I wonder just how selective that survey was!
No need to wonder; all the information is
here and
here!
Random members of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science were surveyed,
including non-American members.
That list above of Nobelists also contains some odd things - especially as only a handful; of them have anything to do with biology as you kindly pointed out. Physiology is nothing like evolutionary biology, as I don't suppose you know, or you wouldn't have raised the point.
I'm assuming that this was aimed at me: Barbarian didn't really mention this topic...
Anyway, I didn't say thay physiology was evolutionary biology; I said that that was the closest thing to biology for which a Nobel Prize could be awarded. So what I was saying is that a lot of them were likely to indeed be biologists, as they couldn't have actually won awards in biology. I was right: nearly half of the Nobel laureates' mentioned specialised in biology:
1. André Cournand – biologist
2. Arthur Kornberg – biochemist/molecular biologist
3. Barbara McClintock – geneticist
4. Christian Anfinsen – biochemist
5. Daniel Nathans – microbiologist
6. David Baltimore – biologist
7. David Hubel – neurobiologist
8. Donald Glaser – neurobiologist/molecular biologist
9. Francis Crick – molecular biologist/biophysicist/neuroscientist
10. Frederick Robbins – virologist
11. George Palade – cell biologist
12. George Snell – geneticist
13. Har Khorana – biochemist/molecular biologist
14. Howard Temin – geneticist/molecular biologist
15. James Watson – molecular biologist/zoologist/geneticist
16. John Northrop – biochemist
17. Joseph Goldstein – biochemist/geneticist
18. Julius Axelrod – biochemist
19. Konrad Block – biochemist
20. Linus Pauling – biochemist
21. Marshall Nirenberg – biochemist
22. Melvin Calvin – biologist
23. Michael Brown – geneticist/biologist
24. Paul Berg – biochemist
25. Renato Dulbecco – biologist/virologist
26. Robert Holley – biochemist
27. Robert Merrifield – biochemist
28. Roger Guillemin – biologist/neurologist
29. Roger Sperry – neurobiologist
30. Salvador Luria – microbiologist/molecular biologist
31. Severo Ochoa – biochemist/molecular biologist
32. Thomas Weller - virologist
33. Walter Gilbert – biochemist/molecular biologist
34. William Lipscomb – biochemist
As far as I'm aware, "evolutionary biology" is not a formal branch of biology, and so there aren't actually any scientists who formally refer to themselves as evolutionary biologists.
Regardless, most of this may be irrelevant... do you genuinely deny that scientific (or biologists', if you wish) support for evolution far outweighs any dissent?