List of Biologists - W

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  • Frans de Waal (born 1948), Dutch ethologist, primatologist and psychologist
  • Coslett Herbert Waddell (1858–1919), Irish botanist
  • Jeremy Wade (1960 - ) Writer and TV presenter with a special interest in rivers and freshwater fish.
  • Johann Georg Wagler (1800–1832), German herpetologist
  • Warren H. Wagner (1920–2000), American botanist
  • Göran Wahlenberg (1780–1851), Swedish naturalist
  • Selman Waksman (1888–1973), American biochemist, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on antibiotics
  • Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771–1852), French entomologist
  • George Wald (1906–1997), American biologist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on visual perception
  • Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist and biologist
  • Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854), Danish botanist
  • Benjamin Dann Walsh (1808–1869), American entomologist
  • William Grey Walter (1910–1977), American neurophysiologist and roboticist, made a number of important discoveries in the field of electroencephalography
  • Deepal Warakagoda (born 1965), Sri Lankan ornithologist
  • J. Robin Warren (born 1937), Australian pathologist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that most stomach ulcers are caused by a strain of bacteria
  • Charles Waterton (1782–1865), English naturalist
  • James D. Watson (born 1928), Nobel Prize-winning biologist, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule
  • Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854), English botanist (abbr. in botany: Webb)
  • Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819–1877), English botanist (abbr. in botany: Wedd.)
  • Robert Weinberg, cancer biologist
  • August Weismann (1834–1914), German biologist
  • Friedrich Welwitsch (1806–1872), Austrian botanist
  • Karl Wernicke (1848–1905), German physician and neuroanatomist, discovered Wernicke's area
  • Victor Westhoff (1916–2001), Dutch botanist
  • Alexander Wetmore (1886–1978), American ornithologist
  • William Morton Wheeler (1865–1937), American entomologist and myrmecologist
  • Gilbert White (1720–1795), English naturalist
  • John White (c. 1756–1832), English botanist
  • Robert Wiedersheim (1848–1923), German anatomist.
  • Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782–1867), German explorer and biologist.
  • Hans Wiehler (1930–2003), American botanist (abbr. in botany: Wiehler)
  • Torsten Wiesel (born 1924), Swedish-born American neurobiologist, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on information processing in the visual system
  • Charles Wilkes (1798–1877), American explorer and naturalist
  • Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812), German botanist and pharmacist (abbr. in botany: Willd.)
  • George C. Williams (born 1926), American evolutionary biologist, credited with introducing the gene-centric view of evolution
  • Francis Willughby (1635–1672), English ornithologist and ichthyologist
  • Alexander Wilson (1766–1813), Scottish-American ornithologist
  • E. A. Wilson (1872–1912), English naturalist
  • Edward O. Wilson (born 1929), American entomologist and father of sociobiology, two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize
  • Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953), Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle of life concept and discovered the biological process of nitrification
  • Caspar Wistar (1761–1818), American anatomist and physician. The genus Wisteria is named after him
  • Henry Witherby (1873–1943), British ornithologist
  • William Withering (1741–1799), English botanist
  • Carl Woese (born 1928), American microbiologist, identified the Archaea, a major division of organisms
  • Felisa Wolfe-Simon, American biogeochemist and microbial geobiologist
  • Flossie Wong-Staal (born 1947), American virologist
  • Sewall Wright (1889–1988), American geneticist, co-founder of population genetics
  • V. C. Wynne-Edwards (1906–1997), Scottish zoologist, introduced the hypothesis of group selection in evolution
  • Charles Wyville Thompson (1832–1882), Scottish marine biologist

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