Marine biology

Marine biology is the study of animal and plant life within waterbound ecosystems. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology deals with those species in which life is spent only (or mainly) in the water, thus its classification is based on the environment rather than on taxonomy.

Famous marine biologists

• Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857-1921), Swedish marine zoologist.
• Joseph Ayers, marine neurophysiologist and biomimetic researcher.
• Samuel Stillman Berry (1887-1984), U.S. marine zoologist.
• Carl Chun (1852-1914), German marine biologist
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997), French marine biologist and explorer.
• Anton Dohrn (1840-1909), German marine biologist
• Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer.
• Bruno Hofer (1861-1916), German fisheries scientist.
• Hirohito, Japanese emperor.
• William Elford Leach (1790-1836), English zoologist and marine biologist.
• Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846-1888), Russian marine biologist and anthropologist
• John Murray (1841-1914), Scots-Canadian Marine Biologist
• Harald Rosenthal (born 1937), German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology.
• Georg Sars (1837-1927), Norwegian marine biologist
• Ruth Turner (1915-2000), marine biologist.
• Charles Wyville Thompson (1832-1882), Scottish marine biologist

Source: List of biologists.

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