Salvador Luria

Salvador Luria

male, deceased (1991)
Salvador Edward Luria was an Italian microbiologist whose pioneering work on phages helped open up molecular biology. Along with Max Delbrück and A...
Francis Harry Compton Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick

male, deceased (2004) (Northampton)
Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on June 8th, 1916, at Northampton, England, being the elder child of Harry Crick and Annie Elizabeth Wilkins ....
James D. Watson

James D. Watson

male, 81 years old
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...

Max Delbrück

male, deceased (1981)
Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.

François Jacob

male, 89 years old
François Jacob is a Jewish French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells o...
Alfred Hershey

Alfred Hershey

male, deceased (1997) (Owosso, Michigan, United States)
Alfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and geneticist. He was born in Owosso, Michigan and received his B.S. in...
Seymour Benzer

Seymour Benzer

male, 88 years old
Seymour Benzer (born October 15, 1921) is an accomplished American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist.
Bruce Alberts

Bruce Alberts

male, 71 years old
Dr. Bruce Alberts (b. 1938) is an American biochemist. He is noted particularly for his extensive study of the protein complexes that allow...
Werner Arber

Werner Arber

male, 80 years old
Werner Arber is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the...
Richard Lenski

Richard Lenski

male, 53 years old
Richard E. Lenski (born August 13, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist. He holds the office Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial...