Plant Heroes
The "Father of the Green Revolution"
Norman Ernest Borlaug
Discovered the structure of DNA
Rosalind Franklin
Discovered ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the cell's primary energy currency.
Karl Lohmann
The "Father of Electrophysiology"
Luigi Galvani
Discovered of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin
Created transgenic plants
Marc Van Montagu
The "mother of radiation"
Marie Curie
Invented pasteurization; studied microbes.
Louis Pasteur
Was the first to excavate and describe a fossil of Ichthyosaurus at 11 year old.
Mary Anning
Primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution.
Lynn Margulis
Discoverd Photosynthesis
Jan Ingenhousz
Discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic, which revolutionized medicine.
Alexander Fleming
Discovered Oxygen
Joseph Priestley
The "Father of genetics"
Gregor Mendel
Pioneer of the science of ecology and introduced the concept of the ecosystem into biology
Arthur Tansley
The "Father of Botany"
Theophrastus
Developed the Apgar Newborn Scoring System, increasing infant survival rates.
Virginia Apgar
Father of microbiology
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek
Studied chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Game Reserve on Lake Tanzania
Jane Goodall
One of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology
Vladimir I. Vernadsky
Founder of the Green Belt movement in Kenya
Wangari Maathai
The father of hand hygiene: championed hand-washing researching high maternal mortality.
Ignaz Semmelweis
Showed how the interiors of cells were organised
Albert Claude
The "Father of Taxonomy"
Carl Linnaeus
Proposed the Gaia hypothesis: Earth's biosphere is a self-regulating system.
James Lovelock or Lynn Margulis