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| Peter Agre |
Biologist |
30-Jan-1949 |
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Water channels of cell membranes |
| Kenneth Alibek |
Biologist |
c. 1951 |
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Biological weapons designer |
| Sidney Altman |
Chemist |
7-May-1939 |
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Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Daniel I. Arnon |
Biologist |
14-Nov-1910 |
20-Dec-1994 |
Photophosphorylation |
| Oswald Avery |
Biologist |
21-Oct-1877 |
20-Feb-1955 |
Antibodies and DNA |
| Karl Ernst von Baer |
Biologist |
29-Feb-1792 |
28-Nov-1876 |
De Ovi Mammalium |
| David Baltimore |
Biologist |
7-Mar-1938 |
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Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase |
| William Bateson |
Biologist |
8-Aug-1861 |
8-Feb-1926 |
Founder of genetics |
| Michael Behe |
Biologist |
18-Jan-1952 |
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Darwin's Black Box |
| Bruce A. Beutler |
Biologist |
29-Dec-1957 |
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Lipopolysaccharide receptors |
| Herbert W. Boyer |
Biologist |
10-Jul-1936 |
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Recombinant DNA, first synthetic insulin |
| Michael S. Brown |
Biologist |
13-Apr-1941 |
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Metabolism of cholesterol |
| Linda B. Buck |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1947 |
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Odorant receptors and olfactory organization |
| Anton J. Carlson |
Biologist |
29-Jan-1875 |
2-Sep-1956 |
The Machinery of the Body |
| Erwin Chargaff |
Biologist |
11-Aug-1905 |
20-Jun-2002 |
Biochemist at Columbia University |
| Stanley N. Cohen |
Biologist |
17-Feb-1935 |
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Recombinant DNA |
| Barry Commoner |
Biologist |
28-May-1917 |
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Science and Survival |
| Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer |
Biologist |
24-Feb-1907 |
17-May-2004 |
Ichthyologist, discovered Coelacanth |
| Richard Dawkins |
Biologist |
26-Mar-1941 |
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Zoologist and evolutionary biologist |
| Heinrich Anton de Bary |
Botanist |
26-Jan-1831 |
19-Jan-1888 |
Founder of modern mycology |
| Havelock Ellis |
Biologist |
2-Feb-1859 |
8-Jul-1939 |
Studies in the Psychology of Sex |
| Donald M. Engelman |
Biologist |
c. 1941 |
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Biochemistry Professor at Yale |
| Alexander Fleming |
Scientist |
6-Aug-1881 |
11-Mar-1955 |
Discovered penicillin |
| Walther Flemming |
Biologist |
21-Apr-1843 |
4-Aug-1905 |
Chromosomes and mitosis |
| Claire M. Fraser-Liggett |
Biologist |
c. 1955 |
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Genomic researcher |
| Michael Gershon |
Scientist |
c. 1936 |
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Gut neurobiology |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
| Frederick Griffith |
Biologist |
c. 1877 |
16-Apr-1941 |
Discovered the transforming principle |
| J. B. S. Haldane |
Biologist |
5-Nov-1892 |
1-Dec-1964 |
Haldane's principle |
| Ross Granville Harrison |
Zoologist |
13-Jan-1870 |
30-Sep-1959 |
Embryology and tissue culture techniques |
| Ethel Browne Harvey |
Zoologist |
14-Dec-1885 |
2-Sep-1965 |
Embryology of sea urchins |
| Jules A. Hoffmann |
Biologist |
2-Aug-1941 |
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Innate immunity |
| Johannes Holtfreter |
Zoologist |
9-Jan-1901 |
13-Nov-1992 |
Chemotaxis |
| Leroy Hood |
Biologist |
10-Oct-1938 |
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Systems biology and Human Genome Project |
| Julian Huxley |
Biologist |
22-Jun-1887 |
14-Feb-1975 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| Bruce Ivins |
Biologist |
22-Apr-1946 |
29-Jul-2008 |
Anthrax researcher and suspect |
| Stephen Jones |
Biologist |
24-Mar-1944 |
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Geneticist and pop science writer |
| David Starr Jordan |
Biologist |
19-Jan-1851 |
19-Sep-1931 |
Fishes of North and Middle America |
| Ernest Just |
Biologist |
14-Aug-1883 |
27-Oct-1941 |
Cell surfaces and egg fertilization |
| Paul Kammerer |
Biologist |
17-Aug-1880 |
23-Oct-1926 |
Proponent of Lamarckian inheritance |
| Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
Biologist |
1-Aug-1744 |
18-Dec-1829 |
Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist |
| Chris Langton |
Biologist |
1948 |
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Father of Artificial Life |
| Philip Leder |
Biologist |
19-Nov-1934 |
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Harvard Geneticist |
| Joshua Lederberg |
Biologist |
23-May-1925 |
2-Feb-2008 |
Genetic properties of bacteria |
| Joseph Leidy |
Biologist |
9-Sep-1823 |
30-Apr-1891 |
Trichinosis and dinosaurs |
| Richard A. Lerner |
Biologist |
28-Aug-1938 |
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Scripps Research Institute |
| Arnold J. Levine |
Biologist |
1939 |
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Cancer researcher |
| Susan L. Lindquist |
Biologist |
5-Jun-1949 |
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Protein folding |
| Salvador Luria |
Biologist |
13-Aug-1912 |
6-Feb-1991 |
Natural selection in bacteria |
| Roderick MacKinnon |
Biologist |
19-Feb-1956 |
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Ion channels of cell membranes |
| Lynn Margulis |
Biologist |
5-Mar-1935 |
22-Nov-2011 |
Origin of eukaryotic organelles |
| John Maynard Smith |
Biologist |
6-Jan-1920 |
19-Apr-2004 |
Applied game theory to evolutionary biology |
| Ernst Mayr |
Biologist |
5-Jul-1904 |
3-Feb-2005 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| William D. McElroy |
Biologist |
22-Jan-1917 |
17-Feb-1999 |
Bioluminescence |
| Peter Medawar |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| John Mendelsohn |
Biologist |
31-Aug-1936 |
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Cancer researcher |
| Gail K. Naughton |
Biologist |
c. 1955 |
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Advanced Tissue Sciences |
| David C. Page |
Biologist |
6-Jul-1956 |
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Director, Whitehead Institute |
| Raymond Pearl |
Biologist |
3-Jun-1879 |
17-Nov-1940 |
Biogerontology |
| Cecil B. Pickett |
Biologist |
5-Oct-1945 |
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Ezetrol, Singulair, and Vioxx |
| George H. Poste |
Biologist |
c. 1944 |
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Health Technology Networks |
| Reginald Punnett |
Biologist |
20-Jun-1875 |
3-Jan-1967 |
Early geneticist |
| René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1683 |
17-Oct-1757 |
L'Histoire des Insectes |
| Oscar Riddle |
Biologist |
27-Sep-1877 |
29-Nov-1968 |
Prolactin |
| Albert Sabin |
Biologist |
26-Aug-1906 |
3-Mar-1993 |
Developed oral polio vaccine |
| Phillip A. Sharp |
Biologist |
6-Jun-1944 |
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Eukaryotic (split) genes |
| Rupert Sheldrake |
Biologist |
28-Jun-1942 |
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Morphic Fields |
| Thomas E. Shenk |
Biologist |
c. 1947 |
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Princeton Molecular Biologist |
| Harry Steenbock |
Biologist |
16-Aug-1886 |
25-Dec-1967 |
Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D |
| Ralph M. Steinman |
Biologist |
14-Jan-1943 |
30-Sep-2011 |
Dendritic cells |
| Nettie Stevens |
Biologist |
7-Jul-1861 |
4-May-1912 |
X and Y chromosomes |
| D'Arcy Thompson |
Biologist |
2-May-1860 |
21-Jun-1948 |
On Growth and Form |
| Nikolai Timofeev-Ressovsky |
Biologist |
20-Sep-1900 |
28-Mar-1981 |
Russian geneticist |
| Craig Venter |
Biologist |
14-Oct-1946 |
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Engineered the first man-made bacterial cell |
| George Wald |
Biologist |
18-Nov-1906 |
12-Apr-1997 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Lester Frank Ward |
Sociologist |
18-Jun-1841 |
18-Apr-1913 |
Dynamic Sociology |
| August von Wassermann |
Biologist |
21-Feb-1866 |
16-Mar-1925 |
Syphilis test |
| August Weismann |
Biologist |
17-Jan-1834 |
5-Nov-1914 |
Theory of Germ Plasm |
| Maurice Wilkins |
Biologist |
15-Dec-1916 |
5-Oct-2004 |
Took X-ray pictures of DNA |
| Edmund Beecher Wilson |
Biologist |
19-Oct-1856 |
3-Mar-1939 |
X and Y chromosomes |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Biologist |
10-Jun-1929 |
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Father of Sociobiology |
| Sewall Wright |
Biologist |
21-Dec-1889 |
3-Mar-1988 |
Mathematics of evolution |
