William Bateson

William Bateson

male, deceased (1926)
From Whitby, heredity, British, Biological inheritance, genetics, Old Rugbeian…geneticist
William Bateson (August 8, 1861 - February 8, 1926) was a British geneticist. He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the...
Ronald Fisher

Ronald Fisher

male, deceased (1962)
Biostatisticians, from East Finchley, English, President of the Royal Statistical Society, FRS, Erdős number 2…geneticist, Population geneticist
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist. He was de...
Richard Goldschmidt

Richard Goldschmidt

male, deceased (1958)
Biologist, macromutation, reaction norms, macroevolution, Hopeful Monster, Norm of reaction…geneticist
Richard Benedict Goldschmidt was a German-born American geneticist. He is considered the first to integrate genetics, development, and evolution....

Mary-Claire King

female, 63 years old
University of Washington, lupus, hiv, genetics, New Trier High School alumni, Human rights abuses…geneticist
Mary-Claire King (1946-) is an American human geneticist. She is professor at the University of Washington, where she studies the genetics and...
M. S. Swaminathan

M. S. Swaminathan

male, 84 years old
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, Alleppey District, Synergy, Tamilnadu, Kumbakonam, high yielding varieties…geneticist
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian agriculture scientist, born August 7, 1925, in Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu, The second of four sons of a...
Jacques Monod

Jacques Monod

male, deceased (1976)
French, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, atheist, bacterium, writer, Nobel Prize…geneticist
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...
Hermann Joseph Muller

Hermann Joseph Muller

male, deceased (1967)
Biologist, Jewish American, Biophysicist, Nobel Prize, Columbia University alumni, Humanist…geneticist
Hermann Joseph "H. J." Muller (December 21, 1890 - April 5, 1967) was a Nobel Prize-winning American geneticist and educator, best known for his...
Michael Smith

Michael Smith

male, deceased (2000)
Old Arnoldian, Alumni of the University of Manchester, English, Biochemist, geneticist, University of British Columbia
Michael Smith, CC, OBC (April 26, 1932 - October 4, 2000) was a British-born Canadian biochemist who was the 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry....
Stephen Oppenheimer

Stephen Oppenheimer

male, 62 years old
Oxford University, folklore, prehistory, nepal, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Penang…geneticist
Stephen Oppenheimer (born 1947), a British physician, a member of Green College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of Liverpool School of Tropical...
Massimo Pigliucci

Massimo Pigliucci

male, 45 years old (New York, United States)
Fact-value distinction, philosophical, Brights, methodological, Society for the Study of Evolution, ecology…geneticist
As professor of ecology and evolution, he does research and teaching at SUNY-Stony Brook when he is not pursuing his interests in philosophy of...