Editing List of biologists (section)

===Li–Ly===
*[[Choh Hao Li]] (1913–1987), Chinese-American biochemist who discovered and synthesized human pituitary growth hormone
*[[Wen-Hsiung Li]] (born 1942), Taiwanese molecular evolutionary biologist known fr studies of the [[molecular clock]]
*[[Emmanuel Liais]] (1826–1900), French botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Liais</ref> who studied the plants of remote regions of Brazil
*[[Martin Lichtenstein]] (1780–1867), German zoologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Lichtenstein</ref> who described new species of amphibians and reptiles
*[[Justus von Liebig]] (1803–1873), German chemist who contributed to agricultural and biological chemistry, one of the founders of organic chemistry.
*[[John Lightfoot FRS|John Lightfoot]] (1735–1788), English conchologist and botanist, author of ''Flora Scotica'' which deals with Scottish plants and fungi
*[[David R. Lindberg]] (born 1948), American malacologist and biologist whose work has focused on sea snails
*[[Aristid Lindenmayer]] (1925–1989), Hungarian biologist who developed a system to model the behaviour of plant cells
*[[John Lindley]] (1799–1865), English botanist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology and in botany: Lindl.</ref> whose works included botanical textbooks for his students
*[[Heinrich Friedrich Link]] (1767–1850), German botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Link</ref> who studied many different subjects, including physics chemistry, geology, mineralogy, botany and zoology
*[[Carl Linnaeus]] (1707–1778), Swedish botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Linnaeus; abbreviation in botany: L. or Linn.</ref> father of the binomial nomenclature system
*[[Fritz Lipmann]] (1899–1986), German-American biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize for work in intermediary metabolism
*[[Jacques Loeb]] (1859–1924), German-American biologist who studied marine invertebrates and carried out an experiment on artificial parthenogenesis in sea urchins
*[[Friedrich Loeffler]] (1852–1915), German bacteriologist who discovered the organisms causing diphtheria and foot-and-mouth disease
*[[Konrad Zacharias Lorenz|Konrad Lorenz]] (1903–1989), Austrian awarded the Nobel Prize for work in ethology
*[[John Claudius Loudon]] (1783–1843), English botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Loudon</ref> author of ''An Encyclopædia of Gardening ''
*[[James Lovelock]] (1919–2022), English chemist and father of the ''Gaia hypothesis''
*[[Hedvig Lovén]] (1867–1943), Swedish botanists who studied plant respiration
*[[Percy Lowe]] (1870–1948), English ornithologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Lowe (also used for [[Richard Thomas Lowe]])</ref> who worked on fossil ostriches in China
*[[Peter Wilhelm Lund]] (1801–1880), Danish zoologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Lund</ref> and paleontologist who described pre-historic Pleistocene megafauna
*[[Salvador Luria]] (1912–1991), Italian-American microbiologist awarded the Nobel prize winner for work on viruses
*[[Adolfo Lutz]] (1855–1940), Brazilian epidemiologist, pathologist  who studied tropical medicine and medical zoology 
*[[André Lwoff]] (1902–1994), French microbiologist awarded the Nobel for work on viral infection of bacteria
*[[Marguerite Lwoff]] (1905–1979), French [[microbiologist]] and [[virologist]] who  worked on the taxonomy of ciliate protozoa
*[[Richard Lydekker]] (1849–1915), English naturalist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Lydekker</ref> influential in the science of biogeography
*[[Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen]] (1911–1979), German biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize for work on cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism 
*[[Trofim Lysenko]] (1898–1976), Soviet biologist and agronomist whose denunciation of genetics was very damaging