Notes on the History of Biology

• Dr. Agustin Rodolfo


  physiologist and cytogeneticist
• Dr. Dioscoro Rabor


  Philippine birds, bats, rats
• Dr. Francisco Nemenzo, Sr.


  corals
• Dr. Leopoldo S. Clemente


  geneticist
• Dr. Hilario Roxas

  fishes
• Dr. Eduardo Quisumbing

  medicinal plants in the Philippines
• Dr. Flordeliz R. Uyenco

  fungi and lichens
• Dr. Jose Vera Santos

  worked on taxonomy of grasses, specifically bamboo
• Dr. Gregorio Velasquez

  International contribution on Philippine Algae, Father of Phycology
• Father Manuel Blanco

  the author of Flora de Filipinas Segun al Systema Sexual de Linnaco, botanical illustrations of plant specimens that grew into the Philippines herbarium
• K.B. Mullis

  amplified certain segments of a DNA strand using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method
• Arthur Kornberg and Severo Ochoa

  produced DNA and RNA articially
• Rosalind Franklin

  woman who generated x-ray images of DNA with Maurice Wilkins and Linus Pauling, povided Watson and Crick with key data about DNA
• James Watson and Francis Crick

  credited with building the first correct model of the structure of DNA
• Thomas Hunt Morgan

  bred fruit flies, and supported the the theory of chromosomal inheritance by finding that a specific gene is carried on a specific chromosome
• Robert Whittaker


  proposed the 5-kingdom scheme: monerans, protists, fungi, plants, and animals
• George Evelyn Hutchinson

  known for his ecological studies of freshwater lakes and is considered the father of modern ecology
• Herman Joseph Muller

  revealed that x-rays could produce mutations
• Karl Landsteiner

  discovered blood types
• Sir Rowland Biffen

  pioneered in the breeding of wheat that is resistant to a disease which is caused by certain microscopic fungi
• Petrovich Pavlov

  behaviorism - pavlov's dogs
• Asa Gray

  specialized in the classification of plants, trees, and flowers
• Louis Agassiz

  studied fossil fish, recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873)
• Robert Koch

  developed the germ theory of disease
• Louis Pasteur

  debunked spontaneous generation
• Gregor Johann Mendel

  Father of genetics
• Charles R. Darwin

  proposed the theory of evolution where the environment is said to determine whether or not a variation can improve the survival of a group of organisms
• Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann

  proposed cell theory
• Baron Cuvier

  the first to compare the anatomy of various animals with humans
• Carolus Linnaeus

  Father of taxonomy, proposed the use of binomial nomenclature that is still used today in naming all types of organisms
• Robert Hooke

  described cell walls of cork as tiny boxes
• Anton van Leuwenhoek

  first to observe bacteria and protozoa using a simple microscope which he built
• William Harvey

  showed how blood circulates through the human body
• Andreas Vesalius

  Father of Anatomy
• Aristotle

  made the first ever known classification system for all living things
• Aristotle and Pliny the Elder

  collected many facts about plants and animals
• Hippocrates

  Father of medicine, has made great influence on the development of medicine as well as on the ethics and ideals of a physician
• Anaximander

  developed a theory that human beings evolved from fish