Editing List of biologists (section)

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*[[Gary Paul Nabhan]] (born 1952), Lebanese-American conservationist, co-author of ''Forgotten Pollinators''
*[[David Nachmansohn]] (1899–1983), German biochemist who elucidated the role of phosphocreatine in muscular energy production
*[[Carl Nägeli]] (1817–1891), Swiss botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Nägeli</ref> who studied cell division and pollination
*[[Johann Friedrich Naumann]] (1780–1857), German founder of scientific ornithology,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: J. F. Naumann</ref> author of ''The Natural History of German Birds''
*[[John Needham]] (1713–1781), English priest and naturalist who claimed to have observed spontaneous generation
*[[Joseph Needham]] (1900–1995), British biochemist, historian (of Chinese science) who studied embryology and morphogenesis
*[[Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck]] (1776–1858), German botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Nees</ref> and zoologist who described many plant species 
*[[Masatoshi Nei]] (1931–2023), Japanese-American evolutionary biologist and molecular population geneticist
*[[Wendy Nelson (marine scientist)|Wendy Nelson]] (thesis 1980), New Zealand marine phycologist who studies seaweeds
*[[Randolph M. Nesse]] (born 1948), American evolutionary biologist and psychiatrist who has studied aging 
*[[Charles F. Newcombe]] (1851–1924), British botanist who studied the botany of North America 
*[[Frank Newhook]] (1918–1999), New Zealand plant pathologist who studied fungal pathogens
*[[Alfred Newton]] (1829–1907), English ornithologist, author of a four-volume ''Dictionary of Birds''
*[[Margaret Morse Nice]] (1883–1974), American ornithologist, author of ''Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow''
*[[Henry Alleyne Nicholson]] (1844–1899), British zoologist who studied fossil invertebrates
*[[Hermann Niemeyer]] (1918–1991), Chilean biochemist and paediatrician known for work on mammalian metabolism
*[[Marshall Warren Nirenberg]] (1927–2010), American biochemist and geneticist who took the first step in deciphering the genetic code
*[[Elmer Noble]] (1909–2001), American parasitologist who described a pathogenic [[myxosporean]]
*[[Alfred Merle Norman]] (1831–1918), English clergyman and naturalist who studied invertebrates
*[[Alfred John North]] (1855–1917), Australian ornithologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: North</ref> who described many birds for the first time
*[[Paul Nurse]] (born 1949), British geneticist awarded the Nobel Prize for work control of the [[cell cycle]]
*[[Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard]] (born 1942), German biologist awarded the Nobel Prize for studies of genes involved in the development of fruit fly embryos
*[[Thomas Nuttall]] (1786–1858), English botanist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Nuttall; abbreviation in botany: Nutt.</ref> and zoologist, author of the ''Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada''