2012 Event Richard Dawkins, an atheist, ethologist and evolutionary biologist, approves of British education secretary Michael Gove's plan of sending free King James Bibles to every state school 2011 Event Lynn Margulis, an American evolutionary biologist, dies at age 73 1997 Death George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina 1995 Death Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician, dies at 40 1995 Death Jonas Salk, biologist (Polio vaccine), dies of heart failure 1995 Death Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56 1993 Death Lewis Thomas, biologist, dies of cancer at 80 1991 Death Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives and Grows), dies 1988 Death Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81 1987 Death Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer, dies at 59 1983 Death Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84 1981 Death Cyril Dean Darlington, biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77 1981 Death Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74 1975 Death Julian Huxley, biologist, dies 1974 Death Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Leeuwenhoek), dies at 87 1972 Death Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist, dies at 78 1964 Death Rachel L Carson, U.S. biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56 1964 Death Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/paleontologist, dies at 74 1962 Death William Beebe, U.S. biologist/explorer, dies at 84 1960 Death Roy Chapman Andrews, U.S. biologist/explorer, dies at 76 1955 Birthday Vitali Viktorovich Savitsky, biologist/politician 1945 Death Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist (Omgang met planten), dies at 79 1938 Birthday Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director, Weevers' Duin 1935 Death J Wouter[us] van Dieren, biologist (Terschelling), dies 1930 Birthday Patricia Lindop, radio biologist 1930 Birthday Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as Vice President of American Zoologists 1927 Birthday Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer 1927 Birthday Anne McLaren, biologist/zoologist/actress, Things to Come 1920 Birthday Francois Jacob, born in France, biologist/bacteriologist, Nobel 1965 1918 Birthday John Gray, FRS/marine biologist 1917 Birthday Barry Commoner, born in Brooklyn, New York, biologist, Science and Survival 1916 Birthday Angeles Alvarino Deleira, biologist/oceanographer/writer 1915 Birthday Leo Vroman, Dutch/U.S. poet and biologist 1912 Birthday George E Palade, Romanian/U.S. cell biologist, ribosomen, Nobel 1974 1912 Birthday Salvador E Luria, Italian/U.S. biologist, Nobel prize 1969 1911 Birthday Anatol Rapoport, Russian/US mathem/biologist, game theory 1910 Death Alexander E Agassiz, U.S. businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74 1908 Birthday A D Hershey, U.S., biologist, worked with bacteriophages, Nobel 1969 1907 Birthday Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer, Silent Spring 1907 Birthday Nicholas Tinbergen, Netherlands/British biologist/zoologist, Nobel 1973 1906 Birthday George Wald, U.S., physiologist/biologist, eye, Nobel 1967 1906 Birthday Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist, Nobel 1969 1903 Birthday Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist, hereditary mechanisms 1903 Birthday George Beadle, U.S. biologist, Nobel 1958 1902 Birthday J Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist, Terschelling 1898 Birthday Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician, Nobel 1974 1893 Birthday Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist 1889 Birthday Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/palaeontologist 1888 Death Spencer F Baird, U.S. biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65 1887 Birthday Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist, Swammerdam 1887 Birthday Julian S Huxley, London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog 1883 Birthday Ernest E Just, biologist, pioneered cell division 1879 Birthday Agnes Arber, English biologist/philosopher, Mind and the Eye 1873 Birthday Waclaw Rawicz, Berent, Warsaw Poland, biologist/writer 1873 Birthday Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist, Nobel 1912 1866 Birthday Thomas Hunt Morgan, U.S., biologist, Nobel-1933 1865 Birthday Jac[obus] P Thijsse, Dutch biologist/educator, Contact with Plants 1861 Birthday William Bateson, English biologist, originator of term "genetics" 1854 Death Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80 1851 Birthday David Starr Jordan, New York, biologist/university President, Leland Stanford 1835 Birthday Alexander E Agassiz, U.S., businessman/biologist/geology 1834 Birthday Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Potsdam Germ, biologist, Causes of Evolution 1823 Birthday Spencer F Baird, U.S. biologist, Wood's Hole Station 1807 Death Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79 1777 Death Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69 1773 Birthday Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist 1759 Death Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, biologist/astronomer, dies at 60 1727 Birthday Michel Adanson, French biologist, Natural History of Senegal 1723 Death Thonis van Leeuwenhoek, biologist/inventor (microscope), dies at 90 1705 Birthday Peter Arctedius, Swedish biologist 1683 Birthday Rene-Antoine de Reaumur, France, biologist/engineer 1605 Death Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82 1522 Birthday Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical
