Oswald Avery

Oswald Avery

male, deceased (1955)
Researcher, Canadian expatriate academic in the United States, English Canadian, hospital, physician, chromosome…RockefellerInstitute
Oswald Theodore Avery (October 21, 1877-1955) was a Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent...
Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner

male, deceased (1943)
myocardial infarction, pathology, Jewish American, World War I, journalist, blood type…Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, RockefellerInstitute
Karl Landsteiner (June 14 1868 - June 26 1943), was an Austrian biologist and physician. He is noted for his development in 1901 of the modern...
Wendell Meredith Stanley

Wendell Meredith Stanley

male, deceased (1971)
AMA Scientific Achievement Award, Earlham College alumni, Princeton University, University of Illinois, Biochemist, University of Paris…RockefellerInstitute
Wendell Meredith Stanley (August 16, 1904 - June 15, 1971) was an American biochemist, virologist and Nobel prize laureate. He was born in...
Alfred Mirsky

Alfred Mirsky

male, deceased (1974)
American, Harvard College, Harvard University alumni, california institute of technology, California Institute of Technology alumni, Molecular biologist…rockefeller university, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, RockefellerInstitute
Alfred Ezra Mirsky was an American pioneer in molecular biology. Mirsky graduated from Harvard College in 1922, after which he studied for two...
Edward Lawrie Tatum

Edward Lawrie Tatum

male, deceased (1975)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, escherichia coli, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, Stanford University, geneticist…RockefellerInstitute
Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 - November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...
Ruth Sager

Ruth Sager

female, deceased (1997)
Bladder cancer death, American, University of Chicago alumni, Columbia University alumni, Rutgers University alumni, maize…dana-farber cancer institute, RockefellerInstitute
Ruth Sager (February 7, 1918 - March 29, 1997) was an eminent American geneticist. Sager enjoyed two scientic careers. Her first was in the 1950s...
Thomas Milton Rivers

Thomas Milton Rivers

male, deceased (1962)
Biologist, United States Navy admiral, bacteriologist, microbiologist, American, Virologist…RockefellerInstitute
Rear Admiral Dr. Thomas Milton Rivers (September 3, 1888 - May 12, 1962) was an American bacteriologist and virologist. Between 1922 to 1955 he...

Gareth Jones

male, deceased (1935)
German, French, Russian, food company dynasty, collectivisation, RockefellerInstitute
Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (1905 - 12 August 1935), was a Welsh journalist who first publicised the existence of the Great Ukrainian Famine of...
Peter Satir

Peter Satir

male
science teacher, University of Chicago, Paramecium, RockefellerInstitute, University of California, Berkeley, University of Copenhagen
Dr Peter Satir is a microbiologist who has spent his career studying the basis of motion by studying the cilium. He is a native of New York,...

José Reis

male, deceased (2002)
journalist, Science writer, bacteriology, scientist, Kalinga Prize winner, sao paulo…RockefellerInstitute
José Reis (b. June 12, 1907, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; d. May 16, 2002, São Paulo) was a noted Brazilian scientist, journalist, scientific leader an...