Editing List of biologists (section)

=== 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