Editing List of biologists (section)

== C ==
=== Ca ===
*[[Jean Cabanis]] (1816–1906), German ornithologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Cabanis</ref> founder of the ''Journal für Ornithologie''
*[[Ángel Cabrera (naturalist)|Ángel Cabrera]] (1879–1960), Spanish zoologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Cabrera</ref> author of ''South American Mammals''
*[[George Caley]] (1770–1829), English explorer and botanist, discoverer of Mount Banks, Australia
*[[Rudolf Jakob Camerarius]] (1665–1721), German botanist, chiefly known for studies of the reproductive organs of plants
*[[Augustin Pyramus de Candolle]] (1778–1841), Swiss botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: DC.</ref> who documented many plant families and created a new plant classification system
*[[Charles Cantor]] (born 1942), American biophysicist, known for pulse field gel electrophoresis, and as Director of the Human Genome Project
*[[María Luz Cárdenas]] (born 1944). French biochemist of Chilean origin at the [[CNRS]], [[Marseille]], known for work on mammalian [[hexokinase]]s.
*[[Elizabeth P. Carpenter]] (21st century), British structural biologist, professor
*[[Philip Pearsall Carpenter]] (1819–1877), British conchologist,  author of ''Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells, in the British Museum: collected by Frederick Reigen''
*[[Alexis Carrel]] (1873–1944), French biologist and surgeon, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on sutures and organ transplants, advocate of eugenics
*[[Elie-Abel Carrière]] (1818–1896), French botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Carrière</ref> an authority on conifers who described many new species
*[[Clodoveo Carrión Mora]] (1883–1957), Ecuadorian paleontologist and naturalist who discovered many species and one genus
*[[Sean B. Carroll]] (born 1960), American evolutionary development biologist, author of ''The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution'' and other books
*[[Rachel Carson]] (1907–1964), American marine biologist, author of ''Silent Spring''
*[[George Washington Carver]] (1860–1943), American agriculturist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Carver</ref> author of bulletins on crop production, including ''How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption''
*[[John Cassin]] (1813–1869), American ornithologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Cassin</ref> who named many birds not described in the works of his predecessors
*[[Alexandre de Cassini]] (1781–1832), French botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Cass.</ref> who named many flowering plants and new genera in the sunflower family, many of them from North America
*[[Amy Castle (entomologist)|Amy Castle]] (1880–1971), New Zealand entomologist, who worked primarily on the [[Lepidoptera]]
*[[William E. Castle]] (1867–1962), American geneticist who contributed to the mathematical foundations of Mendelian genetics, and anticipated what is now known as the [[Hardy–Weinberg law]].
*[[Mark Catesby]] (1683–1749), English naturalist who studied flora and fauna in the New World. Author of ''Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands''

=== Ce–Ch ===
*[[Thomas Cech]] (born 1947), American biochemist who discovered catalytic RNA, Nobel Prize in 1989
*[[Andrea Cesalpino]] (1519–1603), Italian botanist who classified plants according to their fruits and seeds, rather than alphabetically or by medicinal properties
*[[Francesco Cetti]] (1726–1778), Italian zoologist, author of  ''Storia Naturale di Sardegna'' (''Natural History of Sardinia'')
*[[Carlos Chagas]] (1879–1934), Brazilian physician who identified ''Trypanosoma cruzi'' as cause of Chagas disease
*[[Adelbert von Chamisso]] (Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot, 1781–1838), German botanist, whose most important contribution was the description of many Mexican trees
*[[Juliana Chan (science communicator)|Juliana Chan]], Singaporean biologist and science communicator
*[[Britton Chance]] (1913–2010), American biochemist, inventor of the stopped-flow method
*[[Min Chueh Chang]] (1908–1991),  Chinese-American reproductive biologist who studied the fertilisation process in mammalian reproduction, with work that led to the first [[test tube baby]]
*[[Jean-Pierre Changeux]] (born 1936), French biochemist and neuroscientist, originator of the allosteric model of cooperativity
*[[Frank Michler Chapman]] (1864–1945), American ornithologist, who promoted the use of photography in ornithology, especially in his book ''Bird Studies With a Camera''.
*[[Erwin Chargaff]] (1905–2002), Austrian-American biochemist known for Chargaff's rules
*[[Emmanuelle Charpentier]] (born 1968), French microbiologist, geneticist and biochemist who discovered genome editing with [[CRISPR]]. 
*[[Martha Chase]] (1927–2003), American biologist who carried out the [[Hershey–Chase experiment]], which showed that genetic information is held and transmitted by DNA, not by protein
*[[Thomas Frederic Cheeseman]] (1846–1923), New Zealand botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Cheesman</ref> and naturalist with wide-ranging interests, including sea slugs
*[[Sergei Chetverikov]] (1880–1959), Russian population geneticist who showed how early genetic theories applied to natural populations, and thus contributed towards the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory
*[[Charles Chilton (zoologist)|Charles Chilton]] (1860–1929), New Zealand zoologist with 130 papers on crustaceans, mostly amphipods, isopods and decapods, from all around the world, but especially from New Zealand
*[[Carl Chun]] (1852–1914), German marine biologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Chun</ref> specializing in cephalopods and plankton. He discovered and named the vampire squid
*[[Aaron Ciechanover]] (born 1947). Israeli biochemist known for work on protein turnover, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2004

=== Cl–Co ===
*[[Albert Claude]] (1899–1983), Belgian-American cell biologist who developed cell fractionation; Nobel Prize 1974
*[[W. Wallace Cleland]] (1930–2013). American biochemist known for work on enzyme kinetics and mechanism
*[[Nathan Cobb]] (1859–1932), American biologist who described over 1000 different nematode species and laid the foundations of nematode taxonomy
*[[Leonard Cockayne]] (1855–1934), New Zealand botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Cockayne</ref> especially active  in plant ecology and theories of hybridisation
*[[Alfred Cogniaux]] (1841–1916), Belgian botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Cogn.</ref> who worked especially with orchids
*[[Stanley Cohen (doctor)|Stanley Cohen]] (1922–2020), American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1986) for his discovery of growth factors
*[[Edwin Joseph Cohn]] (1892–1953), American protein chemist known for studies on blood and the physical chemistry of protein
*[[Mildred Cohn]] (1913–2009), American pioneer in the use of nuclear magnetic resonance to study enzymes
*[[James Collins (bioengineer)|James J. Collins]] (born 1965), American biologist, synthetic biology and systems biology pioneer
*[[Timothy Abbott Conrad]] (1803–1877), American paleontologist and naturalist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Conrad</ref> who  studied the shells of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations, as well as existing species of molluscs
*[[James Graham Cooper]] (1830–1902), American surgeon and naturalist<ref>Abbreviations in zoology: Cooper, J.G. Cooper</ref> who contributed to both zoology and botany
*[[Edward Drinker Cope]] (1840–1897), American paleontologist and comparative anatomist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Cope</ref> also a herpetologist and ichthyologist, and founder of the Neo-Lamarckism school of thought
*[[Carl Ferdinand Cori]] (1896–1984), Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the Cori cycle
*[[Gerty Cori]] (1886–1957),  Czech-American biochemist, first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science (Physiology or Medicine, 1947), for unraveling the mechanism of glycogen metabolism
*[[Charles B. Cory]] (1857–1921), American ornithologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Cory</ref> who collected many birds. Author of ''The Birds of Haiti and San Domingo'' and other books.
*[[Emanuel Mendes da Costa]] (1717–1791), English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, author of ''A Natural History of Fossils'', ''British Conchology'', and other books
*[[Elliott Coues]] (1842–1899), American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Coues</ref> and author of ''Key to North American Birds'', did much to promote the systematic study of ornithology
*[[Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer]] (1907–2004), South African zoologist who discovered the Coelacanth
*[[Jacques-Yves Cousteau]] (1910–1997), French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water
*[[Miguel Rolando Covian]] (1913–1992), Argentine-Brazilian neurophysiologist known for research on the neurophysiology of the limbic system, regarded as the father of Brazilian neurophysiology
*[[Frederick Vernon Coville]] (1867–1937), American botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Coville</ref> author of ''Botany of the Death Valley Expedition''

=== Cr–Cu ===
*[[Robert K. Crane]], (1919–2010), American biochemist who discovered sodium–glucose [[Co-transport|cotransport]]
*[[Lucy Cranwell]] (1907–2000), New Zealand botanist who organized the [[Thomas Frederic Cheeseman|Cheeseman]] herbarium of about 10,000 specimens in Auckland
*[[Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar]] (1786–1845), German physician and zoologist (especially birds and mammals)
*[[Francis Crick]] (1916–2004), British molecular biologist, biophysicist and neuroscientist, best known for discovering the structure of DNA (with [[James Watson]]); Nobel Prize 1962
*[[Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse]] (1826–1898), French conchologist, expert on molluscs, co-editor of the ''Journal de Conchyliologie''
*[[Nicholas Culpeper]] (1616–1654), English botanist, author of ''The English Physitian''
*[[Allan Cunningham (botanist)|Allan Cunningham]] (1791–1839), English botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: A.Cunn.</ref> "King's Collector for the Royal Garden at Kew" (in Australia)
*[[G. H. Cunningham|Gordon Herriot Cunningham]] (1892–1962), New Zealand mycologist who published extensively on the taxonomy of fungi
*[[Kathleen Maisey Curtis|Kathleen Curtis]] (1892–1993), New Zealand mycologist and plant pathologist,  a founder of plant pathology in New Zealand
*[[William Curtis]] (1746–1799), English botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Curtis</ref> author of ''Flora Londinensis''
*[[Georges Cuvier]] (1769–1832), French naturalist, author of ''Le Règne Animal'' (the Animal Kingdom), the "founding father of paleontology"