Francis Collins

Francis Collins

male, 59 years old
National Institutes of Health, watson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, christian apologetics, American, Yale University alumni…geneticist
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...
Francis Harry Compton Crick

Francis Harry Compton Crick

male, deceased (2004) (Northampton)
dna, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Biophysicist, atheist, From Northamptonshire, Alumni of University College London…geneticist
Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on June 8th, 1916, at Northampton, England, being the elder child of Harry Crick and Annie Elizabeth Wilkins ....
Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel

male, deceased (1884) (Guadeloupe)
geneticist, Botanist, Biologist, German, German native of Silesia, moravia
Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884) was a Moravian Augustinian priest and scientist often called the "father of modern genetics"...
David Suzuki

David Suzuki

male, 73 years old
University of British Columbia faculty, from vancouver, environmentalist, cbc, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, environmentalism…geneticist
David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, Ph.D (born March 24 1936), is a Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. Since the mid 1970s,...
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…geneticist
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in...
Spencer Wells

Spencer Wells

male, 40 years old
Recent single origin hypothesis, Georgia, USA, the Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, Population geneticist, American…geneticist
Spencer Wells (born April 6 1969 in Georgia, USA) is a geneticist and anthropologist, and an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic...
Richard Lewontin

Richard Lewontin

male, 80 years old
mathematician, American, Population geneticist, genetics, gel electrophoresis, social commentator…geneticist
Richard Charles "Dick" Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. A leader in...
Theodosius Dobzhansky

Theodosius Dobzhansky

male, deceased (1975)
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky, evolutionary biology, naturalized citizen of the United States, geneticist, Russian Orthodox Christian, Evolutionary biologist
Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky (Ukrainian - Теодосій Григорович Добжанський; sometimes anglicized to Theodore Dobzhansky; January 25, 1900...
James D. Watson

James D. Watson

male, 81 years old
Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, dna, nucleic acid, molecular biology, National Medal of Science recipient, National Medal of Science…geneticist
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...
Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan

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