Gregor Mendel was an Austrian botanist, who is now widely regarded as the father of modern genetics.
Richard Owen was a gifted biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Today he is best known for coining the word ‘dinosaur’ but his contribution to science deserves much wider recognition.
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) was a Scottish biologist, and a gifted mathematician, naturalist and classical scholar. His work provides a quintessential example of how seemingly disparate disciplines can be combined to develop novel approaches to understanding evolution.
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.
