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Gotthilft Studnitz
Gotthilft von Studnitz (1908–1994) was a German physician, physiologist, and zoologist known for research on retinal vision processes and a professorship at the University of Halle.
Harold Munro Fox
Harold Munro Fox, born Harold Munro Fuchs, was a British zoologist known for work on invertebrate respiratory pigments and for his forty-year editorship of Biological Reviews.
Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers
Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901) was a French zoologist who studied corals, molluscs, and ascidians, founded the Roscoff and Banyuls-sur-Mer marine laboratories, and is regarded as the founder of experimental zoology in France.
Henri Milne-Edwards
Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885) was a French zoologist specializing in invertebrates who held chairs at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and wrote the Histoire naturelle des Crustacés.
Henry Van Peters Wilson
Henry Van Peters Wilson (1863–1939) was an American zoologist at the University of North Carolina known for showing in 1907 that dissociated sponge cells reassemble into complete animals.
Hermann Burmeister
Hermann Burmeister (1807–1892) was a German-born Argentine zoologist, paleontologist, and entomologist, professor at Halle and director of the Buenos Aires natural history museum from 1862 until his death.
István Apáthy
István Apáthy (1863–1922) was a Hungarian zoologist and histologist who demonstrated neurofibrils in leech nerve cells, lost the continuity-doctrine controversy with Cajal, and built a leading microtechnique center at Kolozsvár.
James Gray (zoologist)
Sir James Gray (1891–1975) was an English zoologist who held the Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge and pioneered the experimental study of animal locomotion, including Gray's paradox about dolphin swimming speed.
James Leonard Brierley Smith
James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897–1968) was a South African chemist-turned-ichthyologist at Rhodes University who identified the first living coelacanth in 1938 and led the fourteen-year search that recovered a second specimen in 1952.
Joel Asaph Allen
Joel Asaph Allen (1838–1921) was an American zoologist who formulated Allen's rule, that warm-blooded animals in colder climates have shorter extremities, and curated birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History.
John Edwards Holbrook
John Edwards Holbrook (1794–1871) was an American physician and zoologist of Charleston, South Carolina, best known for North American Herpetology, the first comprehensive work on North American reptiles and amphibians.
John Stanley Gardiner
John Stanley Gardiner (1872–1946) was a British zoologist who led three Indian Ocean coral reef expeditions and held the Cambridge Chair of Zoology from 1909 to 1937.
Joseph S. Nelson
Joseph S. Nelson, born Joseph Schieser Nelson (1937–2011), was a Canadian ichthyologist and University of Alberta zoology professor, author of four editions of Fishes of the World.
Karl Patterson Schmidt
Karl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist and taxonomist at the Field Museum in Chicago who described over 200 species and died in 1957 after a boomslang snakebite.
Kees Moeliker
Kees Moeliker is a Dutch biologist and former director of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam who won the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for a paper on mallard necrophilia.
Kenneth Lacovara
Kenneth Lacovara is an American paleontologist best known for discovering and naming Dreadnoughtus, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found, and for founding Rowan University's Edelman Fossil Park & Museum.
Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland
Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland (1892–1969) was an American zoologist and protozoologist, a Harvard professor and National Academy of Sciences member, who proved that termite gut protozoa digest the cellulose their hosts eat.
Leonhard Hess Stejneger
Leonhard Hess Stejneger was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist and herpetologist who spent more than 58 years at the Smithsonian, rising to head curator of biology.
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888–1969) was an American zoologist, the most influential comparative invertebrate zoologist of the twentieth century, known for the six-volume treatise The Invertebrates and for working unpaid at the American Museum of Natural History.
Max Hartmann
Max Hartmann (1876–1962) was a German zoologist and protistologist who directed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem and proposed the law of relative sexuality.
Michel M Dugon
Michel M Dugon is an Irish-based zoologist and venom researcher who founded and heads the Venom Systems Lab at the University of Galway, studying venomous animals.
Paul Buchner (researcher)
Paul Ernst Christof Buchner (1886–1978) was a German zoologist who founded the study of hereditary symbiosis in insects, demonstrating transovarial transmission of symbionts in aphids and other Hemiptera.
Paul Portier (French physiologist)
Paul Portier (1866–1962) was a French physiologist who co-discovered anaphylaxis with Charles Richet in 1902, first applied the endosymbiotic idea to mitochondria in his 1918 book Les Symbiotes, and taught comparative physiology at the Sorbonne.
Philip W. Signor
Philip W. Signor is an American paleobiologist at UC Davis known for the Signor–Lipps effect, which explains why sudden mass extinctions appear gradual in the fossil record.
Pirulla
Pirulla, also written Pirula, is the online name of Paulo Miranda Nascimento, a Brazilian biologist, paleontologist, and science YouTuber whose channel passed 1 million subscribers in 2022.
Prosanta Chakrabarty
Prosanta Chakrabarty is an American ichthyologist and Curator of Fishes at Louisiana State University who studies the fish tree of life, especially cavefishes, and has described at least 15 fish species.
Ramsay Traquair
Ramsay Heatley Traquair (1840–1912) was a Scottish palaeoichthyologist whose anatomical studies of Palaeozoic fishes overturned Agassiz's classification; he was Keeper of Natural History at Edinburgh's Museum of Science and Art.
Ray Lankester
Ray Lankester, full name Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, was a British zoologist who held zoology chairs at London and Oxford and directed the British Museum's Natural History departments.
Richard Hertwig
Richard Hertwig (1850–1937) was a German zoologist and founder of experimental zoology who held the Munich zoology chair for forty years and studied sea urchin fertilization with his brother Oscar.
Richard Hesse
Richard Hesse (1868–1944) was a German zoologist, professor at Berlin, who demonstrated fibrils in visual cells later confirmed as microvilli and pioneered ecological zoogeography with his 1924 book.