List of geneticists 1532897 217405456 2008-06-05T21:57:24Z NehpestTheFirst 3074084 [[WP:UNDO|Undid]] revision 217405353 by [[Special:Contributions/69.125.192.77|69.125.192.77]] ([[User talk:69.125.192.77|talk]]) This is a list of people who have made notable contributions to genetics. The growth and development of genetics represents the work of many people. This list of geneticists is therefore by no means complete. Contributors of great distinction to genetics are not yet on the list. __NOTOC__ {{compactTOC2}} == A == *[[Dagfinn Aarskog]] (1928- ), Norwegian pediatrician and geneticist, described [[Aarskog-Scott syndrome]] *[[Jon Aase]] (1936- ), US [[dysmorphology|dysmorphologist]], described [[Aase syndrome]], expert on [[fetal alcohol syndrome]] *[[John Abelson]] (c.1939- ), US biochemist, studies of machinery and mechanism of [[RNA splicing]] *[[Susan L. Ackerman]], US neurogeneticist, genes controlling brain development and [[neuron]] survival *[[Jerry Adams]] (1940- ), US molecular biologist in Australia, [[hematopoietic]] genetics and cancer *[[Bruce Alberts]] (1938- ), US biochemist, [[phage]] worker, studied [[DNA replication]] and [[cell division]] *[[William Allan (human geneticist)|William Allan]] (1881-1943), US country doctor, pioneered human genetics *[[C. David Allis]] (1951-1965), US biologist with a fascination for [[chromatin]] *[[Carl-Henry Alström]] (1907-1993), Swedish psychiatrist, described genetic disease: [[Alstrom syndrome]] *[[Sidney Altman]] (1939- ), Canadian-US biophysicist who won [[Nobel Prize]] for catalytic functions of [[RNA]] *[[Cecil A. Alport]] (1880-1959),UK internist, identified [[Alport syndrome]] (hereditary [[nephritis]] and [[deafness]]) *[[David Altshuler]] (c.1965- ), US [[endocrinologist]] and geneticist, the genetics of [[type 2 diabetes]] *[[Bruce Ames]] (1928- ), US molecular geneticist, created [[Ames test]] to screen chemicals for [[mutagenicity]] *[[D. Bernard Amos]] (1923-2003), UK-US immunologist who studied the genetics of individuality *[[Edgar Anderson]] (1897-1969), eminent US botanical geneticist *[[E.G. ("Andy") Anderson]], US [[Drosophila]] and [[maize]] geneticist *[[William French Anderson]] (1936- ), US worker in [[gene therapy]] *[[Corino Andrade]] (1906-2005), Portuguese [[neurologist]] and clinical geneticist *[[Tim Anson]] (1901-1968), US molecular biologist, proposed protein folding a reversible two-state reaction *[[Stylianos E. Antonarakis]] (1951- ), US-Greek medical geneticist, genotypic and phenotypic variation *[[Werner Arber]] (1929- ), Swiss microbiologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for discovery of [[restriction endonuclease]]s *[[Michael Ashburner]] (1942- ), British [[Drosophila]] geneticist and [[polymath]] *[[William Astbury]] (1898-1961), UK molecular biologist, [[X-ray crystallography]] of [[protein]]s and [[DNA]] *[[Giuseppe Attardi]], Italian-US molecular biologist, genetics of human [[mitochondria]]l function *[[Charlotte Auerbach]] (1899-1994), German-born British pioneer in [[mutagenesis]] *[[Oswald Avery]] (1877–1955), Canadian-born US co-discoverer that [[DNA]] is the genetic material *[[Richard Axel]] (1946- ) US physician-scientist, [[Nobel Prize]] for genetic analysis of [[olfactory]] system == B == *[[E. B. Babcock]] (1877-1954), US plant geneticist, pioneered genetic analysis of genus [[Crepis]] *[[E-G Balbiani]] (1823-1899), French embryologist who found [[chromosome]] puffs now called [[Balbiani ring]]s *[[David Baltimore]] (1938- ), US biologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for the discovery of [[reverse transcriptase]] * [[Guido Barbujani]] (1955- ), Italian population geneticist and evolutionary biologist *[[Murray Barr]] (1908–1995), Canadian scientist, first saw [[Barr body]] in cells due to inactive [[X chromosome]] *[[Cornelia Bargmann]], US, molecular neurogeneticist studying the [[C. elegans]] brain *[[David P. Bartel]] (B.A. 1982), US geneticist, discovered many [[microRNA]]s regulating [[gene expression]] *[[William Bateson]] (1861-1926), British geneticist who coined the term "genetics" *[[E. Baur]] (1875-1933), German geneticist, botanist, discovered inheritance of [[plasmid]]s *[[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]], US microbiologist and geneticist, isolated first gene from a bacterial chromosome *[[Peter Beighton]] (1934- ) UK/South Africa medical geneticist, first warned of [[economy class syndrome]] *[[Julia Bell]] (1879-1979), English geneticist who documented inheritance of many diseases *[[John Belling]] (1866-1933), English [[cytogenetics|cytogeneticist]] who developed staining technique for [[chromosome]]s *[[Baruj Benacerraf]] (1920- ), Venezuelan-US immunologist who won [[Nobel Prize]] for [[HLA]] system *[[Kurt Benirschke]] (1924- ), German-US pathologist, comparative cytogenetics, twinning in armadillos *[[Seymour Benzer]] (1921- ), US molecular biologist and pioneer of neurogenetics *[[Paul Berg]] (1926- ), US biochemist and [[Nobel Prize]]-winner for basic research on [[nucleic acid]]s *[[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]] (1936- ), US microbial immunogeneticist, [[Nobel Prize]]-winner for [[oncogenes]] *[[Elizabeth Blackburn]] (1948-), Australo-US biologist, [[Lasker Award]] on [[telomere]]s and [[telomerase]] *[[Günter Blobel]] (1936- ), 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 [[protein]]s *[[Baruch Blumberg]] (Barry Blumberg) (1925- ), US physician and [[Nobel Prize]]-winner on [[hepatitis B]] *[[Julia Bodmer]] (1934-2001), British geneticist, key figure in discovery and definition of the [[HLA]] system *[[Walter Bodmer]] (1936- ), German-UK human population geneticist, immunogeneticist, cancer research *[[James Frederick Bonner|James Bonner]] (1910-1996), far-ranging US molecular biologist, into [[histone]]s, [[chromatin]], [[nucleic acid]]s *[[David Botstein]] (1942- ), Swiss-born US molecular geneticist, brother of [[Leon Botstein]] *[[Theodor Boveri]] (1862-1915), German biologist and cytogeneticist *[[Peter Bowen]] (1932-1988), Canadian medical geneticist *[[Herbert Boyer|Herb Boyer]] (1936- ), US, created [[transgenic bacteria]] inserting human insulin gene into [[E. coli]] *[[Paul D. Boyer]] (1918- ), US biochemist and [[Nobel Prize]]-winner *[[Jean Brachet]] (1909-1998), Belgian biochemist, made key contributions to fathoming roles of [[RNA]] *[[Roscoe Brady]] US physician-scientist at [[NIH]], studies of genetic neurological metabolic disorders *[[Sydney Brenner]] (1927- ), British molecular biologist and [[Nobel Prize]]-winner *[[Calvin Bridges]] (1889-1938), US geneticist, [[non-disjunction]] proof that chromosomes contain genes *[[Royal Alexander Brink|R.A. Brink]] (1897-1984), Canadian-US plant geneticist and breeder, studied [[paramutation]], [[transposon]]s *[[Roy Britten]] (1919- ) US molecular and evolutionary biologist, discovered and studied [[junk DNA]] *[[John Brookfield (geneticist)|John Brookfield]] Drosophila population geneticist. *[[Michael Stuart Brown]] (1941- ) US geneticist and [[Nobel Prize]]-winner on cholesterol metabolism *[[Manuel Buchwald]] (1940- ), Peruvian-born Canadian medical geneticist and molecular geneticist *[[Linda Buck]] (1947- ) US biologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for post-doc work (with [[Richard Axel|Axel]]) cloning [[olfactory receptor]]s *[[James J. Bull (professor)|James Bull]], US molecular biologist and [[phage]] worker, evolution of sex determining mechanisms *[[Luther Burbank]] (1849-1926), US botanist, horticulturist, pioneer in agricultural science *[[Frank Macfarlane Burnet|Macfarlane Burnet]] (1899-1985), Australian biologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[immunological tolerance]] *[[Cyril Burt]] (1883-1971), British educational psychologist, did debated mental and behavioral [[twin study]] == C == *[[John Cairns (biochemist)|John Cairns]] (1922- ), UK physician-scientist, showed bacterial [[DNA]] one molecule with replicating fork *[[Allan Campbell]], US microbiologist and geneticist, pioneering work on [[phage]] lambda *[[Howard Cann]], US pediatrician and geneticist, human population genetics at [[Stanford]] and [[CEPH]] in Paris *[[Antonio Cao]] (1929- ), Italian pediatrician and medical geneticist, expert on the [[thalassemia]]s *[[Mario Capecchi]] (1937- ), Italian-born US molecular geneticist, co-invented the [[knock-out mouse]], [[Nobel prize]] for Medicine, 2007 *[[Elof Axel Carlson]], US geneticist and eminent historian of science *[[Gyaneshwer Chaubey]], Indian population geneticist. *[[Hampton Carson]] (1914-2004), US population geneticist, studied [[cytogenetics]] and [[evolution]] of [[Drosophila]] *[[C. Thomas Caskey|Tom Caskey]] (c.1938- ), US internist, human geneticist and entrepreneur; biochemical diseases *[[Torbjörn Caspersson]] (1910-1997), Swedish cytogeneticist, revealed human [[chromosome banding]] *[[William B. Castle (hematologist)|William B. Castle]] (1897-1990), US [[hematologist]], work on [[hereditary spherocytosis]], [[sickle cell anemia]] *[[William E. Castle]] (1867-1962), US [[geneticist]], inspired [[T.H. Morgan]], father of [[William B. Castle]] *[[David Guthrie Catcheside|David Catcheside]] (1907-1994) UK plant geneticist, expert on [[genetic recombination]], active in Australia *[[Bruce Cattanach]] (1932- ), eminent UK mouse geneticist, [[X-inactivation]] and [[sex determination]] in mice *[[Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza]] (1922- ), distinguished Italian population geneticist at [[Stanford University]] *[[Thomas Cech]] (1947- ), US biochemist who won [[Nobel Prize]] for catalytic functions of [[RNA]] *[[Aravinda Chakravarti]] (1954- ), Indian-born [[bioinformatician]] studying genetic factors in common diseases *[[Jean-Pierre Changeux]] (1936- ), French molecular [[neurobiologist]], studied [[allosteric]] proteins *[[Erwin Chargaff]] (1905-2002), Austrian-born US biochemist, [[Chargaff's rules]] led to the [[double helix]] *[[Brian Charlesworth]] (1945- ), British evolutionary biologist, husband of [[Deborah Charlesworth]] *[[Deborah Charlesworth]], British evolutionary biologist, wife of [[Brian Charlesworth]] *[[Martha Chase]] (1927-2003), US biologist, with [[Alfred Hershey|Hersey]] proved genetic material is DNA, not protein *[[Sergei Chetverikov]] (1880-1959), Russian population geneticist *[[Barton Childs]] (1916- ), US pediatrician, biochemical geneticist, philosopher of medical genetics *[[George Church]] (1954- ), US molecular geneticist, did first direct genomic sequencing with [[Walter Gilbert|Gilbert]] *[[Aaron Ciechanover]] (1947- ), [[Israel]]i biologist, won [[Nobel Prize]] for [[ubiquitin]]-mediated [[protein degradation]] *[[Bryan Clarke]] (1932- ), British population geneticist, studied [[apostatic selection]] and molecular evolution *[[Cyril Clarke]] (1907-2000), British medical geneticist, discovered how to prevent [[Rh disease]] in newborns *[[Jens Clausen]] (1891-1969), Danish-US botanist, geneticist, and [[ecologist]] *[[Edward H. Coe, Jr.]] (1926- ), influential US maize (corn) geneticist *[[Stanley Cohen (neurologist)|Stanley Cohen]] (1922- ), US neurobiologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for cell growth factors *[[Francis S. Collins|Francis Collins]] (1950- ), US medical geneticist, [[positional cloning|gene cloner]], director of [[National Human Genome Research Institute|Human Genome Institute]] *[[James Collins (Boston University)|James J. Collins]] (1965- ), US bioengineer, pioneered synthetic biology and systems biology *[[Robert Corey]] (1897-1971), US biochemist, [[a-helix]], [[ß-sheet]] and [[Molecular model|atomic model]]s for [[protein]]s *[[Carl Correns]] (1864-1933), German botanist and geneticist, one of the re-discoverers of [[Mendel]] in 1900 *[[Lewis L. Coriell]] (1911-2001), US pioneer in culturing human cells *[[Diane W. Cox]], Canadian medical geneticist and expert on [[Wilson disease]] *[[Harriet Creighton]] (1909-2004), US botanist who with [[Barbara McClintock|McClintock]] first saw [[chromosomal crossover]] *[[Francis Crick]] (1916-2004), English molecular biologist, neuroscientist, co-discoverer of the [[double helix]] *[[James F. Crow]] (1916- ), US population geneticist and renowned teacher of genetics *[[Lucien Cuenot]] (1886-1901), French biologist, proved [[Mendel]]'s rules apply to animals as well as plants *[[A. Jamie Cuticchia]] (1966- ), US geneticist, into human genome [[informatics]] == D == *[[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 ''Origin of the Species'' *[[Kay Davies]], English geneticist, expert on [[muscular dystrophy]] *[[Jean Dausset]] (1916- ) French immunogeneticist and [[Nobel Prize]]-winner for the [[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- ), eminent Finnish medical geneticist, genetic predisposition to cancer *[[Max Delbruck]] (1906-1981), German-US scientist, [[Nobel Prize]] for genetic structure of viruses *[[Charles DeLisi]], US biophysicist, led the initiative that planned and launched the [[Human Genome Project]] *[[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 [[Mendel]]'s laws in 1900 *[[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]], US geneticist, studies genes that drive development and evolution of plants *[[Peter C. Doherty|Peter Doherty]] (1940- ), Australian, won [[Nobel Prize]] for immune recognition of [[antigen]]s *[[Albert Dorfman]] (1916-1982), US biochemical geneticist, discovered cause of [[Hurler's syndrome]] *[[Gabriel Dover]], British evolutionary geneticist *[[NT Dubinin]] (1907-1998), Russian biologist and geneticist *[[Bernard Dutrillaux]] (1940- ), French cytogeneticist, [[chromosome banding]], comparative cytogenetics *[[Christian de Duve]] (1917- ), Belgian cytologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for cell organelles ([[peroxisome]]s, [[lysosome]]s) == E == *[[A.W.F. Edwards]] (1935-), British statistician, geneticist, developed methods of [[phylogenetic]] analysis *[[John H. Edwards|John Edwards]] (1928-), British medical geneticist and cytogeneticist who first described [[trisomy 18]] *[[Hans Eiberg]] (1945- ), Danish geneticist, discovered the [[mutation]] causing blue eyes *[[R. A. Emerson]] (1873–1947), American plant geneticist, the main pioneer of corn genetics *[[Sterling H. Emerson|Sterling Emerson]] (1900-1988), American, biochemical genetics, [[recombination]], son of [[R. A. Emerson]] *[[Alan Emery]] (1928- ), British neuromuscular geneticist, [[Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy]] *[[Boris Ephrussi]] (1901–1979), Russian-born French geneticist, created way to transplant [[chromosome]]s *[[Robert C. Elston]] (1932- ), British-born American biostatistical genetics and [[genetic epidemiology|genetic epidemiologist]] *[[Charles J. Epstein|Charlie Epstein]], American medical geneticist, editor, developed mouse model for Down syndrome, wounded by the [[Unabomber]] *[[Herbert McLean Evans]] (1882-1971), US anatomist, reported in 1918 humans had 48 chromosomes *[[Martin Evans]], British scientist, discovered embryonic [[stem cells]] and developed [[knockout mouse]] *[[Warren Ewens]], Australian-US mathematical population geneticist, [[Ewens's sampling formula]] == F == *[[Alexander Cyril Fabergé]] (1912-1988), Russian-born Anglo-American geneticist, grandson of [[Carl Fabergé]] *[[D. S. Falconer]] (1913-2004), Scottish quantitative geneticist, wrote textbook to the subject *[[Stanley Falkow]], 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]] (c. 1945- ), US plant geneticist, cloning of [[transposable elements]], plant stress response *[[Malcolm Ferguson-Smith]] (1931- ) UK cytogeneticist, [[Klinefelter's 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), British microbial ([[Neurospora]]) and biochemical geneticist *[[Gerald Fink]] (1941- ), US molecular geneticist, preeminent figure in the field of yeast genetics *[[Andrew Fire]] (1959- ), US geneticist, [[Nobel Prize]] with [[Craig C. Mello|Mello]] for discovery of [[RNA interference]] *[[Robert L. Fischer]] (1950- ), A 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- ), Swiss-US biochemist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[phosphorylation]] as switch activating [[protein]]s *[[Eugen Fischer]] (1874-1967), German physician, anthropologist, eugenicist, influenced Nazi racial hygiene *[[Asbjorn Folling]] (1888-1973), Norwegian biochemist and physician who discovered [[phenylketonuria]] ([[PKU]]) *[[E.B. Ford]] (1901-1988), British ecological geneticist, specializing in butterflies and moths *[[Charles E. Ford|Charles Ford]] (1912–1999), British pioneer in the golden age of mammalian cytogenetics *[[Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat]] (1910-1999), German-born US biochemist who studied [[tobacco mosaic virus]] *[[Rosalind Franklin]] (1920-1958), British [[crystallographer]] whose data led to discovery of [[double helix]] *[[Clarke Fraser]] (1920- ), Canada's first medical geneticist, student of congenital malformations *[[Elaine Fuchs]] (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]] (1942- ), US evolutionary and ecological biologist ==G== *[[Fred Gage]], US neuroscientist, studies of [[neurogenesis]] and [[neuroplasticity]] of the adult brain *[[Joseph G. Gall]] (1932- ), distinguished US cell biologist, chromosomes, created [[in situ hybridization]] *[[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]] (c.1924- ), US, early molecular geneticist, [[nonsense]] [[Spin triplet|triplet]]s terminating [[Transcription (genetics)|transcription]] *[[Archibald Garrod]] (1857-1936), English physician, pioneered [[inborn errors of metabolism|inborn errors]], founded [[biochemical genetics]] *[[Stanley Gartler|Stan Gartler]] (1923-), US human geneticist, [[G6PD]] as X-linked marker, [[HeLa cells]] contaminating cell lines *[[Luigi Gedda]] (1902-2000), Italian geneticist best known for his fascination with [[twin studies]] *[[Walter Gehring]] (1939- ), Swiss, developmental genetics of [[Drosophila]], discovered [[homeobox]] *[[Park S. Gerald]] (1921-1993), US medical geneticist, research on [[hemoglobin]]s and [[chromosome]]s *[[James L. German]], US medical geneticist & cytogeneticist, pioneer on [[Bloom syndrome]] *[[Walter Gilbert]] (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- ), German-born US co-founder of developmental genetics *[[Richard Goldschmidt]] (1878-1958),German-American, integrated genetics, development, & evolution * [[Joseph L. Goldstein]] (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 *[[Carol W. Greider]] (1961- ), US molecular biologist, [[Lasker Award]] for [[telomere]]s and [[telomerase]] *[[Frederick Griffith]] (1879-1941), British medical officer who found [[transforming principle]] now called [[DNA]] *[[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]] & [[karyotype]]-[[phenotype]] correlation *[[Hans Gruneberg]] (1907-1982), British mouse geneticist and blood cell biologist *[[Pierre-Henri Gouyon]] (1953 - ), French biologist specializing in genetics and bioethics *[[Elliot S. Goldstein]] American geneticist at Arizona State University == H == *[[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]] [[protein]]s *[[Judith Goslin Hall|Judy Hall]] (1939- ), dual American and Canadian charismatic clinical geneticist and [[dysmorphology|dysmorphologist]] *[[Dean Hamer]] (1951-) US geneticist, postulated [[gay gene]] and [[God gene]] for religious experience *[[John L. Hamerton|John Hamerton]] (1929-2006), Anglo-Canadian [[cytogenetic]]ist, [[prenatal diagnosis|prenatal diagnostician]], [[bioethicist]] *[[W.D. Hamilton]] (1936-2000), British evolutionary biologist and eminent evolutionary theorist *[[Philip Hanawalt|Phil Hanawalt]], US geneticist, discovered [[DNA repair]] replication *[[Anita Harding]] (1952-1995), UK neurologist, first mitochondrial DNA mutation in disease *[[G.H. Hardy|GH Hardy]] (1877-1947), British [[mathematician]], formulated [[Hardy-Weinberg law|basic law]] of population genetics *[[Henry Harpending]] (1944- ), US anthropologist and human population geneticist *[[Harry Harris (geneticist)|Harry Harris]] (1919-94), British biochemical geneticist par excellence *[[Henry Harris (scientist)|Henry Harris]] (1925- ), Australo-British cell biologist, work on cancer and human genetics *[[Leland H. Hartwell|Lee Hartwell]] (1939- ), US yeast geneticist, [[Nobel Prize]], "start" gene and [[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 & geneticist, [[bacterial conjugation]] *[[Robert Haynes]] (1931-1998), Canadian geneticist and biophysicist, work on [[DNA repair]] and [[mutagenesis]] *[[Frederick Hecht]] (1930- ), US clinical geneticist, cytogeneticist, coined term [[fragile site]] *[[Michael Heidelberger]] (1888-1991) US pioneer of modern immunology, won two [[Lasker Award]]s *[[Martin Heisenberg]] (1940- ), German geneticist,[[neurobiologist]], genetic study of brain of [[Drosophila]] *[[Charles Roy Henderson]], (1911-1989), US animal geneticist, basis for genetic evaluation of [[livestock]] *[[Alfred Day Hershey|Al Hershey]] (1908-1997), US bacterial geneticist, [[Nobel Prize]] largely for [[Hershey-Chase experiment]] *[[Ira Herskowitz]] (1946–2003), US [[phage]] & [[yeast]] geneticist, genetic regulatory circuits & mechanisms *[[Len Herzenberg]] (1931-), US human geneticist, [[immunologist]], cell biologist and cell sorter *[[Avram Hershko]] (1937-), Israeli biologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[ubiquitin]]-mediated [[protein degradation]] *[[Kurt Hirschhorn]] (1926- ), Viennese-born American pediatrician, medical geneticist, cytogeneticist *[[Mahlon Hoagland]] (1921- ), US physician and biochemist, co-discovered [[tRNA]] with [[Paul Zamecnik]] *[[Dorothy Hodgkin]] (1910-1994), British founder of [[protein]] [[crystallography]] and [[Nobel Prize]] winner *[[Robert W. Holley]] (1922-1993), US biochemist, structure of [[transfer RNA]], [[Nobel Prize]] *[[Leroy Hood]] (1938- ), US molecular biotechnologist, created [[DNA]] & [[protein]] [[sequence]]rs & [[synthesize]]rs *[[Norman Horowitz]] (1915-2005), US geneticist, one gene-one enzyme, chemical [[evolution]], [[space biology]] *[[H. Robert Horvitz]] (1947- ), US cell biologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[programmed cell death]] *[[David E. Housman]], US molecular biologist, genetic basis of [[trinucleotide repeat]] diseases and cancer *[[Martha M. Howe]], US [[phage]] geneticist, notable contributions to the study of phage Mu *[[T. C. Hsu|T.C. Hsu]] (1917-2003), distinguished Chinese-American cell biologist, geneticist, cytogeneticist *[[Thomas J. Hudson]] (1961- ), Canadian [[genome]] scientist, maps of human and mouse genomes *[[David Hungerford]] (1927–1993), US co-discoverer of [[Philadelphia chromosome]] in [[CML]] *[[Tim Hunt]] (1943- ), UK biochemist, [[Nobel Prize]] for discovery of [[cyclins]] in [[cell cycle]] control *[[Charles Leonard Huskins]] (1897-1953), English-born Canadian [[cytogeneticist]] at [[McGill University|McGill]] and [[University of Wisconsin-Madison|Wisconsin]] == I == *[[Harvey Itano]] (1925- ), American biochemist and pioneer in the study of [[sickle cell disease]] == J == *[[François Jacob]] (1920 - ), French biologist, won [[Nobel Prize]] for bacterial gene control *[[Patricia A. Jacobs]] (1934- ), Scottish human geneticist and cytogeneticist *[[Albert Jacquard]] (1925- ), French geneticist, essayist, humanist, activist *[[Rudolf Jaenisch]] (1942- ), German cell biologist, created [[transgenic]] mice, leader in [[therapeutic cloning]] *[[Richard Anthony Jefferson|Richard Jefferson]] (1956- ) US molecular plant biologist in Australia, [[GUS reporter system|reporter gene system GUS]] *[[Alec Jeffreys]] (1950- ), British geneticist, developed [[DNA fingerprinting]] and [[DNA profiling]] techniques *[[Niels K. Jerne]] (1911-1994), Danish, greatest theoretician in modern immunology, [[Nobel Prize]] *[[Wilhelm Johannsen]] (1857-1927), Danish botanist who in 1909 coined the word "gene" *[[Jonathan D.G. Jones]], British plant molecular biologist *[[Christian Jung]] (1956- ), German plant geneticist and molecular biologist == K == *[[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- ), French scientist and geneticist, known for work on genetically modified plants *[[Franz Josef Kallmann]] (1897-1965), German-US psychiatrist, pioneer in genetics of psychiatric diseases *[[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 [[crystallographer]], won [[Nobel Prize]] for structure of [[myoglobin]] *[[Cynthia Kenyon]] (c. 1955- ), US molecular biologist, genetics of aging in the worm [[C. elegans]] *[[Warwick Estevam Kerr]] (1922- ) Brazilian expert in the genetics and [[sex determination]] of [[bee]]s *[[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-), Indian-US molecular biologist, synthesized nucleic acids, [[Nobel Prize]] *[[Motoo Kimura]] (1924-1994), influential Japanese mathematical biologist in theoretical [[population genetics]] *[[Mary-Claire King]] (1946- ), US human geneticist and social activist, identified breast cancer genes *[[David Klein]], (1908-1993), Swiss [[ophthalmologist]] and human geneticist *[[Harold Klinger]] (1929-2004), US pioneer on human chromosomes, founded journal ''Cytogenetics'' *[[Aaron Klug]] (1926- ), Lithuania/S Africa/UK, [[Nobel Prize]] for developing [[electron crystallography]] *[[Alfred G. Knudson|Al Knudson]] (1922- ), US pediatric oncologist, geneticist, formulated [[Knudson hypothesis|two hit hypothesis]] of cancer *[[Georges J. F. Köhler]] (1946-1995), German, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[hybridoma]]s making [[monoclonal antibodies]] *[[Arthur Kornberg]] (1918- ), US biochemist, [[Nobel Prize]] on [[DNA]] synthesis, father of [[Roger Kornberg]] *[[Roger Kornberg]] (1947- ), US biologist, [[Nobel Prize]] on [[eukaryotic]] [[Transcription (genetics)|transcription]] *[[Hans Kornberg]] (1928- ), German-UK biologist, studies of [[carbohydrate]] transport *[[Edwin Krebs|Ed Krebs]] (1918- ), US biochemist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[phosphorylation]] as switch activating [[protein]]s *[[Eric Kremer]], US molecular biologist, found [[trinucleotide repeat]] in [[fragile X]], research now in [[gene therapy]] *[[Henry G. Kunkel|Henry Kunkel]] (1916–1983), US [[immunologist]], created starch gel [[electrophoresis]] to separate [[protein]]s == L == *[[Bruce Lahn]] (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]] (1957- ), American molecular geneticist, major contributor to [[Human Genome Project]] *[[Karl Landsteiner]] (1868-1943), Austrian-American [[pathologist]], won [[Nobel Prize]] for [[blood group]] discoveries *[[André Langaney]], French evolutionary geneticist *[[Derald Langham]] (1913-1991), American 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- ), 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- ), US molecular biologist, [[Nobel Prize]], headed [[Rockefeller University]] *[[Jerome Lejeune]] (1926-1994), French pediatrician, geneticist, discovered [[trisomy 21]] in [[Down syndrome]] *[[Richard Lenski]] (1956-), US biologist and [[phage]] worker, did long-term [[E. coli]] evolution experiment *[[Fritz Lenz]] (1887-1976), German geneticist and eugenicist, ideas influenced Nazi [[racial hygiene]] policies *[[Widukind Lenz]] (1919-1995), eminent German medical geneticist who recognized [[thalidomide]] syndrome *[[Leonard Lerman]], US molecular biologist, [[phage]] worker, mentor of [[Nobel Prize]]-winner [[Sidney Altman]] *[[Israel Michael Lerner|Michael Lerner]] (1910-1977), Russian-US contributor to population, quantitative & evolutionary genetics *[[Albert Levan]] (1905-1998), Swedist geneticist, co-authored report that humans have 46 chromosomes *[[Cyrus Levinthal]] (1922-1990), US molecular geneticist, [[DNA replication]], [[mRNA]], molecular graphics *[[Edward B. Lewis]] (1918-2004), American founder of [[developmental genetics]] and [[Nobel Prize]]-winner *[[Richard Lewontin]] (1929- ), American [[evolutionary biologist]], [[geneticist]] and [[social commentator]] *[[C. C. Li]] (1912-2003), eminent [[Chinese American]] [[population genetics|population geneticist]] and [[human genetics|human geneticist]] *[[Wen-Hsiung Li]] (1942- ), [[Taiwan]]ese-American, [[molecular evolution]], population genetics, [[genomics]] *[[David Linder]] (1923-1999), US pathologist and geneticist, used [[G6PD]] as X-linked clonal tumor marker *[[Susan Lindquist]], US molecular biologist studying effects of [[protein folding]] and [[heat-shock proteins]] *[[Jan Lindsten]] (1935- ), eminent Swedish medical geneticist, secretary general of the [[Nobel Prize|Nobel]] Assembly *[[Fritz Lipmann]] (1899-1986), German-American [[biochemist]], [[Nobel Prize]] for co-discovery of [[coenzyme A]] *[[C. C. Little]] (1888–1971), US pioneer mouse geneticist, founded [[Jackson Laboratory]] in [[Bar Harbor (town), Maine|Bar Harbor]] *[[Richard Losick]], US molecular biologist, [[RNA polymerase]], [[Transcription (genetics)|gene transcription]], bacterial development *[[Herbert A. Lubs, Jr.|Herbert Lubs]] (c.1928- ), US internist, medical geneticist, described "marker X" ([[fragile X]] [[chromosome]]) *[[Salvador Luria]] (1912-1991), Italian-American molecular biologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[bacteriophage]] genetics *[[Jay Lush]] (1896-1982), American animal geneticist who pioneered modern scientific animal breeding *[[Michael Lynch (geneticist)|Michael Lynch]], US quantitative geneticist studying evolution, population genetics, and [[genomics]] *[[Mary F. Lyon]] (1925-), English mouse geneticist, noted [[X-inactivation]] and proposed [[Lyon hypothesis]] *[[David T. Lykken]] (1928-2006), American psychologist and behavioral geneticist known for [[twin studies]] *[[Trofim Lysenko]] (1898–1976), Soviet scientist, led vicious political campaign against genetics in [[USSR]] == M == *[[R. Ellen Magenis|Ellen Magenis]] (1925- ), US medical geneticist and cytogeneticist, [[Smith-Magenis syndrome]] *[[Phyllis McAlpine]] (1941-1998), Canadian human geneticist and [[gene map]]per *[[Maclyn McCarty]] (1911–2005), American co-discoverer that [[DNA]] is the genetic material *[[Barbara McClintock]] (1902-1992), American cytogeneticist, [[Nobel Prize]] for genetic [[transposition]] *[[W. McGinnis]], US molecular geneticist, found [[homeobox]] (Hox) genes responsible for basic body plan *[[Victor A. McKusick]] (1921- ), US [[internist]] and clinical geneticist, organized human genetic knowledge *[[Colin MacLeod]] (1909-1972), Canadian-American co-discoverer that [[DNA]] is the genetic material *[[Tak Wah Mak]] (1946- ), Chinese-Canadian molecular biologist, co-discovered human [[T cell receptor]] genes *[[Gustave Malécot]] (1911-1998), French mathematician who influenced population genetics *[[Tom Maniatis]] (1943- ), US molecular biologist, gene cloning, regulation of gene expression *[[Clement Markert]] (1917–1999), eminent US biologist, discovered [[isozymes]] *[[Joan Marks]], American social worker, principal architect of the profession of [[genetic counselor]] *[[Richard E. Marshall]] (1933 - ), American 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]] (1960- ), American geneticist, [[Nobel Prize]] for discovery of [[RNA interference]] *[[Gregor Mendel]] (1822-1884), Bohemian monk who discovered laws of [[Mendelian]] inheritance *[[Carole Meredith]], American geneticist who pioneered DNA typing to differentiate between grape varieties *[[Matthew Meselson]] (1930- ), US molecular geneticist, work on DNA replication, recombination, repair *[[Peter Michaelis]], German plant geneticist, focused on cytoplasmic inheritance *[[Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin]] (1855-1935), Russian plant geneticist, scientific agricultural selection *[[Friedrich Mieschler]] (1844-1895), Swiss biologist, found weak acid in [[white blood cell]]s now called [[DNA]] *[[Margareta Mikkelsen]] (1923–2004), eminent German-born Danish human geneticist and cytogeneticist *[[Lois K. Miller]] (d. 2006, age 54), [[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 [[hybridoma]]s making [[monoclonal antibodies]] *[[Aubrey Milunsky]] (c.1936- ), S. African-US physician, medical geneticist, writer, [[prenatal diagnosis]] *[[Alfred Mirsky]] (1900—1974), US pioneer in molecular biology, [[hemoglobin]] structure, constancy of [[DNA]] *[[Felix Mitelman]], Swedish cancer geneticist and cytogeneticist, catalog of chromosomes in cancer *[[Jan Mohr]] (1921- ), eminent Norwegian-Danish pioneer in human [[gene mapping]] *[[Jacques Monod]] (1910-1976), French molecular biologist, [[Nobel Prize]]-winner *[[Lilian Vaughn 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 E. Morton]] (1929- ), population geneticist and [[genetic epidemiology|genetic epidemiologist]] *[[Arno G. Motulsky]], German-US [[hematologist]] who influenced the evolution of [[medical genetics]] *[[Arthur Mourant]] (1904-1994), British [[hematologist]], first to examine worldwide [[blood group]] distributions *[[H.J. Muller]] (1890-1967) American [[Drosophila]] geneticist, [[Nobel Prize]] for producing mutations by X-rays *[[Hans J. Müller-Eberhard]] (1927-1998), German-US immunogeneticist, [[immunoglobulin]]s & [[complement (biology)|complement]] *[[Kary Mullis]] (1944- ), American biochemist, [[Nobel Prize]] for the [[polymerase chain reaction]] (PCR) == N == *[[Walter E. Nance]] (1933- ), US [[internist]] and geneticist, research on twins and genetics of deafness *[[Daniel Nathans]] (1928-1999), US microbiologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[restriction endonuclease]]s *[[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- ), US [[maize]] geneticist, profound impact on [[agriculture]] and basic genetics *[[Walter Nelson-Rees]], US cytogeneticist, confirmed [[HeLa cells]] contamination of other cell lines *[[Eugene W. Nester]], US microbial geneticist, genetics of [[Agrobacterium]] (crown gall formation) *[[Carl Neuberg]], early pioneer of the study of [[metabolism]]. *[[Hans Neurath]] (1909-2002), Austrian-US [[protein]] chemist, helped set stage for [[proteomics]] *[[Marshall W. Nirenberg]] (1927- ), 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]] (1949- ), UK biochemist, [[Nobel Prize]] for work on [[CDK]], a key regulator of the [[cell cycle]] *[[Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard]] (1942- ), German developmental biologist and [[Nobel Prize]]-winner *[[William Nyhan]] (1926- ), US pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, described [[Lesch-Nyhan syndrome]] == O == *[[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]], Japanese scientist in [[molecular evolution]], the nearly neutral theory of evolution *[[Clarence Paul Oliver|Pete Oliver]] (1898–1991), American geneticist, switched from [[Drosophila]] to human genetics *[[Jane M. Olson]] (1952-2004), American [[genetic epidemiology|genetic epidemiologist]] and biostatistician *[[Maynard Olson]], American geneticist, pioneered map of yeast genome and [[Human Genome Project]] *[[John M. Opitz|John Opitz]] (1935- ), German-American medical geneticist, expert on [[dysmorphology]] and [[syndrome]]s *[[Harry Ostrer]], American medical geneticist, studies origins of Jewish peoples *[[Ray D. Owen|Ray Owen]] (1915- ), US geneticist, immunologist, found cattle blood groups and [[chimera (genetics)|chimeric]] twin calves == P == *[[Svante Pääbo]] (1955- ), Swedish molecular anthropologist in [[Leipzig]] studying [[Neanderthal]] [[genome]] *[[David C. Page|David Page]], 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- ), American scientist who discovered [[restriction point]] in the [[cell cycle]] *[[Klaus Patau]] (1908–1975), German-American cytogeneticist, described [[trisomy 13]] *[[Linus Pauling]] (1901-1994), eminent American chemist, won [[Nobel Prize]]s for [[chemical bonds]] and peace *[[Crodowaldo Pavan]] (1919- ), Brazilian biologist, fly geneticist, and influential scientist in Brazil *[[Rose Payne]] (1909-1999), US transplant geneticist, key to discovery and development of [[HLA]] system *[[Raymond Pearl]] (1879-1940), American biologist, biostatistician, rejected [[eugenics]] *[[Karl Pearson]] (1857–1936), British statistician, made key contributions to genetic analysis *[[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]] (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), Triese-born UK pediatrician, major catalyst of medical genetics in Britain *[[Charles M. Pomerat|Charles Pomerat]] (1905–1951), American cell biologist, pioneered the field of [[tissue culture]] *[[Guido Pontecorvo]] (1907-1999), Italian-born Scottish geneticist and pioneer molecular biologist *[[George R. Price]] (1922-1975), brilliant but troubled US population geneticist and theoretical biologist *[[Peter Propping]] (1942-), German human geneticist, studies of [[epilepsy]] *[[Mark Ptashne]] (c.1940- ), US molecular biologist, studies of genetic switch, [[phage]] lambda *[[Theodore Puck|Ted Puck]] (1916–2005), US physicist, work in mammalian & human [[cell culture]], genetics, cytogenetics *[[R. C. Punnett|RC Punnett]] (1875-1967), early English geneticist, discovered linkage with [[Bateson]], stimulated [[GH Hardy]] == Q == *[[Lluis Quintana-Murci]] (1970- ), Spanish human population geneticist, heads part of [[Genographic Project]] == R == *[[Robert Race]] (1907-1984), British expert on blood groups, along with wife [[Ruth Sanger]] *[[Venki Ramakrishnan]] (c. 1950- ), Indian structural biologist, studies of [[chromatin]] and [[ribosome]] *[[Sheldon C. Reed]] (1910-2003), American pioneer in [[genetic counseling]] and [[behavioral genetics]] *[[G.N. Ramachandran]] (1922-2001) Indian biophysicist, co-discovered triple-helix structure of [[collagen]] *[[David Reich]], US, human population genetics and genomics, did humans and chimps interbreed? *[[Theodore Reich]] (1938-2003), Canadian-American psychiatrist, a founder of modern psychiatric genetics *[[Alexander Rich]] (1925- ), 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]], American 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 [[cytogenetic]]ist *[[David L. Rimoin]] (1936- ), Canadian-US pediatric geneticist, focus on particularly skeletal [[dysplasia]]s *[[Richard J. Roberts|Richard Roberts]] (1943- ), British molecular biologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[intron]]s and gene-splicing *[[Arthur Robinson (American pediatrician)|Arthur Robinson]] (1914-2000), American pediatrician, geneticist, pioneer on [[sex chromosome]] anomalies *[[Herschel L. Roman]] (1914-1989), American geneticist, innovated in analysis in [[maize]] and [[budding yeast]] *[[Irwin Rose]] (1926- ), American biologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[ubiquitin]]-mediated [[protein degradation]] *[[Leon E. Rosenberg|Leon Rosenberg]] (c.1932- ), US physician-geneticist, molecular basis of inherited metabolic disease *[[Peyton Rous]] (1879–1970), American tumor virologist and tissue culture expert, [[Nobel Prize]] *[[Janet Rowley]] (1925- ), American cancer cytogeneticist who found [[Ph chromosome]] due to [[Chromosomal translocation|translocation]] *[[Peter T. Rowley]] (1929–2006), American internist and geneticist, genetics of cancer and leukemia *[[Frank Ruddle]], 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]] (l913-2001), US mammalian geneticist, pioneering work on pigmentation, blood-forming cells, and germ cells *[[Liane B. Russell]] (c. 1923- ), Austrian-born US mouse geneticist and radiation biologist *[[William L. Russell]] (1910-2003), UK-US mouse geneticist, pioneered study of [[mutagenesis]] in mice == S == *[[Leo Sachs]] (1924- ), German-Israeli molecular cancer biologist, [[colony-stimulating factor]]s, [[interleukin]]s *[[Ruth Sager]] (1918-1997), US geneticist, pioneer of [[cytoplasm]]ic genetics, [[tumor suppressor gene]]s *[[Joseph Sambrook]] (1939- ), British viral geneticist *[[Avery A. Sandberg]], 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]] (1950- ), American horticultural geneticist and [[intelligent design]] advocate *[[Frederick Sanger|Fred Sanger]] (1918- ), UK biochemist, two [[Nobel Prize]]s, sequence of [[insulin]], [[DNA sequencing]] method *[[Ruth Sanger]] (1918-2001), Australian expert on [[blood group]]s, along with husband Robert Race *[[Karl Sax]] (1892-1973), American botanist and [[cytogeneticist]], effects of [[radiation]] on [[chromosome]]s *[[Paul Schedl]] (1947- ), US molecular biologist, genetic regulation of developmental pathways in fruit fly *[[Albert Schinzel]] (1944- ), Austrian human geneticist, clinical genetics, [[karyotype]]-[[phenotype]] correlations *[[Werner Schmid]] (1930-2002), Swiss pioneer in human cytogenetics, described [[cat-eye syndrome]] *[[Gertrud Schüpbach]], Swiss-American biologist, molecular and genetic mechanisms in oogenesis *[[Charles Scriver]] (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]] (c. 1933- ), US geneticist, one of the "fathers" and mentors of modern yeast genetics *[[Larry Shapiro]], US pediatric geneticist, [[lysosomal]] storage disorders, [[X chromosome inactivation]] *[[Lucy Shapiro]], US molecular geneticist, gene expression during the cell cycle, bacterium [[Caulobacter]] *[[Phillip Allen Sharp|Phillip Sharp]] (1944- ), US geneticist and molecular biologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for co-discovery of gene splicing *[[Philip Sheppard]] (1921–1976), British population geneticist, [[lepidopterist]], human [[blood group]] researcher *[[G. H. Shull]] (1874-1954), American geneticist, made key discoveries including [[heterosis]] *[[Obaid Siddiqui]] (1932- ), Indian neurogeneticist, pioneer on olfactory sense of fruit fly [[Drosophila]] *[[Norman Simmons]] (1915-2004), US, forgotten donor of pure DNA to [[Rosalind Franklin]] in [[double helix]] saga *[[Piotr Slonimski]] (1922- ), Polish-Parisian yeast geneticist, pioneer of [[mitochondrial]] heredity *[[William S. Sly]] (c. 1931- ), US biochemical geneticist, [[mucopolysaccharidosis type VII]] (Sly syndrome) *[[Cedric Smith|Cedric A. B. Smith]] (1917-2002), British statistician, made key contributions to statistical genetics *[[David W. Smith]] (1926-1981), US pediatrician, influential [[dysmorphology|dysmorphologist]], named [[fetal alcohol syndrome]] *[[Hamilton Smith]] (1931- ), American microbiologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[restriction endonuclease]]s *[[Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith]] (1932-2000), UK-born Canadian biochemist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[site-directed mutagenesis]] *[[Oliver Smithies]] (1925- ), UK/US molecular geneticist, inventor, [[gel electrophoresis]], [[knock-out mice]] *[[George Snell]] (1903-1996), US mouse geneticist, pioneer [[Organ transplant|transplant]] immunologist, won [[Nobel Prize]] *[[Lawrence H. Snyder]] (1901-1986), American pioneer in medical genetics, studied [[blood group]]s *[[Robert R. Sokal]] (1925- ), Austrian-born US biological anthropologist and biostatistician. *[[Tracy M. Sonneborn]] (1905–1981), [[protozoan]] biologist and geneticist *[[Edwin Southern|Ed Southern]] (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]], American geneticist, mechanisms of mutation and recombination in [[Neurospora]] *[[Lewis Stadler|L.J. Stadler]] (1896-1954), eminent American [[maize]] geneticist, father of David Stadler *[[Franklin Stahl|Frank Stahl]] (1929- ), American molecular biologist, the Stahl half of the [[Meselson-Stahl experiment]] *[[David States]], US geneticist & bioinformatician, computational study of human genome & [[proteome]] *[[G. Ledyard Stebbins]] (1906-2000), American botanist, geneticist and evolutionary biologist *[[Michael Stebbins]], American geneticist, science writer, editor and activist *[[Emmy Stein]] (1879-1954), German botanist and geneticist *[[Joan A. Steitz]] (c.1942- ), US molecular biologist, pioneering studies of [[snRNA]]s and [[snRNP]]s (snurps) *[[Gunther Stent]] (1924- ), German-born US molecular geneticist, [[phage]] worker, philosopher of science *[[Curt Stern]] (1902-1981), German-born US [[Drosophila]] and human geneticist, great teacher *[[Nettie Stevens]] (1861-1912), US geneticist, studied [[chromosomal]] basis of sex and discovered XY basis *[[Miodrag Stojkovic]] (1964- ), Serbian geneticist, working in Europe on mammalian cloning *[[George Streisinger]] (1927-1984), American geneticist, work on [[bacterial]] [[virus]]es, [[frameshift mutation]]s *[[Alfred Sturtevant]] (1891–1970), constructed first [[genetic map]] of a [[chromosome]] *[[John Sulston]] (1942- ), British molecular biologist, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[programmed cell death]] in [[C. elegans]] *[[James Sumner]] (1887-1955), American biochemist, [[Nobel Prize]], found enzymes can be crystallized *[[Maurice Super]] (d. 2006, age 69), S. African-born UK pediatric geneticist, studied [[cystic fibrosis]] *[[Grant Sutherland]], Australian molecular cytogeneticist, pioneer on human [[fragile site]]s, [[human genome]] *[[Walter Sutton]] (1877-1916), US surgeon and scientist, proved chromosomes contained genes *[[David Suzuki]] (1936-), Canadian [[Drosophila]] geneticist, science broadcaster and environmental activist *[[M.S. Swaminathan]] (1925- ), Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist, leader of Green Revolution in India *[[Bryan Sykes]], British human geneticist, discovered ways to extract DNA from fossilized bones *[[Jack Szostak]] (1952- ), Anglo-US geneticist, work on [[telomere]]s, [[recombination]], artificial chromosomes == T == *[[Edward Tatum]] (1909-1975), showed genes control individual steps in metabolism *[[Howard Temin]] (1934-1994), US geneticist, [[Nobel Prize]] for discovery of [[reverse transcriptase]] *[[Alan Templeton]] (c.1948- ), US geneticist & biostatistician, molecular evolution, evolutionary biology *[[E. Donnall Thomas|Donnall Thomas]] (1920- ) US physician, [[Nobel Prize]] for [[bone marrow transplantation]] for [[leukemia]] *[[Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovsky]] (1900-1981), Russian radiation and evolution geneticist *[[Alfred Tissières]] (1917-2003), Swiss molecular geneticist, pioneered molecular biology in [[Geneva]] *[[Joe Hin Tjio]] (1919-2001), Java-born geneticist who first discovered humans have 46 chromosomes *[[Susumu Tonegawa]] (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 [[Mendel]]'s laws *[[Lap-Chee Tsui]], Chinese geneticist, sequenced first human gene (for [[cystic fibrosis]]) with [[Francis Collins (geneticist)|Collins]] *[[Raymond Turpin]] (1895-1988), French pediatrician, geneticist, [[Jerome Lejeune|Lejeune's]] co-discoverer of [[trisomy 21]] == U == *[[Axel Ullrich]] (1943- ), German molecular biologist, [[signal transduction]], discovered [[oncogene]], [[Herceptin]] *[[Irene Ayako Uchida]] (1917- ), Canadian geneticist and cytogeneticist. One of the first in Canada. [[Down syndrome]] == V == *[[Harold Varmus]] (1939- ), American [[Nobel Prize]]-winner for [[oncogenes]], head of [[NIH]] *[[Nikolai Vavilov]] (1887-1943), eminent Russian botanist and geneticist, anti-[[Lysenko]], died in prison *[[Craig Venter]] (1946- ), American molecular biologist and entrepreneur, raced to [[sequence (biology)|sequence]] the [[genome]] *[[Jerome Vinograd]] (1913-1976), US, leader in biochemistry and molecular biology of [[nucleic acid]]s *[[Friedrich Vogel]], German, leader in human genetics, coined term "[[pharmacogenetics]]" *[[Bert Vogelstein]] (1949- ), US pediatrician and cancer geneticist, series of [[mutation]]s in [[colorectal cancer]] *[[Erik Adolf von Willebrand]] (1870-1949), Finnish [[internist]] who found commonest [[von Willebrand's disease|bleeding disorder]] == W == *[[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 Wallace]], US [[mitochondrial]] geneticist, pioneered human [[mtDNA]] as a molecular marker *[[Peter Walter]], 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]] (1928- ), US molecular geneticist, [[Nobel Prize]] for discovery of the [[double helix]] *[[David Weatherall]], distinguished UK physician, geneticist, pioneer in [[hemoglobin]] and [[molecular medicine]] *[[Robert Weinberg]], 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]] (1969- ), US genetic anthropologist, head of [[Genographic Project]] to map past migrations *[[Susan R. Wessler]] (1953- ), US plant molecular geneticist, [[transposable elements]] re genetic diversity *[[Raymond White]], US cancer geneticist, cloned APC [[colon cancer]] gene & [[neurofibromatosis]] gene *[[Glayde Whitney]] (1939–2002) US behavioral geneticist, accused of supporting scientific racism *[[Reed Wickner]] (c. 1940- ) US molecular geneticist, [[yeast]] [[phenotypes]] due to [[prion]] forms of native [[protein]]s *[[Alexander S. Wiener]] (1907-1976), U.S. immunologist, discovered [[Rhesus blood group system|Rh]] [[blood group]]s with [[Landsteiner]] *[[Eric F. Wieschaus]] (1947- ), American developmental biologist and [[Nobel Prize]]-winner *[[Maurice Wilkins]] (1916-2004), New Zealand-born British [[Nobel Prize]]-winner with [[Watson and Crick]] *[[Huntington Willard]] (c.1953- ), US human geneticist, [[X chromosome inactivation]], [[gene silencing]] *[[Robley Williams]] (1908-1995), US virologist, recreated [[tobacco mosaic virus]] from its [[RNA]] + protein coat *[[Ian Wilmut]] (1944- ) UK reproductive biologist who first cloned a mammal (lamb named [[Dolly (sheep)|Dolly]]) *[[Allan Wilson]] (1934-1991) New Zealand-US innovator in molecular study of human evolution *[[David Sloan Wilson]] (1949- ), US evolutionary biologist and geneticist *[[Edmund Beecher Wilson]] (1856-1939), US zoologist, geneticist, discovered XY & XX [[sex chromosomes]] *[[Øjvind Winge]] (1886-1964), Danish biologist and pioneer in yeast genetics *[[Chester B. Whitley]] (1950- ), US geneticist, pioneered treatment of lysosomal diseases *[[Carl Woese]] (1928- ), US biologist, defined [[Archaea]] as new domain of life, [[rRNA]] phylogenetic tool *[[Ulrich Wolf]] (1933- ), German cytogeneticist, found chromosome 4p deletion in [[Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome]] *[[Melaku Worede]] (1936-), Ethiopian conservationist and geneticist *[[Sewall Green Wright|Sewall Wright]] (1889–1988), eminent US geneticist who, with [[R.A. Fisher|Fisher]], united genetics & [[evolution]] == Y == *[[Charles Yanofsky]] (1925- ), American molecular geneticist, colinearity of gene and its protein product == Z == *[[Floyd Zaiger]] (1926- ), fruit geneticist and entrepreneur *[[Hans Zellweger]] (1909-1990) Swiss-US pediatrician and clinical geneticist, described [[Zellweger syndrome]] *[[Norton Zinder]] (1928-) American biologist and [[phage]] worker who discovered [[Transduction (genetics)|genetic transduction]] *[[Rolf M. Zinkernagel]] (1944- ), Swiss scientist, won [[Nobel Prize]] for immune recognition of [[antigen]] See also: [[List of biochemists]] [[Category:Lists of scientists|Geneticists & Biochemists]] [[Category:Biochemists| ]] [[Category:Bioinformaticists]] [[Category:Biology lists|Geneticists, List of]] [[Category:Geneticists| ]] [[Category:Biologists|*Geneticists]] [[Category:Biostatisticians]] [[Category:Oncologists]] [[Category:Ecology lists|Geneticists]] [[Category:Evolutionary biologists]] [[Category:Immunologists]] [[Category:Medical genetics]] [[Category:Molecular biologists]] [[Category:Population geneticists]] [[hu:Genetikusok és biokémikusok listája]]