Lawrence Rogers Blinks (22 April 1900- 4 March 1989)[1] was an American biologist with research interests in photosynthesis and electrophysiology.

[1] Blinks married botanist Anne Catherine Hof in 1928 and they had one son.

[1][3] At age 88, Lawrence Blinks died on March 22, 1989, in Pacific Grove, California.

[1] After graduation, Blinks continued to work with Osterhout at the Bermuda Biological Station and Rockefeller Institute.

[1] In 1933, he joined the faculty of Stanford University and worked on the main campus before serving the director of Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove from 1943 to 1965.