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"Science Is in a Constant Flow" - http://www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/html/047StrasburgerCV.html
Biography of botanist Eduard Strasburger, considered the founder of modern cytology.

A Victorian Renaissance Man: John Obadiah Westwood - http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/exhibits/westwood/
Exhibits materials about the life and work of a prolific nineteenth-century entomologist, archaeologist, and biological illustrator.

Biochemistry History - http://www.imagery-imagination.com/biochem.htm
Short biographies of Biochemists Marshall Nirenberg, who cracked the genetic code, and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, discoverer of vitamins

Edward Drinker Cope (1840 - 1897) - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/cope.html
Biographical information on this American paleontologist and evolutionist.

Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/Edarwin.html
Grandfather of Charles Darwin and a philosopher, botanist, and naturalist in his own right.

Fabre, Jean-Henri Casimir ( 1823 - 1915 ) - http://www.e-fabre.com/en/
The life and work of this entomologist. E-Texts and Gallery.

Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry - http://galton.org/biography/bulmer.htm
Information on a book by Michael Bulmer about this nineteenth century scientist's work on genetics, evolution and biological statistics.

Hans Spemann - http://library.thinkquest.org/24355/data/details/profiles/spemann.html
Provides information about Hans Spemann, 1935 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, and his work in embryology.

Hofmann, Albert - http://www.stainblue.com/ah.html
Dr. Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD, psilocybin, and psilocin.

Jan Swammerdam - http://www.janswammerdam.net/
Describes the life and work of this 17th century Dutch microscopist.

Jean Linden - http://www.jeanlinden.info/
The 19th century Belgian who explored and horticulturist who specialized in orchids.

Joseph Dalton Hooker - http://www.jdhooker.org.uk/
A leading nineteenth century botanist, and close friend of Charles Darwin.

Linnaeus, Carl - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html
Biographical information on the "Father of Taxonomy" whose system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in use today.

Oscar Riddle - http://www.oscarriddle.com
Facts and life history of Dr. Oscar Riddle, pioneer in science education.

Pennant, Thomas (1726-1798) - http://www.llgc.org.uk/ardd/pennant/pennant.htm
Welsh naturalist, antiquary and author. Bibliography, biographical notes, artworks and a complete list of exhibits in the Thomas Pennant Exhibition held in 1998.

Robert Hooke - http://www.roberthooke.org.uk/
Site devoted to the life and work of Robert Hooke, one of the leading scientists of 17th century England, and first Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society.

Sistotrema confluens - http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/dec2007.html
Tom Volk provides photographs and information on this strange tooth fungus in honor of the tercentenary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus.

The Huxley File - http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/
The works of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895): physiologist, anatomist, anthropologist, agnostic, educator, and Darwin's bulldog.

Thomas Pennant - http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=5643
Information on this former fellow of the Royal Society and on his published work which included his best known work, the four-volume British Zoology.

Weigl, Rudolf Stefan - http://lwow.home.pl/weigl/in-memoriam.html
Professor Rudolf Stefan Weigl (1883-1957) has developed the first effective vaccine against typhus.

Willadsen, Steen - http://library.thinkquest.org/24355/data/details/profiles/willadsen.html
Biographical information on this Danish scientist who made great contributions to reproductive physiology and embryology and created the first cloned farm animal using the method of nuclear transfer.

Wilmut, Ian - http://library.thinkquest.org/24355/data/details/profiles/wilmut.html
Biographical information on this Scottish embryologist who in 1996, was the first to clone a mammal, a sheep named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells.

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