SCIENTISTS
Founder of Biology
Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776-1837)
German naturalist
(February 4, 1776 - February 16, 1837) was a German naturalist.
The term “biology” is coined by that german naturalist
He was a proponent of the theory of the transmutation of species, a theory of evolution held by some biologists prior to the work of Charles Darwin. He put forward this belief in the first volume of his Biologie; oder die Philosophie der lebenden Natur, published in 1802, the same year similar opinions were expressed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
Introduced the word biology, from the Greek bios, life, and logos, study, on his book "Biologie oder Philosophie de Lebended Natur (1802-1822)".
Treviranus was born in Bremen and studied medicine at Göttingen, where he took his doctor's degree in 1796. In 1797 he was appointed professor of medicine and mathematics at the Bremen lyceum.
Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788-1868)
Founder of Prehistoria
FRANCE
5.10.1988
Jacques Boucher de Perthes has been a great researcher, and founder of archaeology, i.e., like said then, " the history of the man through the history of the earth and its revolutions ".
Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, the Knight of Lamarck
FRANCE
27.5.1979
Another important name in the history of biology is of the Frenchman the Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, the knight of Lamarck. Considered in 1809, the hypothesis of that the beings livings creature have the capacity to move and to evolve in elapsing of the time.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
PALAW
Carl Sagan, astronomer, astrophysicist, author and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, died of pneumonia on December 20, 1996 at the age of 62.
