Matthew Meselson

Matthew Meselson

male, 79 years old
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Biologist, recombines, DNA repair, recombination, DNA replicates
Matthew Stanley Meselson (b. May 24, 1930) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA...
Edward Lawrie Tatum

Edward Lawrie Tatum

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

Tierra

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

Barbara McClintock

female, deceased (1992)
University of Missouri–Columbia faculty, Erasmus Hall High School alumni, National Academy of Sciences, crossing-over, genetic map, centromere…genetic recombination
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in...
Robert N. Hall

Robert N. Hall

male, 90 years old
engineer, p-i-n diode, photovoltaics, microwave ovens, carrier recombination, semiconductor laser
Robert N. Hall (b. December 25, 1919) is an American engineer. He demonstrated the first semiconductor laser, and invented a type of magnetron...