Peter Frandsen was born on September 27, 1876, in Vilsley, Denmark.

He was a Danish-American biologist. He studied at the University of Nevada, Reno (B.A., 1895) and Harvard University (B.A., 1898; M.A., 1899). In 1900, he accepted an appointment to the Chair of Biology at the University of Nevada, a position he held until 1942. He produced more than 100 students who went on to careers in medicine, dentistry, or nursing. Today, the Frandsen Humanities Building, built in 1917-18, is named in honour of Peter “Bugs” Frandsen.

In 1902, he married Alice Sheldon Moreland (1869–1907), and in 1913, he remarried Jane E. Hingham (1880– ). He died on October 31, 1967, in Oroville, Butte, California.

G. A. Frank was a Dutch dealer based in Amsterdam who sold natural history specimens to museums and collectors from the mid- to late 19th century. He worked with major institutions such as the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie and the Zoological Museum Amsterdam. Instead of collecting animals himself, he purchased them from other collectors.

Sir Edward Frankland was born on January 18, 1825, in Churchtown, Lancashire, England.

He was a chemist. While apprenticed to a druggist, Frankland learned to perform chemical experiments. Subsequent studies took him to laboratories at the University of Marburg, Germany where he took his Ph.D. in 1849. In 1851, he became the first professor of chemistry at Owens College, Manchester, and succeeded Michael Faraday as professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London in 1863. In 1852, he established a theory of valency, which became the basis of modern structural chemistry. In 1865, he began twenty years of service at the Royal School of Mines. Appointed a member of the second royal commission on the pollution of rivers in 1868, he brought to light an enormous amount of information on the contamination of rivers and on water purification. In 1868, he cooperated with Joseph Norman Lockyer in the studies that led them to recognize the existence of helium in the Sun’s atmosphere. Frankland was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1853 and awarded the Society's Royal Medal in 1857 and its Copley Medal in 1894. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1897.

In 1851, he married Sophia Fick (1820–1874) and in 1875, he remarried Ellen Frances Grenside (1848–). He died on August 9, 1899, while on vacation in Gålå, Gudbrandsdal, Norway. He is buried in Reigate, Surrey, England.