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First Marine Biologist
The modern day study of marine biology began with the exploration by Captain James Cook (1728-1779) in 18th century Britain -
Sir Charles Wyville Thomson
He was said to have helped lead to the birth of oceanography. Went from 1830-1882. Discovered 4,717 new species. -
Charles Darwin
Darwin, most famous for his later works on thories of evolution, was commissioned early in life as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle expeditions (1831-1836). Darwin collected and studied numerous marine organisms during this famous voyage -
Anna Thynne
She built the first stable sustained marine aquarium in 1846 and maintained corals and sponges for over three years. This invention will have helped thousands everywhere so that they can hold all their fish, plants, etc. This revolutionized and benefitted many scientists, so that they could have the marine life for longer periods of time and get more data into their research. -
marine biology studied further
Technology brought the study of marine biology to new heights during the years following the HMS Challenger expedition. In 1934 William Beebe [external link] (1877-1962) and Otis Barton [external link] descended 923 m/3,028 ft below the surface off the coast of Bermuda in a bathysphere [external link] designed and funded by Barton. This depth record was not broken until 1948 when Barton made a bathysphere dive to 1,372 m/4,500 ft. http://marinebio.org/oceans/history-of-marine-biology.asp -
Harald Rosenthal
He wrote his doctoral thesis in 1969 on mass rearing of larval herring[1] and his habilitation thesis in 1981 on closed-circuit systems in fish farming and research. -
Ali Abdelghany
Was improving dietary growth and the reduction of feeding costs by using alternative methods.
