Mary-Claire King

female, 63 years old
Mary-Claire King (1946-) is an American human geneticist. She is professor at the University of Washington, where she studies the genetics and...
Andrew Fire

Andrew Fire

male, 50 years old
Andrew Zachary Fire (born on April 27th 1959) is an American professor of genetics at Stanford University. Fire is one of the laureates of the 2006...
Ronald Fisher

Ronald Fisher

male, deceased (1962)
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist. He was de...
M. S. Swaminathan

M. S. Swaminathan

male, 84 years old
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian agriculture scientist, born August 7, 1925, in Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu, The second of four sons of a...

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

67 years old
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in P...
Allan Wilson

Allan Wilson

male, deceased (1991)
Allan Wilson (1934-1991) was a pioneer in the use of molecular approaches to understand evolutionary change and reconstruct phylogenies. He was one...

Svante Pääbo

male, 54 years old
Svante Pääbo is a biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics. He was born in 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden and earned his PhD from Uppsala Un...
Trofim Lysenko

Trofim Lysenko

male, deceased (1976)
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a biologist and agronomist who was dictator of Soviet biology under Joseph Stalin. Lysenko rejected Mendelian...
Jesse Gelsinger

Jesse Gelsinger

male, deceased (1999)
Jesse Gelsinger (June 18 1981 - September 17 1999) was the first person publicly identified as having died in a clinical trial for gene therapy. He...
Motoo Kimura

Motoo Kimura

male, deceased (1994)
Motoo Kimura, (November 13, 1924 - November 13, 1994) was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution...