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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Lewontin | Richard Charles Lewontin | 1929 | 2021 | American | evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lewontin |
| Harry Ostrer | Harry Ostrer | null | null | null | medical geneticist who investigates the genetic basis of common and rare disorders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Ostrer |
| Stephen Oppenheimer | Stephen Oppenheimer | 1947 | n/a | British | paediatrician, geneticist, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Oppenheimer |
| Eric Lander | Eric Steven Lander | 1957 | n/a | American | mathematician and geneticist who served as the 11th director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President, serving on the Cabinet in both capacities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lander |
| Stanley Norman Cohen | Stanley Norman Cohen | 1935 | n/a | American | geneticist and the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Norman_Cohen |
| Hermann Joseph Muller | Hermann Joseph Muller | 1890 | 1967 | American | geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (mutagenesis), as well as his outspoken political beliefs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Joseph_Muller |
| Alberto Piazza | Alberto Piazza | 1941 | n/a | Italian | human geneticist, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Turin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Piazza |
| Walter Bodmer | Sir Walter Fred Bodmer | 1936 | n/a | German | human geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bodmer |
| Richard Goldschmidt | Richard Benedict Goldschmidt | 1878 | 1958 | German | geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Goldschmidt |
| Richard Levins | Richard "Dick" Levins | 1930 | 2016 | null | ex-tropical farmer turned ecologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science who researched diversity in human populations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Levins |
| Michael Rosbash | Michael Morris Rosbash | 1944 | n/a | American | geneticist and chronobiologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Rosbash |
| Solomon Levit | Solomon Grigorievich Levit | 1894 | 1938 | Soviet | physician, and human geneticist who was executed during the Stalinist purges along with other geneticists who opposed Trofim Lysenko | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Levit |
| Mira Aroyo | Mira Aroyo | 1977 | n/a | Bulgarian | singer, musician, songwriter, DJ, and geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Aroyo |
| Baruch Samuel Blumberg | Baruch Samuel Blumberg | 1925 | 2011 | American | physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Samuel_Blumberg |
| Seymour Benzer | Seymour Benzer | 1921 | 2007 | American | physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Benzer |
| Bruce Beutler | Bruce Alan Beutler | 1957 | n/a | American | immunologist and geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Beutler |
| Charlotte Auerbach | Charlotte "Lotte" Auerbach FRS FRSE | 1899 | 1994 | German | geneticist who contributed to founding the science of mutagenesis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Auerbach |
| Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson | Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson | 1908 | 1989 | null | one of the most Soviet prominent geneticists, a former student of Nikolai Koltsov, who was among the scientists who had to struggle against the persecution of geneticists in the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pavlovich_Efroimson |
| Matthew Meselson | Matthew Stanley Meselson | 1930 | n/a | null | geneticist and molecular biologist currently at Harvard University, known for his demonstration, with Franklin Stahl, of semi-conservative DNA replication | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Meselson |
| Marshall Warren Nirenberg | Marshall Warren Nirenberg | 1927 | 2010 | American | biochemist and geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Warren_Nirenberg |
| Jon Beckwith | Jonathan Roger Beckwith | 1935 | n/a | American | microbiologist and geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Beckwith |
| Leonard Herzenberg | Leonard Arthur "Len" Herzenberg | 1931 | 2013 | null | immunologist, geneticist and professor at Stanford University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Herzenberg |
| David Reich (geneticist) | David Emil Reich | 1974 | n/a | American | geneticist known for his research into the population genetics of ancient humans, including their migrations and the mixing of populations, discovered by analysis of genome-wide patterns of mutations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reich_(geneticist) |
| Howard Martin Temin | Howard Martin Temin | 1934 | 1994 | American | geneticist and virologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Martin_Temin |
| Michael Stuart Brown | Michael Stuart Brown ForMemRS | 1941 | n/a | American | geneticist and Nobel laureate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stuart_Brown |
| Jeffrey M. Friedman | Jeffrey M. Friedman | 1954 | n/a | null | molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_M._Friedman |
| Renata Laxova | Renata Laxova | 1931 | 2020 | American | pediatric geneticist and a professor of genetics at the Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renata_Laxova |
| Brett Abrahams | Brett Abrahams | 1973 | n/a | null | geneticist and neuroscientist involved in the identification and subsequent functional characterization of the autism-related gene CNTNAP2 with Dan Geschwind at UCLA.B. S. Abrahams, D. Tentler, J. V. Perederiy, M. C. Oldham, G. Coppola, D. H. Geschwind, Genome-wide analyses of human perisylvian cerebral cortical patterning | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Abrahams |
| Charles Yanofsky | Charles Yanofsky | 1925 | 2018 | American | geneticist on the faculty of Stanford University who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanism in which messenger RNA changes shape in response to a small molecule and thus alters its binding ability for the regulatory region of a gene or operon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Yanofsky |
| Guido Pontecorvo | Guido Pellegrino Arrigo Pontecorvo FRS FRSE | 1907 | 1999 | Italian | geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Pontecorvo |
| Boris Ephrussi | Boris Ephrussi | 1901 | 1979 | null | Russo-French geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Ephrussi |
| Pamela Ronald | Pamela C. Ronald | 1961 | n/a | American | plant pathologist and geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Ronald |
| Daniel Chamovitz | Daniel Chamovitz | 1963 | n/a | American | plant geneticist and the 7th President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Chamovitz |
| Elizabeth F. Neufeld | Elizabeth Fondal Neufeld | 1928 | n/a | French | geneticist whose research has focused on the genetic basis of metabolic disease in humans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_F._Neufeld |
| Curt Stern | Curt Stern | 1902 | 1981 | German | geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curt_Stern |
| Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch | Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch | 1907 | 2007 | German | U.S. geneticist and co-founder of the field of developmental genetics, which investigates the genetic mechanisms of development | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_Gluecksohn-Waelsch |
| Otto Frankel | Sir Otto Herzberg Frankel FRS FAA FRSNZ | 1900 | 1998 | Austrian | geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Frankel |
| Liane Russell | Liane Brauch "Lee" Russell | 1923 | 2019 | Austrian | geneticist and conservationist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liane_Russell |
| Shirley Hodgson | Professor Shirley Victoria Hodgson DM, DObst RCOG, DCH, FRCP, FRSB | 1945 | n/a | British | geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Hodgson |
| David Latchman | David Seymour Latchman CBE | 1956 | n/a | British | geneticist and university administrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Latchman |
| Mayana Zatz | Mayana Zatz | 1947 | n/a | Brazilian | molecular biologist and geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayana_Zatz |
| Kurt Hirschhorn | Kurt Hirschhorn | 1926 | n/a | Austrian | pediatrician, medical geneticist, and cytogeneticist who identified the chromosomal defects that underlie Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Hirschhorn |
| Hans Grüneberg | Hans Grüneberg | 1907 | 1982 | British | geneticist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Grüneberg |
| Michael Cohen (doctor) | M. Michael Cohen Jr. | 1937 | 2018 | American | pathologist and geneticist who was Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University (Emeritus) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(doctor) |
| Herschel L. Roman | Herschel Lewis Roman | 1914 | 1989 | null | geneticist famous for popularizing the use of yeast in genetic research | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_L._Roman |
| Maurice Sanford Fox | Maurice Sanford Fox | 1924 | 2020 | American | geneticist and molecular biologist, and professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he served as department chair between 1985 and 1989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Sanford_Fox |
| J. M. Robson | John Michael 'Rab' Rabinovich FRSE FRCS FRCSE LLD | 1900 | 1982 | null | geneticist and physicist who co-founded the science of mutagenesis by mutations in fruit flies exposed to mustard gas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Robson |
| Albert Dorfman | Albert Dorfman | 1916 | 1982 | American | biochemical geneticist, notable for discovery of the cause of Hurler's syndrome | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Dorfman |
| Adrian Krainer (scientist) | Adrian Robert Krainer | null | null | Uruguayan | biochemist and molecular geneticist known for his research into RNA gene-splicing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Krainer_(scientist) |
| Ernst Caspari | Ernst Wolfgang Caspari | 1909 | 1988 | German | geneticist known for his research on behavioral and developmental genetics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Caspari |
| Elisabeth Goldschmidt | Elisabeth Goldschmidt | 1912 | 1970 | German | geneticist who founded the genetics program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Goldschmidt |