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Biologists

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  • Jeffery M. Saarela (Jeffery Saarela) - described Sporobolus alterniflorus
  • Neville Sanjana 2015-2017 PECASE winner ([74] [75] [76]) - see Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
  • Isidro Antonio T. Savillo (Isidro Antonio Savillo) - Wetland Conservation Honorable Advisor Award; organizer of ISMCBBPR (Molecule of the Year) and ISCSPM; ()
  • Arne Schiøtz [fr] - declared Leptopelis barbouri to be a valid species in 1975
  • William C. Schroeder (William Schroeder) - coauthor of Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, alongside Henry Bryant Bigelow
  • Erin Margaret Schuman — neurbiologist and managing director, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (2015; Frankfurt, Germany)[6]
  • Jack Schuster - Entomologist specialized in Passalidae [77]
  • Werner Theodor Schmidt - ()
  • Arturo Angulo Sibaja - one of the biologists who gave the Pacific nurse shark the binomial name Ginglymostoma unami
  • Joseph Simcox - botanical explorer; see Kajari melon
  • Kerry Sink - South African marine ecologist
  • David G. Smith (D. G. Smith) - described the ringed moray and Gymnothorax mccoskeri in 1997, Kenyaconger heemstrai in 2003, and the Indian unpatterned moray in 2016
  • L. A. Smith - described the rough-scaled python
  • Gerald Sonnenfeld - ()
  • Alex Sonnenwirth – microbiologist – doi:10.1128/JCM.00263-16[78]
  • John D. Stevens (ichthyologist) - gave the elongate carpet shark the binomial name Parascyllium elongatum
  • Carl P. Swanson - Father of modern cytology
  • Kenneth B. Storey (biologist) - Canadian biologist; [79]
  • Hassan Syed - CIO of Species360
  • Shigeho "Sho" Tanaka - named and described the Japanese velvet dogfish (Scymnodon ichiharai) alongside Kazunari Yano in 1984
  • Toru Taniuchi - named and described the whitetail dogfish (Scymnodalatias albicauda) alongside Jack Garrick in 1986
  • J. Paul Taylor (biologist - neurologist) - physician-scientist, Potamkin Prize winner ([80], [81])
  • Jeffrey Taubenberger - found complete genome of 1918 Spanish Flu - ()
  • Yi-Kai Tea - Singaporean-Australian ichthyologist, taxonomist, and photographer; [82] [83]
  • Cornelis Terhorst - immunologist; contributed to understanding of T-cell Receptors and cancer immunotherapy; Professor at Harvard Medical School - ()
  • Ramachandran Thangaraja - one of the people who gave the Arabian barracuda the binomial name Sphyraena arabiansis
  • Stewart P. Thomas (born 1946) - Amercian zoologist and teacher; ()
  • Ken Thompson (botonist) - British botanist, ecologist and author of 'Where do Camels Belong? The Story and Science of Invasive Species,
  • Heinrich Julius Tode - named the fungi genus Xylostroma in 1790
  • T'Shaka Touré (Touré T) - author of Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1
  • Gian Toyos - biologist and environmental expert
  • Cornelius Van Neil - [84]; ()
  • Carl von Theodori - described the new species Pterodactylus banthensis from Franconia - see timeline of pterosaur research
  • Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia - named the Austriadactylus genus
  • Cyprien Verseux - astrobiologist, expert in biological life support systems, crewmember of the HI-SEAS IV mission, station leader of the XIVth winterover at Concordia Station (Antarctica); ()
  • Jonathan Vicente - Brazilian Biomedical Scientist and science communicator, a strong voice in Brazil COVID-19 response
  • Alexei Vyssotski (contemporary) — Russian neurophysiologist focused on determining mechanisms of memory formation through vocal learning in birds; developed equipment for recording vocalizations of individual birds via a 2 gram backpack (Neurologger). See: Vivien, Marx (November 2014). "Alexei Vyssotski". The Author File. Nature Methods. Vol. 11, no. 11. p. 1079. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3150. ; Anisimov, VN; Herbst, JA; Abramchuk, AN; et al. (November 2014). "Reconstruction of vocal interactions in a group of small songbirds". Brief Communications. Nature Methods. 11 (11): 1135–7. doi:10.1038/NMETH.3114. 
  • Georg Wagler - Argued that pterosaurs represented a distinct class of aquatic vertebrates that he called Gryphi. Like Collini, Wagler thought that pterosaurs swam underwater using their forelimbs as flippers. - see timeline of pterosaur research
  • Andreas Wagner (palaeontologist) - erected the new genus Dorygnathus for the species Pterodactylus banthensis - see timeline of pterosaur research
  • Martin Wells - British cephalopod biologist and researcher; ()
  • Tom Wenseleers - Belgian evolutionary biologist, with many articles in prominent journals (Nature, Science, Nature Microbiology, etc); [85]
  • George Reber Wieland - described the genus Archelon and the species Archelon ischyros
  • Henry Hopley White - dinoflagellate cysts
  • Rupert Wild - reviewed and redescribed all Tanystropheus specimens known at the time via several large monographs in the 1970s-80s
  • H. Garrison Wilkes - American maize botanist, student of Richard Evans Schultes; ()
  • Auriel A. Willette - American food science biologist. [86]
  • G.W. Wilson - named Phloeophthora cactorum in 1914; see Phytophthora cactorum
  • Carrie D. Wolinetz current Deputy Director for Health & Life Sciences, White House Office of Science Policy. Former Chief of Staff and Director, Office Science Policy, National Institutes of Health. Received Ph.D. in Animal Science from (The Pennsylvania State University). Led policy efforts in combatting sexual harassment in science, data sharing, biosecurity, and clincial trials. [87]
  • Dr. Mitchell Henry Wright – Renowned Geomicrobiologist who received his Ph.D. for his work investigating the physiological and molecular characteristics of manganese transforming bacteria from a radioactive hot spring (Paralana hot springs, South Australia, Australia) [88]. Born in Australia, Dr. Wright has worked in research facilities around the world, including in the United States (Oregon Health and Science University) [89] and Australia (Griffith University). He is an expert in thermophilic bacteria as well as pharmacognosy and has been the subject of news articles [90]. He has authored or co-authored over 30 publications in high-impact journals and has an h-index of 10. According to the author profiles on his most recent publication, he currently resides in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) where he works as a research scientist. [91]; [92]; [93]; [94] [95]; [96]; [97]; [98]; [99]; [100]; [101]; [102]. Furthermore, he has authored or co-authored papers describing novel bacteria (Aliidiomarina minuta, Pseudomonas laurentiana) and was integral in their discovery [103]; [104]; [105].
  • Philip F. Wareing (27 April 1914 — 29 March 1996) - He was appointed Professor of Botany in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in which post he remained until his retirement in 1981. He discovered large amounts of growth inhibitor in dormant buds of ash and potatoes. He called it dormin. In the early 60's Wareing and associates confirmed that applying dormin (later named Abscisic acid) to a bud induces dormancy. [7][8][9]
  • Michael Watkins (zoologist) (Watkins M) - author of The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles
  • Xiang-Jiao Yang - Molecular and developmental biologist
  • Kazunari Yano - named and described the Japanese velvet dogfish (Scymnodon ichiharai) alongside Shigeho "Sho" Tanaka in 1984
  • Yoram Yom-Tov - Israeli zoologist
  • Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka - described the superphylum Asgard (archaea)
  • Chuanlun Zhang – An American-trained Chinese Biogeochemist and Geomicrobiologist who had worked at many research facilities in both the United States (NASA, ORNL, UGA, Texas A&M) and China (Southern University of Science and Technology) and is an expert in Archaea. He has authored or co-authored nearly 300 high-impact papers. [106]; [107]; [108]; [109]; [110]; [111]; [112]; [113]]; [114]; [115]; [116]; [117];

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References and notes

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  1. ^ Sen, Ananya (2018). "A Lifetime of Lipid Research" (PDF). MCB Magazine. No. 12. University of Illinois. pp. 20–21.
  2. ^ "John Cronan". Member Directory. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  3. ^ Marx, Vivien (February 2019). "Gonzalo G. de Polavieja". The Author File. Nature Methods (Paper). 16: 137. doi:10.1038/s41592-018-0306-6. subtitle: How AI can help track animals and why breakfast powers collaboration
  4. ^ Lent, Herman; Wygodzinsky, Pedro W. (1979). "Revision of the Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae), and their significance as vectors of Chagas' disease". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 163. hdl:2246/1282.
  5. ^ doi:10.1038/s41592-018-0192-y
  6. ^ Marx, Vivien (May 2015). "Erin Margaret Schuman". The Author File. Nature Methods (Paper). 12 (5): 375. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3374.
  7. ^ http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/45/507
  8. ^ Salisbury, F.B. and Ross, C.W. (1992) Plant Physiology
  9. ^ The Handy Biology Answer Book, Patricia Barnes-Svarney,Thomas E. Svarney