2006-06-26 22:38:15 · 5 answers · asked by pinky 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
raju,pinky,darvin.........etc.etc.
2006-06-26 22:41:05 · answer #1 · answered by Raju.K.M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Starting from evolutionary theory: Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace both came to the same conclusions on evolution at nearly the same time on opposite sides of the world. Then moving forward to the present: Ernst Mayer, Thomas Lovejoy, Edward O. Wilson, Dan Simberloff, Watson & Crick (DNA), Lynn Marguiles, Robert May, & Rachel Carson.
Answers are a little biased towards ecology, evolution, & biogeography.
2006-06-27 08:43:51 · answer #2 · answered by Jeff 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Off the top of my head, I can add the following to Jeff's list:
Hodgkin and Huxley (discoverers of the neuronal action potential); Neher and Sakmann (who invented patch-clamping and subsequently won the Nobel prize for their work) and Eric Kandel (2000 Nobel laureate for his pioneering work in neural networks)... (Can you tell that my background is in neurobiology?!)
& don't forget that R. Franklin was also a huge part of the discovery of the structure of DNA; without her X-ray crystallography, it's arguable that Watson and Crick couldn't have done it on their own.
Also, everyone thinks it was Darwin, but Wallace got it right first.... look it up. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace)
2006-06-27 11:10:34 · answer #3 · answered by Girl Biologist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charles Darwin,Carl Linnaeus.Aristole,Sophrates,and many...........................etc
2006-06-27 05:57:21 · answer #4 · answered by Gani s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
einstein
2006-06-27 06:04:42 · answer #5 · answered by karazy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋