page_title: List of undersea explorers
section_title: Biologists
hierarchical_section_title: List of undersea explorers / Biologists
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997), ou le Commandant Cousteau, officier de la marine française, océanographe, commandant de la Calypso.English: Picture of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
context_page_description: This is a list of amateur and professional explorers of the oceans, including
  Archaeologists, Treasure hunters, Biologists, Marine Geologists, Geophysicists,
  Ocean Engineers, Oceanographers, Submersible Designers, Pilots of Submersibles,
  Cave Divers, Cavers, and Speleologists, and First Generation Diving Safety Officers.
context_section_description: Marine biology, or Biological oceanography is the study of the plants, animals and microbes (biota) of the oceans and their ecological interaction.
  Ali Abdelghany (born 1944), Egyptian marine biologist
  Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921), Swedish marine zoologist.
  Samuel Stillman Berry (1887–1984), U.S. marine zoologist.
  Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), U.S. marine biologist.
  Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American Marine Biologist and Author.
  Carl Chun (1852–1914), German marine biologist
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997), French marine biologist and explorer
  Charles Darwin (1809–1882), wrote Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) while aboard HMS Beagle
  Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), German marine biologist
  Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer
  Hans Hass (born 1919), Austrian marine biologist and diving pioneer
  Gotthilf Hempel (born 1929), German marine biologist
  Johan Hjort (1869–1948), Norwegian marine zoologist and one of the founders of ICES
  Bruno Hofer (1861–1916), German fisheries scientist
  Emperor Showa of Japan (1901–1989), jellyfish taxonomist
  Uwe Kils (born 1951), German marine biologist
  August David Krohn (1803–1891), Russian/German zoologist
  William Elford Leach (1790–1836), English zoologist and marine biologist
  Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846–1888), Russian marine biologist and anthropologist
  Sir John Murray (1841–1914), Scots–Canadian marine biologist
  Wheeler J. North (1922–2002), American marine biologist and diving pioneer
  Ed Ricketts (1897–1948), American marine biologist noted for a pioneering study of intertidal ecology
  Harald Rosenthal (born 1937), German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology
  Michael Sars (1809–1869), Norwegian theologian and biologist
  Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian marine biologist
  Gunnar Thorson (1906–1971), Danish marine biologist
  Ruth Turner (1915–2000), marine biologist
  Charles Wyville Thompson (1832–1882), Scottish marine biologist
  Source: List of biologists.
caption: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, co-inventor of the aqua-lung, is well known for popularizing marine biology.
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