Regents Examination in Living Environment: Prominent Scientists

Crick, Francis A 20th-century British scientist who, with James Watson, developed the first workable model of DNA structure and function.
Darwin, Charles A 19th-century British naturalist whose theory of organic evolution by natural selection forms the basis for the modern scientific theory of evolution.
Fox, Sidney A 20th-century American scientist whose experiments showed that Stanley Miller’s simple chemical precursors could be joined to form more complex biochemicals.
Hardy, G. H. A 20th-century British mathematician who, with W. Weinberg, developed the Hardy-Weinberg principle of gene frequencies.
Lamarck, Jean An 18th-century French scientist who devised an early theory of organic evolution based on the concept of “use and disuse.”
Linnaeus, Carl An 18th-century Dutch scientist who developed the first scientific system of classification, based on similarity of structure.
Mendel, Gregor A 19th-century Austrian monk and teacher who was the first to describe many of the fundamental concepts of genetic inheritance through his work with garden peas.
Miller, Stanley A 20th-century American scientist whose experiments showed that the simple chemical precursors of life could be produced in the laboratory.
Morgan, ThomasHunt A 20th-century American geneticist whose pioneering work with Drosophila led to the discovery of several genetic principles, including sex linkage.
Watson, James A 20th-century American scientist who, with Francis Crick, developed the first workable model of DNA structure and function.
Weinberg, W. A 20th-century German physician who, with G. H. Hardy, developed the Hardy-Weinberg principle of gene frequencies.
Weismann, August A 19th-century German biologist who tested Lamarck’s theory of use and disuse and found it to be unsupportable by scientific methods.