FAMOUS BIOLOGISTS

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