List of Biologists - P

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  • George Emil Palade (born 1912), Romanian-American biologist, discoverer of ribosomes, Nobel Prize
  • Paul Maurice Pallary (1869–1942), French-Algerian malacologist
  • Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), Russian zoologist
  • Edward Palmer (1829–1911), British botanist
  • Josif Pancic (1814–1888), Serbian botanist
  • Paracelsus (1493–1541), German alchemist
  • Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French biochemist
  • William Paterson (1755–1810), British botanist and explorer
  • Robert Patterson (1802–1872), Irish naturalist
  • Daniel Pauly (born 1946), French marine biologist
  • Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936), Russian physiologist, psychologist and physician, discovered conditioning, won the Nobel Prize for his research on the digestive system
  • Titian Peale (1799–1885), American naturalist
  • Donald C. Peattie (1898–1964), American botanist
  • Paul Pelseneer (1863–1945), Belgian malacologist
  • Jean-Marie Pelt (born 1933), French botanist
  • Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), Welsh naturalist and antiquary
  • Henri Perrier de la Bâthie (1873–1958), French botanist
  • George Perry (naturalist), 19th century English naturalist
  • Christian Hendrik Persoon (1761–1836), biologist
  • Paul Petard (1912–1980), French botanist
  • Wilhelm Peters (1815–1883), German naturalist
  • Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer, German physician, botanist and conchologist
  • Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808–1904), German-Chilean zoologist
  • Constantine John Phipps (1744–1792), English explorer
  • David Andrew Phoenix, (born 1966), Biochemist
  • Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1860–?), English entomologist
  • Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917), English entomologist, uncle of above
  • Charles Pickering (1805–1878), American naturalist
  • Cándido Bolívar Pieltain (1897–1976), Spanish naturalist
  • Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957), American zoologist, malacologist
  • Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967), American biologist and co-inventor of the contraceptive pill
  • Ronald Plasterk, (born 1957), Dutch molecular biologist, columnist and politician
  • Pliny the Elder (23–79), Roman natural philosopher
  • Reginald Innes Pocock (1863–1947), British taxonomist (mammals and arachnids)
  • Felipe Poey (1799–1891), Cuban zoologist
  • Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851), American botanist
  • Giuseppe Saverio Poli (1746–1825), Italian physicist, biologist and natural historian
  • Winston Ponder, Australian malacologist
  • Arthur William Baden Powell (1901–1987), New Zealand malacologist and paleontologist
  • Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (1833–1896), English ornithologist
  • Karel Presl (1794–1852), Bohemian botanist
  • Alice Pruvot-Fol (1873–1972), French malacologist
  • Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869), Czech anatomist and physiologist
  • Frederick Traugott Pursh (1774–1820), German-American botanist
  • Paul Émile de Puydt (1810–1888), Belgian botanist
  • Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839–1888), Russian explorer

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