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- Aristotle (384–322 BCE) – Early studies on comparative anatomy of animals.
- Galen (129–c. 216 CE) – Anatomical studies of humans and animals.
- Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) – Father of modern anatomy; detailed human
anatomical morphology.
- Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694) – Microscopic morphology of tissues and organs.
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) – Microscopic studies of cells and
microorganisms.
- Robert Hooke (1635–1703) – Coined “cell”; morphological studies with the
microscope.
- Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) – Morphological classification of plants and animals.
- Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) – Comparative anatomy and paleontology; “father of
paleontology.”
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) – Morphology of invertebrates and
evolutionary theories.
- Richard Owen (1804–1892) – Comparative anatomy and homology studies.
