Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. Wilson was born in Geneva, Illinois, and graduated from Yale in 1878. He earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins in 1881. He was a lecturer at Williams College in 1883-84 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1884-85. He served as professor of biology at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1891.

Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7,1861 - May 4,1912) was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basis of sex. An outstanding student, Nettie Stevens completed in two years the four-year course at Westfield Normal School (now Westfield State College) in Massachusetts. She graduated at the top of her class. At Stanford, she received her B.A. in 1899 and her M.A. in 1900, …

Lionel Sharples Penrose (11 June, 1898 - 12 May, 1972) was a British psychiatrist, medical geneticist, mathematician and chess theorist, who carried out pioneering work on the genetics of mental retardation. Penrose's "Colchester Survey" of 1938 was the earliest serious attempt to study the genetics of mental retardation.

Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize.

Cyril Dean Darlington (19 December 1903 - 26 March 1981) was an English biologist, eugenicist, and geneticist who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover and noting its importance in evolution.

Harriet Baldwin Creighton (27 June 1909 - January 9 2004) was an American botanist, geneticist and educator. Born in Delevan, Illinois, Creighton graduated from Wellesley College in 1929, and went on to complete her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1933. During her time at Cornell she worked in the field of maize cytogenetics with Barbara McClintock, the pair published a very influential paper in 1931 in which they described chromosomal crossover for the first time.

Curt Stern (August 30 1902 - October 23 1981) was a German-American geneticist. He made several important genetic discoveries, demonstrating chromosomal crossover in "Drosophila" weeks after Barbara McClintock and Harriet Creighton had done so [with maize] in 1931. He demonstrated that there were multiple genes on the "Drosophila" Y chromosome and described the mechanism of dosage compensation.

Janet Davison Rowley (born 1925) is an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers. Janet Davison was born in New York City in 1925, the only child of Hurford and Ethel Ballantyne Davison. Her father held a master of business administration from Harvard Business School, and her mother a master's degree in education from Columbia University.

Juan Ramón Lacadena Calero is a Spanish doctor agronomical engeneer. He studied in the Escuela Especial de Ingenieros Agrónomos in Madrid (Bachelor's degree: 1956-1961,Doctorate 1963). He has been collaborator in CSIC, professor of Genetics in the UCM, head of the Department of Genetics in the Universidad de La Laguna (1971) and in the UCM (1971 – 2005). He collaborated in the Sociedad Española de Genética (Secretary, 1973-1985; President, 1985-1990).

Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French Catholic anti-abortion paediatrician and geneticist, best known for his discovery of the link of diseases to chromosomal defects. He was a friend of Pope John Paul II. They had met hours before the assassination attempt on the Pope's life on May 13, 1981 when Lejeune was in Rome for a genetics meeting and the two were discussing ethics. Lejeune had made his career specializing in the treatment of children with Down's syndrome, …

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