds of Sardinia in 1862...
(1835–1923) - Salvin - Osbert SalvinOsbert SalvinOsbert Salvin FRS was an English naturalist, best known for co-authoring Biologia Centrali-Americana with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52 volume encyclopedia on the natural history of Central America....
(1835–1898) - Samouelle - George SamouelleGeorge SamouelleGeorge Samouelle was a curator in the British Museum of "no real scientific aptitude".Originally employed as a bookseller for Longman & Co., Samouelle joined the Natural History Museum at the same time as William Elford Leach. Leach appears to have aided Samouelle greatly, with Bate & Westwood...
(1790–1846) - Sampson - Scott D. SampsonScott D. SampsonScott D. Sampson is a paleontologist and chief curator of the Utah Museum of Natural History. Sampson is notable for his work on the carnivorous theropod dinosaurs Majungasaurus and Masiakasaurus and his extensive research into the Late Cretaceous Period, particularly in...
- Sanborn - Colin Campbell Sanborn (1897–1962)
- Santschi - Felix SantschiFelix SantschiFelix Santschi was a Swiss entomologist.Santschi is known for his pioneering work on the navigational abilities of ants. In one experiment, he investigated the way harvester ants used the sky to navigate. He found that as long as even a small patch of sky was visible, the ants could return...
(1872–1940) - G. O. Sars - Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927)
- M. Sars - Michael SarsMichael SarsMichael Sars was a Norwegian theologian and biologist.-Biography:Sars was born in Bergen, Norway. He studied natural history and theology at Royal Frederick University from 1823 and completed a cand.theol. degree in 1828. For several years he taught at a number of different schools, firstly in...
(1809–1869) - Satunin - Konstantin Alexeevitsch Satunin (1863–1915)
- E.Saunders - Edward Saunders (entomologist)Edward Saunders (entomologist)Edward Saunders was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Hemiptera and Hymenoptera.He was a businessman associated with Lloyds Bank studying entomology in his spare time. His Catalogus Buprestidarum of 1871 was 'a work whose importance was immediately recognised, and which has...
(1848–1910) entomology (mainly Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera) - H.Saunders, Saunders - Howard SaundersHoward SaundersHoward Saunders was a British businessman, who later in life molded himself into a noted ornithologist.-Biography:...
(1835–1907) ornithology - Saunders, W.Saunders - William Wilson SaundersWilliam Wilson SaundersWilliam Wilson Saunders was a British insurance broker, entomologist and botanist.Saunders was an underwriter at Lloyd's of London...
(1809-1879) entomology (mainly Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera) - Saussure - Henri Saussure (1829–1905)
- Savi - Paolo SaviPaolo SaviPaolo Savi , was an Italian geologist and ornithologist.Savi was born in Pisa, son of Gaetano Savi, professor of Botany at the University of Pisa. The younger Savi became assistant-lecturer on zoology at the university in 1820, was appointed professor in 1823, and lectured also on geology...
(1798–1871) - Savigny - Marie Jules César SavignyMarie Jules César SavignyMarie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny was a French zoologist.Savigny was born at Provins. In 1798 he travelled to Egypt with the Emperor Napoleon as part of the French scientific expedition to that country, and contributed to the publication of the findings of the expedition in 1809...
(1777–1851) - Saville-Kent - William Saville-KentWilliam Saville-KentWilliam Saville-Kent was an English marine biologist.Born in Sidmouth, Devon, his childhood was marred by the death of his mother, the murder of his half-brother and conviction of his sister Constance to twenty years in prison...
(1845–1908) - Savornin - Justin Savornin (b. 1876)
- Say - Thomas SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
(1787–1843) - Schaum - Hermann Rudolph SchaumHermann Rudolph SchaumHermann Rudolph Schaum was a professor in Berlin and an entomologist. He specialised in Coleoptera....
(1819–1865) - Schinz - Heinrich Rudolf SchinzHeinrich Rudolf SchinzHeinrich Rudolf Schinz was a Swiss physician and naturalist.Schinz was born at Zurich and studied medicine at Würzburg and Jena, returning to Zurich in 1798 to practice...
(1771–1861) - Schiapelli - Rita Delia Schiapelli
- Schiffermüller - Ignaz SchiffermüllerIgnaz SchiffermüllerIgnaz Schiffermüller was an Austrian naturalist mainly interested in Lepidoptera....
(1727–1806) - Schiödte - Jørgen Matthias Christian SchiødteJørgen Matthias Christian SchiødteJørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte or Jørgen Christian Matthias Schiødte was a Danish entomologist.He was born 20 April 1815 in Christianshavn and died 22 April 1884 in Kopenhagen...
(1815–1884) - Schlaikjer - Erich Maren SchlaikjerErich Maren SchlaikjerErich Maren Schlaikjer was an American geologist and dinosaur hunter. Assisting Barnum Brown, he co-described Pachycephalosaurus and what is now Montanoceratops. Other discoveries include Miotapirus and a new species of Mesohippus....
(b. 1905) - Schlegel - Hermann SchlegelHermann SchlegelHermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...
(1804–1884) - Schmidt - Karl Patterson SchmidtKarl Patterson SchmidtKarl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist.-Biography:Schmidt was the son of George W. Schmidt and Margaret Patterson Schmidt. Schmidt's father was a German professor who, at the time of Schmidt's birth, was teaching in Lake Forest, Illinois. His family left the city in 1907 and settled...
(1890–1957) - Schnabl - Johann Andreas Schnabl (1838–1912)
- Schneider - Johann Gottlob SchneiderJohann Gottlob SchneiderJohann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider was a German classicist and naturalist.-Biography:Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony...
(1750–1822) - Schoepf(f) - Johann David Schoepff (1752–1800)
- Schönherr - Carl Johan SchönherrCarl Johan SchönherrCarl Johan Schönherr was a Swedish entomologist who revised the taxonomy of beetles, including weevils.Born in Stockholm, Schönherr was son of a German immigrant who had established himself as a silk manufacturer. At the age of nineteen, he took over the business together with his mother and...
(1772–1848) - Schomburgk - Robert Hermann SchomburgkRobert Hermann SchomburgkSir Robert Hermann Schomburgk , was a German-born explorer for Great Britain who carried out geographical, ethnological and botanical studies in South America and the West Indies, and also fulfilled diplomatic missions for Great Britain in the Dominican Republic and Thailand.-Biography:Schomburgk...
(1804–1865) - Schrank - Franz Paula von SchrankFranz Paula von SchrankFranz von Paula Schrank was a German botanist and entomologist.Schrank was the first director of the botanical gardens in Munich from 1809 to 1832.Shrank was the first author to use the genus name Triops...
(1747–1835) - Schreber - Johann Christian Daniel von SchreberJohann Christian Daniel von SchreberJohann Christian Daniel von Schreber , often styled I.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.-Career:He was elected Professor of Materia medica at the University of Erlangen in 1769....
(1739–1810) - Schren(c)k - Leopold von SchrenckLeopold von SchrenckLeopold Ivanovich von Schrenck was a Russian zoologist, geographer and ethnographer.-Biography:Schrenck was a Baltic German born and brought up near Chotenj, south-west of St Petersburg. He received his doctorate from the University of Tartu, and then studied natural science in Berlin and Königsberg...
(1824–1896) - Schultz - Leonard Peter Schultz (1901–1986)
- P. L. Sclater - Philip SclaterPhilip SclaterPhilip Lutley Sclater was an English lawyer and zoologist. In zoology, he was an expert ornithologist, and identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world...
(1829–1913) - W. L. Sclater - William Lutley SclaterWilliam Lutley SclaterWilliam Lutley Sclater was a British zoologist and museum director. He was the son of Philip Lutley Sclater, and was named after his paternal grandfather, also William Lutley Sclater....
(1863–1944) - Scopoli - Giovanni Antonio ScopoliGiovanni Antonio ScopoliGiovanni Antonio Scopoli was an Italian physician and naturalist.-Biography:...
(1723–1788) - Scott - John ScottJohn Scott (entomologist)John Scott was an English entomologist. He was born, and died, in Morpeth. His collection of specimens is held at the Natural History Museum, London.-References:...
(1823-1888) - Scudder - Samuel Hubbard ScudderSamuel Hubbard ScudderSamuel Hubbard Scudder was an American entomologist and palaeontologist.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Scudder may be most widely known for his essay on the importance of first-hand, careful observation in the natural sciences...
(1837–1911) - Seebohm - Henry SeebohmHenry SeebohmHenry Seebohm was an English steel manufacturer, and amateur ornithologist, oologist and traveller.Seebohm was born in Bradford. His interest in natural history led him to travel widely, in Greece, Scandinavia, Turkey, and South Africa...
(1832–1895) - Seeley - Harry Govier Seeley (1839–1909)
- Selby - Prideaux John SelbyPrideaux John SelbyPrideaux John Selby was an English ornithologist, botanist and artist and landowner.Selby is best known for his Illustrations of British Ornithology , the first set of life-sized illustrations of British birds...
(1788–1867) - Sélys - Edmond de Sélys LongchampsEdmond de Sélys LongchampsBaron Michel Edmond de Sélys Longchamps was a Belgian liberal politician and scientist.Selys-Longchamps was regarded as the world's greatest authority on dragonflies and damselflies. His wealth and influence enabled him to amass one of the finest collections of neuropteroid insects and to describe...
(1813–1900) - Semenov-Tian-Shanskii - Andrei Semenov-Tian-Shanskii (1866–1942)
- Sereno - Paul SerenoPaul SerenoPaul Callistus Sereno is an American paleontologist from the University of Chicago who discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents. He has conducted excavations at sites as varied as Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco, and Niger...
(b. 1957) - Serville - Jean Guillaume Audinet Serville (1775–1858)
- Sevastianov - Aleksandr Fiodorovich Sevastianov
- Severtzov - Nikolai Alekseevich SevertzovNikolai Alekseevich SevertzovNikolai Alekseevich Severtzov was a Russian explorer and naturalist.On an expedition to the Syr Darya he was captured by bandits and freed after a month. In 1865-68 he explored the Tien Shan and Lake Issyk Kul...
(1827–1885) - Sharpe - Richard Bowdler SharpeRichard Bowdler SharpeRichard Bowdler Sharpe was an English zoologist.-Biography:Sharpe was born in London and studied at Brighton College, The King's School, Peterborough and Loughborough Grammar School. At the age of sixteen he went to work for Smith & Sons in London...
(1847–1909) - Shaw - George ShawGeorge ShawGeorge Shaw was an English botanist and zoologist.Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University...
(1751–1813) - Shelley - George Ernest ShelleyGeorge Ernest ShelleyCaptain George Ernest Shelley was an English geologist and ornithologist. He was a nephew of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley....
(1840–1910) - Shen - Shen KuoShen KuoShen Kuo or Shen Gua , style name Cunzhong and pseudonym Mengqi Weng , was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty...
(1031–1095) - Shuckard - William Edward ShuckardWilliam Edward ShuckardWilliam Edward Shuckard was an English bookseller and entomologist.He was also librarian of the Royal Society and translated Manual of Entomology Hermann Burmeister .He was a specialist in Hymenoptera but worked onColeoptera in his early years).-Publications:Partial list* A Description of the...
(1803–1868) - Sichel - Frédéric Jules SichelFrédéric Jules SichelFrédéric Jules Sichel was a French physician and entomologist.Sichel was born Frankfurt am Main.After his initial studies he went to live in Paris in 1829 where he opened the first ophthalmic clinic in 1832 and is credited with bringing modern ophthalmology to France from Austria and Germany...
(1802–1868) - Sick - Helmut SickHelmut SickHelmut Sick , was a German-Brazilian ornithologist.A prominent ornithologist in Brazil, Sick published more than 200 papers, including his most influential work: Ornitologia Brasileira, Uma Introdução , later translated into English as Birds in Brazil: A Natural History...
(1910–1991) - Sideleva - Valentina Grigorievna Sideleva
- Siebold - Karl Theodor Ernst von SieboldKarl Theodor Ernst von SieboldKarl Theodor Ernst von Siebold was a German physiologist and zoologist. He was responsible for the introduction of the taxa Arthropoda and Rhizopoda, and for defining the taxon Protozoa specifically for single-celled organisms.-Biography:He was born at Würzburg, Bavaria, the son of a professor of...
(1804–1885) - Silvestri - Filippo SilvestriFilippo SilvestriFilippo Silvestri was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda and Italian Diptera...
(1876–1949) - Simon - Eugène SimonEugène SimonEugène Simon was a French arachnologist. His many taxonomic contributions include categorizing and naming many spiders, as well as creating genera such as Anelosimus, Psellocoptus and Phlogius....
(1848–1924) - Simpson - George Gaylord SimpsonGeorge Gaylord SimpsonGeorge Gaylord Simpson was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis, contributing Tempo and mode in evolution , The meaning of evolution and The major features of...
(1902–1984) - Simpson - Adrian SimpsonAdrian SimpsonAdrian Simpson is a British television presenter, currently presenting on Sky News on the overnight programme. Simpson has won numerous accolades for his presenting style, which has been likened to that of Trevor McDonald in his early years....
(1988) - Slipinski - Stanislaw Adam Ślipiński
- Slosson - Annie Trumbull SlossonAnnie Trumbull SlossonAnnie Trumbull Slosson was an author and entomologist. She was the daughter of Gurdon Trumbull and Sarah Ann Trumbull of Stonington, Connecticut. Her father, Gurdon Trumbull was originally from Norwich...
(1838–1926) Entomology - Smith - Andrew Smith (zoologist)Andrew Smith (zoologist)Sir Andrew Smith KCB was a Scottish surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist. He is considered the father of Zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa.Smith was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire...
(1797–1872) Zoology of southern Africa - Hamilton Smith - Charles Hamilton SmithCharles Hamilton SmithLieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier and spy.-Military service:...
(1776–1859) - E. Smith - Edgar Albert SmithEdgar Albert SmithEdgar Albert Smith was a British zoologist, a malacologist.His father was the Frederick Smith, a well-known entomologist, and Assistant Keeper of Zoology in the British Museum, Bloomsbury...
(1847–1916) malacology - F. Smith - Frederick Smith (entomologist)Frederick Smith (entomologist)Frederick Smith was a British entomologist.Smith worked in the zoology department of the British Museum from 1849, specialising in the Hymenoptera. In 1875 he was promoted to Assistant Keeper of Zoology...
(1805–1879) entomology - J.E. Smith - James Edward SmithJames Edward SmithSir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world...
(1759–1828) Lepidoptera - J.L.B. Smith - James Leonard Brierley SmithJames Leonard Brierley SmithJames Leonard Brierley Smith, known as J.L.B. Smith was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought long extinct.-Early life:Born in Graaff Reinet, Smith was the elder of two sons of...
(1897–1968) ichthyology - M.A. Smith - Malcolm Arthur SmithMalcolm Arthur SmithMalcolm Arthur Smith was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula.-Early life:He was interested in reptiles and amphibians from an early age...
(1875–1958) herpetology - S.I. Smith - Sidney Irving SmithSidney Irving SmithSidney Irving Smith was an American zoologist.-Private life:Sidney Smith was the son of Elliot Smith and Lavinia Barton. His brother in law was Addison Emery Verrill. Smith married Eugenia Pocahontas Barber in New Haven, Connecticut on June 29, 1882...
(1843–1926) Crustacea - W.L. Smith - W. Leo Smith
- Snellen von Vollenhoven - Samuel Constantinus Snellen von Vollenhoven (1816–1880)
- Snethlage - Emilia SnethlageEmilia SnethlageMaria Emilie Snethlage was a German-born Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist who worked on the bird fauna of the Amazon. Snethlage collected in Brazil from 1905 until her death....
(1868–1929) - Snodgrass - Robert Evans SnodgrassRobert Evans SnodgrassRobert Evans Snodgrass was an American entomologist and artist who made important contributions to the fields of arthropod morphology, anatomy, evolution, and metamorphosis....
(1875–1962) - Soeroto - Bambang Soeroto
- Sollas - William Johnson SollasWilliam Johnson SollasWilliam Johnson Sollas FRS was a British geologist and anthropologist. After studying at the City of London School, the Royal College of Chemistry and the Royal School of Mines he matriculated to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded First Class Honours in geology...
(1849–1936) - Spallanzani - Lazzaro SpallanzaniLazzaro SpallanzaniLazzaro Spallanzani was an Italian Catholic priest, biologist and physiologist who made important contributions to the experimental study of bodily functions, animal reproduction, and essentially discovered echolocation...
(1729–1799) - Sparrman - Anders SparrmanAnders SparrmanAnders Erikson Sparrman was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus....
(1781–1826) - Spencer - Alison Louise (1993–Present Day)
- Spencer - Walter Baldwin SpencerWalter Baldwin SpencerSir Walter Baldwin Spencer KCMG was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist.Baldwin was born in Stretford, Lancashire. His father, Reuben Spencer, who had come from Derbyshire in his youth, obtained a position with Rylands and Sons, cotton manufacturers, and rose to be chairman of its...
(1860–1929) - Spinola - Maximilian SpinolaMaximilian Spinola-Background:Spinola was born in Pézenas, Hérault, France. The family of Spinola was of very long standing and had great wealth and power in Genoa. Maximilian Spinola was a descendant of the famous Spanish General Ambrogio Spinola, marqués de los Balbases and much of his wealth derived from land...
(1780–1857) - Spix - Johann Baptist von SpixJohann Baptist von SpixDr. Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix was a German naturalist.Spix was born in Höchstadt, Middle Franconia, as the seventh of eleven children. His boyhood home is the site of the Spix Museum , opened to the public in 2004...
(1781–1826) - Stahnke - Herbert Ludwig Stahnke (b. 1902)
- Stainton - Henry Tibbats StaintonHenry Tibbats StaintonHenry Tibbats Stainton was an English entomologist.He was educated at King's College London.He was the author of Manual of British Butterflies and Moths and with the German entomologist Philipp Christoph Zeller, a Swiss, Heinrich Frey and another Englishman, John William Douglas of The Natural...
(1822–1892) - Starks - Edwin Chapin StarksEdwin Chapin StarksEdwin Chapin Starks was an ichthyologist most associated with Stanford University. He was known as an authority on the osteology of fish. He also did studies of fish of the Puget Sound. Additionally his wife and daughter were both involved in either science or natural history....
(1867–1932) - Statius Müller/Muller - see P.L.S.Müller
- Staudinger - Otto StaudingerOtto StaudingerOtto Staudinger was a German entomologist and a natural history dealer considered one of the largest in the world specialising in the collection and sale of insects to museums, scientific institutions, and individuals....
(1830–1900) - Stebbing - Thomas Stebbing (1835–1926)
- Steenstrup - Japetus SteenstrupJapetus SteenstrupJohannes Japetus Smith Steenstrup was a Danish zoologist, biologist, and professor.He was a professor of zoology at the University of Copenhagen...
(1813–1897) - Steere - Joseph Beal SteereJoseph Beal SteereJoseph Beal Steere was an American ornithologist.Steere was born in Rollin, Michigan. He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1868 and a B. of Law in 1870. From 1870-1873 he travelled in South America, China and Taiwan. He went on another scientific expedition to the Philippines and...
(1842–1940) - Stein - Johann Philip Emil Friedrich Stein (1816–1882)
- Steindachner - Franz SteindachnerFranz SteindachnerFranz Steindachner was an Austrian zoologist.- Work and career :Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess...
(1834–1919) - Stejneger - Leonhard Hess StejnegerLeonhard Hess StejnegerLeonhard Hess Stejneger was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized in vertebrate natural history studies. He gained his greatest reputation with reptiles and amphibians....
(1851–1943) - Stephens - James Francis StephensJames Francis StephensJames Francis Stephens was an English entomologist.-Biography:Stephens was born in Shoreham-by-Sea and studied at Christ's Hospital.He was employed in the Admiralty office, Somerset House, from 1807 to 1845...
(1792–1852) - Sternberg - Charles Hazelius SternbergCharles Hazelius SternbergCharles Hazelius Sternberg , was an American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist. His older brother, Dr. George M. Sternberg was a military surgeon assigned to Fort Harker near Ellsworth, Kansas and brought the rest of Sternberg family to Kansas to live on his ranch about 1868...
(1850–1943) - Sternberg - Charles Mortram Sternberg (1885–1981)
- D. J. Stewart - Donald J. Stewart
- Stimpson - William StimpsonWilliam StimpsonWilliam Stimpson was a noted American scientist.- Biography :Stimpson was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Herbert Hathorne Stimpson and Mary Ann Devereau Brewer. The Stimpsons were of the old colonial and Revolutionary stock of Massachusetts, the earliest known member of the family being James...
(1832-1872) American naturalist - Stirling - Edward Charles StirlingEdward Charles StirlingSir Edward Charles Stirling was an Australian anthropologist and the first professor of physiology at the University of Adelaide.-Early life:...
(1848–1919) Australian anthropologist - Stolzmann - Jean Stanislaus Stolzmann (1854–1928)
- Stoll - Caspar StollCaspar StollCaspar Stoll was born in Hessen-Kassel , probably between 1725 and 1730. Being either a clerk or a porter at the Admiralty of Amsterdam, he published several works on entomology. Stoll's publications of stick insects, mantids and their relatives are particularly well known.-Life:In 1791 Stoll wrote...
(d. 1791) - Storr - Gottlieb Conrad Christian StorrGottlieb Conrad Christian StorrGottlieb Conrad Christian Storr - was a German physician and naturalist.Storr was the author of Alpenreise von jahre 1781 .-External links:* ....
(1749–1821) - Stovall - John Willis Stovall (1891–1953)
- Strand - Embrik StrandEmbrik StrandEmbrik Strand was an arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species, including the greenbottle blue tarantula....
(1876–1953) - Strauch - Alexander StrauchAlexander Strauch (naturalist)Alexander Strauch was a Russian naturalist, most notably an herpetologist.His zoologist author abbreviation is Strauch.-External links:...
(1832–1893) - Streets - Thomas Hale StreetsThomas Hale StreetsThomas Hale Streets was an American naturalist. His works include Contributions to the Natural History of the Hawaiian and Fanning Islands and Lower California ....
(1847–1925) - Stresemann - Erwin StresemannErwin StresemannErwin Stresemann was a German naturalist and ornithologist.Stresemann was one of the outstanding ornithologists of the 20th century...
(1889–1972) - Strickland - Hugh Edwin StricklandHugh Edwin StricklandHugh Edwin Strickland , was an English geologist, ornithologist,naturalist, and systematist.Strickland was born at Reighton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was the second son of Henry Eustatius Strickland of Apperley, Gloucestershire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Edmund Cartwright, D.D. [q...
(1811–1853) - Stritt - Walter Stritt (1892–1975)
- Ström - Hans StrömHans StrömHans Strøm was a prominent Norwegian zoologist and naturalist. He is best associated with his topographical description of Sunnmøre....
(1726–1797) - Stromer - Ernst StromerErnst StromerErnst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach was a German paleontologist.He described the following Cretaceous dinosaurs from Egypt: Aegyptosaurus, Bahariasaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, and the largest known theropod, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus...
(1870–1952) - Struhsaker - Paul J. Struhsaker
- Su - Su SongSu SongSu Song was a renowned Chinese polymath who specialized himself as a statesman, astronomer, cartographer, horologist, pharmacologist, mineralogist, zoologist, botanist, mechanical and architectural engineer, poet, antiquarian, and ambassador of the Song Dynasty .Su Song was the engineer of a...
(1020–1101) - Such - George Such (1798–1879)
- Suckley - George SuckleyGeorge SuckleyGeorge Suckley was an American physician and naturalist notable as an explorer of the Washington and Oregon territories in the 1850s, and describer of several new fish species....
(1830–1869) - Sues - Hans-Dieter SuesHans-Dieter SuesHans-Dieter Sues is a German-born paleontologist who is Senior Scientist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He received his education at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz , University of Alberta, and...
(b. 1956) - Sullivan - Robert M. Sullivan
- Sulzer - Johann Heinrich SulzerJohann Heinrich SulzerJohann Heinrich Sulzer was a Swiss entomologist.Sulzer was a resident of Winterthur. He was the author of Die Kennzeichen der Insekten, nach Anleitung des Königl and Abgekurzte Geschichte der Insecten nach dern Linnaeischen System , two of the first books on insects to adopt Carolus Linnaeus's...
(1735–1813) - Sundevall - Carl Jakob SundevallCarl Jakob SundevallCarl Jakob Sundevall was a Swedish zoologist.Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he became a Ph.D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1830....
(1801–1875) - Swainson - William Swainson (1789–1855)
- Swann - Henry Kirke Swann (1871–1926)
- Swinhoe - Robert SwinhoeRobert SwinhoeRobert Swinhoe FRS , was an English naturalist who worked as a Consul in Formosa. He discovered many Southeast Asian birds and several, such as Swinhoe's Pheasant, are named after him.-Biography:...
(1836–1877) - Sykes - William Henry SykesWilliam Henry SykesColonel William Henry Sykes, FRS was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist.Sykes was born near Bradford in Yorkshire, and joined the Bombay Army, a part of the armed forces of the Honourable East India Company, in 1804, returning to Britain in 1837...
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- Taczanowski – Władysław Taczanowski (1819–1890)
- Talbot – Mignon TalbotMignon TalbotMignon Talbot Mignon Talbot Mignon Talbot (August 16, 1869 – July 18, 1950 was an American paleontologist who in 1911 recovered the only fossils of the dinosaur, Podokesaurus holyokensis....
(1869–1950) - Taliev – Dmitrii Nikolaevich Taliev (1908–1952)
- Tang – Zhilu Tang
- Taquet – Philippe TaquetPhilippe TaquetPhilippe Taquet is a French paleontologist who specializes in dinosaur systematics of finds primarily in northern Africa.He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences since November 30, 2004...
(b. 1940) - Taschenberg – Ernst Ludwig TaschenbergErnst Ludwig TaschenbergErnst Ludwig Taschenberg was a German entomologist.-Life:After 1836 Taschenberg studied mathematics and natural sciences in Leipzig and Berlin.He went, then, as an auxiliary teacher to the Franckesche Stiftungen and dedicated himself to arranging the important beetle collection of professor ...
(1818–1898) - Tate – George Henry Hamilton TateGeorge Henry Hamilton TateGeorge Henry Hamilton Tate was an English-born American zoologist, who worked as a mammalogist for the American Museum of Natural History in New York....
(1894–1953) - Tattersall, W.M. Tattersall – Walter Medley TattersallWalter Medley TattersallWalter Medley Tattersall was a British zoologist and marine biologist, famous for his study of mysids.He was born in Liverpool, the eldest son of a draper's family. He studied zoology at the University of Liverpool, where he graduated in 1901...
(1882–1948) - Taylor – Edward Harrison TaylorEdward Harrison TaylorEdward Harrison Taylor was an American herpetologist from Kansas.He was born in Maysville, Missouri and studied at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, graduating with a B.A. in 1912. Subsequently, he went to the Philippines, where at first he held a teacher's post in a village in central...
(1889–1978) herpetology, ichthyology - L.R. Taylor – Leighton R. Taylor
- Temminck – Coenraad Jacob TemminckCoenraad Jacob TemminckCoenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist.Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe was the standard work on European birds...
(1778–1858) - Templeton – Robert TempletonRobert TempletonRobert Templeton was a Naturalist, artist, and entomologist, and was born at Cranmore House, Belfast, Ireland.-Life and work:...
(1802–1892) - Thayer – John Eliot ThayerJohn Eliot ThayerJohn Eliot Thayer was an American amateur ornithologist.Thayer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Nathaniel Thayer, a banker who built Harvard's Thayer Hall. After graduating from Harvard, Thayer married Evelyn Forbes and settled at the family farm at Lancaster, thirty-five miles west...
(1862–1933) - Theischinger – Günther Theischinger (b. 1940)
- Theobald, W. Theob. – William TheobaldWilliam TheobaldWilliam Theobald was a malacologist and naturalist on the staff of the Geological Survey of India in Burma. That organization then covered Burma, as it was at the time still a part of British India....
(1829–1908) - Thiele – Johannes ThieleJohannes ThieleJohannes Thiele, full name Karl Hermann Johannes Thiele was a German zoologist specialized in malacology. His Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde is a standard work...
(1860–1935) - Thomas – Oldfield ThomasOldfield ThomasOldfield Thomas FRS was a British zoologist.Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and sub-species for the first time. He was appointed to the Museum Secretary's office in 1876, transferring to the Zoological Department in 1878...
(1858–1929) - Thomson, J. Thomson – James Thomson (entomologist)James Thomson (entomologist)James Thomson was an American entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.James Thomson was of independent means and for most of life lived in France...
(1828–1897) entomology, primarily Coleoptera and Hymenoptera - C.G. Thomson, Thomson – Carl Gustaf ThomsonCarl Gustaf ThomsonCarl Gustaf Thomson was a Swedish entomologist.Thomson became a student in the University of Lund in 1843 , graduated in 1850 and became associate professor of zoology there in 1857...
(1824–1899) entomology, primarily Swedish insects - Thorell – Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (1830–1901)
- Thunberg – Carl Peter ThunbergCarl Peter ThunbergCarl Peter Thunberg aka Carl Pehr Thunberg aka Carl Per Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus"....
(1743–1828) - Tillyard – Robert John TillyardRobert John TillyardRobert John Tillyard FRS was an English–Australian entomologist and geologist. He was sometimes known as Robin....
(1881–1937) - Tinbergen – Nikolaas TinbergenNikolaas TinbergenNikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals.In the 1960s he...
(1907-1988) - Tjakrawidjaja – Agus Tjakrawidjaja
- Ticehurst – Claud Buchanan TicehurstClaud Buchanan TicehurstClaud Buchanan Ticehurst was a British ornithologist.Born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, Ticehurst was educated first at Tonbridge School and subsequently attended St John's College, Cambridge...
(1881–1941) - Tidwell – Virginia Tidwell
- Timberlake – Philip H. TimberlakePhilip H. TimberlakePhilip Hunter Timberlake was one of the most prolific American entomologists of the 20th century. He was born on June 5, 1883 in Bethel, Maine, and died in 1981 in Riverside, California, where he had served as an Associate Entomologist in the Department of Entomology of the University of...
(1883–1981) - Tischbein – Peter Friedrich Ludwig Tischbein (1813–1883)
- Todd – Walter Edmond Clyde ToddWalter Edmond Clyde ToddWalter Edmond Clyde Todd , generally known as W.E. Clyde Todd, was an American ornithologist....
(1874–1969) - Tokioka – Takasi TokiokaTakasi Tokiokawas a Japanese zoologist. He published over 200 scientific articles on marine animals such as chaetognaths, ctenophores, and tunicates. He was Professor of Zoology at Kyoto University working at the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory in Shirahama, Japan...
(1913–2001) - Toledo-Piza – Mônica de Toledo-Piza Ragazzo
- Tomes – Robert Fisher TomesRobert Fisher TomesRobert Fisher Tomes was an English farmer and zoologist.Tomes was born in Weston-on-Avon and farmed at Welford, Gloucestershire. He was a specialist in bats, describing a number of new species...
(1823–1904) - Townsend – John Kirk TownsendJohn Kirk TownsendJohn Kirk Townsend was an American naturalist, ornithologist and collector.Townsend was born in Philadelphia and trained as a physician and pharmacist. He developed an interest in natural history in general and bird collecting in particular...
(1809–1851) ornithology, mainly landbirds - C. H. Townsend – Charles Haskins TownsendCharles Haskins TownsendCharles Haskins Townsend, Sc.D. was an American zoologist, born at Parnassus, Pennsylvania. From 1897 to 1902 he was connected with the United States Fish Commission, serving as chief of the fisheries division. He then served as director of the New York Aquarium at Castle Garden, from 1902 until...
(1859–1944) marine biology - Toxopeus – Lambertus Johannes ToxopeusLambertus Johannes ToxopeusLambertus Johannes Toxopeus, born 1894 in Toeban, Java - died April 21, 1951 in Bandung, Java was a Java born, Dutch nationality lepidopterist. He mainly worked in Indonesia then known as the Dutch East Indies and specialised in the families Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae.-References:...
(1894-1951) entomology - Traill – Thomas Stewart TraillThomas Stewart TraillThomas Stewart Traill was a Scottish physician, chemist, mineralogist, meteorologist, zoologist and scholar of medical jurisprudence.He was the grandfather of the physicist, meteorologist and geologist Robert Traill Omond....
(1781–1862) - Traylor – Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr.Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr.Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. was an American ornithologist. He was the son of Chicago banker Melvin Alvah Traylor and Mrs. Dorothy Y. Traylor. Traylor was Lieutenant with the marines and served on Guadalcanal during World War II in 1942 where he was awarded with the Silver Star medal...
(b. 1915) - Trewavas – Ethelwynn Trewavas (1900–1993)
- Tristram – Henry Baker TristramHenry Baker TristramThe Reverend Henry Baker Tristram FRS was an English clergyman, Biblical scholar, traveller and ornithologist.Tristram was born at Eglingham vicarage, near Alnwick, Northumberland, and studied at Durham School and Lincoln College, Oxford. In 1846 he was ordained a priest, but he suffered from...
(1822–1906) - Troschel – Franz Hermann TroschelFranz Hermann TroschelFranz Hermann Troschel was a German zoologist who was born in Spandau. He studied mathematics and natural history at the University of Berlin, and beginning in 1840 was an assistant to Martin Lichtenstein at the Humboldt Museum of Natural History in Berlin...
(1810–1882) - Trouessart – Édouard Louis TrouessartÉdouard Louis TrouessartÉdouard Louis Trouessart was a French zoologist. He discovered the dust mite....
(1842–1927) - True – Frederick W. TrueFrederick W. TrueFrederick William True was an American biologist, the first head curator of biology at the United States National Museum, now part of the Smithsonian Institution....
(1858–1914) - Trybom – Filip Trybom (1850–1913)
- Tschudi – Johann Jakob von TschudiJohann Jakob von TschudiJohann Jakob von Tschudi was a Swiss naturalist and explorer.Tschudi was born in Glarus, and studied natural sciences and medicine at the universities of Neuchâtel, Leiden and Paris. In 1838 he travelled to Peru, where he remained for five years exploring and collecting plants in the Andes...
(1818–1889) - Tsogtbaatar – Khishigjaw Tsogtbaatar
- Tumanova – Tat'yana Alekseyevna Tumanova
- Tunstall – Marmaduke TunstallMarmaduke TunstallMarmaduke Tunstall was an English ornithologist and collector. He was the author of Ornithologica Britannica , probably the first British work to use binomial nomenclature....
(1743–1790) - Turner – Alfred Jefferis TurnerAlfred Jefferis TurnerAlfred Jefferis Turner was a pediatrician and noted amateur entomologist. He was born in Canton, China on October 3, 1861. He introduced the use of diphtheria antitoxin to Australia in 1895. He was known by the nickname "Gentle Annie". Dr. Turner died in Brisbane on December 29,...
(1861-1947) - Turton – William TurtonWilliam TurtonWilliam Turton was a British naturalist.Turton was born at Olveston, Gloucestershire and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford. He commenced in practice at Swansea, but devoted his leisure time to natural history, especially conchology...
(1762–1835) - Tutt – J. W. TuttJ. W. TuttJames William Tutt was an English entomologist.Tutt was the author of The British Noctuae and their Varieties ,Natural History of the British Lepidoptera and "Practical hints for the Field lepidopterist" ....
(1858–1911) - Tytler – Robert Christopher TytlerRobert Christopher TytlerRobert Christopher Tytler was a British soldier, naturalist and photographer. His second wife Harriet is well known for her work in documenting the monuments of Delhi and for her notes at the time of the 1857 revolt in India...
(1818–1872)
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- Vaillant - Léon VaillantLéon VaillantLéon Louis Vaillant was a French zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology...
(1834–1914) - Valenciennes - Achille ValenciennesAchille ValenciennesAchille Valenciennes was a French zoologist.Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. Valenciennes' study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology...
(1794–1865) - Van Denburgh - John Van DenburghJohn Van DenburghJohn Van Denburgh was a U.S. herpetologist from California.He was born in San Francisco and enrolled at Stanford University in 1891. As of 1895, he organized the herpetology department of the California Academy of Sciences. In 1897 he got a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Additionally, he got an M.D...
(1872–1924) - Van Duzee - Edward Payson Van DuzeeEdward Payson Van DuzeeEdward Payson Van Duzee was an American entomologist noted for his work on Hemiptera. As of 1885, he was a librarian at Grosvenor Library of Buffalo New York for 28 years, and then relocated to California in 1912 where he took a position at Scripps Institute in La Jolla...
(1861–1940) - Vander Linden - Pierre Léonard Vander LindenPierre Léonard Vander LindenPierre Léonard Vander Linden was a Belgian entomologist.He was the author of Observations sur les Hyménoptères d’Europe de la famille des Fouisseurs ....
(1797–1831) - Varricchio - David J. Varricchio
- E. Verreaux - Edouard VerreauxEdouard VerreauxJean Baptiste Édouard Verreaux was a French naturalist, collector and dealer. He was the brother of Jules Verreaux.In 1830 Verreaux travelled to South Africa to help his brother pack up a large consignment of specimens. He returned in 1832 before continuing to Sumatra, Java, the Philippines and...
(1810–1868) - J. Verreaux - Jules VerreauxJules VerreauxJules Pierre Verreaux was a French botanist, ornithologist and professional collector of, and trader in, natural history specimens...
(1807–1873) - Verrill - Addison Emery VerrillAddison Emery VerrillAddison Emery Verrill was an American zoologist. He was a student of Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated in 1862...
(1839–1926) - Vickaryous - Matthew P. Vickaryous
- Vickers-Rich, P. Rich - Patricia Vickers-Rich (b. 1944)
- Vieillot - Louis Jean Pierre VieillotLouis Jean Pierre VieillotLouis Jean Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist.Vieillot described a large number of birds for the first time, especially those he encountered during the time he spent in the West Indies and North America, and 26 genera established by him are still in use...
(1748–1831) - Vieweg - C. F. Vieweg
- Vigors - Nicholas Aylward VigorsNicholas Aylward VigorsNicholas Aylward Vigors was an Irish zoologist and politician.Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford. He served in the army during the Peninsular War from 1809 to 1811. He then returned to Oxford, graduating with a B.A. in 1815 and in 1817 with an...
(1785–1840) - Villers - Charles Joseph de Villers (1726–1797)
- Vladykov - Vadim Dmitrij Vladykov (1898–1986)
- von Blomberg - Ernst Freiherr von Blomberg (1821–1903)
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- Wagler – Johann Georg WaglerJohann Georg WaglerJohann Georg Wagler was a German herpetologist.Wagler was assistant to Johann Baptist von Spix, and became Director of the Zoological Museum at the University of Munich after Spix's death in 1826...
(1800–1832) - Wagner – Johann Andreas WagnerJohann Andreas WagnerJohann Andreas Wagner was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and archaeologist.Wagner was a professor at the University of Munich, and curator of the Zoologische Staatssammlung ....
(1797–1861) - Wahlberg – Johan August WahlbergJohan August WahlbergJohan August Wahlberg was a Swedish naturalist and explorer.Wahlberg started studying chemistry at the University of Uppsala in 1829, and later forestry, agronomy and natural science, graduating from the Institute of Forestry in 1834...
(1810–1859) - Walbaum – Johann Julius WalbaumJohann Julius WalbaumJohann Julius Walbaum was a physician, naturalist and taxonomist. He was the first to describe many previously unknown species from remote parts of the globe, such as the Great Barracuda , the Chum salmon from the Kamchatka River in Siberia, and the curimatá-pacú Johann Julius Walbaum (30 June...
(1724–1799) - Walch – Johann Ernst Immanuel WalchJohann Ernst Immanuel WalchJohann Ernst Immanuel Walch was a German theologian, linguist, and naturalist from Jena.The son of the theologian Johann Georg Walch, he studied Semitic languages at the University of Jena, and also natural science and mathematics. In 1749 he published Einleitung in die Harmonie der Evangelien,...
(1725–1778) - Walckenaer – Charles Athanase WalckenaerCharles Athanase WalckenaerBaron Charles Athanase Walckenaer was a French civil servant and scientist.-Biography:Walckenaer was born in Paris and studied at the universities of Oxford and Glasgow. In 1793 he was appointed head of the military transports in the Pyrenees, after which he pursued technical studies at the École...
(1771–1852) - Walker – Edmund Murton WalkerEdmund Murton WalkerEdmund Murton Walker was a Canadian entomologist.Born in Windsor, Ontario, Walker was the eldest son of Sir Byron Edmund Walker, after whom he was named....
(1877–1969) entomology - A. Walker – Alick Donald Walker (1925–1999) paleontology
- C.A. Walker – Cyril Alexander Walker paleontology
- F. Walker – Francis Walker (entomologist)Francis Walker (entomologist)Francis Walker was an English entomologist. He was one of the most prolific authors in entomology, and stirred controversy during his later life as his publications resulted in a huge number of junior synonyms....
(1809–1874) entomology - Wall – Frank WallFrank WallFrank Wall was a physician and herpetologist who lived in Sri Lanka and India.Wall was born in Colombo, Ceylon . His father worked there and was responsible for initiating the study of natural history on the island. Wall studied medicine in London and joined the Indian Medical Service in 1893...
(1868–1950) - Wallace – Alfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...
(1823–1913) - Wallengren – Hans Daniel Johan WallengrenHans Daniel Johan WallengrenHans Daniel Johan Wallengren was a Swedish entomologist. He was born in Lund.-External links:* Papilio anthemenes a butterfly described by Hans Wallengren....
(1823–1894) - Walsh – Benjamin Dann WalshBenjamin Dann WalshBenjamin Dann Walsh was an American entomologist, serving as the first official state entomologist in Illinois from 1867 to 1869.He was born in Worchestershire, England and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge....
(1808–1869) - Walsingham – Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron WalsinghamThomas de Grey, 6th Baron WalsinghamThomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham was an English politician and amateur entomologist.-Biography:...
(1843–1919) - Waltl – Joseph WaltlJoseph WaltlDr. Joseph Waltl was a German physician and naturalist.Waltl was born in Wasserburg and studied at Landshut and Munich, graduating in medicine in 1819. He then travelled in Austria, France and Spain...
(1805–1888) - X.L. Wang, X.-L. Wang, X. Wang - Xiaolin Wang
- Y.Q. Wang, Y.-Q. Wang, Y. Wang - Yuanqing Wang
- Watabe – Mahito Watabe
- Waterhouse – George Robert WaterhouseGeorge Robert WaterhouseGeorge Robert Waterhouse was an English naturalist.In 1833, Waterhouse was elected as the Royal Entomological Society of London's librarian and curator of insects and records....
(1801–1888) - Watson – James D. WatsonJames D. WatsonJames Dewey Watson is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick...
(b. 1928) - R. Watson – Ronald E. Watson
- Weber – Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852–1937) general zoology, mainly vertebrates
- H. Weber, Weber – Hermann Weber (1899–1956)
- Wegrzynowicz – Piotr Węgrzynowicz
- Weigold – Hugo WeigoldHugo WeigoldMax Hugo Weigold was a German zoologist and a pioneer bird bander who established the Heligoland Bird Observatory, one of the world’s first.Weigold was born in Dresden. He studied natural sciences and geography in Jena and Leipzig...
(1886–1973) - Weishampel – David B. Weishampel (b. 1952)
- Welles – Samuel Paul WellesSamuel Paul WellesSamuel Paul Welles was an American palaeontologist, who was Research Associate at the Museum of Palaeontology, University of California, Berkeley. He took part in excavations at the 'Placerias Quarry' in 1930 and the Shonisaurus discoveries of 1954 and later, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur...
(1909–1997) - West – Rick West arachnology
- Westwood – John Obadiah WestwoodJohn Obadiah WestwoodJohn Obadiah Westwood was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents.Born in Sheffield, he studied to be a lawyer but abandoned that for his scientific interests....
(1805–1893) - Wetmore – Alexander WetmoreAlexander WetmoreFrank Alexander Wetmore was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist.-Life:Wetmore studied at the University of Kansas...
(1886–1978) - Weyenbergh – Hendrik Weyenbergh Jr. (1842–1885)
- Wheeler – William Morton WheelerWilliam Morton WheelerWilliam Morton Wheeler, Ph.D. was an American entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard professor.-Early life:...
(1865–1937) - Whitaker – Joseph WhitakerJoseph WhitakerJoseph Whitaker , English publisher, was born in London, and apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of fourteen.After years of experience at various bookselling firms, he undertook his own business as a publisher of theological works...
ornithology - Wiedemann – Christian Rudolph Wilhelm WiedemannChristian Rudolph Wilhelm WiedemannChristian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann , was a German physician, historian, naturalist and entomologist...
(1770–1840) - Wied-Neuwied – Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782–1867)
- Wiegmann – Arend Friedrich August WiegmannArend Friedrich August WiegmannArend Friedrich August Wiegmann was a German zoologist. He studied medicine and philology at the University of Leipzig, and afterwards was an assistant to Martin Lichtenstein in Berlin...
(1802–1841) - Williams – James David Williams (b. 1941)
- Williamson – Thomas Edward Williamson
- Wilson – Alexander WilsonAlexander WilsonAlexander Wilson was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator.Wilson was born in Paisley, Scotland, the son of an illiterate distiller. In 1779 he was apprenticed as a weaver. His main interest at this time was in writing poetry...
(1766–1813) ornithology - E.O. Wilson – Edward Osborne Wilson (b. 1929)
- J.A. Wilson – Jeffrey A. WilsonJeffrey A. WilsonJeffrey A. Wilson also known as "JAW "is a professor of geological sciences and assistant curator at the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan....
paleontology - Wiman – Carl WimanCarl WimanCarl Wiman was a Swedish paleontologist and the first professor of paleontology at Uppsala University. He published on a variety of topics, including extinct penguins, and dinosaur fossils sent to Sweden from China and the San Juan Basin of New Mexico...
(1867–1944) - Wingate – David B. WingateDavid B. WingateDr David Balcombe Wingate OBE, born October 11, 1935, is an ornithologist, naturalist and conservationist. He was born in Bermuda.In 1951 he helped Robert Cushman Murphy and Louis S...
(b. 1935) - Winge – Herluf WingeHerluf WingeAdolf Herluf Winge was a Danish zoologist.-Biography:As a young student, Winge was interested in small mammals, particularly moles, shrews and insectivora. He studied mammalian dentition and produced a comparison of cusp similarities...
(1857–1923) - Wirjoatmodjo – Soetikno Wirjoatmodjo
- Wolfe – Douglas Gerald Wolfe
- Wood, W. Wood – William Wood (zoologist)William Wood (zoologist)William Wood , was an English zoologist and entomologist. William Wood trained as a surgeon but left the medical profession to become a natural history bookseller, publisher and naturalist....
(1774–1857) entomology - C.T. Wood, Wood – Charles Thorold WoodCharles Thorold WoodCharles Thorold Wood was an English ornithologist.He was the eldest son of Willoughby Wood, of Alford, Lincolnshire. He was the author of The Ornithological Guide .-References:...
(1777–1852) ornithology - Wood-Mason – James Wood-MasonJames Wood-MasonJames Wood-Mason was a Scottish zoologist who worked in the Indian Museum at Calcutta from 1877 succeeding Prof. John Anderson. He made many collections of marine animals and lepidoptera.-Publications:...
(1846–1893) - Woodhouse – Samuel Washington WoodhouseSamuel Washington Woodhousethumb|1847 daguerreotypeSamuel Washington Woodhouse was an American surgeon, explorer and naturalist.Woodhouse was doctor and naturalist on the Sitgreaves Expedition led by Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves from San Antonio to San Diego which explored the possibility of a route from the Zuni River to the...
(1821–1904) - Woodward – Arthur Smith WoodwardArthur Smith WoodwardSir Arthur Smith Woodward was an English palaeontologist.-Biography:Woodward was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England and was educated there and at Owens College, Manchester. He joined the staff of the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum in 1882. He became assistant Keeper of...
(1864–1944) - Wroughton – R. C. WroughtonR. C. WroughtonRobert Charles Wroughton was an officer in the Indian Forest Service from 10 December 1871 to 1904....
(1849–1921)
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- Xantus - John Xantus de Vesey (1825–1894)
- Xu - Xing Xu
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- Yamaguchi, Yamaguti - Masao Yamaguchi
- Yamanoue - Yusuke Yamanoue
- Yang, Young - Zhongjian Yang (1897–1979)
- Yarrell - William YarrellWilliam YarrellWilliam Yarrell was an English bookseller and naturalist.Yarrell is best known as the author of The History of British Fishes and The History of British Birds . The latter went into several editions and was the standard reference work for a generation of British ornithologists...
(1784–1856) - Yoseda - Kenzo Yoseda
- You - Hailu You
- Young - David Allan YoungDavid Allan YoungDavid Allan Young, Jr. , was an American entomologist who specialized in the taxonomy of the Cicadellidae and authored a comprehensive treatment of the family with numerous genera and species described and named by him.-Life and work:David Young's father was a traveling salesman and he attended...
(1915–1991) HemipteraHemipteraHemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...
especially Cicadellidae
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- Zaddach – Ernst Gustav Zaddach (1817-1881)
- Zagulajev, Zagulayev – Aleksei Konstantinovich ZagulajevAleksei Konstantinovich ZagulajevAleksei Konstantinovich Zagulajev was a Russian entomologist.-References:...
(1924–2007) - Zanno – Lindsay E. Zanno
- Zeledon – José Castulo ZeledónJosé Castulo ZeledónJosé Castulo Zeledón was a Costa Rican ornithologist.He was the son of Don Manuel Zeledón, governor of the district of San José. José became interested in birds at an early age, and learnt about ornithology from the German naturalist and physician Alexander von Frantzius, when he was employed at...
(1846-1923) - Zeller – Philipp Christoph ZellerPhilipp Christoph ZellerPhilipp Christoph Zeller was a German entomologist.Zeller was born at Steinheim Württemberg, two miles from Marbach, the birthplace of Schiller. The family moved to Frankfurt where Philip went to the gymnasium where natural history was not taught. Instead, helped by Alois Metzner, he taught...
(1808-1883) - Zetterstedt – Johan Wilhelm ZetterstedtJohan Wilhelm ZetterstedtJohan Wilhelm Zetterstedt was a Swedish naturalist who worked mainly on Diptera and Hymenoptera.-Biography:Zetterstedt studied at the University of Lund, where he was a pupil of Anders Jahan Retzius. He received the title of professor in 1822 and succeeded Carl Adolph Agardh as professor of botany...
(1785-1874) - B./B.K./B.-K.Zhang – Bao-kun Zhang
- F./F.C./F.-C.Zhang – Fucheng Zhang
- Zhao – Xijin Zhao
- S.Zhou – Shiwu Zhou (b. 1940)
- Z./Z.H.Z.-H. Zhou – Zhonghe Zhou
- Zimmer – John Todd ZimmerJohn Todd ZimmerJohn Todd Zimmer was a leading American ornithologist.A graduate of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he took an early interest in both entomology and ornithology...
(1889-1957) - Zimmermann – Eberhard August Wilhelm von ZimmermannEberhard August Wilhelm von ZimmermannEberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann was a German geographer and zoologist.Zimmermann was Professor of Natural Science at Brunswick. He wrote Specimen Zoologiae Geographicae Quadrupedum , one of the first works on the geographical distribution of mammals....
(1743-1815) - Zincken – Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich ZinckenJohann Leopold Theodor Friedrich ZinckenJulius Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken also Sommer was a German entomologist.He was co-editor, with Ernst Friedrich Germar of Magazin der Entomologie Hendel & Son. Halle. also known as Germar's Magazine in which he wrote many articles and described new species and genera especially in the...
(1770-1856) - Zirngiebl – Lothar Zirngiebl (1902-1973)
- Zittel – Karl Alfred von ZittelKarl Alfred von ZittelKarl Alfred Ritter von Zittel was a German palaeontologist.-Biography:He was born at Bahlingen in Baden, and educated at Heidelberg, Paris and Vienna. For a short period he served on the Geological Survey of Austria, and as assistant in the mineralogical museum at Vienna...
(1839-1904)
See also
- List of botanists by author abbreviation
- List of biologists
- List of Russian zoologists