List of Biologists - C

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  • Jean Cabanis (1816–1906), German ornithologist
  • George Caley (1770–1829), English botanist
  • Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665–1721), German botanist
  • Frederick Campion Steward (1904–1993), British botanist
  • A. P. de Candolle (1778–1841), Swiss botanist
  • Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1819–1877), conchologist
  • Alexis Carrel (1873–1944), French biologist and surgeon, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on sutures and organ transplants, advocate of eugenics
  • Elie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896), French botanist
  • Clodoveo Carrión Mora (1883–1957), Ecuadorian paleontologist and naturalist
  • Sean B. Carroll, American evolutionary development biologist
  • Rachel Carson (1907–1964), biologist, author of Silent Spring
  • George Washington Carver (1860–1943), American botanist
  • John Cassin (1813–1869), American ornithologist
  • Alexandre de Cassini (1781–1832), French botanist (abbr. in botany: Cass.)
  • William E. Castle (1867–1962), American geneticist
  • Mark Catesby (1683–1749), English naturalist
  • Andrea Cesalpino (1519–1603), Italian botanist
  • Francesco Cetti (1726–1778), Italian zoologist
  • Carlos Chagas (1879–1934), Brazilian physician
  • Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), German botanist
  • Min Chueh Chang (1908–1991), biologist
  • Frank Michler Chapman (1864–1945), ornithologist
  • Martha Chase (1927–2003), American biologist, conducted the Hershey-Chase experiment which linked DNA to heredity
  • Thomas Frederic Cheeseman (1846–1923), New Zealand botanist and naturalist.
  • Sergei Chetverikov (1880–1959), Russian population geneticist
  • Charles Chilton (1860–1929), New Zealand zoologist
  • Carl Chun (1852–1914), German marine biologist
  • Nathan Cobb (1859–1932), American biologist, considered the founder of the discipline of nematology
  • Alfred Cogniaux (1841–1916), Belgian botanist (abbr. in botany: Cogn.)
  • Stanley Cohen (born 1922), American biologist who won the Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986) for his discovery of growth factors.
  • James J. Collins, American biologist, synthetic biology and systems biology pioneer
  • Henry Boardman Conover (1892–1950), American ornithologist
  • Timothy Abbott Conrad (1803–1877), American malacologist
  • James Graham Cooper (1830–1902), American naturalist
  • William Cooper (1798–1864), American conchologist
  • Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897), fish, reptiles, paleontology
  • Charles Coquerel (1822–1867), French navy surgeon and entomologist
  • Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), American biochemist, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the Cori cycle
  • Gerty Cori (1886–1957), American biochemist, first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, the prize was awarded to her and her husband Carl for their work on the Cori cycle
  • Charles B. Cory (1857–1921), American ornithologist
  • Emanuel Mendez da Costa (1717–1791), English botanist, naturalist, philosopher
  • Elliott Coues (1842–1899), American ornithologist
  • Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), South African zoologist
  • Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), French marine biologist and explorer
  • Miguel Rolando Covian (1913–1992), Argentine-Brazilian neurophysiologist, father of Brazilian neurophysiology
  • Frederick Vernon Coville (1867–1937), American botanist
  • Robert K. Crane, (born 1919), American biochemist, discovered sodium-glucose cotransport.
  • Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786–1845), German zoologist
  • Francis Crick (1916–2004), one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule and a neurobiologist
  • Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse (1826–1898), French conchologist
  • Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), English botanist
  • Allan Cunningham (1791–1839), English botanist
  • William Curtis (1746–1799), English botanist
  • Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French naturalist

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