The scientist who studies life itself, from Linnaeus naming species by hand to editing genomes with CRISPR, still testing every idea against a living organism. The word "biology" itself is barely two centuries old, coined independently by the German naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus and the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck around 1802 to name a science that had, until then, been scattered across
What unites everyone this page calls a biologist is a method, not a subject: test an idea about a living system against actual evidence, whether that evidence comes from a Petri dish, a genome sequencer, or six months tracking wolves through snow.
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The scientist who studies life itself, from Linnaeus naming species by hand to editing genomes with CRISPR, still testing every idea against a living organism. The word "biology" itself is barely two centuries old, coined independently by the German naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus and the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck around 1802 to name a science that had, until then, been scattered across
What unites everyone this page calls a biologist is a method, not a subject: test an idea about a living system against actual evidence, whether that evidence comes from a Petri dish, a genome sequencer, or six months tracking wolves through snow.
This page follows the profession from Aristotle's animal catalogues and Linnaeus's naming system through Darwin, Wallace and Mendel's separate routes to the same insight, Pasteur's germ theory, Rosalind Franklin's overlooked X-ray photographs and Barbara McClintock's ignored decades, to PCR, the Human Genome Project and CRISPR.
Not for every biology job — many research-technician, lab-associate and field-survey roles hire people with only a bachelor's or master's degree. But leading an independent research program, running a university lab, or holding many senior positions in pharmaceutical and biotech research nearly always requires a PhD, since it is the credential that certifies someone can design and defend original research alone.
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