Alfred G. Knudson

Alfred G. Knudson

male, 87 years old
Columbia University, Alfred George Knudson Jr, American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Knudson hypothesis, carcinogenesis, Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research…genetics
Alfred George Knudson Jr. PhD (born in Los Angeles, 1922) is a geneticist specialised in the genetics of cancer. Probably the most important one of...

Kathleen Taylor

female
Science writer, British, Academic of the University of Oxford, Biologist, Times Higher Education Supplement, brainwashing…genetics
Dr. Kathleen Taylor is a research scientist in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford. "Brainwashing", her...
Gurdev Khush

Gurdev Khush

male, 74 years old
agronomy, University of California, Davis alumni, World Food Prize laureate, World Food Prize, rice, green revolution…genetics
Dr. Gurdev Singh Khush is an Indian agronomist. Along with his mentor, Dr. Henry Beachell, he received the 1996 World Food Prize for their...
Martin Heisenberg

Martin Heisenberg

male, 69 years old
Neurobiologists, Drosophila, neurobiologist, genetics, fruit fly, scientist
Martin Heisenberg is a German neurobiologist and geneticist. As of 2006, he is the chair for genetics and neurobiology at the bio centre of the...
Reginald Punnett

Reginald Punnett

male, deceased (1967)
Mendelism, Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Punnett square, biology, English, Journal of Genetics…genetics
Professor Reginald Crundall Punnett, F.R.S. (June 20 1875 - January 3 1967) was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the...

Fred Griffith

male, deceased (1941)
engineer, geneticist, genetic, genetics, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY, English
Frederick Griffith (1879 - 1941) was a genetic engineer. Frederick Griffith was born in Hale, England and attended Liverpool University where he...
Thomas J. Silhavy

Thomas J. Silhavy

male
Princeton University, Princeton University faculty, protein, bacterial, Molecular biologist, American…genetics
Thomas J. Silhavy is an American molecular biologist and professor at Princeton University. He has made significant contributions to the field of...
Barbara A. Schaal

Barbara A. Schaal

female (Clayton, Missouri, United States)
German-American, From Berlin, biology, National Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany, domestication…genetics
Barbara Ana Schaal (born 1947 in Berlin, Germany, naturalized in 1956) American scientist, evolutionary biologist, is a professor at Washington...
Marshall Warren Nirenberg

Marshall Warren Nirenberg

male, 82 years old
Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Biochemist, geneticist, University of Florida alumni, American, genetics
Marshall Warren Nirenberg (born April 10, 1927) is a U.S. biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with...
Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg

male, 84 years old
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Microorganism, artificial intelligence, expert system, Molecular biologist…genetics, Department of Medical Genetics
Joshua Lederberg , one of the 20th century's leading scientists, whose work in bacterial genetics had vast medical implications and led to his...