Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel

male, deceased (1884) (Guadeloupe)
Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884) was a Moravian Augustinian priest and scientist often called the "father of modern genetics"...
Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

male, deceased (1913)
Alfred Russel Wallace OM, FRS (8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He...
Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley

male, deceased (1975)
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, FRS (June 22, 1887 - February 14, 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, author, humanist and internationalist,...
Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis

female, 71 years old
Dr. Lynn Margulis (born March 15, 1938) is a biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts...
Richard Lewontin

Richard Lewontin

male, 80 years old
Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. A leader in...
James Lovelock

James Lovelock

male, 90 years old
Dr James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist, and futurologist who...
John Maynard Smith

John Maynard Smith

male, deceased (2004)
Professor John Maynard Smith, F.R.S. (6 January 1920 - 19 April 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an...
Thomas Huxley

Thomas Huxley

male, deceased (1895)
Thomas Henry Huxley PC, FRS (4 May 1825 Ealing – 29 June 1895 Eastbourne, Sussex) was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his ad...
Theodosius Dobzhansky

Theodosius Dobzhansky

male, deceased (1975)
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (Ukrainian - Теодосій Григорович Добжанський; sometimes anglicized to Theodore Dobzhansky; January 25, 1900...
Sewall Wright

Sewall Wright

male, deceased (1998)
Sewall Green Wright ForMemRS (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary th...