Flashcards: Theoretical biologists

Eörs Szathmáry (born 1959) is a Hungarian theoretical evolutionary biologist at the late Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study and at the Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

George Oster is an American mathematical biologist, and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of California, Berkeley.

Joseph Henry Woodger (2 May 1894 - 8 March 1981) was a British theoretical biologist and philosopher of biology whose attempts to make biological sciences more rigorous and empirical was significantly influential to the philosophy of biology in the twentieth century.

Humberto Maturana (born September 14, 1928 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean biologist.

Simon Asher Levin (born April 22, 1941) is an American ecologist.

Michael Earl Conrad (1941–2000) was an American theoretical biologist.

Isidro Antonio Torte Savillo is a Philippine scientist at the Iloilo State College of Fisheries, specializing primarily in the study of lichens, fungi, and slime mould and a writer.

Cohen grew up in Washington DC and Michigan and graduated from Cranbrook School in 1961.

Arthur Taylor Winfree (May 15, 1942 – November 5, 2002) was a theoretical biologist at the University of Arizona.

Leon Glass (born 1943) is an American scientist who has studied various aspects of the application of mathematical and physical methods to biology, with special interest in vision, cardiac arrhythmia, and genetic networks.

Lev R. Ginzburg (Russian: Лев Рувимович Гинзбург; born 1945) is the President of Applied Biomathematics® and a mathematical ecologist.

Walter Maurice Elsasser (March 20, 1904 – October 14, 1991) was a German-born American physicist considered a "father" of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism.

Wen-Hsiung Li (Traditional Chinese:李文雄, 1942-) is a Taiwanese American scientist working in the fields of molecular evolution, population genetics, and genomics.

James Dickson Murray FRS, (born 2 January 1931 in Moffat, Scotland) is professor emeritus of applied mathematics at University of Washington and University of Oxford.

Trachette Levon Jackson (born July 24, 1972) is an African-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan and is known for work in mathematical oncology.

Alston Scott Householder (Rockford, Illinois, USA, 5 May 1904 – Malibu, California, USA, 4 July 1993) was an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical biology and numerical analysis, inventor of the Householder transformation and of Householder's method.

Hanna Kokko (born 1971) is a scientist, working in the field of evolution and ecology.

Nicholas Keynes Humphrey (born 27 March 1943) is an English psychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness.

George Sugihara (Born 16 December 1949 in Tokyo, Japan) is professor of biological oceanography in the Physical Oceanography Research Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he is the inaugural holder of the McQuown Chair in Natural Science.

Gerard M. Verschuuren (nicknames Gerry and Geert) is a scientist, writer, speaker, and consultant, working at the interface of science, philosophy, and religion.

Marcus William Feldman (born 14 November 1942) is the Burnet C.

Angela McLean FRS (born 31 May 1961) is Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.

George Karreman (4 November 1920 – 27 February 1997) was a Dutch-born US physicist, mathematical biophysicist and mathematical/theoretical biologist.

Robert Rosen (June 27, 1934 – December 28, 1998) was an American theoretical biologist and Professor of Biophysics at Dalhousie University.

Nicolas Rashevsky (November 9, 1899 – January 16, 1972) was an American theoretical physicist who pioneered mathematical biology, and is also considered the father of mathematical biophysics and theoretical biology.

Stephen Frank Altschul (born February 28, 1957) is an American mathematician who has designed algorithms that are used in the field of bioinformatics (the Karlin-Altschul algorithm and its successors).

Peter K. Schuster (born March 7, 1941) is a theoretical chemist known for his work with the German Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen in developing the quasispecies model.

Gerd B. Müller is an Austrian biologist who is professor at the University of Vienna where he heads the Department of Theoretical Biology in the Center for Organismal Systems Biology.

Marius Jeuken (26 January 1916 - 24 March 1983) was professor of theoretical biology at the Institute of Theoretical Biology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, from 1968 until his death.

Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939) is an American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth.

Edward Stuart Russell OBE FLS (25 March 1887 – 24 August 1954) was a Scottish biologist and philosopher of biology.

Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar.

Alan Hastings is a theoretical ecologist and distinguished professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis.

Bergstrom completed his PhD at Stanford University under the supervision of Marcus Feldman in 1998.

Joan Roughgarden (born Jonathan Roughgarden on 13 March 1946) is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist.

Jacqueline Myriam McGlade (born May 30, 1955) is a British-born Canadian marine biologist and environmental informatics professor.

Santiago Schnell DPhil (Oxon) FRSC is a biophysical chemist and computational & mathematicalbiologist.