Barry Sears

male
Barry Sears is a biochemist and nutrition scientist. He is most popular for creating and promoting the Zone diet, a diet aimed at achieving stable...
Theo Colborn

Theo Colborn

female
Dr. Theo Colborn is one of the world's leading authorities on endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment. She received her Ph.D. in zoology...
Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi

male, 86 years old
Carl Djerassi, is a chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill...
Adolf Butenandt

Adolf Butenandt

male, deceased (1995)
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (March 24, 1903 - January 18, 1995) was a German biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939...
Ernest Starling

Ernest Starling

male, deceased (1927)
Ernest Starling was an English physiologist born on April 17 1866, in London, and died on May 2 1927. He worked mainly at University College...
Jeffrey M. Friedman

Jeffrey M. Friedman

male
Jeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD, is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in...
Choh Hao Li

Choh Hao Li

male, deceased (1987)
Choh Hao Li (sometimes "Cho Hao Li") (April 21, 1913-November 28, 1987) was a Chinese-born U.S. biochemist who discovered, in 1966, that human...
Jokichi Takamine

Jokichi Takamine

male, deceased (1922)
was a Japanese chemist. He was born in Takaoka, Tokyoma, Japan the son of a physician, and educated in Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo, graduating from the...
Joseph von Mering

Joseph von Mering

male
Josef, Baron von Mering (born February 28, 1849, in Cologne - died January 5, 1908, at Halle an der Saale, Germany) was a German physician. Mering...
Edward Calvin Kendall

Edward Calvin Kendall

male, deceased (1972)
Edward Calvin Kendall (b.March 8, 1886, Norwalk, CT - May 4, 1972) was an American chemist who, together with Philip S. Hench and Tadeus...