Editing List of biologists (section)

==V==
===Va===
*[[Sebastien Vaillant]] (1669–1722), French botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Vaill.</ref> who studied plants in the Royal Garden
*[[Achille Valenciennes]] (1794–1865), French zoologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Valenciennes</ref> who studied parasitic worms in humans
*[[James W. Valentine]] (1926–2023), American evolutionary biologist
*[[Pablo DT Valenzuela|Pablo Valenzuela]] (born 1941), Chilean biochemist known for genetic studies of hepatitis viruses
*[[Ruth van Heyningen]] (1917–2019), British biochemist known for her research on the lens and cataracts
*[[Donald Van Slyke]] (1883–1971),  Dutch-American biochemist known for the measurement of gas and electrolyte levels in tissues
*[[Francisco Varela]] (1946–2001), Chilean biologist known for introducing the concept of ''autopoiesis'' 
*[[Nikolai Vavilov]] (1887–1943), Soviet botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Vavilov</ref> and geneticist, who defended "bourgeois pseudoscience" (genetics) against [[Lysenkoism]]
*[[Damodaran M. Vasudevan]] (born 1942), Indian physician, immunologist and educationist, authority on allergy and immunology, also on cancer

===Ve–Vr===
*[[Craig Venter]] (born 1946), American biotechnologist known for sequencing the human genome and transfecting a cell with a synthetic chromosome
*[[Jules Verreaux]] (1807–1873), French botanist and ornithologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: J. Verreaux</ref> who collected plants and animals (including human remains) in Africa and Australia
*[[Addison Emery Verrill]] (1839–1926), American zoologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Verrill</ref> who studied marine organisms
*[[Louis Pierre Vieillot]] (1748–1831), French ornithologist who studied changes in plumage, and studied live birds
*[[Nicholas Aylward Vigors]] (1785–1840), Irish zoologist who popularized the classification of birds on the basis of the [[quinarian system]]
*[[Rudolf Virchow]] (1821–1902), German biologist and pathologist, founder of cell theory, known as "the father of modern pathology"
*[[Vital Brazil|Oswaldo Vital Brazil]] (1865–1950), Brazilian physician and immunobiologist, discoverer of several antivenoms against snake, scorpion and spider bites
*[[Bert Vogelstein]] (born 1949), American geneticist, pioneer in cancer genomics
*[[Karel Voous]] (1920–2002), Dutch ornithologist, author of ''Owls of the Northern Hemisphere''
*[[Mary Voytek]] (thesis 1995), American biogeochemist and microbial ecologist who has studied environmental controls on microbial transformations of nutrients
*[[Hugo de Vries]] (1848–1935), Dutch botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: de Vries</ref> known for suggesting the concept of genes