Barbara McClintock

Barbara McClintock

female, deceased (1992)
University of Missouri–Columbia faculty, Erasmus Hall High School alumni, National Academy of Sciences, crossing-over, genetic map, centromere…ColdSpringHarborLaboratory
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in...

Michael Wigler

male, 62 years old
Columbia University, combinatorial chemistry, Molecular biologist, roma, National Academy of Sciences, ColdSpringHarborLaboratory
Michael H. Wigler (b. 1947 in New York) is an American molecular biologist who is best known for being one of the first scientists to identify and...
Ewan Birney

Ewan Birney

male
Wellcome Trust Sanger Insitute, Old Etonian, Biochemist, British, Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge, Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford…ColdSpringHarborLaboratory
Ewan Birney is leader of the Birney Research Group at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) outside Cambridge, UK. The group is known for its...
Milislav Demerec

Milislav Demerec

male, deceased (1966)
Cornell University, PhD, World War II, croatian, naturalized citizen of the United States, geneticist…ColdSpringHarborLaboratory
Milislav Demerec was a Croatian-American geneticist, and the director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) from 1941 to 1960, recruiting...
Martha Chase

Martha Chase

female, deceased (2003)
University of Southern California, Biologist, bacteriophage, The College of Wooster, university of rochester, protein…oak ridge national laboratory, ColdSpringHarborLaboratory, Cavendish Laboratory
Martha Cowles Chase (1927 - 2003) was a young laboratory assistant in the early 1950s when she and Alfred Hershey conducted one of the most famous...

John Cairns

male, 87 years old
Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology, ColdSpringHarborLaboratory, Molecular Genetics, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia, Cancer Science and Society
(Hugh) John Cairns (1922-) is a British physician and molecular biologist who made significant contributions to molecular genetics, cancer...
Evelyn Fox Keller

Evelyn Fox Keller

female
Harvard University, Philosopher of science, gender, Brandeis University, molecular biology, American…ColdSpringHarborLaboratory
Evelyn Fox Keller (*1936) is an American physicist, author, and feminist and is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the...

Michael Stebbins

male
State University of New York at Stony Brook alumni, Biologist, ColdSpringHarborLaboratory, American Broadcasting Company, biological weapons, Scientists and Engineer for America
Michael Stebbins is an American geneticist and science writer. He received his B.S. in biology from the State University of New York at Stony...
C. C. Little

C. C. Little

male, deceased (1971)
death by myocardial infarction, genetics, University of Maine, death from cardiovascular disease, World War I, Harvard University alumni…bar harbor, ColdSpringHarborLaboratory
Clarence Cook "C.C." Little was an American genetics, cancer, and tobacco researcher. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts and attended Harvard...
Phillip A. Sharp

Phillip A. Sharp

male (Kentucky)
University of Illinois, ColdSpringHarborLaboratory, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, National Medal of Science recipient, eukaryote
Phillip A. Sharp received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Much of Sharp's scientific work has been conducted at MIT's Center for...