137 people

People.

Everyone who wrote a book in the library, the researchers behind its papers, and the figures the texts keep naming. In order of birth, from Galvani on.

Before 18004

Born 1800 to 184911

Born 1850 to 189935

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Wilhelm Roux
Wilhelm Roux
1850–1924
German biologist (1850-1924)
SL
Stéphane Leduc
Stéphane Leduc
1853–1939
French scientist
NC
Napoleon Cybulski
Napoleon Cybulski
1854–1919
Polish biologist (1854-1919)
AB
Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet
1857–1911
French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test (1857–1911)
JCB
Jagadish Chandra Bose
1858–1937
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
JL
Jacques Loeb
1859–1924
German-American physiologist and biologist (1859-1924)
WB
William Bayliss
William Bayliss
1860–1924
British physiologist (1860–1924)
DWT
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
1860–1948
Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar (*1860 – †1948)
WB
William Bateson
William Bateson
1861–1926
British geneticist and biologist (1861-1926)
AB
Adolf Beck
Adolf Beck
1863–1942
Polish Jew, physician of and professor of physiology at the University of Lemberg (1863–1942)
MV
Max Verworn
Max Verworn
1863–1921
German physiologist (1863–1921)
WHN
Walther Hermann Nernst
Walther Hermann Nernst
1864–1941
German physical chemist and physicist (1864–1941)
GWC
George Washington Crile
George Washington Crile
1864–1943
American surgeon and co-founder of Cleveland Clinic
THM
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
1866–1945
American biologist and professor from Kentucky (1866–1945)
HAE
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
1867–1941
German philosopher and biologist (1867 - 1941)
HSJ
Herbert Spencer Jennings
Herbert Spencer Jennings
1868–1947
American biologist (1868–1947)
CMC
Charles Manning Child
Charles Manning Child
1869–1959
American zoologist
HS
Hans Spemann
1869–1941
German embryologist (1869–1941)
RGH
Ross Granville Harrison
Ross Granville Harrison
1870–1959
American biologist (1870-1959)
MFW
Margaret Floy Washburn
Margaret Floy Washburn
1871–1939
American psychologist and scholar (1871-1939)
WJV
Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout
1871–1964
American botanist (1871-1964)
WBC
Walter Bradford Cannon
1871–1945
American physiologist (1871-1945)
HB
Hans Berger
Hans Berger
1873–1941
German neurologist (1873–1941)
ER
Emanuel Rádl
Emanuel Rádl
1873–1942
Czech biologist, philosopher and politic writer (1873–1942)
AG
Alexander Gurwitsch
1874–1954
Russian and soviet biologist (1874–1954)
RSL
Ralph S. Lillie
born 1875
OHW
Otto Heinrich Warburg
Otto Heinrich Warburg
1883–1970
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
EJL
Elmer J. Lund
1884–1969
American biologist
AH
Archibald Hill
born 1886
JH
Julian Huxley
Julian Huxley
1887–1975
British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975)
ES
Erwin Schrödinger
1887–1961
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
ASG
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi
1893–1986
Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)
NW
Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener
1894–1964
American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
PAW
Paul A. Weiss
Paul A. Weiss
1898–1989
Austrian-American biologist
FAL
Fritz Albert Lipmann
Fritz Albert Lipmann
1899–1986
German-American biochemist

Born 1900 to 194935

HK
Hans Krebs
Hans Krebs
1900–1981
German-British biochemist (1900-1981)
CHW
Conrad Hal Waddington
Conrad Hal Waddington
1905–1975
British biologist (1905–1975)
BOB
Broda O. Barnes
born 1906
HS
Hans Selye
Hans Selye
1907–1982
Austro-Hungarian Canadian endocrinologist
AT
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
1912–1954
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
ER
Efraim Racker
Efraim Racker
1913–1991
American biochemist (1913–1991)
BC
Britton Chance
Britton Chance
1913–2010
American biochemist and Olympic sailor (1913–2010)
ALH
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
1914–1998
physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)
IP
Ilya Prigogine
Ilya Prigogine
1917–2003
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
AH
Andrew Huxley
Andrew Huxley
1917–2012
English physiologist and biophysicist (1917–2012)
RF
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
1918–1988
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
GNL
Gilbert N. Ling
1919–2019
GL
Gilbert Ling
Gilbert Ling
1919–2019
American scientist
JTB
John Tyler Bonner
1920–2019
American biologist (1920–2019)
ROB
Robert O. Becker
1923–2008
researcher in electromedicine (1923-2008)
WTP
William Treval Powers
1926–2013
American scientist (1926-2013)
HJM
Harold J. Morowitz
1927–2016
American biophysicist (1927-2016)
HM
Humberto Maturana
Humberto Maturana
1928–2021
Chilean biologist and philosopher (1928–2021)
PP
Pietsch, Paul
born 1929
LW
Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert
1929–2021
British biologist (1929–2021)
BG
Brian Goodwin
Brian Goodwin
1931–2009
Canadian mathematician and biologist (1931–2009)
GCS
Graham Cairns-Smith
1931–2016
scientist (1931–2016)
VS
Vladimir Skulachev
1935–2023
Russian biochemist (1935–2023)
RP
Ray Peat
1936–2022
American biologist and author (1936–2022)
EFK
Evelyn Fox Keller
Evelyn Fox Keller
1936–2023
American physicist, author and feminist
JP
Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl
born 1936
Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)
DN
Denis Noble
born 1936
British biologist
FAP
Fritz-Albert Popp
1938–2018
German biophysicist (1938–2018)
DB
Dennis Bray
born 1939
British biologist
MJL
Marion J. Lamb
1939–2021
English biologist (1939–2021)
SK
Stuart Kauffman
Stuart Kauffman
born 1939
American biophysicist
MSG
Michael S. Gazzaniga
born 1939
American neuroscientist
BH
Bertil Hille
born 1940
American physiologist and biophysicist
SO
Susan Oyama
born 1943
American psychologist
DCW
Douglas C. Wallace
Douglas C. Wallace
born 1946
American geneticist

Born since 19508

Dates not on record44