List of Undersea Explorers - Biologists

Biologists

Marine biology, or Biological oceanography is the study of the plants, animals and microbes (biota) of the oceans and their ecological interaction.

• Ali Abdelghany (born 1944), Egyptian marine biologist
• Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921), Swedish marine zoologist.
• Samuel Stillman Berry (1887–1984), U.S. marine zoologist.
• Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), U.S. marine biologist.
• Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American Marine Biologist and Author.
• Carl Chun (1852–1914), German marine biologist
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997), French marine biologist and explorer
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882), wrote Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) while aboard the HMS Beagle
• Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), German marine biologist
• Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer
• Hans Hass (born 1919), Austrian marine biologist and diving pioneer
• Gotthilf Hempel (born 1929), German marine biologist
• Ilham Artüz (1924–1993), Turkish Marine Biologist and Oceanographer
• Johan Hjort (1869–1948), Norwegian marine zoologist and one of the founders of ICES
• Bruno Hofer (1861–1916), German fisheries scientist
• Emperor Showa of Japan (1901–1989), jellyfish taxonomist
• Uwe Kils (born 1951), German marine biologist
• August David Krohn (1803–1891), Russian/German zoologist
• William Elford Leach (1790–1836), English zoologist and marine biologist
• Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846–1888), Russian marine biologist and anthropologist
• Sir John Murray (1841–1914), Scots–Canadian marine biologist
• Wheeler J. North (1922–2002), American marine biologist and diving pioneer
• Ed Ricketts (1897–1948), American marine biologist noted for a pioneering study of intertidal ecology
• Harald Rosenthal (born 1937), German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology
• Michael Sars (1809–1869), Norwegian theologian and biologist
• Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian marine biologist
• Gunnar Thorson (1906–1971), Danish marine biologist
• Ruth Turner (1915–2000), marine biologist
• Charles Wyville Thompson (1832–1882), Scottish marine biologist

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