Samuel Goodnow Wildman (May 26, 1912 – August 16, 2004) was an American biologist. Wildman joined the

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, as a professor of biology in 1950 and retired in 1979. Professor Wildman is best known for his leading work over several decades on "Fraction I protein" (now known as

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) although his record of publications spanned more than 60 years in total. In 1979, the

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awarded him with the Charles Barnes Life Membership Award, placing him in company with notables such as

Erwin Bünning Erwin Bünning (23 January 1906 – 4 October 1990) was a German biologist. His most famous contributions were to the field of chronobiology, where he proposed a model for the endogenous circadian rhythms governing plant photoperiodism. From ...

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