Sewall Wright

Sewall Wright

male, deceased (1998)
Biologist, geneticist, natural selection, Evolutionary biologist, evolutionary theory, American…mutation
Sewall Green Wright ForMemRS (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary th...
Robert Webster

Robert Webster

male, 77 years old
University of Otago alumni, Australian National University alumni, Balclutha, New Zealand, Antigenic shift, Robert G. (Rob) Webster, antigenic drift…mutation
Robert G. ("Rob") Webster (born May 7, 1932), in Balclutha New Zealand, leading avian influenza expert, is the virologist who in 1957 was the first...
Masatoshi Nei

Masatoshi Nei

male
geneticist, population genetics, natural selection, molecular, genetic variation, statistic…mutation
Masatoshi Nei is Professor of Biology at Pennsylvania State University and Director of the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics. Nei is...

Pierre-Paul Grassé

male, deceased (1985)
zoologist, French, natural selection, darwinian, mutation, termite
Pierre-Paul Grassé was a French zoologist. He was one-time president of the Academie des Sciences and author of the influentual 35-volume "Traite d...

Tierra

female
Core War, natural selection, central processing unit, genetic algorithm, Artificial Life model, density-dependence…mutation
Tierra is a computer simulation developed by ecologist Thomas S. Ray in the early 1990s in which computer programs compete for central processing...
George Wells Beadle

George Wells Beadle

male, deceased (1989)
Cornell University alumni, enzyme, geneticist, from Nebraska, University of Chicago faculty, scientist…mutation
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...
Edward Lawrie Tatum

Edward Lawrie Tatum

male, deceased (1975)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, escherichia coli, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, Stanford University, geneticist…mutation
Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 - November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...

Vincent Sarich

male
amino acid, Ramapithecus, gorilla, mmunological Distance, albumin, molecular evolution…mutation
Vincent M. Sarich (born 1934) is an American anthropology professor. Born in Chicago, he received a bachelor of science in chemistry from Illinois...
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…mutation
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...
Leland H. Hartwell

Leland H. Hartwell

male, 70 years old (Seattle, Washington, United States)
University of Washington, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, cyclin, National Academy of Sciences, Gary Locke, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine…mutation
Leland H. (Lee) Hartwell (born October 30 1939, in Los Angeles, California) is president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center...