- Derek Briggs
Derek E. G. Briggs is an Irish paleontologist based at Yale University. While at the University of Cambridge, Dr Briggs worked on the fossils of the Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia, with Harry Blackmore Whittington and Simon Conway Morris. The Burgess Shale project subsequently became one of the most celebrated endeavors in the field of paleontology in the latter half of the 20th century. Briggs is currently Director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, …
- Charles Doolittle Walcott
Charles Doolittle Walcott (March 31, 1850 - February 9, 1927) was an eminent American invertebrate paleontologist. He has become well-known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess shale formation of British Columbia, Canada.
- William Morton Wheeler
William Morton Wheeler, Ph. D. (March 19, 1865 - April 19 1937) was an American entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard Professor. Wheeler was trained as an insect embryologist, having studied under Baur, Dohrn and Whitman, but became the leading authority on behaviour of social insects, achieving particular renown for his studies of social behaviour of ants.
- John C. Merriam
John Campbell Merriam (October 20, 1869 - October 30, 1945) was an American paleontologist. The first vertebrate paleontologist on the West Coast of the United States, he is best known for his taxonomy of vertebrate fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, particularly with the smilodon (sabertooth cat). He was born in Hopkinton, Iowa. As a young man, he began collecting Paleozoic invertebrate fossils near his Iowa home.
- James Sowerby
James Sowerby (March 21, 1757 - October 25, 1822) was a British naturalist and illustrator. Contributions to published works, such as "A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland" or "English Botany", include his detailed and appealing plates. The use of vivid colour and accessible texts were intended to reach a widening audience in works of natural history.
- Francis Maitland Balfour
Francis Maitland Balfour (November 10, 1851 - July 19, 1882) was a British biologist. The younger brother of the politician, Arthur Balfour, he was born at Edinburgh in Scotland. He attended Harrow School, where he showed no outstanding ability. However, one of the masters, George Griffith, encouraged and aided him in the pursuit of natural science, a taste for which, especially geology, he had acquired from his mother.
- Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Henry Alleyne Nicholson (September 11,1844 - January 4,1899) was a British palaeontologist and zoologist. The son of Dr. John Nicholson, a biblical scholar, was born at Penrith, Cumbria on September 11th, 1844. He was educated at Appleby Grammar School and at the universities of Gottingen (Ph.D., 1866) and Edinburgh (D.Sc., 1867; M.D., 1869). Geology had early attracted his attention, and his first publication was a thesis for his D.Sc.
- Rudolf Leuckart
Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart was a German zoologist who was born in Halmstedt. After earning his degree from the University of Göttingen he went on a scientific expedition to the North Sea to study marine invertebrates. He later was a professor of zoology at the University of Giessen (1850) and the University of Leipzig (1869). Leuckart is remembered for his work in parasitology, particularly his research regarding tapeworm and trichinosis.
- Addison Emery Verrill
Addison Emery Verrill was an American zoölogist. He studied under Louis Agassiz at Harvard University and graduated in 1862. He then accepted a position as Yale University's first Professor of Zoology, and taught there from 1864 until his retirement in 1907. In 1868-70 he was professor of comparative anatomy and entomology in the University of Wisconsin. From 1860 Verrill investigated the invertebrate fauna of the Atlantic coast, with especial reference to the corals, …
- Reinhardt Kristensen
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen is a Danish invertebrate biologist, noted for the discovery of three new phyla of microscopic animals: the Loricifera in 1983, the Cycliophora in 1995, and the Micrognathozoa in 2000. He is also considered one of the world's leading experts on tardigrades. His recent field of work revolves mostly around arctic biology.
- Georg August Goldfuss
Georg August Goldfuss was a German palaeontologist and zoologist. Goldfuss was born at Thurnau near Bayreuth, 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 in the University of Bonn. Aided by Count Georg zu Munster, he issued the important "Petrefacta Germaniae" (1826–1844), …
- Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois, and graduated from Yale in 1878. He earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins in 1881. He was a lecturer at Williams College in 1883-84 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884-85. He served as professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1891.
- Fritz Haas
Fritz Haas (January 4, 1886 - December 26, 1969) was a German zoologist who specialized in the field of malacology. From 1911 until 1936 he was a curator of invertebrate zoology at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main. He was trained in biology by herpetologist Oskar Boettger and malacologist Wilhelm Kobelt. From 1938 until 1959 Haas was curator of Lower Invertebrates at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
- Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc
Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (January 29, 1759 - July 10, 1828) was a French botanist and invertebrate zoologist. Bosc was the author of "Histoire naturelle des coquilles" (Natural History of Shells) (1801-2). He visited the United States from 1798 to 1800.
- Johann Fischer von Waldheim
Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim ("Grigorij Ivanovitsch Fischer von Waldheim" in Russian) (October 13, 1771 - October 18, 1853) was a German anatomist, entomologist and paleontologist. Fischer was born in Waldheim, Saxony, the son of a linen weaver. He studied medicine at Leipzig. He travelled to Vienna and Paris with his friend Alexander von Humboldt and studied under Georges Cuvier.
- Edward Oscar Ulrich
Edward Oscar Ulrich (1857 - 1944) was an invertebrate paleontologist specializing in the study of Paleozoic fossils. He was awarded the Penrose Medal in 1932.
- Yves Delage
Yves Delage was a French zoologist known for his work into invertebrate physiology and anatomy. He also discovered the function of the semicircular canals in the inner ear. He is also famous for noting and preparing a speech on the Turin Shroud. He became the director of the Station Biologique de Roscoff in 1901.
- Robert P. Guralnick
Robert P. Guralnick is an Assistant Professor and Curator of Invertebrates in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder campus and in the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History respectively. Guralnick holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and in 1999 received a Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the same. Guralnick's lab is involved in diverse studies including biodiversity, bioinformatics, …
- Jean Guillaume Bruguière
Jean 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. He accompanied the explorer Kerguelen-Trémarec on his first voyage to the Antarctic in 1773. In 1790 he accompanied the entomologist Olivier on an expedition to Persia, but his poor health didn't allow him to continue.
- Otto Bütschli
Otto Bütschli was a German zoologist and professor at the University of Heidelberg. He specialized in invertebrates and insect development. Many of the groups of protists were first recognized by him.
- Philippe Dautzenberg
Philippe Dautzenberg (Elsene, 20 December 1849 - Paris, 9 May 1935) was a Belgian malacologist, the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of mollusks. He collected a great deal of the shell collection of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, which consists of 9 000 000 specimens and is one of the three biggest shell collections in the world.
- Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby (May 10, 1826 - March 9, 1908), English microscopist and geologist, was born at Woodbourne near Sheffield in Yorkshire. He attended Sheffield Collegiate School. He early developed an interest in natural science, and one of his first papers related to the excavation of valleys in Yorkshire. He subsequently dealt with the physical geography of former geological periods, with the wave-structure in certain stratified rocks, and the origin of slaty cleavage.
- Wilhem de Haan
Wilhem de Haan (1801-1855) was a Dutch zoologist. He specialised in the study of insects and crustaceans, and was the first keeper of invertebrates at the Rijksmuseum (national museum) in Leiden, now Naturalis. He was forced to retire in 1846, when he was partially paralysed by a spinal disease. He was responsible for the invertebrate volume of Siebold's "Fauna Japonica", which was published in 1833, …
- Gustaf Lindström
Gustaf Lindström was a Swedish paleontologist. He was born in Visby on Gotland. In 1848 he entered Uppsala University, and in 1854 he took his doctor's degree. Having attended a course of lectures in Stockholm by Sven Lovén, he became interested in the zoology of the Baltic, and published several papers on the invertebrate fauna, and subsequently on the fishes. In 1856 he became a school teacher, and in 1858 a master in the grammar school at Visby.
- Otto Martin Torell
Otto Martin Torell (1828 - 1900) was a Swedish geologist. He was born in Varberg, Sweden on the June 5, 1828. He was educated at Lund University for the medical profession, but became interested in zoological and geological studies, and being of independent means he devoted himself to science. He gave his attention first especially to the invertebrate fauna and the physical changes of pleistocene and recent times.
- T. J. Hamblin
Terry J. Hamblin (b. 1943) has been Professor of Immunohaematology at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom since 1987. Born in Worcester, England, he was educated at the University of Bristol. He pursued a research career in haematology and immunology, successively becoming an expert in plasma exchange, stem cell transplantation, monoclonal antibody therapy, myelodysplastic syndrome and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
- Henry Nottidge Moseley
Henry Nottidge Moseley (14 november 1844 - 10 november 1891) was a British naturalist. He went on the expedition of HMS "Challenger" 1872-1876. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1879. He studied at Harrow, Oxford (Arts) and the University of London (medicine). He married Miss Jeffreys in 1881, and his son was the British physicist Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley. He participated as naturalist in expeditions to Ceylon, and to California and Oregon, …
- Joseph Frederick Whiteaves
Joseph Frederick Whiteaves (December 26, 1835 - August 19, 1909), British palaeontologist, was born at Oxford. He was educated at private schools, and afterwards worked under John Phillips at Oxford (1858-1861); he was led to study the Oolitic rocks, and added largely to our knowledge of the fossils of the Great Oolite series, Cornbrash and Corallian ("Rep. Brit. Assoc." 1860, and "Ann., Nat. Hist." 1861).
- Christopher Shearer
Christopher High Shearer (1846 - 1926) was a prolific US painter, known primarily for his large landscapes. Christopher Shearer was born May 18, 1846, in Reading, Pennsylvania to Christopher and Catherine Shearer. As a boy, Shearer spent time in the studios of artists Francis Daniel Devlan and John Heyl Raser. At age 18, Christopher showed an interest in painting professionally, and became a student of both Devlan and Raser.
- Fredrick William Holiday
Fredrick William Holiday, also known as "Ted Holiday" (1920-1979) was a British journalist, angler, cryptozoologist, and wildlife specialist. Motivated by the early 1930s media reports, Holiday would dedicate the rest of his life to investigating the Loch Ness monster. In the 1960s, Holiday became a member of the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau. After several hundred hours of watching the Loch, Holiday claims that he reported four unidentified sightings.
- Chris Fishel
Christopher opened our California office and laboratory in early 2002. He has been in the field of aquatic ecology since 1990 and one of his primary duties is to conduct quantitative bioassessment in terrestrial as well as permanent and temporary aquatic habitats. He has a strong knowledge of the Crustacea and is a recognized expert on fairy shrimp, tadpole shrimp and clam shrimp, having discovered and described many new species of Branchiopod Crustacea.
- Bruce Conn
Dr. Bruce Conn is Professor of Biology and Dean of the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences at Berry College in Mount Berry , Georgia . He has served on the faculties of the University of Cincinnati and Wilmington College in Ohio , St. Lawrence University in New York , and the University of the South in Tennessee , where he was Chair of the Department of Biology.
- Frank M. Carpenter
Frank M. Carpenter (1902-1994) received his PhD from Harvard University, and was curator of fossil insects at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology for 60 years. He studied the Permian fossil insects of Elmo, Kansas, and compared the North American fossil insect fauna with Paleozoic taxa known from elsewhere in the world. A careful and methodical worker, he used venation and mouthparts to determine the relationships of fossil taxa, …
- Ronald Pearson Tripp
Ronald Pearson Tripp was a British paleontologist specializing in trilobites. Born in England in 1914, Tripp was self-taught in paleontology, but became an authority in the taxonomy of the trilobite families Encrinuridae, Lichidae, and Lichakephalidae – the latter of which he named. He wrote the section on the superfamily Lichacea for the monumental "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology", which was published in 1959, …
- Dafydd Williams
Dr. Dafydd Rhys "Dave" Williams (b.May 16, 1954) is a Canadian astronaut. He has been on one space shuttle mission.
- Barry Fell
Barry Fell (born Howard Barraclough Fell June 6, 1917 in Lewes, Sussex, England and died on April 21, 1994, of heart failure in San Diego, California) was Professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. His research was on starfish and sea urchins. Fell is also widely known for his controversial work in New World epigraphy.
- Angelo Heilprin
Angelo Heilprin was an American naturalist, geologist, and traveler; son of Michael Heilprin, a scholar of Polish origin. He was taken by his father to the United States in 1856. Some years later he returned to Europe, where he was educated. From 1876 to 1878 he continued his studies at the Royal School of Mines, London; at the Imperial Geological Institution of Vienna, and at Florence and Geneva, …
- William Keith Brooks
William Keith Brooks, LL.D., Ph.D. was an American zoölogist, born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 25, 1848. He was educated at Williams College and at Harvard (Ph.D., 1875). He was employed at Johns Hopkins University from 1876 onward. He trained many of the prominent embryologists of the country.
- Sonke Johnsen
- Ryan
18 years old pre-med student at ust... likes to watch tv and spend time hanging out with friends.. likes to sleep.. a lot! yeah.. thats about it...