Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

male, deceased (2001)
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as author of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the G...
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...
Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin

female, deceased (1958)
Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English physical chemist and crystallographer who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine...
Francis Collins

Francis Collins

male, 59 years old
Francis S. Collins (born April 14, 1950), M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-geneticist, noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, and his...
Maurice Wilkins

Maurice Wilkins

male, deceased (2004)
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born British molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate wh...
Kary Mullis

Kary Mullis

male, 64 years old (Berkeley, United States)
Kary Banks Mullis, Ph.D. (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Dr Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
Jacques Monod

Jacques Monod

male, deceased (1976)
Jacques Lucien Monod was a French biologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965. Born in Paris, he was also awarded...
Alec Jeffreys

Alec Jeffreys

male, 59 years old
Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS (born 9 January 1950 at Oxford in Oxfordshire) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting...
David Baltimore

David Baltimore

male, 71 years old
David Baltimore (b. March 7, 1938) is an American biologist and one of the recipients of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He is...