James F. Crow

male, 93 years old
University of Wisconsin-Madison, geneticist, American, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, genetics, Russell Lande
James F. Crow (b. 1916) is Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Some of his most significant peer-reviewed...
Leroy Hood

Leroy Hood

male, 71 years old
National Inventors Hall of Fame, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, American, California Institute of Technology alumni, Kyoto Prize, University of Washington faculty…geneticist
Dr. Hood is recognized as one of the world's leading scientists in molecular biotechnology and genomics. A passionate and dedicated researcher, he...
Neil Risch

Neil Risch

male
University of California, San Francisco faculty, hemochromatosis, torsion dystonia, founder mutation, linkage disequilibrium, University of California, San Francisco…Population geneticist, geneticist
Neil Risch is an American human geneticist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Risch is the Lamond Family...
Edward B. Lewis

Edward B. Lewis

male, deceased (2004)
University of Minnesota, World War II, Biologist, geneticist, drosophila melanogaster, california institute of technology
Edward B. Lewis (May 20, 1918 - July 21, 2004) was an American geneticist, the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Lewis was born in...
Seymour Benzer

Seymour Benzer

male, 88 years old
Purdue University alumni, National Medal of Science recipient, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, American, Molecular biologist, physicist…geneticist
Seymour Benzer (born October 15, 1921) is an accomplished American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist.
Walter Bodmer

Walter Bodmer

male, 73 years old
Jewish, wellcome trust, Jewish person, knight, scientist, Oxford University…human geneticist, geneticist
Sir Walter Bodmer is a German-born British human geneticist. Bodmer has developed models for population genetics and done work on the HLA system...
Nikolai Vavilov

Nikolai Vavilov

male, deceased (1943)
seedbank, wheat, cereal crops, mycology, corn, immunity…geneticist
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a prominent Russian botanist and geneticist best known for having identified the centres of origin of cultivated...
Maclyn McCarty

Maclyn McCarty

male, deceased (2005)
geneticist, scientist, Molecular biologist, American, dna, Griffith's experiment
Maclyn McCarty (June 9, 1911-January 2, 2005) was an American geneticist. In 1944 he, Oswald Avery and Colin MacLeod followed up on Griffith's...
David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson

male, 60 years old
trait-group, Unto Others, Darwin's Cathedral, Multilevel selection theory, group selection, Binghamton University faculty…geneticist
David Sloan Wilson (1949-) is an American evolutionary biologist. Son of the author Sloan Wilson, David Sloan Wilson is a distinguished professor...
George Wells Beadle

George Wells Beadle

male, deceased (1989)
Cornell University alumni, enzyme, geneticist, from Nebraska, University of Chicago faculty, scientist
George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 - June 9, 1989) was an American scientist in the field of genetics. He shared half of the 1958 Nobel Prize in...