James D. Watson

James D. Watson

male, 81 years old
Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, dna, nucleic acid, molecular biology, National Medal of Science recipient, NationalMedalofScience…Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge, Order of the British Empire, University of Chicago alumni, Foreign Member of the Royal Society
James Dewey Watson born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA...
Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

male, 72 years old
author, Guns, Germs, and Steel, collapse, Evolutionary biologist, Pulitzer Prize winner, geography…University of California, Los Angeles, NationalMedalofScience, National Medal of Science recipient, Aventis Prize for Science Books, University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works...

Morris Cohen

male, deceased (2005)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kyoto Prize, NationalMedalofScience, National Medal of Science recipient, ASM International…Japan Institute of Metals
Morris Cohen (November 27, 1911 - May 27, 2005). Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Cohen spent his entire career affiliated with MIT. He graduated...

Stanley Cohen

male, 86 years old
Jewish, medicine, American, oberlin college, cancer, Oberlin College alumni…Master of Arts, National Medal of Science recipient, NationalMedalofScience, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, University of Michigan
Stanley Cohen (born November 17, 1922) is an American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986). He is a distinguished...
Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Kornberg

male, 91 years old
University of Rochester alumni, Stanford University faculty, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Jewish, deoxyribonucleic acid, American Chemical Society…National Medal of Science recipient, NationalMedalofScience, City University of New York
Arthur Kornberg (born March 3, 1918) is an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the...
John Backus

John Backus

male, deceased (2007) (San Francisco, California, United States)
Turing Award laureate, programming language creator, National Medal of Science recipient, IBM 704, Backus-Naur form, NationalMedalofScience…Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer, University of Virginia
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...

Bruce Ames

male, 80 years old
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, American, Ames test, Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, Life extensionist, Bronx High School of Science alumni…NationalMedalofScience, National Medal of Science recipient, University of California, Berkeley, Bronx High School of Science
Bruce Ames (born December 16, 1928), is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior...
J. Michael Bishop

J. Michael Bishop

male, 73 years old
John Michael Bishop, University of California, San Francisco faculty, National Medal of Science recipient, NationalMedalofScience, University of California, San Francisco, retroviral…National Institutes of Health, Doctor of Medicine
John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist who won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine....