Barbara McClintock was an American geneticist. Her discovery of transposons revolutionised our understanding of genetics. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1983.
George Simpson was an American palaeontologist whose work helped to reconcile the fields of palaeontology and genetics.
Thomas Huxley was an English biologist who can truly be said to be one of the key intellectual figures of the nineteenth century. He acquired the nickname ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’ because of his vociferous defence of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.
Although this is intended as a light-hearted guide to areas of science that might interest you, it serves to illustrate the inter-disciplinary nature of science.
