Biologist Collection

Rosalind Franklin
ROSALIND FRANKLIN Pioneer Molecular Biologist she made important contributions to understanding the structure of DNA

Charles Darwin in his evolutionary tree. Caricature of the British naturalist Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) sitting in his evolutionary tree

Charles Darwin, British naturalist
Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist. Darwin had briefly studied medicine and then trained in the clergy, but his interest was in natural history

Portrait of Charles Darwin, British naturalist
Charles Darwin. Engraving of Charles RobertDarwin (1809-1882), British naturalist, in oldage. Darwin studied medicine and theology but hisinterest was in natural history

Charles Darwin
Portrait of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist and author of the Origin of Species aged about 65 years

Portrait of Charles Darwin, British naturalist
Charles Darwin. Engraving of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist, in old age. Darwin studied medicine and theology, but his real interest was in natural history

Portrait of English naturalist Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) English Naturalist. Darwin was the author of the Origin of Species published in 1859 on the theory of evolution by natural selection

1881 Charles Darwin Portrait aftr Collier
1881 Charles Robert Darwin ( 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) English Naturalist and author of the Origin of Species. 1922 Hand coloured portrait aquatint of Darwin by G

Watson and Crick, DNA discovers
Watson and Crick. Caricature of the molecular biologists and discoverers of the structure of DNA James Watson (born 1928, left) and Francis Crick (1916-2004), with their model of a DNA molecule

Richard Dawkins, British science writer
Richard Dawkins. Caricature of the British ethnologist, evolutionary biologist and controversial author Richard Dawkins (born 1941) holding one of his books

Isaac Asimov, US author and biochemist
Isaac Asimov. Caricature of the Soviet-born American science fiction writer and biochemist Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)

Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian explorer, biologist and humanitarian. In 1888 he was the first to cross the Greenland ice sheet and showed that it covered the entire island

Lyall Watson, South African scientist and author
Lyall Watson (1939-2008), South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and author

Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist
Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884), Austrian botanist and founder of genetics. Mendel, the abbot of an abbey in Brno, carried out breeding experiments with pea plants (held in hand)

Steven Pinker, Canadian psychologist
Steven Pinker. Caricature of the Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and author Steven Arthur Pinker (born 1954)

Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban biologist
Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915), Cuban biologist noted for work on yellow fever. Date: circa 1900

Stephen Gould, US palaeontologist
Stephen Gould. Caricature of the US palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, science historian and author Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) holding a collection of his essays called The Pandas Thumb

Members of the Search Party who found Captain Scott
From left: Sub-lieutenant Gran, Petty-Officer Williamson and Mr E.W

The Officers of the Terra Nova, 1912 Voyage, (1913). Artist: Herbert Ponting
The Officers of the Terra Nova, 1912 Voyage; Left to right - Mr. Dennistoun, Bo sun Cheetham, Lt. Rennick, Paymaster Drake, Engineer Williams, Lt. Pennell, Lt. Bruce, Biologist Lillie, (1913)

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Alan Turing, 1950s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Alan Turing, 1950s, (2023)

Charles Darwin, British naturalist, c1870s. Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron
Charles Darwin, British naturalist, c1870s. Darwin started his career on board the HMS Beagle and spent six years surveying the South American seas

Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1871. Darwin (1809-1882) was employed as naturalist on HMS Beagle from 1831-1836

A male Florida panther is treed by specialized dogs near the Seminole Indian Reservation

Thomas Hardwicke, British naturalist C016 / 5003
Major-General Thomas Hardwicke (1755-1835), British naturalist. Hardwicke served in the army of the British East India Company from 1778 to 1823, becoming Major-General in 1819

Charles Regan, British ichthyologist C013 / 6226
Charles Tate Regan (1878-1943), British ichthyologist. Regan did much work on fish classification. He joined the British Museum (Natural History) in 1901

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892)
Portrait of Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Picture shows Owen and the skeleton of Dinornis maximus, c. 1877. From The Life of Owen (1894)

Nikolai Dubinin, Russian geneticist
Nikolai Petrovich Dubinin (1907-1998), Russian geneticist, examining microscope slides in a laboratory

John Maynard Smith, caricature
John Maynard Smith (1920-2004). Caricature of the British biologist John Maynard Smith

Penguin breeding colony research, with researchers and photographers in the background

Portrait of Charles Darwin, British naturalist
Charles Darwin. Portrait of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist. Darwin studied medicine and theology, but was most interested in natural history

Punch cartoon: Man is but a Worm - Charles Darwins Theory of Evolution (engraving)
6034945 Punch cartoon: Man is but a Worm - Charles Darwins Theory of Evolution (engraving) by English School

Patrick Geddes / Photo
Sir PATRICK GEDDES Scottish biologist and sociologist; active in city planning

Charles Darwin. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century portrait

"A Venerable Orang-outang", a caricature of Charles Darwin as an ape
3557539 " A Venerable Orang-outang", a caricature of Charles Darwin as an ape, 1871 (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: published in The Hornet)

A Papaver commutatum ladybird plant is seen during media day at the Chelsea Flower Show
A Papaver commutatum Ladybird plant is seen during media day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London May 20, 2013. The annual show opens to the public on Tuesday

Zompopa ant reared for human consumption is pictured in the insect farm of biologist
A zompopa ant, reared for human consumption, is pictured in the insect farm of biologist Federico Paniagua

8626312

Portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace, c.1895 (photo)
7224482 Portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace, c.1895 (photo); Private Collection; (add.info.: Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (1823 - 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
3522053 Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck; (add.info.: Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) French naturalist. Dated 19th Century); Universal History Archive/UIG

Photographic portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley
3522024 Photographic portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley; (add.info.: Photographic portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English Biologist. Dated 19th Century); Universal History Archive/UIG

Sir Richard Owen, 1865
1576998 Sir Richard Owen, 1865; (add.info.: Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 - 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist

Herbert Spencer
3118492 Herbert Spencer; (add.info.: Portrait of Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and classical liberal political theorist

Louis Pasteur, 19th century (engraving)
5310031 Louis Pasteur, 19th century (engraving); (add.info.: Portrait of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist. Dated 19th century.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825 - 1895
3083225 Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825 - 1895.; Private Collection; (add.info.: English biologist aka "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution)

An engraving depicting Luigi Galvani investigating the behaviour of muscles stimulated by electricity
5311438 An engraving depicting Luigi Galvani investigating the behaviour of muscles stimulated by electricity

Engraving depicting Luigi Galvani's outdoor experiment which investigates the behaviour of muscles stimulated by
5309465 Engraving depicting Luigi Galvani's outdoor experiment which investigates the behaviour of muscles stimulated by electricity; (add.info)

Louis Pasteur's first apparatus for cooling and fermenting wort
3733830 Louis Pasteur's first apparatus for cooling and fermenting wort.; (add.info)

Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist (etching)
8663789 Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist (etching) by German School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Robert Koch (1843-1910), German physician and microbiologist

Louis Pasteur's method of observing sealed culture samples
5310078 Louis Pasteur's method of observing sealed culture samples; (add.info.: Engraving depicting Louis Pasteur's method of observing sealed culture samples)

Engraving depicting Luigi Galvani's experiment which investigates the behaviour of muscles stimulated by
5309466 Engraving depicting Luigi Galvani's experiment which investigates the behaviour of muscles stimulated by electricity; (add.info)

Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau, 19th century (engraving)
3733527 Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau, 19th century (engraving); (add.info.: Portrait of Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau (1810-1892) a French biologist

An Louis Pasteur experiment
3733828 An Louis Pasteur experiment.; (add.info.: Engraving depicting an Louis Pasteur experiment demonstrating that fermentation and putrefaction are caused by air-borne organisms)

Louis Pasteur's first apparatus for cooling and fermenting wort
3733829 Louis Pasteur's first apparatus for cooling and fermenting wort.; (add.info)

Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn, 1860
1576993 Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn, 1860; (add.info.: Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn (28 February 1792 - 28 November 1876)

An 1878 caricature lampooning Charles Darwins theory (Darwinism) that Humans are descendents or related to Apes
5308581 An 1878 caricature lampooning Charles Darwins theory (Darwinism) that Humans are descendents or related to Apes; (add.info)

Sir Richard Owen, 1804 - 1892
3083223 Sir Richard Owen, 1804 - 1892.; Private Collection; (add.info.: English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist)

Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau, 19th century (engraving)
3733528 Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau, 19th century (engraving); (add.info.: Portrait of Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau (1810-1892) a French biologist

Portrait of Charles Darwin, 1855 (photo)
ELD4831645 Portrait of Charles Darwin, 1855 (photo); (add.info.: Portrait of Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) c.1840 (drawing)
ELD4831585 Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) c.1840 (drawing); Photo © The Holbarn Archive

Louis Pasteur's first apparatus for cooling and fermenting wort
3733831 Louis Pasteur's first apparatus for cooling and fermenting wort.; (add.info)

AI IMAGE - Alan Turing at Bletchley, 1940s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Alan Turing at Bletchley, 1940s, (2023)

AI IMAGE - Alan Turing at Bletchley, 1940s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Alan Turing at Bletchley, 1940s, (2023)

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Alan Turing, 1940s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Alan Turing, 1940s, (2023)

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Alan Turing, 1940s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Alan Turing, 1940s, (2023)

AI IMAGE - Portrait of Alan Turing, 1940s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of Alan Turing, 1940s, (2023)

AI IMAGE - Alan Turing at Bletchley, 1940s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Alan Turing at Bletchley, 1940s, (2023)

Medal of Francesco Redi: Bacchic Scene (image 1 of 2), 1684. Creator: Massimiliano Soldani
Medal of Francesco Redi: Bacchic Scene (image 1 of 2), 1684

Portrait of Lorenz Spengler, Ivory Turner and Curator of the Royal Danish Kunstkammer, 1756-1757

The Late Professor Moseley LLD, FRS 1844-1891, 1891. Creator: Unknown
The Late Professor Moseley LLD, FRS 1844-1891, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Portrait of Cardanus, published 1574. Creators: Unknown, Johannes Sambucus
Portrait of Cardanus, published 1574

Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maklai half-length portrait, facing front, between 1880 and 1886

Louis Thuillier, 19th century (engraving)
3586073 Louis Thuillier, 19th century (engraving) by French School, (19th century); (add.info.: Portrait of Louis Thuillier (1856-1883) a French biologist and physicist

A revolutionist in the cloister (litho)
979572 A revolutionist in the cloister (litho) by Skinner, Edward Frederick (1865-1924); Private Collection; (add.info.: A revolutionist in the cloister)

Laboratory of Naples'Aquarium. In the foreground, two men at work. Naples Acquarium. Date of Photograph:1920 - 1930

Portrait of Marie-Jean-Pierre Flouren, French physiologist; carte de visite France. Date of Photograph:1855-1865

Professor Patrick Geddes, studio portrait
Professor Patrick Geddes (1854 - 1932), studio portrait. Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE, biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and town planner

All products are expertly crafted, using premium materials, tailored to your specifications and promptly shipped

Biologists, the unsung heroes of the natural world, have been instrumental in unraveling the mysteries of life on Earth. From Rosalind Franklin's groundbreaking work on DNA structure to Charles Darwin's revolutionary theory of evolution, these brilliant minds have shaped our understanding of biology. Charles Darwin, a British naturalist known for his evolutionary tree diagram and extensive research on species adaptation, laid the foundation for modern biology. His portrait captures his intellectual curiosity and dedication to uncovering nature's secrets. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick made one of the most significant discoveries in biology – they unraveled the structure of DNA. Their collaboration marked a turning point in genetics and opened up new avenues for further exploration. Richard Dawkins, a prominent British science writer, has played a pivotal role in popularizing evolutionary biology through his books and lectures. His contributions continue to inspire future generations of biologists. Isaac Asimov was not only an acclaimed US author but also a biochemist who seamlessly blended science fiction with scientific knowledge. His works captivated readers while shedding light on complex biological concepts. Illustrations showcasing hummingbirds from Trochilidae family highlight how biologists study diverse organisms to understand their behavior and ecological roles within ecosystems. The portrait of Charles Darwin reminds us that he was more than just an iconic figure; he was at the forefront of scientific discovery during his time. His meticulous observations paved the way for modern biological research methods still used today. English naturalist Charles Darwin's portrait serves as a reminder that even centuries later, his ideas remain relevant and influential in shaping our understanding of life's diversity and interconnectedness. Biologists stand on his shoulders as they explore new frontiers in this ever-evolving field.