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* Dagfinn Aarskog (1928–2014), Norwegian pediatrician and geneticist, describedB
*E. B. Babcock (1877–1954), US plant geneticist, pioneered genetic analysis of genus Crepis *Édouard-Gérard Balbiani (1823–1899), French embryologist who found chromosome puffs now called Balbiani rings *David Baltimore (born 1938), US biologist, Nobel Prize for the discovery of reverse transcriptase * Guido Barbujani (born 1955), Italian population geneticist and evolutionary biologist *Cornelia Bargmann (born 1961), US molecular neurogeneticist studying the Caenorhabditis elegans, C. elegans brain *David P. Bartel (B.A. 1982), US geneticist, discovered many microRNAs regulating gene expression *William Bateson (1861–1926), British geneticist who coined the term "genetics" *E. Baur (1875–1933), German geneticist, botanist, discovered inheritance of plasmids *George Beadle (1903–1989), US Neurospora geneticist and Nobel Prize-winner *Peter Emil Becker (1908–2000), German human geneticist, described Becker's muscular dystrophy *Jon Beckwith (born 1935), US microbiologist and geneticist, isolated first gene from a bacterial chromosome *Peter Beighton (born 1934), UK/South Africa medical geneticist *Julia Bell (1879–1979), English geneticist who documented inheritance of many diseases *John Belling (1866–1933), English cytogenetics, cytogeneticist who developed staining technique for chromosomes *Baruj Benacerraf (1920–2011), Venezuelan-US immunologist who won Nobel Prize for human leukocyte antigen system *Kurt Benirschke (1924–2018), German-US pathologist, comparative cytogenetics, twinning in armadillos *Seymour Benzer (1921–2007), US molecular biologist and pioneer of neurogenetics *Dorothea Bennett (1929–1990), US geneticist, Pioneer of developmental genetics *Paul Berg (1926–2023), US biochemist and Nobel Prize-winner for basic research on nucleic acids *J. D. Bernal (1901–1971), Irish physicist and pioneer X-ray X-ray crystallography, crystallographer *Birchler Lab, James Birchler, Drosophila and Maize geneticists and cytogenetics, cytogenticist. *J. Michael Bishop (born 1936), US microbial immunogeneticist, Nobel Prize-winner for oncogenes *Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948), Australo-US biologist, Lasker Award and Nobel Prize for telomeres and telomerase *Günter Blobel (1936–2018), German-US biologist, Nobel Prize for protein targeting (address tags on proteins) *David Blow (1931–2004), British biophysicist who helped develop X-ray crystallography of proteins *Baruch Blumberg (Barry Blumberg) (1925–2011), US physician and Nobel Prize-winner on hepatitis B *Julia Bodmer (1934–2001), British geneticist, key figure in discovery and definition of the Human leukocyte antigen, HLA system *Walter Bodmer (born 1936), German-UK human population geneticist, immunogeneticist, cancer research *James Frederick Bonner, James Bonner (1910–1996), far-ranging US molecular biologist, into histones,C
*John Cairns (biochemist), John Cairns (1922–2018), UK physician-scientist, showed bacterial DNA one molecule with replicating fork *Allan Campbell (biologist), Allan Campbell (1929–2018), US microbiologist and geneticist, pioneering work onD
*Mark Daly (scientist), Mark Daly, American geneticist who identified genes associated with Crohn's disease, inflammatory bowel disease, autism and schizophrenia *David M. Danks (1931–2003), Australian pediatrician and medical geneticist, expert on Menkes disease *C. D. Darlington (1903–1981), British biologist and geneticist, elucidated chromosomal crossover *Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and author of ''On the Origin of Species'' *Kay Davies (born 1951), English geneticist, expert on muscular dystrophy *Jean Dausset (1916–2009), French immunogeneticist and Nobel Prize-winner for the Human leukocyte antigen, HLA system *Martin Henry Dawson, Martin Dawson (1896–1945), Canadian-US researcher, confirmed and named genetic Transformation (genetics), transformation *Margaret Dayhoff (1925–1983), US pioneer in bioinformatics of protein sequences and evolution *Albert de la Chapelle (1933–2020), eminent Finnish medical geneticist, genetic predisposition to cancer *Max Delbrück (1906–1981), German-US scientist, Nobel Prize for genetic structure of viruses *Charles DeLisi (born 1941), US biophysicist, led the initiative that planned and launched the Human Genome Project *Emmanouil Dermitzakis (born 1972), Greek human geneticist known for research on the importance of non-coding DNA in evolution and disease risk *Félix d'Herelle (1873–1949), Canadian-French microbiologist, discovered phages, invented phage therapy *Hugo de Vries (1848–1935), Dutch botanist and one of the re-discoverers of Gregor Mendel, Mendel's laws in 1900 *Carrie Derrick (1862–1941), Canadian geneticist, Canada's first female professor *M. Demerec (1895–1966), Croatian-US geneticist, directed Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory *Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), noted Ukrainian-US geneticist and evolutionary biologist *John Doebley, (born 1952), US geneticist, studies genes that drive development and evolution of plants *Peter C. Doherty, Peter Doherty (born 1940), Australian, won Nobel Prize for immune recognition of antigens *Albert Dorfman (1916–1982), US biochemical geneticist, discovered cause of Hurler's syndrome *Gabriel Dover (1937–2018), British evolutionary geneticist *Dennis Drayna, (born 1952), American human geneticist most notable for discovering genetic causes of stuttering *NT Dubinin (1907–1998), Russian biologist and geneticist *Bernard Dutrillaux (born 1940), French cytogeneticist, chromosome banding, comparative cytogenetics *Christian de Duve (1917–2013), Belgian cytologist, Nobel Prize for cell organelles (peroxisomes, lysosomes)E
*Richard H. Ebright (born 1959), US bacterial geneticist, molecular mechanisms of transcription (genetics), transcription and transcriptional regulation *A.W.F. Edwards (born 1935), British statistician, geneticist, developed methods of phylogenetic analysis *John H. Edwards, John Edwards (1928–2007), British medical geneticist and cytogeneticist who first described trisomy 18 *Hans Eiberg (born 1945), Danish geneticist, discovered the mutation causing blue eyes *Eugene "Gene" J. Eisen (born 1938), US geneticist, experimental validation of the theory of genetic correlations; first to conduct a long-term selection experiment with transgenic mice *Jeff Ellis (plant scientist), Jeff Ellis (born 1953), Australian scientist *R. A. Emerson (1873–1947), US plant geneticist, the main pioneer of corn genetics *Sterling H. Emerson, Sterling Emerson (1900–1988), US, biochemical genetics, Genetic recombination, recombination, son of R. A. Emerson *Alan Emery (born 1928), British neuromuscular geneticist, Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy *Boris Ephrussi (1901–1979), Russian-born French geneticist, created way to transplant chromosomes *Robert C. Elston (born 1932), British-born American biostatistical genetics and genetic epidemiology, genetic epidemiologist *Charles J. Epstein, Charlie Epstein (1933–2011), US medical geneticist, editor, developed mouse model for Down syndrome, wounded by the Unabomber *Eleazar Eskin, professor and Chair of the Department of Computational Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles *Herbert McLean Evans (1882–1971), US anatomist, reported in 1918 humans had 48 chromosomes *Martin Evans (born 1941), British scientist, discovered embryonic stem cells and developed knockout mouse *Cassandra Extavour, Canadian Americans, Canadian American geneticist and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University *Warren Ewens (born 1937), Australian-US mathematical population geneticist, Ewens's sampling formulaF
*Alexander Cyril Fabergé (1912–1988), Russian-born Anglo-American geneticist, grandson of Carl Fabergé *Arturo Falaschi (1933–2010), Italian geneticist, researched the origin of DNA replication *D. S. Falconer (1913–2004), Scottish quantitative geneticist, wrote textbook to the subject *Darrel R. Falk (born 1946), US biologist *Stanley Falkow (1934–2018), US microbial geneticist, molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis *Harold Falls (1909–2006), US ophthalmologic geneticist, helped found first genetics clinic in US *William C. Farabee (1865–1925), US anthropologist, brachydactyly is evidence of Mendelism in humans *Nina Fedoroff (born c. 1945), US plant geneticist, cloning of transposable elements, plant stress response *Malcolm Ferguson-Smith (born 1931) UK cytogeneticist, Klinefelter syndrome, chromosome flow cytometry *Philip J. Fialkow (1934–1996), US internist, educator, research in medical genetics and cancer genetics *Giorgio Filippi (1935–1996), Italian medical geneticist, researched diseases linked to X chromosome *J. R. S. Fincham (1926–2005), UK microbial (Neurospora) and biochemical geneticist *Gerald Fink (born 1941), US molecular geneticist, preeminent figure in the field of yeast genetics *Hilary Finucane, computational biologist with research focus on combining genetic data and molecular data to characterize mechanisms of disease *Andrew Fire (born 1959), US geneticist, Nobel Prize with Craig Mello, Mello for discovery of RNA interference *Robert L. Fischer (born 1950), US geneticist, contributed to the understanding of genomic imprinting and epigenetics *Ronald Fisher, R. A. Fisher (1890–1962), British stellar statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist *Edmond H. Fischer, Ed Fischer (1920–2021), Swiss-US biochemist, Nobel Prize for phosphorylation as switch activating proteins *Eugen Fischer (1874–1967), German physician, anthropologist, eugenicist, influenced Nazi racial hygiene *Ivar Asbjørn Følling (1888–1973), Norwegian biochemist and physician who discovered phenylketonuria (Phenylketonuria, PKU) *E. B. Ford (1901–1988), British ecological geneticist, specializing in butterflies and moths *Charles Edmund Ford, Charles Ford (1912–1999), British pioneer in the golden age of mammalian cytogenetics *Ruth Fowler Edwards (1930–2013), British geneticist who helped develop controlled ovulation induction in the mouse *Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999), German-born US biochemist who studied tobacco mosaic virus *Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British X-ray crystallography, crystallographer whose data led to discovery of double helix *Clarke Fraser (1920–2014), Canada's first medical geneticist, student of congenital malformations *Elaine Fuchs (born c. 1951), US cell biologist, molecular mechanisms of skin diseases, reverse genetics *Walter Fuhrmann (1924–1995), German medical geneticist, at Giessen University *Douglas J. Futuyma (born 1942), US evolutionary and ecological biologistG
*Michael T. Gabbett (born 1974), Australian medical geneticist and academic, known for describing Temple–Baraitser syndrome and semi-identical twins, sesquizygotic twinning *Fred Gage (born 1950), US neuroscientist, studies of neurogenesis and neuroplasticity of the adult brain *Joseph G. Gall (born 1928), distinguished US cell biologist, chromosomes, created in situ hybridization *André Gallais, French specialist in quantitative genetics and Selective breeding, breeding methods theory *Francis Galton (1822–1911), British geneticist, eugenicist, statistician *George Gamow (1904–1968), Ukrainian-born American polymath, proposed genetic code concept *Eldon J. Gardner (1909–1989), US professor of genetics in Utah, described Gardner's syndrome *Alan Garen (1926–2022), US, early molecular geneticist, Nonsense mutation, nonsense triplets terminating Transcription (genetics), transcription *Archibald Garrod (1857–1936), English physician, pioneered inborn error of metabolism, inborn errors, founded biochemical genetics *Stanley Michael Gartler, Stan Gartler (born 1923), US human geneticist, G6PD as X-linked marker, clonality of cancer, HeLa cells contaminating cell lines *Lihadh Al-Gazali (born 1948), Iraqi geneticist, research on congenital disorders in the United Arab Emirates *Luigi Gedda (1902–2000), Italian geneticist best known for his fascination with twin studies *Walter Gehring (1939–2014), Swiss, developmental genetics of Drosophila, discovered homeobox *Park S. Gerald (1921–1993), US medical geneticist, research on hemoglobins and chromosomes *James L. German, US medical geneticist and cytogeneticist, pioneer on Bloom syndrome *Walter Gilbert (born 1932), US biochemist and molecular biologist, Nobel Prize-winner, entrepreneur *H. Bentley Glass (1906–2005), US geneticist, provocative science theorizer, writer, science policy maker *Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907–2007), German-born US co-founder of developmental genetics *Richard Goldschmidt (1878–1958), German-American, integrated genetics, development, and evolution * Joseph L. Goldstein (born 1940), US medical geneticist, Nobel Prize-winner on cholesterol *Richard M. Goodman (1932–1989), US-Israeli clinical geneticist, pioneered Jewish genetic diseases *Robert J. Gorlin (1923–2006), US oral pathologist, clinical geneticist, craniofacial syndrome expert *Irving I. Gottesman (1930–2016), US behavioral geneticist, used twin studies to analyze schizophrenia *Carol W. Greider (born 1961), US molecular biologist, Lasker Award and Nobel Prize for telomeres and telomerase *Frederick Griffith (1879–1941), British medical officer who found transforming principle now called DNA *Lyn R. Griffiths, distinguished Australian molecular geneticist known for her work in neurogenetics *Clifford Grobstein (1916–1998), US scientist, bridged classical embryology and developmental biology *Jean de Grouchy (cytogeneticist), Jean de Grouchy (1926–2003), French pioneer of clinical cytogenetics and karyotype–phenotype correlation *Hans Grüneberg (1907–1982), British mouse geneticist and blood cell biologist *Pierre-Henri Gouyon (born 1953), French biologist specializing in genetics and bioethics *Elliot S. Goldstein, US geneticist at Arizona State University *Alexander Gusev (scientist), human geneticist with a focus on oncogenomicsH
*Ernst Hadorn (1902–1976), Swiss pioneer in developmental genetics, mentor of Walter Gehring *J. B. S. Haldane, JBS Haldane (1892–1964), brilliant British human geneticist and co-founder of population genetics *Benjamin D. Hall, Ben Hall, US geneticist, DNA:RNA hybridization, yeast production of genetically engineered proteins *Judith Goslin Hall, Judy Hall (born 1939), dual American and Canadian charismatic clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist *Dean Hamer (born 1951) US geneticist, postulated gay gene and God gene for religious experience *John L. Hamerton, John Hamerton (1929–2006), UK-Canadian cytogeneticist, prenatal diagnosis, prenatal diagnostician, bioethicist *W. D. Hamilton (1936–2000), British evolutionary biologist and eminent evolutionary theorist *Philip Hanawalt, Phil Hanawalt (born 1931), US geneticist, discovered DNA repair replication *Anita Harding (1952–1995), UK neurologist, first mitochondrial DNA mutation in disease *G. H. Hardy (1877–1947), British mathematician, formulated Hardy–Weinberg law, basic law of population genetics *Henry Harpending (1944–2016), US anthropologist and human population geneticist *Harry Harris (geneticist), Harry Harris (1919–1994), British biochemical geneticist par excellence *Henry Harris (scientist), Henry Harris (1925–2014), Australian-born cell biologist, work on cancer and human genetics *Leland H. Hartwell, Lee Hartwell (born 1939), US yeast geneticist, Nobel Prize, "start" gene and cell cycle checkpoint, checkpoints in the cell cycle *Mogens Hauge (1922–1988), Danish medical geneticist and twin researcher *Donald Hawthorne (1926–2003), US, major contributor to yeast genetics, centromere-linked gene maps *William Hayes (geneticist), William Hayes (1918–1994), Australian physician, microbiologist and geneticist, bacterial conjugation *Robert Haynes (1931–1998), Canadian geneticist and biophysicist, work on DNA repair and mutagenesis *Frederick Hecht (born 1930), US clinical geneticist, cytogeneticist, coined term fragile site *Michael Heidelberger (1888–1991) US pioneer of modern immunology, won two Lasker Awards *Martin Heisenberg (born 1940), German geneticist, neurobiologist, genetic study of brain of Drosophila *Charles Roy Henderson, (1911–1989), US animal geneticist, basis for genetic evaluation of livestock, developed statistical methods used in animal breeding *Alfred Day Hershey, Al Hershey (1908–1997), US bacterial geneticist, Nobel Prize largely for Hershey–Chase experiment *Ira Herskowitz (1946–2003), USI
*Harvey Itano (1920–2010), American biochemist and pioneer in the study of sickle cell diseaseJ
*François Jacob (1920–2013), French biologist, won Nobel Prize for bacterial gene control *Patricia A. Jacobs (born 1934), Scottish human geneticist and cytogeneticist *Albert Jacquard (1925–2013), French geneticist, essayist, humanist, activist *Rudolf Jaenisch (born 1942), German cell biologist, created transgenic mice, leader in therapeutic cloning *Richard Anthony Jefferson, Richard Jefferson (born 1956), US molecular plant biologist in Australia, GUS reporter system, reporter gene system GUS *Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), British geneticist, developed DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling techniques *Niels Kaj Jerne (1911–1994), Danish, greatest theoretician in modern immunology, Nobel Prize *Elizabeth W. Jones (1939–2008) US yeast geneticist, first to complete the University of Washington graduate genetics program *Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927), Danish botanist who in 1909 coined the word "gene" *Jonathan D. G. Jones (born 1954), British plant molecular biologist *Steve Jones (biologist), Steve Jones (born 1944), British evolutionary geneticist and malacologist *Christian Jung (born 1956), German plant geneticist and molecular biologistK
*Dronamraju Krishna Rao (1937–2020), Indian born geneticist, founder of Foundation of Genetic Research *Elvin Kabat (1914–2000) US immunochemist, a founder of modern immunology, antibody-combining sites *Henrik Kacser (1918–1995), Romanian-born UK biochemist and geneticist, worked on metabolic control *Axel Kahn (1944–2021), French scientist and geneticist, known for work on genetically modified plants *Patricia Kailis (1933–2020), Australian geneticist *Franz Josef Kallmann (1897–1965), German-US psychiatrist, pioneer in genetics of psychiatric diseases *Wojciech Karlowski (born 1966), Polish molecular biologist specializing in molecular genetics and genomics *Gopinath Kartha (1927–1984), Indian biophysicist, co-discovered triple-helix structure of collagen *Berwind P. Kaufmann (1897–1975), US botanist, did research in basic plant and animal cytogenetics *John Kendrew (1917–1997), UK X-ray crystallography, crystallographer, won Nobel Prize for structure of myoglobin *Cynthia Kenyon (born c. 1955), US molecular biologist, genetics of aging in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, C. elegans *Warwick Estevam Kerr (1922–2018) Brazilian expert in the genetics and Sex-determination system, sex determination of bees *Bernard Kettlewell (1907–1979), UK physician, lepidopterist, ecological geneticist, peppered moth *Seymour Kety (1915–2000), US neuroscientist, essential involvement of genetic factors in schizophrenia *Gobind Khorana (1922–2011), Indian-US molecular biologist, synthesized nucleic acids, Nobel Prize *Motoo Kimura (1924–1994), influential Japanese mathematical biologist in theoretical population genetics *Mary-Claire King (born 1946), US human geneticist and social activist, identified breast cancer genes *David Klein (ophthalmologist), David Klein, (1908–1993), Swiss ophthalmologist and human geneticist *Harold Klinger (1929–2004), US pioneer on human chromosomes, founded journal ''Cytogenetics'' *Aaron Klug (1926–2018), Lithuania/South Africa/UK, Nobel Prize for developing electron crystallography *Alfred G. Knudson, Al Knudson (1922–2016), US pediatric oncologist, geneticist, formulated Knudson hypothesis, two hit hypothesis of cancer *Georges J. F. Köhler (1946–1995), German, Nobel Prize for hybridomas making monoclonal antibodies *Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007), US biochemist, Nobel Prize on DNA synthesis, father of Roger Kornberg *Roger Kornberg (born 1947), US biologist, Nobel Prize on eukaryotic Transcription (genetics), transcription *Hans Kornberg (1928–2019), German-UK biologist, studies of carbohydrate transport *Edwin Krebs, Ed Krebs (1918–2009), US biochemist, Nobel Prize for phosphorylation as switch activating proteins *Martin Kreitman, US geneticist known for the McDonald–Kreitman test that is used to infer adaptive evolution in population genetic studies *Eric Kremer, US molecular biologist, found trinucleotide repeat in fragile X, research now in gene therapy *Shrawan Kumar, Indian-American geneticist, gene mapping and cloning, discovered Branchio-oto-renal syndrome, Branchio-Oto-Renal syndrome and Polycystic kidney disease, ADPKD2 genes *Henry G. Kunkel, Henry Kunkel (1916–1983), US immunologist, created starch gel electrophoresis to separate proteinsL
*Bruce Lahn (born 1969), Chinese-born geneticist specializing in evolutionary changes of the human brain *Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), French naturalist, evolutionist, "inheritance of acquired traits" *Eric Lander (born 1957), US molecular geneticist, major contributor to Human Genome Project *Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943), Austrian-American pathologist, won Nobel Prize for Human blood group systems, blood group discoveries *André Langaney, French evolutionary geneticist *Derald Langham (1913–1991), US agricultural geneticist, the "father of sesame" *Samuel A. Latt, Sam Latt (1938–1988), US pioneer in molecular cytogenetics, fluorescent DNA chromosome probes *Philip Leder (1934–2020), US geneticist, method to decode genetic code, transgenic animals to study cancer *Esther Lederberg (1922–2006), US microbiologist and bacterial genetics pioneer *Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008), US molecular biologist, Nobel Prize, headed Rockefeller University *Jérôme Lejeune (1926–1994), French pediatrician, geneticist, discovered trisomy 21 in Down syndrome *Richard Lenski (born 1956), US biologist andM
*R. Ellen Magenis, Ellen Magenis (1925–2014), US medical geneticist and cytogeneticist, Smith–Magenis syndrome *Phyllis McAlpine (1941–1998), Canadian human geneticist and gene mapper *Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005), US co-discoverer that DNA is the genetic material *Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), US cytogeneticist, Nobel Prize for genetic transposons, transposition *William McGinnis, US molecular geneticist, found homeobox (Hox) genes responsible for basic body plan *Victor A. McKusick (1921–2008), US internist and clinical geneticist, organized human genetic knowledge *Colin Munro MacLeod, Colin MacLeod (1909–1972), Canadian-American co-discoverer that DNA is the genetic material *Tak Wah Mak (born 1946), Chinese-Canadian molecular biologist, co-discovered human T cell receptor genes *Gustave Malécot (1911–1998), French mathematician who influenced population genetics *Tom Maniatis (born 1943), US molecular biologist, gene cloning, regulation of gene expression *Clement Markert (1917–1999), eminent US biologist, discovered isozymes *Joan Marks, US social worker, principal architect of the profession of genetic counselor *Marco Marra (born 1966), Canadian scientist *Richard E. Marshall (1933–2016), US paediatrician, Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome, Greig's syndrome I, Marshall–Smith syndrome *John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), British evolutionary biologist and population geneticist *Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), leading German-born American evolutionary biologist *Peter Medawar (1915–1987), Brazilian-born English scientist, Nobel Prize for immunological tolerance *Craig C. Mello (born 1960), US geneticist, Nobel Prize for discovery of RNA interference *Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), Bohemian monk who discovered laws of Mendelian inheritance *Carole Meredith, US geneticist who pioneered DNA typing to differentiate between grape varieties *Matthew Meselson (born 1930), US molecular geneticist, work on DNA replication, recombination, repair *Peter Michaelis (1900–1975), German plant geneticist, focused on cytoplasmic inheritance *Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855–1935), Russian plant geneticist, scientific agricultural selection *Friedrich Miescher (1844–1895), Swiss biologist, found weak acid in white blood cells now called DNA *Margareta Mikkelsen (1923–2004), eminent German-born Danish human geneticist and cytogeneticist *Lois K. Miller (1945–1999), entomologist and molecular geneticist, studied insect viruses *O. J. Miller, US physician, human and mammalian genetics and chromosome structure and function *César Milstein (1927–2002), Argentine-UK, Nobel Prize for hybridomas making monoclonal antibodies *Aubrey Milunsky (born c. 1936), South African-US physician, medical geneticist, writer, prenatal diagnosis *Alfred Mirsky (1900–1974), US pioneer in molecular biology, hemoglobin structure, constancy of DNA *Felix Mitelman (born 1940), Swedish cancer geneticist and cytogeneticist, catalog of chromosomes in cancer *Jan Mohr (1921–2009), eminent Norwegian-Danish pioneer in human gene mapping *Jacques Monod (1910–1976), French molecular biologist, Nobel Prize-winner *Lilian Vaughan Morgan (1870–1952), wife of T. H. Morgan and a fine geneticist in her own right *T. H. Morgan (1866–1945), head of the "fly room," first geneticist to win the Nobel Prize * Newton Morton, Newton E. Morton (1929–2018), population geneticist and genetic epidemiology, genetic epidemiologist *Arno Motulsky (1923–2018), German-US hematologist who influenced medical genetics and founded pharmacogenetics *Arthur Mourant (1904–1994), British hematologist, first to examine worldwide Human blood group systems, blood group distributions *H. J. Muller (1890–1967), US Drosophila geneticist, Nobel Prize for producing mutations by X-rays *Hans J. Müller-Eberhard (1927–1998), German-US immunogeneticist, immunoglobulins and complement (biology), complement *Kary Mullis (1944–2019), US biochemist, Nobel Prize for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) * Stefan Mundlos (born 1958), German geneticist, discovered genes responsible for skeletal development, and particularly effects of gene expression induced by abnormal gene position in a topologically associating domainN
*Walter E. Nance (born 1933), US internist and geneticist, research on twins and genetics of deafness *Daniel Nathans (1928–1999), US microbiologist, Nobel Prize for restriction endonucleases *James V. Neel (1915–2000), distinguished human geneticist, founded first genetics clinic in the US *Fred Neidhardt, US microbiologist, pioneer in molecular physiology and proteomics of ''E. coli'' *Oliver Evans Nelson, Jr., Oliver Nelson (1920–2001), US maize geneticist, profound impact on agriculture and basic genetics *Walter Nelson-Rees (1929–2009), US cytogeneticist, confirmed HeLa cells contamination of other cell lines *Eugene W. Nester, US microbial geneticist, genetics of ''Agrobacterium'' (crown gall formation) *Carl Neuberg (1877–1956), early pioneer of the study of metabolism. *Hans Neurath (1909–2002), Austrian-US protein chemist, helped set stage for proteomics *Marshall W. Nirenberg (1927–2010), US geneticist, biochemist and Nobel Prize-winner *Eva Nogales, Spanish biophysicist studying eukaryotic Transcription (genetics), transcription and translation initiation complexes *Edward Novitski (1918–2006), eminent US ''Drosophila'' geneticist, pioneer in chromosome mechanics *Paul Nurse (born 1949), UK biochemist, Nobel Prize for work on Cyclin-dependent kinase, CDK, a key regulator of the cell cycle *Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born 1942), German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize-winner *William Nyhan (born 1926), US pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, described Lesch–Nyhan syndromeO
*Severo Ochoa (1905–1993), Spanish-American biochemist, Nobel Prize for work on the synthesis of RNA *Susumu Ohno (1928–2000), Japanese-US biologist, evolutionary cytogenetics and molecular evolution *Tomoko Ohta (born 1933), Japanese scientist in molecular evolution, the nearly neutral theory of evolution *Clarence Paul Oliver, Pete Oliver (1898–1991), US geneticist, switched from Drosophila to human genetics *Olufunmilayo Olopade (born 1957), oncologist known for research on genetics of breast cancer and health disparities *Jane M. Olson (1952–2004), US genetic epidemiology, genetic epidemiologist and biostatistician *Maynard Olson (born 1943), US geneticist, pioneered map of yeast genome and Human Genome Project *John M. Opitz, John Opitz (born 1935), German-American medical geneticist, expert on dysmorphology and syndromes *Harry Ostrer, US medical geneticist, studies origins of Jewish peoples *Ray D. Owen, Ray Owen (1915–2014), US geneticist, immunologist, found cattle blood groups and chimera (genetics), chimeric twin calvesP
*Svante Pääbo (born 1955), Swedish molecular anthropologist in Leipzig studying Neanderthal genome *David C. Page, David Page (born 1956), US physician and geneticist who mapped, cloned and sequenced the human Y chromosome *Theophilus Painter (1889–1969), US zoologist, studied fruit fly and human testis chromosomes *Arthur Pardee (1921–2019), US scientist who discovered restriction point in the cell cycle *Klaus Patau (1908–1975), German-American cytogeneticist, described trisomy 13 *John Thomas Patterson (geneticist), John Thomas Patterson (1878–1960), American embryologist and geneticist who studied isolating mechanisms *Andrew H. Paterson, US geneticist, research leader in plant genomics *Linus Pauling (1901–1994), eminent US chemist, won Nobel Prizes for chemical bonds and peace *Crodowaldo Pavan (1919–2009), Brazilian biologist, fly geneticist, and influential scientist in Brazil *Rose Payne (1909–1999), US transplant geneticist, key to discovery and development of Human leukocyte antigen, HLA system *Raymond Pearl (1879–1940), US biologist, biostatistician, rejected eugenics *Karl Pearson (1857–1936), British statistician, made key contributions to genetic analysis *Caroline Pellew (1882–?), British geneticist *LS Penrose (1898–1972), British psychiatrist, human geneticist, pioneered genetics of mental retardation *Max Perutz (1914–2002), Austrian-British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for structure of hemoglobin *Massimo Pigliucci (born 1964), Italian-US plant ecological and evolutionary geneticist. Winner of the Dobzhansky Prize. *Alfred Ploetz (1860–1940), German physician, biologist, eugenicist, introduced racial hygiene to Germany *Paul Polani (1914–2006), Trieste-born UK pediatrician, major catalyst of medical genetics in Britain *Charles M. Pomerat, Charles Pomerat (1905–1951), US cell biologist, pioneered the field of tissue culture *Guido Pontecorvo (1907–1999), Italian-born Scottish geneticist and pioneer molecular biologist *Alkes Price, American geneticist known for statistical methods to draw inference from genetic data, including genomic ancestry quantification and heritability estimation *George R. Price (1922–1975), brilliant but troubled US population geneticist and theoretical biologist *Peter Propping (1942–2016), German human geneticist, studies of epilepsy *Mark Ptashne (born 1940), US molecular biologist, studies of genetic switch,Q
*Lluis Quintana-Murci (born 1970), French-Spanish human population geneticist, human evolutionary genetics, evolution of immunityR
*Michèle Ramsay, South African geneticist, single-gene disorders, epigenetics, complex diseases *Robert Race (1907–1984), British expert on blood groups, along with wife Ruth Sanger *Sheldon C. Reed (1910–2003), US pioneer in genetic counseling and behavioral genetics *G. N. Ramachandran (1922–2001) Indian biophysicist, co-discovered triple-helix structure of collagen *David Reich (geneticist), David Reich (born 1974), US, human population genetics and genomics, did humans and chimps interbreed? *Theodore Reich (1938–2003), Canadian-US psychiatrist, a founder of modern psychiatric genetics *Alexander Rich (1925–2015), US biologist, biophysicist, discovered Z-DNA and tRNA 3-dimensional structure *Rollin C. Richmond, US, evolutionary and pharmacogenetic studies of Drosophila, university administrator *Neil Risch, US human and population geneticist, studied torsion dystonia *Otto Renner (1883–1960), German plant geneticist, established maternal plastid inheritance *Marcus Rhoades (1903–1991), great maize (corn) geneticist and cytogeneticist *David L. Rimoin (1936–2012), Canadian–US medical geneticist, studied skeletal dysplasias *Richard J. Roberts, Richard Roberts (born 1943), British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for introns and gene-splicing *Arthur Robinson (American pediatrician), Arthur Robinson (1914–2000), US pediatrician, geneticist, pioneer on sex chromosome anomalies *Herschel L. Roman (1914–1989), US geneticist, innovated in analysis in maize and budding yeast *Irwin Rose (1926–2015), US biologist, Nobel Prize for ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation *Leon E. Rosenberg, Leon Rosenberg (1933–2022), US physician-geneticist, molecular basis of inherited metabolic disease *David S Rosenblatt, Canadian geneticist *Peyton Rous (1879–1970), US tumor virologist and tissue culture expert, Nobel Prize *Janet Rowley (1925–2013), US cancer cytogeneticist who found Ph chromosome due to Chromosomal translocation, translocation *Peter T. Rowley (1929–2006), US internist and geneticist, genetics of cancer and leukemia *Frank Ruddle (1929–2013), US biologist, somatic cell genetics, human gene mapping, paved way for transgenic mice *Ernst Rüdin (1874–1952), Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist and eugenicist who promoted racial hygiene *Elizabeth S. Russell (1913–2001), US mammalian geneticist, pioneering work on pigmentation, blood-forming cells, and germ cells *Liane B. Russell (1923–2019), Austrian-born US mouse geneticist and radiation biologist *William L. Russell (1910–2003), UK-US mouse geneticist, pioneered study of mutagenesis in miceS
*Leo Sachs (1924–2013), German-Israeli molecular cancer biologist, colony-stimulating factors, interleukins *Ruth Sager (1918–1997), US geneticist, pioneer of cytoplasmic genetics, tumor suppressor genes *Joseph Sambrook (1939–2019), British viral geneticist *Avery A. Sandberg (1921–2016), US internist, discovered XYY in 1961, expert on chromosomes in cancer *Lodewijk A. Sandkuijl (1953–2002), Dutch expert on genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics *Laurence Sandler, Larry Sandler (1929–1987), US Drosophila geneticist, chromosome mechanics, devoted teacher *John C. Sanford (born 1950), US horticultural geneticist and intelligent design advocate *Frederick Sanger, Fred Sanger (1918–2013), UK biochemist, two Nobel Prizes, sequence of insulin, DNA sequencing method *Ruth Sanger (1918–2001), Australian expert on Human blood group systems, blood groups, along with husband Robert Race *Karl Sax (1892–1973), US botanist and cytogeneticist, effects of radiation on chromosomes *Paul Schedl (born 1947), US molecular biologist, genetic regulation of developmental pathways in fruit fly *Albert Schinzel (born 1944), Austrian human geneticist, clinical genetics, karyotype-phenotype correlations *Werner Schmid (geneticist), Werner Schmid (1930–2002), Swiss pioneer in human cytogenetics, described cat eye syndrome *Gertrud Schüpbach (born 1950), Swiss-US biologist, molecular and genetic mechanisms in oogenesis *Charles Scriver (born 1930), Canadian pediatrician, biochemical genetics, biochemical geneticist, newborn metabolic screening *Ernie Sears (1910–1991), Wheat Geneticist who pioneered methods of transferring desirable genes from wild relatives to cultivated wheat in order to increase wheat's resistance to various insects and diseases *J. Edwin Seegmiller, Jay Seegmiller (1920–2006), US human biochemical geneticist, found cause of Lesch–Nyhan syndrome *Fred Sherman (scientist), Fred Sherman (1932–2013), US geneticist, one of the "fathers" and mentors of modern yeast genetics *Pak Sham, geneticist known for his work in psychiatric genomics *Larry Shapiro, US pediatric geneticist, lysosomal storage disorders, X chromosome inactivation *Lucy Shapiro (born 1940), US molecular geneticist, gene expression during the cell cycle, bacterium Caulobacter *Phillip Allen Sharp, Phillip Sharp (born 1944), US geneticist and molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for co-discovery of gene splicing *Philip Sheppard (biologist), Philip Sheppard (1921–1976), UK population geneticist, lepidopterist, human Human blood group systems, blood group researcher *G. H. Shull (1874–1954), US geneticist, made key discoveries including heterosis *Torsten Sjögren *Mark Skolnick (born 1946), US geneticist, developed Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLPs) for gene mapping, genetic mapping, and founded Myriad Genetics *Obaid Siddiqi (1932–2013), Indian neurogeneticist, pioneer on olfactory sense of fruit fly Drosophila *David Sillence (born 1944), Australian clinical geneticist, pioneered training of Australian geneticists, research in bone dysplasias, classified osteogenesis imperfecta *Norman Simmons (1915–2004), US, forgotten donor of pure DNA to Rosalind Franklin in double helix saga *Piotr Słonimski (1922–2009), Polish-Parisian yeast geneticist, pioneer of mitochondrial heredity *William S. Sly (born 1932), US biochemical geneticist, mucopolysaccharidosis type VII (Sly syndrome) *Cedric Smith (statistician), Cedric A. B. Smith (1917–2002), British statistician, made key contributions to statistical genetics *David Weyhe Smith, David W. Smith (1926–1981), US pediatrician, influential dysmorphologist, named fetal alcohol syndrome *Hamilton O. Smith, Hamilton Smith (born 1931), US microbiologist, Nobel Prize for restriction endonucleases *Michael Smith (chemist), Michael Smith (1932–2000), UK-born Canadian biochemist, Nobel Prize for site-directed mutagenesis *Oliver Smithies (1925–2017), UK/US molecular geneticist, inventor, gel electrophoresis, knockout mice *George Davis Snell, George Snell (1903–1996), US mouse geneticist, pioneer Organ transplant, transplant immunologist, won Nobel Prize *Lawrence H. Snyder (1901–1986), US pioneer in medical genetics, studied Human blood group systems, blood groups *Robert R. Sokal (1925–2012), Austrian-born US biological anthropologist and biostatistician. *Tracy M. Sonneborn (1905–1981), protozoan biologist and geneticist *Edwin Southern, Ed Southern (born 1938), UK molecular biologist, invented Southern blot and DNA microarray technologies *Hans Spemann (1869–1941) German embryologist, Nobel Prize for discovery of embryonic induction *David Stadler, US geneticist, mechanisms of mutation and recombination in Neurospora *Lewis Stadler, L. J. Stadler (1896–1954), eminent Us maize geneticist, father of David Stadler *Franklin Stahl, Frank Stahl (born 1929), US molecular biologist, the Stahl half of the Meselson-Stahl experiment *David States, US geneticist and bioinformatician, computational study of human genome and proteome *G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000), US botanist, geneticist and evolutionary biologist *Michael Stebbins, US geneticist, science writer, editor and activist *Emmy Stein (1879–1954), German botanist and geneticist *Joan A. Steitz (born 1941), US molecular biologist, pioneering studies of snRNAs and snRNPs (snurps) *Gunther Stent (1924–2008), German-born US molecular geneticist,T
*Jantina Tammes (1871–1947), Dutch geneticist, one of the first Dutch scientists to report on variability and evolution *Edward Tatum (1909–1975), showed genes control individual steps in metabolism *Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou (born 1932), British molecular biologist and geneticist *Howard Temin (1934–1994), US geneticist, Nobel Prize for discovery of reverse transcriptase *Alan Templeton (born c. 1948), US geneticist and biostatistician, molecular evolution, evolutionary biology *Joseph R. Testa (born 1947), US cancer geneticist and malignant mesothelioma biologist whose team cloned AKT genes and co-discovered the BAP1 tumor predisposition syndrome *Eeva Therman (1916–2004), Finnish-born US geneticist who helped characterize and find the molecular basis for trisomy 13 and trisomy 18 *E. Donnall Thomas, Donnall Thomas (1920–2012), US physician, Nobel Prize for bone marrow transplantation for leukemia *Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900–1981), Russian radiation and evolution geneticist *Alfred Tissières (1917–2003), Swiss molecular geneticist who pioneered molecular biology in Geneva *Joe Hin Tjio (1919–2001), Java-born geneticist who first discovered humans have 46 chromosomes *Susumu Tonegawa (born 1939), Japanese molecular biologist; Nobel Prize for genetics of antibody diversity *Erich von Tschermak (1871–1962), Austrian agronomist and one of the re-discoverers of Gregor Mendel, Mendel's laws *Lap-chee Tsui (born 1950), Chinese geneticist who sequenced first human gene (for cystic fibrosis) with Francis Collins *Elena J. Tucker, Elena Jane Tucker, Australian geneticist investigating mitochondrial disease *Raymond Turpin (1895–1988), French pediatrician, geneticist, Jérôme Lejeune, Lejeune's co-discoverer of trisomy 21U
*Axel Ullrich (born 1943), German molecular biologist, signal transduction, discovered oncogene, Herceptin *Irene Ayako Uchida (1917–2013), one of the first Canadian geneticists and cytogeneticists. Down syndromeV
*Harold Varmus (born 1939), US Nobel Prize-winner for oncogenes, head of NIH *Rajeev Kumar Varshney (born 1973), Indian geneticist, principal scientist at ICRISAT and theme leader aW
*Petrus Johannes Waardenburg (1886–1979), Dutch ophthalmologist, geneticist, Waardenburg syndrome *C. H. Waddington (1905–1975), British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist *Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), Welsh, proposed natural selection theory independent of Charles Darwin, Darwin *Douglas C. Wallace (born 1946), US mitochondrial geneticist, pioneered the use of human mtDNA as a molecular marker *Peter Walter (born 1954), German-US molecular biologist studying protein folding and protein targeting *Richard H. Ward (1943–2003), English-born New Zealand human and anthropological geneticist *James D. Watson (born 1928), US molecular geneticist, Nobel Prize for discovery of the double helix *David Weatherall (1933–2018), distinguished UK physician, geneticist, pioneer in hemoglobin and molecular medicine *Robert Weinberg (biologist), Robert Weinberg (born 1942), US, discovered first human oncogene and first tumor suppressor gene *Wilhelm Weinberg (1862–1937), German physician, formulated Hardy–Weinberg law, basic law of population genetics *Spencer Wells (born 1969), US genetic anthropologist, head of Genographic Project to map past migrations *Susan R. Wessler (born 1953), US plant molecular geneticist, transposable elements re genetic diversity *Raymond L. White (1943–2018), US cancer geneticist, cloned APC colon cancer gene and neurofibromatosis gene *Glayde Whitney (1939–2002), US behavioral geneticist, accused of supporting scientific racism *Reed Wickner (born c. 1942), US molecular geneticist, yeast phenotypes due to prion forms of native proteins *Alexander S. Wiener (1907–1976), U.S. immunologist, discovered Rhesus blood group system, Rh Human blood group systems, blood groups with Landsteiner *Eric F. Wieschaus (born 1947), US developmental biologist and Nobel Prize-winner *Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004), New Zealand-born British Nobel Prize-winner with James Watson, Watson and Francis Crick, Crick *Huntington Willard (born c. 1953), US human geneticist, X chromosome inactivation, gene silencing *Harold G. Williams (born 1929), US, Oklahoma cattle geneticist pioneer *Robley Williams (1908–1995), US virologist, recreated tobacco mosaic virus from its RNA + protein coat *Ian Wilmut (born 1944), UK reproductive biologist who first cloned a mammal (lamb named Dolly (sheep), Dolly) *Allan Wilson (biologist), Allan Wilson (1934–1991), New Zealand-US innovator in molecular study of human evolution *David Sloan Wilson (born 1949), US evolutionary biologist and geneticist *Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856–1939), US zoologist, geneticist, discovered XY and XX sex chromosomes *Øjvind Winge (1886–1964), Danish biologist and pioneer in yeast genetics *Chester B. Whitley (born 1950), US geneticist, pioneered treatment of lysosomal diseases *Carl Woese (1928–2012), US biologist, defined Archaea as new domain of life, rRNA phylogenetic tool *Ulrich Wolf (1933–2017), German cytogeneticist, found chromosome 4p deletion in Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome *Melaku Worede (born 1936), Ethiopian conservationist and geneticist *Naomi Wray, Australian geneticist known for her work on genetics of complex traits *Sewall Wright (1889–1988), eminent US geneticist who, with Ronald Fisher, united genetics & evolutionY
*Jian Yang (geneticist), Jian Yang, Chinese geneticist, known for his work on the missing heritability of complex traits *Charles Yanofsky (1925–2018), US molecular geneticist, colinearity of gene and its protein productZ
*Floyd Zaiger (1926–2020), fruit geneticist and entrepreneur *Hans Zellweger (1909–1990) Swiss-US pediatrician and clinical geneticist, described Zellweger syndrome *Norton Zinder (1928–2012), US biologist andFictional geneticists
*Lizard (comics), Curt Connors in the ''Peter Parker: Spider-Man, Spider-Man'' comics *Moira MacTaggert in the ''Uncanny X-Men, X-Men'' comics *Andrew Wells in the television series ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' *Dr. Henry Wu in the movie ''Jurassic World''See also
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