Editing List of biologists (section)

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* [[Henri Laborit]] (1914–1995), French surgeon and physiologist who introduced the psychiatric use of [[chlorpromazine]]
* [[Bernard Germain de Lacépède]] (1756–1825), French naturalist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Lacépède</ref> who studied reptiles and fish
* [[David Lack]] (1910–1973), British ornithologist who introduced [[Lack's principle|Lack's Principle]] to explain the evolution of avian clutch sizes
* [[Frédéric de Lafresnaye]] (1783–1861), French ornithologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Lafresnaye</ref> who described new bird species
* [[Keith Laidler]] (1916–2003), British-Canadian expert on chemical and enzyme kinetics
* [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] (1744–1829), French evolutionist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Lamarck</ref> coined many terms like ''biology'' and ''fossils''
* [[Aylmer Bourke Lambert]] (1761–1842), British botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Lamb.</ref> author of ''A description of the genus Pinus''
* [[Charles Lamberton]] (1876–1960), French paleontologist who specialized in the recently extinct subfossil lemurs
* [[Hildegard Lamfrom]] (1922–1984), German-American molecular biologist who developed a system for studying cell-free protein synthesis
* [[Hugh Lamprey]] (1928–1996), British ecologist and bush pilot who developed methods for estimating game densities in Africa
* [[Charles Francis Laseron]] (1887–1959), American-born Australian naturalist and malacologist
* [[John Latham (ornithologist)|John Latham]] (1740–1837), English naturalist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Latham</ref> who named many Australian birds, author of ''A General Synopsis of Birds''
* [[Pierre André Latreille]] (1762–1833), French entomologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Latreille</ref> who studied arthropod systematics and taxonomy
* [[Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran]] (1845–1922), French physician awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering malaria is caused by a protozoon
* [[Barbara Lawrence (zoologist)|Barbara Lawrence]] (1909–1997), sometimes known as Barbara Lawrence Schevill, was an American [[paleozoologist]] and [[mammalogist]]
* [[George Newbold Lawrence]] (1806–1855), American ornithologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Lawrence</ref> who conducted Pacific bird surveys
* [[Michel Lazdunski]] (born 1938), French neuroscientist known for work on ion channels