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History of biology – Summary of important names and corresponding yearsLecture 1:
- Aristotle (382-322BC)
- Alexander the great (356-323BC)
- Hypatia (±350-370 to 415)
- Galen (129 - ±200)
Symbols of the Renaissance (15th – 16th c.):
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- Paracelsus (1493-1541) – Dose is important for poisoning, Burning of Galens
books.
- Vesalius (1514-1564) – Burning of Galens books, performs own dissections.
One of the heroes of the Scientific Revolution, together with Vesalius(?)
- William Harvey (1578-1657) – Blood flow experiment (one of the first
experiments)
Lecture 2:
- Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
- Rembert Dodoens (1517-1585)
Lecture 3:
Predecessors of evolution:
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Lecture 4:
Discoverers of the microscope:
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
- Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
- Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) The founding father of organic chemistry.
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) – Was against Pouchet (Pasteur vs. Pouchet
debate on spontaneous generation).
- Félix Archimède Pouchet (1800-1872)
- Robert Koch (1843-1920) discoverer of tuberculosis bacterium.
Lecture 5:
- Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) The founding father of genetics (Experiment
with peas).
- Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) Also one of the founding fathers of
genetics (Drosophila melanogaster)
- Francis Galton (1822-1911) eugenicist, through biometrics (including
phrenology).
Lecture 6:
- Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976) against Mendel. Faulty theory, but
objection was not tolerated. Lysenkoism.
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