History of Biology

3. known as the "Father of Medicine"
6. A Roman naturalist accounts in his general encyclopedia entitled Pliny’s Natural History
7. In 1546, the studies of this French naturalist marked the beginning modern embryology and comparative anatomy
9. A German theologian and botanist published the two volumes of his Herbarum vivae eicones, a book about plants with its fresh and vigorous illustrations
10. an American biochemist who studied the structure of the hemoglobin
15. American zoologist and geneticist, famous for his experimental research with the fruit fly (Drosophila) by which he established the chromosome theory of heredity
16. An English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body (De motu cordis) in 1628
19. The three scientists Crick, Watson and Wilkins was known for their discovery of the molecular structure of this hereditary material in 1953
21. An Italian microscopist first visualized capillaries
22. A French physician and surgeon regarded by some medical historians as the father of modern surgery
23. A Muslim physician particularly noted for his book The Canon of Medicine
24. An Augustinian botanist also known as the “Father of Modern Genetics”
26. an English naturalist known “Father of Evolutionary Thought”

1. known as the "Father of Biology"
2. Swedish botanist and physician recognized for his Systema Naturae (1735), as he introduced a new approach to taxonomy (binomial nomenclature)
4. A German Dominican friar recognized for his contribution in botany, zoology and physiology
5. 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
8. known as the "Father of Botany"
11. In 1674, this Dutch merchant and scientist was the first one to discover single-celled organisms and called it animalcules
12. 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
13. A leading artist and intellectual of the Italian Renaissance. In 1489, he begins a series of anatomical drawings of the human body
14. This Dutch biologist was the first to see red blood cells under a microscope in 1658
17. An Islamic theologian and intellectual. Among his biological writings is Kitāb al-ḥayawān (“Book of Animals”)
18. Swiss physician and naturalist, best known for his systematic compilations of information on animals and plants
20. In 1998, he successfully isolated human embryonic stem cells
25. A prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher who contributed to the early understanding of anatomy and physiology