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- 3. An Islamic theologian and intellectual. Among his biological writings is Kitāb al-ḥayawān (“Book of Animals”)
- 7. Swedish botanist and physician recognized for his Systema Naturae (1735), as he introduced a new approach to taxonomy (binomial nomenclature)
- 8. An Italian Dominican theologian, the foremost medieval Scholastic. He developed his own conclusions from Aristotelian premises, notably in the metaphysics of personality, creation, and Providence
- 11. In 1242, this Arabian physician was the first to correctly describe the pulmonary circulation of blood in his book the Commentary on the Anatomy of Canon of Avicenna
- 12. American zoologist and geneticist, famous for his experimental research with the fruit fly (Drosophila) by which he established the chromosome theory of heredity
- 14. A Muslim physician particularly noted for his book The Canon of Medicine
- 16. An Augustinian botanist also known as the “Father of Modern Genetics”
- 17. an American biochemist who studied the structure of the hemoglobin
- 19. known as the "Father of Medicine"
- 20. An English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body (De motu cordis) in 1628
- 22. A German theologian and botanist published the two volumes of his Herbarum vivae eicones, a book about plants with its fresh and vigorous illustrations
- 23. Swiss physician and naturalist, best known for his systematic compilations of information on animals and plants
- 25. known as the "Father of Botany"
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- 1. A Roman naturalist accounts in his general encyclopedia entitled Pliny’s Natural History
- 2. an English naturalist known “Father of Evolutionary Thought”
- 4. An Italian microscopist first visualized capillaries
- 5. In 1546, the studies of this French naturalist marked the beginning modern embryology and comparative anatomy
- 6. The three scientists Crick, Watson and Wilkins was known for their discovery of the molecular structure of this hereditary material in 1953
- 9. In 1674, this Dutch merchant and scientist was the first one to discover single-celled organisms and called it animalcules
- 10. This Dutch biologist was the first to see red blood cells under a microscope in 1658
- 13. A German Dominican friar recognized for his contribution in botany, zoology and physiology
- 15. A leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance. In 1489, he begins a series of anatomical drawings of the human body
- 18. known as the "Father of Biology"
- 21. A French physician and surgeon regarded by some medical historians as the father of modern surgery
- 24. A prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher who contributed to the early understanding of anatomy and physiology