History of Biology

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  1. 3. known as the "Father of Medicine"
  2. 7. A prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher who contributed to the early understanding of anatomy and physiology
  3. 8. A Roman naturalist accounts in his general encyclopedia entitled Pliny’s Natural History
  4. 10. An English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body (De motu cordis) in 1628
  5. 13. In 1546, the studies of this French naturalist marked the beginning modern embryology and comparative anatomy
  6. 16. 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
  7. 18. an English naturalist known “Father of Evolutionary Thought”
  8. 21. In 1674, this Dutch merchant and scientist was the first one to discover single-celled organisms and called it animalcules
  9. 24. This Dutch biologist was the first to see red blood cells under a microscope in 1658
  10. 25. An Islamic theologian and intellectual. Among his biological writings is Kitāb al-ḥayawān (“Book of Animals”)
  11. 26. A French physician and surgeon regarded by some medical historians as the father of modern surgery
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  1. 1. A German theologian and botanist published the two volumes of his Herbarum vivae eicones, a book about plants with its fresh and vigorous illustrations
  2. 2. The three scientists Crick, Watson and Wilkins was known for their discovery of the molecular structure of this hereditary material in 1953
  3. 4. 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
  4. 5. Swedish botanist and physician recognized for his Systema Naturae (1735), as he introduced a new approach to taxonomy (binomial nomenclature)
  5. 6. known as the "Father of Biology"
  6. 9. an American biochemist who studied the structure of the hemoglobin
  7. 11. Swiss physician and naturalist, best known for his systematic compilations of information on animals and plants
  8. 12. A German Dominican friar recognized for his contribution in botany, zoology and physiology
  9. 14. American zoologist and geneticist, famous for his experimental research with the fruit fly (Drosophila) by which he established the chromosome theory of heredity
  10. 15. An Italian microscopist first visualized capillaries
  11. 17. A Muslim physician particularly noted for his book The Canon of Medicine
  12. 19. In 1998, he successfully isolated human embryonic stem cells
  13. 20. A leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance. In 1489, he begins a series of anatomical drawings of the human body
  14. 22. known as the "Father of Botany"
  15. 23. An Augustinian botanist also known as the “Father of Modern Genetics”