Biologists Posters and Prints, “A...-H...” pg 1/3
for the science classroom, home schoolers, science education scholars.

Isaac Asimov
b. 1-2-1920; Russia
d. 4-6-1992; NYC

Biochemist Isaac Asimov is considered a master of the science fiction genre and is best known for his prolific writing.

Asimov was also VP of Mensa International and The American Humanist Association.

• I, Robot poster
• Asimov's Chronology of the World

Francis Maitland Balfour
b. 11-10-1851; Scotland
d. 7-19-1882; climbing Mount Blanc

Biologist Francis Maitland Balfour was regarded as the successor to Charles Darwin.

Balfour quote poster

George Wells Beadle
b. 10-22-1903; Wahoo, NE
d. 6-9-1989; Chicago

Biochemist George Wells Beadle shared one half of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology with Edward Tatum “for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events”.

• George Beadle, An Uncommon Farmer
• Genetics of Microorganisms

Konrad Emil Bloch
b. 1-21-1912; Germany
d. 10-15-2000; Lexington, MA

Konrad Bloch was a biochemist, teaching at Columbia University, the University of Chicago and Harvard University. He shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 with Feodor Lynen, “for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.”

Alexis Carrel
b. 6-28-1873; France
d. 11-5-1944

Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912. Aviator Charles Lindbergh worked with Carrel in developing the machinery that could keep organs functions for weeks outside the human body. Carrel was also a member of the most collaborationist party during World War II Vichy France.

• The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever by David M. Friedman

Henrik Dam
b. 2-21-1895; Denmark
d. 4-17-1976; Copenhagen

Henrik Dam was a physician and biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 “for his work in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology.”

Charles Darwin
b. 2-12-1809; England
d. 4-19-1882, England

Charles Darwin's scientific observations and theory that all species of life evolved over times from a few common ancestors is the foundation of biology.

• more Heroes of Science & Technology posters
• more Charles Darwin posters

Max Delbrück
b. 9-4-1906; Berlin
d. 3-9-1981

Delbruck was a biophysicist who made fundamental studies the established modern molecular biology. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1969 with Salvador Luria and Alfred Hershey.

Gertrude Elion
b. 1-23-1918; NYC
d. 2-21-1999, Chapel Hill, NC

Gertrude Elion was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 with James W. Black and George H. Hitchings “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment.”

• more health care practioners posters
• Heroes of Science & Technology posters

Ernst Haeckel
b. 2-16-1834; Germany
d. 8-8-1919

Haeckel, an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist, named thousands of new species and coined the biological terms phylum, phylogeny, and ecology. He was also a supporter of Charles Darwin.

• Colonial Jellyfish illustration, art print

Robert Hooke
b. 7-18-1635; Isle of Wight
d. 3-3-1703; London

Robert Hooke coined the biological term “cell” because his microscopic observations of plants reminded him of monks' cells (Latin: cellula). Hooke was also a “polymath” - a person who excels in multiple fields; Hooke collaborated with architect Christopher Wren in the rebuiding of London after the Great Fire of 1666.

Thomas Henry Huxley
b. 5-4-1825; England
d. 6-29-1895

Thomas Henry Huxley was an autodidact, a mostly self-taught person, who was instrumental in developing scientific education in Britain. Huxley was also known as “Darwin's Bulldog” for his defense of Darwin's theory of evolution.

Thomas Henry Huxley was the grandfather of author Aldous Huxley; Sir Julian Huxley, biologist and the first director of UNESCO; and Nobel laureate Sir Andrew Huxley.

Thomas Henry Huxley quotes:
• “Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”
• “Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
• “There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.”