G. Ledyard Stebbins

G. Ledyard Stebbins

male, deceased (2000)
geneticist, Harvard University, hybrid, University of California, Berkeley, National Medal of Science recipient, National Medal of Science
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. (January 6 1906 - January 19 2000) was an American botanist and geneticist who is widely regarded as one of the...
William French Anderson

William French Anderson

male, 73 years old
Harvard University alumni, physician, Harvard Medical School alumni, Convicted child sex offender, American, child molester…geneticist
William French Anderson, M.D. (b. 1936) is a U.S. physician, geneticist and molecular biologist. He is considered a pioneer of gene therapy. He...
Cynthia Kenyon

Cynthia Kenyon

female, 54 years old
University of California, San Francisco faculty, E. coli, Drosophila, DNA repair, Cambridge, UK, Cynthia Jane Kenyon…geneticist
Cynthia Jane Kenyon (c. 1955-) is an American molecular biologist known for her genetic dissection of aging in the tiny worm called Caenorhabditis...

E. B. Ford

male, deceased (1988)
Fellow of the Royal Society, Biologist, butterfly, geneticist, British, insect…ecological geneticist
Professor Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford, F.R.S. (23rd April 1901 - 2nd January 1988) was a British ecological geneticist. At a young age he became...
Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn

female, 61 years old
University of California, San Francisco faculty, telomere, telomerase, Elizabeth (Liz) H(elen) Blackburn, From Tasmania, cancer…geneticist
Elizabeth (Liz) H(elen) Blackburn (November 26, 1948 -) is a professor of biology and leading researcher in the field of the telomere and the...
Carole Meredith

Carole Meredith

female
Botanist, Charbono, Primitivo, DNA typing, appellation, Mount Veeder…geneticist
Carole Meredith is the University of California, Davis geneticist who pioneered the use of DNA typing to differentiate between "Vitis vinifera"...

François Jacob

male, 89 years old
André Lwoff, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Nobel Prize in Medicine, Phage worker, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, FEEDBACK…geneticist
François Jacob is a Jewish French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells o...

Frederick Griffith

male, deceased (1941)
World War I, geneticist, British, pneumonia, dna, Griffith's experiment
Frederick Griffith (1879 - 1941) was a British medical officer. In 1928, in what is today known as Griffith's experiment, he discovered a...
Curt Stern

Curt Stern

male, deceased (1981)
The Race Question, University of California, Berkeley faculty, Principles of Human Genetics, geneticist, University of California, gene regulation
Curt Stern (August 30 1902 - October 23 1981) was a German-American geneticist. He made several important genetic discoveries, demonstrating...
Susumu Ohno

Susumu Ohno

male, deceased (2000)
geneticist, molecular evolution, Evolutionary biologist, Supreme Court of Korea, minister, National Academy of Sciences
Susumu Ohno (February 1, 1928 - January 13, 2000), was an Asian American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and seminal researcher in the field...