List of Presentation Ideas
Topic Ideas for Presentations
NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list; there are many other possible topics.
- Alvarez, Luis and Walter (Impact theory for dinosaur extinction)
- Avery, Oswald, Colin McLeod and Maclyn McCarty (DNA)
- Bakker, Robert (dinosaur paleontologist)
- Beadle, George and Edward Tatum (geneticists)
- Bennet, A.H. (neurologist; anaesthesia)
- Binet, Alfred (psychologist; IQ test)
- Broca, Pierre Paul (19th Century biologist)
- Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de (theologian, anthropologist)
- Cope, Edward Drinker and O.C. Marsh (rival dinosaur paleontologists)
- Cousteau, Jacques (explorer, ecologist, inventor)
- Cuvier, Georges (anatomist, paleontologist)
- Darwin, Charles (naturalist; evolution)
- Fleming, Alexander (penicillin)
- Foster, Dian (animal behaviorist)
- Franklin, Rosalind (X-ray crystallographer, DNA structure)
- Gallo, Robert C. (HIV virus ID)
- Galton, Sir Francis (anthropologist)
- Goodall, Jane (animal behaviorist)
- Harvey, William (physician; circulation of blood)
- Horner, John (dinosaur paleontologist)
- Huxley, Thomas Henry ("Darwin's Bulldog")
- Jacob, Francois, and Jacques Monod (gene control)
- Johanson, Donald (paleoanthropologist; "Lucy")
- Koop, C. Everet (former Surgeon General)
- Lamarck, Jean Baptist (naturalist)
- Leakey, Louis, Mary and/or Richard (paleoanthropologists)
- Lilly, John (behaviorist; brain biology)
- Linnaeus, Carolus (taxonomist)
- Lorenz, Conrad (behaviorist)
- Lyell, Sir Charles (geologist)
- Lysenko, Trofim (Russian "geneticist")
- Mayr, Ernst (geneticist)
- McClintock, Barbara (geneticist)
- Mendel, Gergor (father of genetics)
- Meselson, Matthew and Franklin Stahl (DNA replication)
- Muller, H.J. (geneticist)
- Pasteur, Louis (chemist; many achievements)
- Pauling, Linus (biochemist)
- Pavlov, Ivan (behaviorist)
- Schleiden, Mattias, and Theodor Swann (botanist and zoologist; cell theory)
- Sereno, Paul (dinosaur paleontologist)
- Wallace, Alfred Russell (naturalist; evolution)
- Watson, James, and Francis Crick (DNA structure)
- Wegener, Alfred (geologist; continental drift)
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