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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.
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Aa–Al
Dagfinn Aarskog (1928–2014), Norwegian pediatrician and geneticist, described
Aarskog–Scott syndrome
John Abelson (born c. 1939), US biochemist, studies of machinery and mechanism of
RNA splicing
Susan L. Ackerman (21st century), US neurogeneticist, genes controlling brain development and
neuron survival
Jerry Adams (born 1940), US molecular biologist in Australia,
hematopoietic genetics and cancer
Bruce Alberts (born 1938), US biochemist,
phage worker, studied
DNA replication and
cell division
Lihadh Al-Gazali (born 1948), Iraqi geneticist, research on
congenital disorders in the
United Arab Emirates
William Allan (1881–1943), US country doctor, pioneered human genetics
C. David Allis (born 1951), US biologist with a fascination for
chromatin
Robin Allshire (born 1960), UK-based Irish molecular biologist/geneticist and expert in formation of
heterochromatin and
centromeres
Cecil A. Alport (1880–1959), South African internist who identified
Alport syndrome (hereditary
nephritis and
deafness )
Carl-Henry Alström (1907–1993), Swedish psychiatrist, described genetic disease:
Alström syndrome
Frederick Alt (graduated 1971), American geneticist known for research on maintenance of genome stability in the cells of the mammalian immunological system
Russ Altman (Ph.D. 1981), US geneticist and bioengineer known for his work in
pharmacogenomics
Sidney Altman (1939–2022), Canadian-US biophysicist who won
Nobel Prize for catalytic functions of
RNA
David Altshuler (born c. 1965), US
endocrinologist and geneticist, the genetics of
type 2 diabetes
Am–Ax
Bruce Ames (born 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), US botanical geneticist who introduced the term introgressive hybridization
William French Anderson (born 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 (born 1951), US-Greek medical geneticist, genotypic and phenotypic variation
Werner Arber (born 1929), Swiss microbiologist,
Nobel Prize for discovery of
restriction endonucleases
Michael Ashburner (1942–2023), British
Drosophila geneticist and
polymath
William Astbury (1898–1961), UK molecular biologist,
X-ray crystallography of
proteins and
DNA
Giuseppe Attardi (1923–2008), Italian-US molecular biologist, genetics of human
mitochondrial 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 (born 1946), US physician-scientist,
Nobel Prize for genetic analysis of
olfactory system
B
Ba–Be
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
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 (1934–2023), UK/South Africa medical geneticist
Julia Bell (1879–1979), English geneticist who documented inheritance of many diseases
John Belling (1866–1933), English
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
crystallographer
Bi–Bo
James Birchler , US Drosophila and maize geneticist and
cytogeneticist .
J. Michael Bishop (born 1936), US microbial immunogeneticist,
Nobel Prize -winner for
oncogenes
Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948), Australian-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
HLA system
Walter Bodmer (born 1936), German-UK human population geneticist, immunogeneticist, cancer research
James Bonner (1910–1996), US molecular biologist who studied
histones ,
chromatin ,
nucleic acids
David Botstein (born 1942), Swiss-born US molecular geneticist, brother of
Leon Botstein
Theodor Boveri (1862–1915), German biologist and cytogeneticist
Herb Boyer (born 1936), US biotechnologist who created
transgenic bacteria inserting human insulin gene into
E. coli
Br–Bu
Jean Brachet (1909–1998), Belgian biochemist, made key contributions to fathoming roles of
RNA
Roscoe Brady (1923–2016), US physician-scientist at
NIH , studies of genetic neurological metabolic disorders
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), British molecular biologist and
Nobel Prize -winner
Calvin Bridges (1889–1938), US geneticist,
non-disjunction proof that chromosomes contain genes
R. A. Brink (1897–1984), Canadian-US plant geneticist and breeder, studied
paramutation ,
transposons
Roy Britten (1919–2012) US molecular and evolutionary biologist, discovered and studied
junk DNA
John Brookfield (born 1955), British Drosophila population geneticist
Michael Stuart Brown (born 1941), US geneticist and
Nobel Prize -winner on cholesterol metabolism
Stephen Brown (born 1955), British geneticist at the
MRC Harwell
Manuel Buchwald (born 1940), Peruvian-born Canadian medical geneticist and molecular geneticist
Linda Buck (born 1947), US biologist,
Nobel Prize for post-doc work (with
Axel ) cloning
olfactory receptors
James Bull (20th–21st century), US molecular biologist and
phage worker, evolution of sex determining mechanisms
Luther Burbank (1849–1926), US botanist, horticulturist, pioneer in agricultural science
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
Ca
John Cairns
FRS (1922–2018), UK physician-scientist, showed bacterial
DNA one molecule with replicating fork
Allan Campbell (1929–2018), US microbiologist and geneticist, pioneering work on
phage lambda
Mario Capecchi (born 1937), Italian-born US molecular geneticist, co-invented the
knockout mouse ,
Nobel Prize in Medicine , 2007
Elof Axel Carlson (born 1931), US geneticist and eminent historian of science
Rivka Carmi (born 1948), Israeli pediatrician, geneticist, President of
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Adelaide Carpenter (born 1944), US geneticist known for her research on
recombination nodule
Hampton L. Carson (1914–2004), US population geneticist, studied
cytogenetics and
evolution of
Drosophila
Tom Caskey (born c. 1938), US internist, human geneticist and entrepreneur; biochemical diseases
Torbjörn Caspersson (1910–1997), Swedish cytogeneticist, revealed human
chromosome banding
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 Catcheside (1907–1994), UK plant geneticist, expert on
genetic recombination , active in Australia
Bruce Cattanach (1932–2020), UK mouse geneticist,
X-inactivation and
sex determination in mice
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922–2018), Italian population geneticist at
Stanford University
Ce–Ch
Thomas Cech (born 1947), US biochemist who won
Nobel Prize for catalytic functions of
RNA
Aravinda Chakravarti (born 1954), Indian
bioinformatician in the US studying genetic factors in common diseases
Daniel Chamovitz (born 1963), American and Israeli plant geneticist who discovered the
COP9 Signalosome (CSN) complex
Jean-Pierre Changeux (born 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 (born 1945), British evolutionary biologist, husband of
Deborah Charlesworth
Deborah Charlesworth (born 1943), British evolutionary biologist, wife of
Brian Charlesworth
Martha Chase (1927–2003), US biologist, with
Hersey proved genetic material is DNA, not protein
Sergei Chetverikov (1880–1959), Russian population geneticist
Barton Childs (1916–2010), US pediatrician, biochemical geneticist, philosopher of medical genetics
George M. Church (born 1954), US molecular geneticist, did first direct genomic sequencing with
Gilbert
Ci–Cu
Aaron Ciechanover (born 1947),
Israeli biologist, won
Nobel Prize for
ubiquitin -mediated
protein degradation
Bryan Clarke (1932–2014), 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
Stanley Cohen (1922–2020), US neurobiologist,
Nobel Prize for cell growth factors
Francis Collins (born 1950), US medical geneticist,
gene cloner , director of
Human Genome Institute
James J. Collins (born 1965), US bioengineer, pioneered synthetic biology and systems biology
Robert Corey (1897–1971), US biochemist,
α-helix ,
β-sheet and
atomic models for
proteins
Lewis L. Coriell (1911–2001), US pioneer in culturing human cells
Carl Correns (1864–1933), German botanist and geneticist, one of the re-discoverers of
Mendel in 1900
Harriet Creighton (1909–2004), US botanist who with
McClintock first saw
chromosomal crossover
Francis Crick (1916–2004), English molecular biologist, neuroscientist, co-discoverer of the
double helix
James F. Crow (1916–2012), US population geneticist and renowned teacher of genetics
Lucien Cuénot (1866–1951), French biologist, proved
Mendel 's rules apply to animals as well as plants
A. Jamie Cuticchia (born 1966), US geneticist, into human genome
informatics
D
Da–De
Mark Daly (born 1967), 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
HLA system
Martin Dawson (1896–1945), Canadian-US researcher, confirmed and named genetic
transformation
Margaret Dayhoff (1925–1983), US pioneer in
bioinformatics of protein sequences and evolution
Christian de Duve (1917–2013), Belgian cytologist,
Nobel Prize for cell organelles (
peroxisomes ,
lysosomes )
Albert de la Chapelle (1933–2020), 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
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
Félix d'Herelle (1873–1949), Canadian-French microbiologist, discovered
phages , invented
phage therapy
Carrie Derick (1862–1941), Canadian geneticist, Canada's first female professor
Do–Du
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), Ukrainian-US geneticist and evolutionary biologist
John Doebley , (born 1952), US geneticist, studies genes that drive development and evolution of plants
Peter Doherty (born 1940), Australian immunologist won
Nobel Prize for immune recognition of
antigens
Helen Donis-Keller (20th century), Professor of Biology and Art at
Olin College of Engineering
Albert Dorfman (1916–1982), US biochemical geneticist, discovered cause of
Hurler's syndrome
Gabriel Dover (1937–2018), British evolutionary geneticist known for the concept of molecular drive
Dennis Drayna , (born 1952), American human geneticist most notable for discovering genetic causes of
stuttering
NT Dubinin (1907–1998), Russian biologist and geneticist
Peter Duesberg (born 1936), German-American molecular biologist who discovered oncogenes
L. C. Dunn (1893–1974), American developmental geneticist at
Columbia University
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Richard H. Ebright (born 1959), US bacterial geneticist, molecular mechanisms of
transcription and
transcriptional regulation
Robert Stuart Edgar (1930-2016), US geneticist, elucidated the function of bacterial virus genes
A.W.F. Edwards (born 1935), British statistician, geneticist, developed methods of
phylogenetic analysis
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
Eran Elhaik (born 1980), Israeli-American geneticist and bioinformatician
Jeff Ellis (born 1953), Australian plant biologist concerned with plant disease resistance genes
Robert C. Elston (born 1932), British-born American biostatistical genetics and
genetic epidemiologist
R. A. Emerson (1873–1947), US plant geneticist, the main pioneer of corn genetics
Sterling Emerson (1900–1988), US, biochemical genetics,
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
Charlie Epstein (1933–2011), US medical geneticist, editor, developed mouse model for Down syndrome, wounded by the
Unabomber
Eleazar Eskin (21st century), US computational biologist studying the genetic basis of human disease. 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 (Ph.D. 2001),
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 formula
F
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), Canadian biologist who worked on molecular genetics Drosophila melanogaster and repair of chromosome breaks
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 1942), US plant geneticist, cloning of
transposable elements , plant stress response
Anne Ferguson-Smith (born 1961) British mammalian developmental geneticist
Malcolm Ferguson-Smith (born 1931) UK cytogeneticist,
Klinefelter syndrome , chromosome
flow cytometry
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
Andrew Fire (born 1959), US geneticist,
Nobel Prize with
Craig Mello for discovery of
RNA interference
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
R. A. Fisher (1890–1962), British statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist
Elizabeth Fisher (20th–21st century), British neuroscientist and geneticist
Ivar Asbjørn Følling (1888–1973), Norwegian biochemist and physician who discovered
phenylketonuria (
PKU )
Charles Ford (1912–1999), British pioneer in the golden age of mammalian cytogenetics
E. B. Ford (1901–1988), British ecological geneticist, specializing in butterflies and moths
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
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
G
Ga–Gi
Michael T. Gabbett (born 1974), Australian medical geneticist and academic, known for describing
Temple–Baraitser syndrome and
sesquizygotic twinning
Fred Gage (born 1950), US neuroscientist, studies of
neurogenesis and
neuroplasticity of the adult brain
Joseph G. Gall (born 1928), 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
Alan Garen (1926–2022), US, early molecular geneticist,
nonsense triplets terminating
transcription
Archibald Garrod (1857–1936), English physician, pioneered
inborn errors , founded
biochemical genetics
Stan Gartler (born 1923), US human geneticist,
G6PD as X-linked marker, clonality of cancer,
HeLa cells contaminating cell lines
Walter Gehring (1939–2014), Swiss, developmental genetics of
Drosophila , discovered
homeobox
Walter Gilbert (born 1932), US biochemist and molecular biologist,
Nobel Prize -winner, entrepreneur
Gl–Gu
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
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
Jack Greenblatt (20-21st centuries), Molecular geneticist at the
University of Toronto
Frederick Griffith (1879–1941), British medical officer who found
transforming principle now called
DNA
Lyn R. Griffiths (graduated 1978), Australian molecular geneticist known for her work in
neurogenetics
Hans Grüneberg (1907–1982), British mouse geneticist and blood cell biologist
Christine Guthrie (1945-2022), US yeast geneticis who studied small nuclear RNAs in yeast
H
Ha
Ernst Hadorn (1902–1976), Swiss pioneer in developmental genetics, mentor of
Walter Gehring
JBS Haldane (1892–1964), British human geneticist and co-founder of
population genetics
Ben Hall (1932–2019), US geneticist, DNA:RNA hybridization, yeast production of
genetically engineered
proteins
Judy Hall (born 1939), dual American and Canadian clinical geneticist and
dysmorphologist
Dean Hamer (born 1951) US geneticist, postulated
gay gene and
God gene for religious experience
W. D. Hamilton (1936–2000), British evolutionary biologist and eminent evolutionary theorist
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
basic law of population genetics
Henry Harpending (1944–2016), US anthropologist and human population geneticist
Harry Harris (1919–1994), British biochemical geneticist concerned with genetic variation between individuals
Henry Harris (1925–2014), Australian-born cell biologist, work on cancer and human genetics
Lee Hartwell (born 1939), US yeast geneticist,
Nobel Prize , "start" gene and
checkpoints in the
cell cycle
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
He–Hi
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
Al Hershey (1908–1997), US bacterial geneticist,
Nobel Prize largely for
Hershey–Chase experiment
Ira Herskowitz (1946–2003), US
phage and
yeast geneticist,
genetic regulatory circuits and mechanisms
Avram Hershko (born 1937), Israeli biologist,
Nobel Prize for
ubiquitin -mediated
protein degradation
Len Herzenberg (1931–2013), US human geneticist,
immunologist , cell biologist and cell sorter
Joel Naom Hirschhorn , American human geneticist, pediatrician, and endocrinologist.
Kurt Hirschhorn (1926–2022), Viennese-born American pediatrician, medical geneticist, cytogeneticist; described
Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome
Ho–Hu
Mahlon Hoagland (1921–2009), US physician and biochemist, co-discovered
tRNA with
Paul Zamecnik
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), British pioneer of
protein
crystallography and
Nobel Prize winner
Robert W. Holley (1922–1993), US biochemist, structure of
transfer RNA ,
Nobel Prize
Leroy Hood (born 1938), US molecular biotechnologist, created
DNA and
protein
sequencers and
synthesizers
Norman Horowitz (1915–2005), US geneticist, one gene-one enzyme, chemical
evolution ,
space biology
H. Robert Horvitz (born 1947), US cell biologist,
Nobel Prize for
programmed cell death
David E. Housman (born 1946), US molecular biologist, genetic basis of
trinucleotide repeat diseases and cancer
T. C. Hsu (1917–2003), Chinese-American cell biologist, geneticist, cytogeneticist
Thomas J. Hudson (born 1961), Canadian
genome scientist, maps of human and mouse genomes
David Hungerford (1927–1993), US co-discoverer of
Philadelphia chromosome in
CML
Tim Hunt (born 1943), UK biochemist,
Nobel Prize for discovery of
cyclins in
cell cycle control
Laurence Hurst (born 1965) British evolutionary geneticist at the
University of Bath
Charles Leonard Huskins (1897–1953), English-born Canadian
cytogeneticist at
McGill University and
University of Wisconsin–Madison
I
J
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 Jefferson (born 1956), US molecular plant biologist in Australia,
reporter gene system GUS
Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), British geneticist, developed
DNA fingerprinting and
DNA profiling techniques
Niels Kaj Jerne (1911–1994), Danish theoretician in modern immunology,
Nobel Prize
Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927), Danish botanist who in 1909 coined the word "gene"
Elizabeth W. Jones (1939–2008) US yeast geneticist, first to complete the
University of Washington graduate genetics program
Jonathan D. G. Jones (born 1954), British plant molecular biologist
Steve Jones (born 1944), British evolutionary geneticist and malacologist
Christian Jung (born 1956), German plant geneticist and molecular biologist
K
Ka–Ki
Elvin Kabat (1914–2000) US immunochemist, a founder of modern immunology, antibody-combining sites
Henrik Kacser (1918–1995), Austro-Hungarian-born UK biochemist and geneticist, worked on
metabolic control
Axel Kahn (1944–2021), French geneticist, known for work on genetically modified plants
Patricia Kailis (1933–2020), Australian geneticist known for work in genetic counselling
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
crystallographer , won
Nobel Prize for structure of
myoglobin
Cynthia Kenyon (born 1954), US molecular biologist, genetics of aging in the worm
C. elegans
Warwick Estevam Kerr (1922–2018), Brazilian expert in the genetics and
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), Japanese mathematical biologist in theoretical
population genetics known for the neutral theory of molecular evolution
Mary-Claire King (born 1946), US human geneticist and social activist, identified breast cancer genes
Kl–Ku
David Klein (1908–1993), Swiss
ophthalmologist and human geneticist
Aaron Klug (1926–2018), Lithuania/South Africa/UK,
Nobel Prize for developing
electron crystallography
Al Knudson (1922–2016), US pediatric oncologist, geneticist, formulated
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
Hans Kornberg (1928–2019), German-UK biologist, studies of
carbohydrate transport
Roger Kornberg (born 1947), US biologist,
Nobel Prize on
eukaryotic
transcription
Ed Krebs (1918–2009), US biochemist,
Nobel Prize for
phosphorylation as switch activating
proteins
Martin Kreitman (20th–21st century), US geneticist known for the
McDonald–Kreitman test that is used to infer adaptive evolution in population genetic studies
Dronamraju Krishna Rao (1937–2020), Indian born geneticist in the US, founder of Foundation of Genetic Research, whose research covered a wide range of topics, including flower colour and human abnormalities
Shrawan Kumar (20th–21st century), Indian and US geneticist known for gene mapping and cloning
L
La–Le
Bruce Lahn (born 1969), Chinese-born US 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
blood group discoveries
fr:André Langaney (born 1942), French evolutionary geneticist and popularizer of science
Derald Langham (1913–1991), US agricultural geneticist, the "father of sesame"
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, credited with discovering
trisomy 21 in
Down syndrome
Richard Lenski (born 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), German medical geneticist who recognized
thalidomide syndrome
Leonard Lerman (1925–2012), US molecular biologist,
phage worker, mentor of
Nobel Prize -winner
Sidney Altman
I. Michael Lerner (1910–1977), Russian-US contributor to population, quantitative and 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), US founder of
developmental genetics and
Nobel Prize -winner
Richard Lewontin (1929–2021), US
evolutionary biologist ,
geneticist and
social commentator
Li–Ly
C. C. Li (1912–2003),
Chinese American
population geneticist and
human geneticist
Wen-Hsiung Li (born 1942),
Taiwanese -American,
molecular evolution , population genetics,
genomics
David Linder (1923–1999), US pathologist and geneticist, used
G6PD as X-linked clonal tumor marker
Susan Lindquist (1949–2016), US molecular biologist studying effects of
protein folding and
heat-shock proteins
Jan Lindsten (born 1935), Swedish medical geneticist, secretary general of the
Nobel Assembly
C. C. Little (1888–1971), US pioneer mouse geneticist, founded
Jackson Laboratory in
Bar Harbor, Maine
Herbert Lubs (born 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), US animal geneticist who pioneered modern scientific animal breeding
Michael Lynch (born 1951), US quantitative geneticist studying evolution, population genetics, and
genomics
Mary F. Lyon (1925–2014), English mouse geneticist, noted
X-inactivation and proposed
Lyon hypothesis
David T. Lykken (1928–2006), US psychologist and behavioral geneticist known for
twin studies
Trofim Lysenko (1898–1976), Soviet scientist, led vicious political campaign against genetics in
USSR
M
Ma–Mc
Ellen Magenis (1925–2014), US medical geneticist and cytogeneticist,
Smith–Magenis syndrome
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), US biologist who discovered
isoenzymes
Marco Marra (born 1966), Canadian geneticist known for demonstrating the role of genomics in human health and disease research.
John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), British evolutionary biologist and population geneticist
Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), German-born American evolutionary biologist
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
transposition
William McGinnis (20th–21st century), 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
Me–Mi
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 (20th century), 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
[1] (1923–2004), 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
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
Herschel K. Mitchell (1913–2000), US Research on Drosophila (fruit flies), in particular the genetics and biochemistry of the heat shock response.
Felix Mitelman (born 1940), Swedish cancer geneticist and cytogeneticist, catalog of chromosomes in cancer
Mo–Mu
Jan Mohr (1921–2009), Norwegian-Danish pioneer in human
gene mapping
Jacques Monod (1910–1976), French molecular biologist,
Nobel Prize -winner
Lilian Vaughan Morgan (1870–1952), American experimental biologist who studied the genetics of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster . She was the wife of
T. H. Morgan
T. H. Morgan (1866–1945), head of the "fly room," first geneticist to win the
Nobel Prize
Newton E. Morton (1929–2018), population geneticist and
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
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
Kary Mullis (1944–2019), US biochemist,
Nobel Prize for the
polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
N
Walter 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), US human geneticist who contributed to the development of research on human genetics, and founded the first genetics clinic in the US
Frederick C. Neidhardt (1931–2016), US microbiologist, pioneer in molecular physiology and
proteomics of
E. coli
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 ,
[2] US microbial geneticist, genetics of
Agrobacterium (crown gall formation)
Carl Neuberg (1877–1956), German-US 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 (born 1965), Spanish biophysicist studying eukaryotic
transcription and translation initiation complexes
Edward Novitski (1918–2006), US
Drosophila geneticist, pioneer in chromosome mechanics
Paul Nurse (born 1949), UK biochemist,
Nobel Prize for work on
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 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 (born 1933), Japanese scientist in
molecular evolution , the nearly neutral theory of evolution
Clarence Paul Oliver (1898–1991), US geneticist, switched from
Drosophila to human genetics
Olufunmilayo Olopade (born 1957), Nigerian oncologist known for research on genetics of breast cancer and health disparities
Jane M. Olson (1952–2004), US
genetic epidemiologist and biostatistician
Maynard Olson (born 1943), US geneticist, pioneered map of yeast genome and
Human Genome Project
John Opitz (1935–2023), German-American medical geneticist, expert on
dysmorphology and
syndromes
Harry Ostrer (M.D. 1978), US medical geneticist, studies origins of Jewish people
Ray Owen (1915–2014), US geneticist, immunologist, found cattle blood groups and
chimeric twin calves
P
Pa–Pi
Svante Pääbo (born 1955), Swedish molecular anthropologist in
Leipzig studying
Neanderthal
genome
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
Mary-Lou Pardue , American geneticist at
MIT
Klaus Patau (1908–1975), German-American cytogeneticist, described
trisomy 13
Andrew H. Paterson , US geneticist, research leader in plant genomics
John Thomas Patterson (1878–1960), American embryologist and geneticist who studied
isolating mechanisms
Linus Pauling (1901–1994), 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
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 (1882–1963), British geneticist who studied the laws of inheritance in peas
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
Pl–Pu
Alfred Ploetz (1860–1940), German physician, biologist, eugenicist, introduced
racial hygiene to Germany
Robert Plomin (born 1948), American/British psychologist and geneticist known for his work in twin studies
Paul Polani (1914–2006), Trieste-born UK pediatrician, major catalyst of medical genetics in Britain
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 (Ph.D. 1997), 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,
phage lambda
Ted Puck (1916–2005), US physicist, work in mammalian and human
cell culture , genetics, cytogenetics
RC Punnett (1875–1967), early English geneticist, discovered linkage with
William Bateson , stimulated
G. H. Hardy
Shaun Purcell (21st century), British psychiatric geneticist who developed the
PLINK genetic program
Q
Lluis Quintana-Murci (born 1970), French-Spanish human population geneticist, human evolutionary genetics, evolution of immunity
R
Ra–Ri
G. N. Ramachandran (1922–2001) Indian biophysicist, co-discovered triple-helix structure of
collagen
Michèle Ramsay (21st century), 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
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
Otto Renner (1883–1960), German plant geneticist, established maternal
plastid inheritance
Marcus Rhoades (1903–1991), US maize (corn) geneticist and
cytogeneticist
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
David L. Rimoin (1936–2012), Canadian–US medical geneticist, studied skeletal
dysplasias
Neil Risch (Ph.D. 1979), US human and population geneticist, studied
torsion dystonia
Ro–Ru
Richard Roberts (born 1943), British molecular biologist,
Nobel Prize for
introns and gene-splicing
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 Rosenberg (1933–2022), US physician-geneticist, molecular basis of inherited metabolic disease
David S Rosenblatt (20th–21st century), Canadian geneticist concerned inborn errors of folate and vitamin B12 metabolism
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
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 mice
S
Sa–Sc
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 known for studies of DNA oncoviruses
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
Larry Sandler (1929–1987), US
Drosophila geneticist, chromosome mechanics, devoted teacher
John C. Sanford (born 1950), US horticultural geneticist and
intelligent design advocate
Fred Sanger (1918–2013), UK biochemist, two
Nobel Prizes , sequence of
insulin ,
DNA sequencing method
Ruth Sanger (1918–2001), Australian expert on
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 (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 geneticist , newborn metabolic screening
Se–Sh
Ernest Robert Sears (1910–1991), US 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
Jay Seegmiller (1920–2006), US human biochemical geneticist, found cause of
Lesch–Nyhan syndrome
Fred Sherman (1932–2013), US geneticist, one of the "fathers" and mentors of modern yeast genetics
Pak Sham (20th–21st century), 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 Sharp (born 1944), US geneticist and molecular biologist,
Nobel Prize for co-discovery of gene splicing
Philip Sheppard (1921–1976), UK population geneticist,
lepidopterist , human
blood group researcher
George Harrison Shull (1874–1954), US geneticist, made key discoveries including
heterosis
Sj–Sm
Torsten Sjögren (1896–1974), Swedish psychiatrist, geneticist and eugenicist
Mark Skolnick (born 1946), US geneticist, developed
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLPs) for
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 DNA research pioneer, who donated pure DNA to
Rosalind Franklin in the prelude to the
double helix discovery
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 A. B. Smith (1917–2002), British statistician who made key contributions to statistical genetics
David W. Smith (1926–1981), US pediatrician, influential
dysmorphologist , named
fetal alcohol syndrome
Hamilton Smith (born 1931), US microbiologist,
Nobel Prize for
restriction endonucleases
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
Sn–Sp
George Snell (1903–1996), US mouse geneticist, pioneer
transplant immunologist, won
Nobel Prize
Lawrence H. Snyder (1901–1986), US pioneer in medical genetics, studied
blood groups
Robert R. Sokal (1925–2012), Austrian-born US biological anthropologist and biostatistician.
Tracy M. Sonneborn (1905–1981),
protozoan biologist and geneticist
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
St
David Stadler , US geneticist, mechanisms of mutation and recombination in
Neurospora
L. J. Stadler (1896–1954), US
maize geneticist, father of David Stadler
Frank Stahl (born 1929), US molecular biologist known for 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
Charles M. Steinberg (1932-1999), US geneticist, fundamental contributions to bacterial virus genetics and antibody diversity
Joan A. Steitz (born 1941), US molecular biologist, pioneering studies of
snRNAs and
snRNPs (snurps)
Gunther Stent (1924–2008), German-born US molecular geneticist,
phage worker, philosopher of science
Curt Stern (1902–1981), German-born US
Drosophila and human geneticist
Nettie Stevens (1861–1912), US geneticist, studied
chromosomal basis of sex and discovered XY basis
Miodrag Stojković (born 1964), Serbian geneticist, working in Europe on mammalian cloning
George Streisinger (1927–1984), US geneticist, work on
bacterial
viruses ,
frameshift mutations
Leonell Strong (1894–1982), US geneticist, mouse geneticist and cancer researcher
Alfred Sturtevant (1891–1970), US geneticist who constructed the first
genetic map of a
chromosome
Su–Sz
John Sulston (1942–2018), UK molecular biologist,
Nobel Prize for
programmed cell death in
C. elegans
Maurice Super (1936–2006), South African-born UK pediatric geneticist, studied
cystic fibrosis
Andrea Superti-Furga (born 1959), Swiss and Italian paediatrician and geneticist, studied disorder of connective tissue, skeletal dysplasias and malformation syndromes
Grant Sutherland (born 1945), Australian molecular cytogeneticist, pioneer on human
fragile sites ,
human genome
Walter Sutton (1877–1916), US surgeon and scientist, proved chromosomes contained genes
David Suzuki (born 1936), Canadian
Drosophila geneticist, science broadcaster and environmental activist
M. S. Swaminathan (1925–2023), Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist, leader of Green Revolution in India
Bryan Sykes (1947–2020), British human geneticist, discovered ways to extract DNA from fossilized bones
Jack Szostak (born 1952), Anglo-US geneticist, worked on
recombination , artificial chromosomes, and on
telomeres . He was awarded a
Nobel Prize for his work on telomeres.
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
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 US 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
Mendel 's laws
Lap-chee Tsui (born 1950), Chinese geneticist who sequenced first human gene (for
cystic fibrosis ) with
Francis Collins
Elena Jane Tucker (Ph.D. 2011), Australian geneticist investigating
mitochondrial disease
Raymond Turpin (1895–1988), French pediatrician, geneticist,
Lejeune's co-discoverer of
trisomy 21
U
V
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 at
Generation Challenge Programme
Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), Russian botanist and geneticist, anti-
Lysenko , died in prison
Craig Venter (born 1946), US molecular biologist and entrepreneur, raced to
sequence the
genome
Jerome Vinograd (1913–1976), US, leader in biochemistry and molecular biology of
nucleic acids
Peter Visscher (Ph.D. 1991), Dutch Australian geneticist who works on the genetic architecture of complex traits
Friedrich Vogel (1925–2006), German, leader in human genetics, coined term "
pharmacogenetics "
Bert Vogelstein (born 1949), US pediatrician and cancer geneticist, series of
mutations in
colorectal cancer
Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870–1949), Finnish
internist who found commonest
bleeding disorder
W
Wa–We
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) British biologist who proposed
natural selection theory independently of
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
Jean Weigle (1901–1968), Swiss molecular geneticist in US, inducible nature of DNA repair systems
Robert Weinberg (born 1942), US, discovered first human
oncogene and first
tumor suppressor gene
Wilhelm Weinberg (1862–1937), German physician, formulated
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
Wh–Wi
Raymond L. White (1943–2018), US cancer geneticist, cloned APC
colon cancer gene and
neurofibromatosis gene
Chester B. Whitley (born 1950), US geneticist, pioneered treatment of lysosomal diseases
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
Rh
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
Watson and
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 )
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
Wo–Wr
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 (1936–2023), Ethiopian conservationist and geneticist
Naomi Wray (Ph.D. 1989), Australian geneticist known for her work on genetics of complex traits
Sewall Wright (1889–1988), US geneticist who, with
Ronald Fisher , united genetics and
evolution
Y
Jian Yang (20th–21st century), 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 product
Z
See also
References
^ She is certainly notable enough for an article, but I am not competent to write one. (athel_cb)
^ No article, but as a member of the National Academy of Science he is clearly qualified for one.