Edmund Beecher Wilson

Edmund Beecher Wilson

male, deceased (1939)
Bryn Mawr College, Yale, embryo, annelid, invertebrate, mollusc…chromosomal
Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois, and graduated from Yale in 1878. He...
Nettie Stevens

Nettie Stevens

female, deceased (1912)
Breast cancer death, Bryn Mawr College alumni, Bryn Mawr College, embryology, cytogenetics, chromosomal
Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7,1861 - May 4,1912) was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to...
Lionel Penrose

Lionel Penrose

male, deceased (1972)
quaker, Fellow of the Royal Society, genetics, genetic, chess, British…chromosomal
Lionel Sharples Penrose (11 June, 1898 - 12 May, 1972) was a British psychiatrist, medical geneticist, mathematician and chess theorist, who...
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…chromosomal crossover
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in...
C. D. Darlington

C. D. Darlington

male, deceased (1981)
English, Biologist, British, Alumni of Imperial College London, geneticist, From Chorley…chromosomal crossover
Cyril Dean Darlington (19 December 1903 - 26 March 1981) was an English biologist, eugenicist, and geneticist who discovered the mechanics of...
Harriet Creighton

Harriet Creighton

female, deceased (2004)
Cornell University, Wellesley College, Botanist, Cornell University alumni, Cornell University faculty, Educator…chromosomal crossover
Harriet Baldwin Creighton (27 June 1909 - January 9 2004) was an American botanist, geneticist and educator. Born in Delevan, Illinois, Creighton...
Curt Stern

Curt Stern

male, deceased (1981)
The Race Question, University of California, Berkeley faculty, Principles of Human Genetics, geneticist, University of California, gene regulation…chromosomal crossover
Curt Stern (August 30 1902 - October 23 1981) was a German-American geneticist. He made several important genetic discoveries, demonstrating...
Janet Rowley

Janet Rowley

female, 84 years old
Columbia University, Harvard Business School, from Chicago, Doctor of Medicine, cancer, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools…chromosomal translocation
Janet Davison Rowley (born 1925) is an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of...

Juan Ramón Lacadena

male, 75 years old
engineer, Doctor, geneticist, spanish, bioethics, genetics…chromosomal behaviour
Juan Ramón Lacadena Calero is a Spanish doctor agronomical engeneer. He studied in the Escuela Especial de Ingenieros Agrónomos in Madrid (B...

Jérôme Lejeune

male, deceased (1994)
General-Electric, French pro-life activist, Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune, anti-abortion, chromosome, Paediatrician…chromosomal defect
Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French Catholic anti-abortion paediatrician and geneticist, best known for his discovery of the link of di...