| Geneticists/Biochemists List Name |
During |
Nationality |
Known for |
| Jerry Adams |
1940 |
United States |
Research into the genetics of haemopoietic differentiation and malignancy |
| Michael Ashburner |
1942 |
England |
Drosophila melanogaster, Gene Ontology, FlyBase |
| Oswald Avery |
1877-1955 |
United States |
One of the first molecular biologists |
| William Bateson |
1861-1926 |
British |
Heredity and biological inheritance |
| George Beadle |
1903-1989 |
United States |
Gene regulation of biochemical events within cells |
| John Belling |
1866-1933 |
England |
Study of chromosomes |
| Paul Berg |
1926 |
United States |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980) |
| J. D. Bernal |
1901-1971 |
Irish |
Science, politics and war work |
| Jöns Berzelius |
1779-1848 |
Swedish |
Law of constant proportions |
| Theodor Boveri |
1862-1915 |
German |
Embryonic development |
| Christopher Caudwell |
1907-1937 |
British |
British Marxist writer, thinker and poet. |
| Jean-Pierre Changeux |
1936 |
France |
MWC model, isolation of nAChR |
| Edwin Chargaff |
1905-2002 |
United States |
Milton Campbell Research Fellow in organic chemistry at Yale University |
| C. D. Darlington |
1903-1981 |
England |
Discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover |
| Margaret Oakley Dayhoff |
1925-1983 |
United States |
Pioneer in the field of bioinformatics |
| Hugo de Vries |
1848-1935 |
Dutch |
Chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes |
| R. A. Emerson |
1860-1924 |
United States |
Emerson held the only American-earned scientific doctorate among the three other professors |
| B. Ephrussi |
1864-1934 |
French |
Member of the prominent Rothschild banking family. |
| D. S. Falconer |
1913-2004 |
British |
His work in quantitative genetics |
| Ronald Fisher |
1890-1962 |
England |
Fisher's fundamental theorem |
| J. B. S. Haldane |
1892-1964 |
British |
Population genetics, Enzymology |
| Alfred Day Hershey |
1908-1997 |
United States |
Bacteriophages |
