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List of marine biologists

List of marine biologists is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of marine biologists rather than just read about it. In short: This is a list of marine biologists. Donald Putnam Abbott (1920–1986), American marine invertebrate zoologist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919–2010), American marine botanist Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921), Swedish marine zoologist Leanne Armand (born 1968), Australian marine scientist Samuel Stillman Berry (1887–1984), American marine zoologist Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), American marine biologist Jean Bou…

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Reference excerpt

This is a list of marine biologists.

Donald Putnam Abbott (1920–1986), American marine invertebrate zoologist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919–2010), American marine botanist Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921), Swedish marine zoologist Leanne Armand (born 1968), Australian marine scientist Samuel Stillman Berry (1887–1984), American marine zoologist Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), American marine biologist Jean Bouillon (1926–2009), Belgian marine zoologist Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American marine biologist and author María Elena Caso (1915–1991), Mexican marine biologist Carl Chun (1852–1914), German marine biologist Eugenie Clark (1922–2015), American marine biologist Malcolm Clarke (1930–2013), British cephalopod expert Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997), French marine explorer, conservationist, and filmmaker Charles Darwin (1809–1882), wrote Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) while aboard HMS Beagle Paul K. Dayton (born 1941), American benthic marine ecologist noted for work in kelp forest ecology Finn Devold (1902–1977), Norwegian marine biologist Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), German marine biologist Nicole Dubilier, American marine microbiologist, head of Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Patricia Louise Dudley (1929–2004) American zoologist specializing in copepods Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer Austin Gallagher, marine biologist Ruth Gates (1962–2018), American marine biologist noted for work on coral reefs George Brown Goode (1851–1896), American ichthyologist Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), English marine zoologist J. Frederick Grassle (1939–2018), American marine biologist Judith Grassle, marine ecologist David Gruber Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer. Gordon Gunter (1909–1998), American marine biologist and fisheries scientist notable for pioneering fisheries research in the northern Gulf of Mexico Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), German physician, zoologist, marine biologist and evolutionist Benjamin Halpern, American marine conservationist Hans Hass (born 1919), Austrian marine biologist and diving pioneer Gotthilf Hempel (born 1929), German marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018), American animator (creator of SpongeBob SquarePants); previously worked as a marine biology teacher for several years Hirohito, the Shōwa Emperor (1901–1989), jellyfish taxonomist Johan Hjort (1869–1948), Norwegian marine zoologist and one of the founders of ICES Bruno Hofer (1861–1916), German fisheries scientist Martin W. Johnson (1893–1984), American marine biologist and biological oceanographer Benjamin Kahn (born 1955), Israeli marine biologist and environmental activist Uwe Kils (born 1951), German marine biologist Otto Kinne (1923–2015), German marine biologist Nancy Knowlton, coral reef biologist and author of Citizens of the Sea (2010) August David Krohn (1803–1891), Russian/German zoologist Paul L. Kramp (1887–1975), Danish zoologist working on jellyfish William Elford Leach (1790–1836), English zoologist and marine biologist Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846–1888), Russian marine biologist and anthropologist Melissa Cristina Márquez, "Mother of Sharks," marine biologist and science communicator Flower Msuya (born 1959), Tanzanian phycologist Sir John Murray (1841–1914), Scots-Canadian marine biologist Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1816–1872), Danish marine botanist studied arctic nematodes and marine algae Robert T. Paine (1933–2016), American marine zoologist known for developing the "keystone species" concept Joseph R. Pawlik (born 1960), American marine biologist Ronald C. Phillips (1932–2005), American marine botanist, co-author of Seagrasses (1980); worldwide development of seagrass science told in autobiographical Travels with Seagrass (2013) Syed Zahoor Qasim (born 1926), Indian marine biologist Ed Ricketts (1897–1948), American marine biologist noted for a pioneering study of intertidal ecology Harald Rosenthal (born 1937), German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology Anne Rudloe (1947–2012), American co-founder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory Jack Rudloe (born 1943), American co-founder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory and writer of several popular works on the sea including The Sea Brings Forth, and The Erotic Ocean. Frederick Stratten Russell (1897–1984), British marine biologist known for his work on zooplankton. Georg Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian marine biologist Michael Sars (1809–1869), Norwegian theologian and biologist Helen Scales (fl. 2026), British marine biologist and writer Oscar Elton Sette (1900–1972), American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering modern fisheries science and fisheries oceanography Bell M. Shimada (1922–1958), American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering studies of tuna stocks in the equatorial Pacific Ocean Ronald Shimek (born 1948), American marine biologist noted mainly for his work on scaphopods and turrid gastropods David N. Thomas (academic) (born 1962) British marine scientist specializing in sea ice ecology and biogeochemistry Charles Wyville Thomson (1832–1882), Scottish marine biologist Gunnar Thorson (1906–1971), Danish marine biologist Anne Thynne (1800–1866), British marine zoologist Takasi Tokioka (1913–2001), Japanese marine biologist known for his work on soft bodied zooplankton and tunicates Ruth Turner (1915–2000), marine biologist Anna Weber-van Bosse (1852–1942), marine phycologist

Illustrations

List of marine biologists: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, co-inventor of the aqua-lung, is well known for popularizing marine biology. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau, co-inventor of the aqua-lung, is well known for popularizing marine biology.

Worked examples

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of List of marine biologists

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In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses List of marine biologists in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: List of marine biologists is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Lists of biologists by field, Marine biologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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This is a list of marine biologists. Donald Putnam Abbott (1920–1986), American marine invertebrate zoologist Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919–2010), American marine botanist Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921), Swedish marine zoologist Leanne Armand (born 1968), Australian marine scientist Samuel St…

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