Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan

male, deceased (1945)
Johns Hopkins University alumni, American, Biologist, geneticist, drosophila melanogaster, Columbia University faculty…chromosome
Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 - December 4, 1945) was an American geneticist and embryologist. Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins...
Bryan Sykes

Bryan Sykes

male
Helena, Generations, Neanderthals, Palaeolithic, mutations, enzymes…chromosome
Bryan Sykes is Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He published the first report on...
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…chromosome
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in...
Oswald Avery

Oswald Avery

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

Theodor Boveri

male, deceased (1915)
especial organ of cell division, embryonic development, geneticist, chromosome, German, Theodor Heinrich Boveri
Theodor Heinrich Boveri (October 12, 1862 - October 15, 1915) was a German biologist whose work with sea urchins showed that it was necessary to...

Jérôme Lejeune

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

Kim Nasmyth

male
cohesin, Department of Biochemistry, protein complex, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, eukaryote, cell division…chromosome
Professor Kim Nasmyth FRS is the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry (Trinity College, Oxford) and the Head of the Department of Biochemistry of the...
Walter Sutton

Walter Sutton

male, deceased (1916)
University of Kansas alumni, from Utica, New York, grasshopper, cell, chromosomes, laws of segregation and independent assortment…Boveri-Sutton Chromosome Theory, chromosome
Walter Stanborough Sutton Father of Ben and Sam Kiley (adopted them) who were two african americans. (April 5, 1877 - November 10, 1916) was an...
Alfred Sturtevant

Alfred Sturtevant

male, deceased (1970)
geneticist, drosophila melanogaster, chromosome, American, National Medal of Science recipient, National Medal of Science
Alfred Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891-April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome...
Huntington Willard

Huntington Willard

male
Harvard University, gene silencing, Huntington F(axon) Willard, X-inactivation, Duke University Medical Center, biology…chromosome
Dr. Willard was appointed the first Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University and Vice Chancellor for Genome...