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Penelope Boston
Penelope (Penny) Boston is an American speleologist and astrobiologist who pioneered the study of cave microorganisms as analogs for life on other planets, and directed NASA's Astrobiology Institute from 2016.
Per Halkjær Nielsen
Per Halkjær Nielsen is a Danish professor of environmental microbiology at Aalborg University who studies the microbial ecology of activated sludge and created the MiDAS reference database.
Ronald S. Oremland
Ronald S. Oremland (1946–2021) was an American geomicrobiologist who spent 42 years at the U.S. Geological Survey, known for establishing microbial metabolism of arsenic, selenium, and methane.
Sergei Winogradsky
Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953) was a Ukrainian-born microbiologist who described the nitrifying bacteria, named the process chemosynthesis, and pioneered microbial ecology; the Winogradsky column is named for him.
Stephen J. Giovannoni
Stephen J. Giovannoni is an American marine microbiologist at Oregon State University known for culturing SAR11, the most abundant ocean bacteria, and showing its genome is streamlined.
Willy Verstraete
Willy Verstraete, born 1946 in Belgium, is an environmental biotechnologist and emeritus Ghent University professor known for microbial fuel cells, wastewater treatment, and Microbial Resource Management.