plus Filipino biologists
Aristotle
father of biology
Robert Hooke
discovered the cell
Anton Van Leeuwehoek
father of microbiology
Andreas Vesalius
father of modern anatomy
Louis Pasteur
father of bacteriology *PASTEURIZATION
Gregor Mendel
father of genetics
Charles Darwin
invented the theory of evolution
Carolus Linneaus
father of modern taxonomy
Alexander Fleming
discovered penicillin
Edward Jenner
invented the smallpox vaccine
James Watson and Francis Crick
invented the DNA double helix model
Frederick Sanger and Walter Gilbert
developed the DNA sequencing technology
Kary Mullis
developed the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
Benjamin Cabrera
prevention of parasitic infections
William Padolina
isolation plant chemicals
Clara Lim
Sylianco - mutagens, antimutagens, bio-organic mechanisms
Quintin Kintanar
molecular mechanisms of lipoprotein biosynthesis
Magdalena Cantoria
medicinal plants
Paulo Campos
father of nuclear medicine
Alfredo Santos
father of natural products research in the Philippines
Francisco Fronda
development of poultry industry
Julian Banzon
agro-industrial wastes
Lourdes Cruz
understanding of toxic peptides