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STANLY MILLER
STANLY MILLER Born: 7-Mar-1930 Birthplace: Oakland, CA Died: 20-May-2007 Location of death: National City, CA Cause of death: Heart Failure Remains: Cremated Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Chemist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Miller-Urey Experiment Stanley Miller's most famous scientific work was conducted in 1953, while he was a young graduate student at the University of Chicago. Working under Nobel laureate Harold C. Urey, he placed small amounts of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water -- but no oxygen -- in an airtight container, then heated it and subjected it to electrical sparks -- an attempt to approximate early earth atmosphere and weather. Although his work had been inspired by Urey's theories, Urey initially discouraged Miller from attempting the experiment, thinking it would take years, l
JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARK
JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARK Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Chevalier de Lamarck Born: 1-Aug-1744 Birthplace: Bazentin-le-Petit, France Died: 18-Dec-1829 Location of death: Paris, France Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Missing Religion: Deist Race or Ethnicity: White Occupation: Biologist Nationality: France Executive summary: Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist Military service: French Army (1759-68) French naturalist, born on the 1st of August 1744, at Bazantin, a village of Picardy. He was an eleventh child; and his father, lord of the manor and of old family, but of limited means, having placed three sons in the army, destined this one for the church, and sent him to the Jesuits at Amiens, where he continued until his father's death. After this he would remain with the Jesuits no longer, and, not yet seventeen years of age, starte
CHARLES DARWIN
CHARLES DARWIN Charles Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 at the Mount House, Shrewsbury. His father was a doctor. His mother died when he was 8 years old. Charles had one brother and four sisters. Up to the age of 8 Charles was taught by an older sister. He then began school. From his earliest years Charles Darwin was interested in natural history. However he was a poor scholar. He went to Edinburgh University to study medicine but he left after 2 years. His father decided he should be a clergyman so Charles Darwin then went to Cambridge University. Charles Darwin left Cambridge University in 1831. The same year he signed up to sail, without pay, as a naturalist on a ship called the Beagle. Its captain was Robert Fitzroy and it sailed on 27 December 1831. In February 1832 the Beagle reached Brazil. They stayed in Brazil until July 1832 then sailed to Montevideo. Darwin spent three years in different parts of South America collecting specimens. T
EUGENE DUBOIS
EUGENE DUBOIS EUGENE DUBOIS Eugene Dubois was the first person to ever deliberately search for fossils of human ancestors. Only a handful of fossil humans had already been discovered, and those were by chance. In a remarkable story of dedication and luck, Dubois succeeded in his unlikely quest. Eugene Dubois was born in the town of Eijsden in the Netherlands in 1858. As a boy he was fascinated by natural history, a pursuit encouraged by his pharmacist father. An excellent student, he studied medicine and graduated as a doctor in 1884. Two years later he was appointed an anatomy lecturer at Amsterdam University, and married in the same year. The following year, he gave it up to go to the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, to look for fossils of human ancestors. No one is quite sure why Dubois threw up a good job to travel half way around the world on what most people would surely have considered a wild goose chase. Obviously, he must have been interested in human evoluti
CARL LINNAEUS
CARL LINNAEUS CARL LINNAEUS Born 23 May 1707(1707-05-23)[note 1] Råshult, Stenbrohult parish (now within Älmhult Municipality), Sweden Died 10 January 1778(1778-01-10) (aged 70) Hammarby (estate), Danmark parish (outside Uppsala), Sweden Residence Sweden Nationality Swedish Fields Botany Biology Zoology Alma mater Lund University Uppsala University University of Harderwijk Known for Taxonomy Ecology Botany Author abbreviation (botany) Carl Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus, is often called the Father of Taxonomy. His system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in wide use today (with many changes). His ideas on classification have influenced generations of biologists during and after his own lifetime, even those opposed to the philosophical and theological roots of his work. Biography of Linnaeus He was born on May 23, 1707, at Stenbrohult, in the province of Småland in southern Sweden. His father, Nils Ingemars