Editing List of biologists (section)

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*[[Frans de Waal]] (born 1948), Dutch ethologist, primatologist and psychologist whose research centers on primate social behavior
*[[Coslett Herbert Waddell]] (1858–1919), Irish priest and botanist known for work on difficult genera of flowering plants
*[[Jeremy Wade]] (born 1960), British writer and TV presenter with a special interest in rivers and freshwater fish
*[[Amy Wagers]] (thesis 1999), American biologist, stem cell and regenerative biology
*[[Johann Georg Wagler]] (1800–1832), German herpetologist and ornithologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Wagler</ref> author of ''Monographia Psittacorum''
*[[Warren H. Wagner]] (1920–2000), American botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: W.H.Wagner</ref> who developed an algorithm for analysing phylogenetic relationships between species
*[[Göran Wahlenberg]] (1780–1851), Swedish naturalist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Wahlenb.</ref> who worked on plant geography, author of ''Flora lapponica'' 
*[[Selman Waksman]] (1888–1973), American biochemist, awarded the Nobel Prize for work on antibiotics
*[[Charles Athanase Walckenaer]] (1771–1852), French entomologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Walckenaer</ref> who placed the black widow in its current genus
*[[George Wald]] (1906–1997), American biologist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on visual perception
*[[John E. Walker]] (born 1941), British biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize for work on ATPases and ATP synthase
*[[Alfred Russel Wallace]] (1823–1913), British naturalist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology and in botany: Wallace</ref> and explorer, known for independently conceiving the theory of natural selection
*[[Nathaniel Wallich]] (1786–1854), Danish botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Wall.</ref> who described many Indian plant species
*[[Benjamin Dann Walsh]] (1808–1869), British-American entomologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Walsh</ref> who studied agricultural insect pests
*[[William Grey Walter]] (1910–1977), American-British neurophysiologist and roboticist who improved techniques of electroencephalography
*[[James C. Wang]] (born 1938), Chinese-American biochemist who discovered [[topoisomerases]]
*[[Deepal Warakagoda]] (born 1965), Sri Lankan ornithologist who identified new bird species of Sri Lanka
*[[Otto Heinrich Warburg]] (1883–1970), German biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize for pioneering studies of respiration
*[[Robin Warren|J. Robin Warren]] (born 1937), Australian pathologist awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for discovering that most stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria
*[[Arieh Warshel]] (born 1940). Israeli-American biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize for computational studies of functional properties of biological molecules. 
*[[Charles Waterton]] (1782–1865), English naturalist who introduced curare to Europe
*[[James D. Watson]] (born 1928), American molecular biologist, awarded the Nobel Prize-winning for discovering the structure of DNA