Heros Of Zoology

Aristotle (384-322BC)

Aristotle ( Father of Zoology) Aristotle was born in 384 BC and died in 322 BC. He is considered the first zoologist to classify the animal kingdom into two major groups of blooded and non-blooded animals. He further classified the blooded animals into young bearing, four-footed animals; egg laying, four-footed animals, birds, and fish. He subdivided the non-blooded animals into mollusks, crabs, and insects. 

 

Carl Linnaeus(1707-1778)

 Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus was born in Rashult, Stenbroughult Parish, Sweden on May 23, 1707 and died in Hammarby Estate, Sweden on January 10, 1778. He was a physician, botanist, and zoologist. He is best known as the father of modern taxonomy. He collected and classified numerous animals in the 1750s.
                                                          

                                                          
 Charles Robert Darwin

Charles Darwin(1809-1882)

Charles Robert Darwin was born in The Mount, Shrewsbury, and Shropshire, U.K. on February 12, 1809 and died at Down House, Downe, Kent, U.K on April 19, 1882. He is known worldwide for his book On the Origin of Species published in 1859.
 

Alfred Russel wallace(1823-1931)

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace was born in USK Monmouthshire, U.K. on January 8, 1823 and died at Broadstone, Dorset, U.K. on November 1931 . He is famous for his independent theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to propound his historical Theory of Evolution. He is considered the father of biogeography of the 19th century.
 

Valerie JM Goodal(1934)

Valerie Jane Morris Goodall
Valerie Jane Morris Goodall, better known as Jane Goodall, was born in London, England on April 3, 1934. She is best known for studying wild chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania.

Dian Fossey(1932-1985)

    

Dian Fossey 

Dian Fossey was born on January 16, 1932 in San Francisco, California, USA and died at Volcanoes National Park on December 27, 1985. Louis Leakey sent her to the mountain forests of Rawanda where she studied gorilla groups for more than 18 years.

Fredrick William Frohawk (1861-1946)

Fredrick William Frohawk
Fredrick William Frohawk was born at Brisley Hall, East Dereham, Norfolk on July 16, 1861 and died in December, 1946. He was an English zoological artist and is best known for his exceptional illustrations of butterflies.

Stephen Robert Irwin (1962-2006)

Stephen Robert Irwin

Stephen Robert Irwin was born in Essendon, Victoria, Australia on February 22, 1962 and died in Bart Reef, Queensland on Sep 04 2006 . On account of his performance along with his wife Terri in the TV series The Crocodile Hunter, he gained world renown and was nicknamed “The Crocodile Hunter.”

Sir Ian Wilmut (1944-1996)

Sir Ian Wilmut
Sir Ian Wilmut was born on July 7, 1944 in Humpton Lucy, Warwickshire, England. He is an English embryologist and earned world fame after he cloned a mammal in 1996, the first ever in history. He developed the famous cloned sheep Dolly from the somatic cells taken from the mammary glands of an adult sheep. 

John Christian Fabricius (1745-1808)

Johan Christian Fabricius
Johan Christian Fabricius was born at Tender on January 7, 1745 and died on April 3, 1808. He is considered one of the greatest entomologists of all time. His famous books include: Systema Entomogiae (1775), Genera Insectorum (1776), Philosophia Entomologica, and Entomolgia Sytematica.