who is Carl Linnaeus?
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He was the first to come up with a good system of classifying all life on earth. His system, with variations, is still in wide use today. \n\nVery Important Person to scientists!
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Charles Henry Turner\n\nzoologist\nBorn: 1867\nBirthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio\n\nAlthough he held a doctorate from the University of Chicago, zoologist Charles Henry Turner chose to teach at high schools so he could devote more time to the observation of insects. His research had lasting impact. Turner published several articles in scientific journals, including "Habits of Mound-Building Ants," "Experiments on the Color Vision of the Honeybee," "Hunting Habits of an American Sand Wasp," and "Psychological Notes on the Gallery Spider." In his research, Turner became the first person to prove that insects can hear and can distinguish pitch. In addition, he first discovered that cockroaches can learn by trial and error. \n\nDied: 1923
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This is a cool biography maker:  \nhttp://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomak2.htm
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check out this link \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_biology#Notable_cell_biologists
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Sorry couldn't resist -\n\nIt was Watson and CRICK and Maurice Wilkins was also awarded the Nobel prize for the structure of DNA. Rosalind Franklin was also heavily involved and would have made the whole situation much more complicated if she hadn't died.\n\nNobel prize winners are a good place to start but are not an exclusive list of those contributing greatly to the study of biology.\n\nPoor answer I know, didn't give any names - sorry....
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Phytagoras HIMSELF! the man!\n\nI think he did it while trying to find a scientific explanation on why did theif folks gave him that name.
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Algernon Swinburne\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne
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if i had to venture a guess, i would say carl sagan...am i close?????\n\nok, maybe not carl sagan, how about walter cronkite, possibly in walter cronkites universe???
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how about Charles Darwin?
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Louis Pasteur . He \n\ndiscovered that the purpose of cell division was reproduction. Also learned that living cells are dynamic. They use and produce energy and materials. Fermentative ability of microorganisms demonstrated between 1857 and 1876 by Pasteur - the father of biotechnology.
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Walter Sickert\n\nI recommend the below book, very informative and interesting.
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If only including Humans ( excluding God ),\nI would say,\n\n" Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855) "\n\nor better known as "Gauss".\n\nWhy? Because, among we mathematicans, he's the only one who got the title from his peers "prince of mathematics". \n\nI guess the opinion of the mathematicans counts the most in answering this question.\n\nGauss contributions were enormous.\n\nRegards
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He is also called Carl Linne. He was a Swedish scientist and he invented the classification of animals and plants that is still in usage in the 18th century. This is what I remember right now but you can learn more about him if you look up his name in an encyclopaedia or on Wikipedia.
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charles darwin proposed theory of natural selected or DARWININISM.It states:\n1.Despite having enormous potential of fertility, the population size of any kind of organism remains within a limit.\n2.It is due to the struggle between members of same species and different species for food, space and mate.\n3.The struggle eliminates the unfit individual.(survival of the fittest).\n4.These favourable changes when accumulated for a long time lead to origin of new species.\n\nHope it helped
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Charles Darwin, the discoverer of evolution; Watson and Crick, the discoverers of DNA
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Sir Isaac Newton, PRS, (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727] was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist,chemist, inventor, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the most influential scientists and mathematicians in history.\n\nNewton wrote the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica wherein he described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics. By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary motion from this system, he was the first to show that the motion of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws. The unifying and deterministic power of his laws was integral to the scientific revolution and the advancement of heliocentrism.\n\nAmong other scientific discoveries, Newton realized that the spectrum of colours observed when white light passes through a prism is inherent in the white light and not added by the prism (as Roger Bacon had claimed in the 13th century), and notably argued that light is composed of particles. He also developed a law of cooling, describing the rate of cooling of objects when exposed to air. He enunciated the principles of conservation of momentum and angular momentum. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of stars. Despite this renown in mainstream science, Newton spent more time working on either alchemy or chemistry, than physics.\n\nNewton played a major role in the history of calculus, sharing credit with Gottfried Leibniz. He also made contributions to other areas of mathematics, for example the generalized binomial theorem. The mathematician and mathematical physicist Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813), said that "Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish." 20\n \n\n\nBiography\nEarly years\nThe life of Isaac Newton Early life Writing Principia Later life Religious views Occult studies  \nNewton was born in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth (at Woolsthorpe Manor), a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. Newton was born prematurely, and no one expected him to live; indeed, his mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, is reported to have said that his body at that time could have fit inside a quart mug (Bell, 1937). His father, Isaac, had died three months before Newton's birth. When Newton was two, his mother went to live with her new husband, leaving her son in the care of his grandmother.\n\nAccording to E.T. Bell (1937, Simon and Schuster) and H. Eves:\n\nNewton began his schooling in the village schools and was later sent to The Kings Grammar School (Grantham) where he became the top boy in the school. At Kings he lodged with the local apothecary, William Clarke and eventually became engaged to the apothecary's stepdaughter, Anne Storer, before he went off to Cambridge University at the age of 19. As Newton became engrossed in his studies, the romance cooled and Miss Storer married someone else. It is said he kept a warm memory of this love, but Newton had no other recorded 'sweethearts' and never married. \nHowever, William Stukeley and Mrs Vincent, the source which Bell and Eves have embroidered so unhelpfully, merely say that Newton entertained 'a passion' for her while he lodged at the Clarke house. Mrs Vincent's maiden name was Katherine Storer, not Anne.\n\n \nEngraving after Enoch Seeman's 1726 portrait of NewtonFrom the age of about twelve until he was seventeen, Newton was educated at The King's School in Grantham (where his signature can still be seen upon a library window sill). He was removed from school and by Oct 1659 he was to be found at Woolsthorpe where his mother attempted to make a farmer of him. He was, by later reports of his contemporaries, thoroughly unhappy with the work. It appears to be Henry Stokes, master at the Ki
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All the Botanical names are in Latin language because  name. Names created by an early botanist named Carl Von Linne-a Swede, who developed the naming process based on classifications of similarities called binomial system of nomenclature.He decided to express the names using Latin as the language. Latin was and is still a dead language because no one uses it therefore it remains constant.Plants or animals have their scientific name in Latin to reduce any regional confusions. Any scientific name remains constant whether it is said in England, Pakistan, Argentina or any other country. A Lobelia is Lobelia, no matter where it grows or how many local or regional common names might exist for it.Carl Von Linne even changed his name as Carolus Linnaeus.