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List of geneticists

This is a list of people who have made notable contributions to genetics. The growth and development of genetics represents the work of many people. This list of geneticists is therefore by no means complete. Contributors of great distinction to genetics are not yet on the list.


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  • E. B. Babcock (1877–1954), US plant geneticist, pioneered genetic analysis of genus Crepis
  • Édouard-Gérard Balbiani (1823–1899), French embryologist who found chromosome puffs now called Balbiani rings
  • David Baltimore (born 1938), US biologist, Nobel Prize for the discovery of reverse transcriptase
  • Guido Barbujani (born 1955), Italian population geneticist and evolutionary biologist
  • Cornelia Bargmann (born 1961), US molecular neurogeneticist studying the C. elegans brain
  • David P. Bartel (B.A. 1982), US geneticist, discovered many microRNAs regulating gene expression
  • William Bateson (1861–1926), British geneticist who coined the term "genetics"
  • E. Baur (1875–1933), German geneticist, botanist, discovered inheritance of plasmids
  • George Beadle (1903–1989), US Neurospora geneticist and Nobel Prize-winner
  • Peter Emil Becker (1908–2000), German human geneticist, described Becker's muscular dystrophy
  • Jon Beckwith (born 1935), US microbiologist and geneticist, isolated first gene from a bacterial chromosome
  • Peter Beighton (born 1934), UK/South Africa medical geneticist
  • Julia Bell (1879–1979), English geneticist who documented inheritance of many diseases
  • John Belling (1866–1933), English cytogeneticist who developed staining technique for chromosomes
  • Baruj Benacerraf (1920–2011), Venezuelan-US immunologist who won Nobel Prize for human leukocyte antigen system
  • Kurt Benirschke (1924–2018), German-US pathologist, comparative cytogenetics, twinning in armadillos
  • Seymour Benzer (1921–2007), US molecular biologist and pioneer of neurogenetics
  • Dorothea Bennett (1929–1990), US geneticist, Pioneer of developmental genetics
  • Paul Berg (born 1926), US biochemist and Nobel Prize-winner for basic research on nucleic acids
  • J. D. Bernal (1901–1971), Irish physicist and pioneer X-ray crystallographer
  • James Birchler, Drosophila and Maize geneticists and cytogenticist.
  • J. Michael Bishop (born 1936), US microbial immunogeneticist, Nobel Prize-winner for oncogenes
  • Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948), Australo-US biologist, Lasker Award and Nobel Prize for telomeres and telomerase
  • Günter Blobel (1936–2018), German-US biologist, Nobel Prize for protein targeting (address tags on proteins)
  • David Blow (1931–2004), British biophysicist who helped develop X-ray crystallography of proteins
  • Baruch Blumberg (Barry Blumberg) (1925–2011), US physician and Nobel Prize-winner on hepatitis B
  • Julia Bodmer (1934–2001), British geneticist, key figure in discovery and definition of the HLA system
  • Walter Bodmer (born 1936), German-UK human population geneticist, immunogeneticist, cancer research
  • James Bonner (1910–1996), far-ranging US molecular biologist, into histones, chromatin, nucleic acids
  • David Botstein (born 1942), Swiss-born US molecular geneticist, brother of Leon Botstein
  • Theodor Boveri (1862–1915), German biologist and cytogeneticist
  • Peter Bowen (1932–1988), Canadian medical geneticist
  • Herb Boyer (born 1936), US, created transgenic bacteria inserting human insulin gene into E. coli
  • Paul D. Boyer (1918–2018), US biochemist and Nobel Prize-winner
  • Jean Brachet (1909–1998), Belgian biochemist, made key contributions to fathoming roles of RNA
  • Roscoe Brady (1923–2016), US physician-scientist at NIH, studies of genetic neurological metabolic disorders
  • Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), British molecular biologist and Nobel Prize-winner
  • Calvin Bridges (1889–1938), US geneticist, non-disjunction proof that chromosomes contain genes
  • R. A. Brink (1897–1984), Canadian-US plant geneticist and breeder, studied paramutation, transposons
  • Roy Britten (1919–2012) US molecular and evolutionary biologist, discovered and studied junk DNA
  • John Brookfield (born 1955), Drosophila population geneticist
  • Michael Stuart Brown (born 1941), US geneticist and Nobel Prize-winner on cholesterol metabolism
  • Manuel Buchwald (born 1940), Peruvian-born Canadian medical geneticist and molecular geneticist
  • Linda Buck (born 1947), US biologist, Nobel Prize for post-doc work (with Axel) cloning olfactory receptors
  • James Bull, US molecular biologist and phage worker, evolution of sex determining mechanisms
  • Luther Burbank (1849–1926), US botanist, horticulturist, pioneer in agricultural science
  • Macfarlane Burnet (1899–1985), Australian biologist, Nobel Prize for immunological tolerance
  • Cyril Burt (1883–1971), British educational psychologist, did debated mental and behavioral twin study

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  • David M. Danks (1931–2003), Australian pediatrician and medical geneticist, expert on Menkes disease
  • C. D. Darlington (1903–1981), British biologist and geneticist, elucidated chromosomal crossover
  • Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and author of On the Origin of Species
  • Kay Davies (born 1951), English geneticist, expert on muscular dystrophy
  • Jean Dausset (1916–2009), French immunogeneticist and Nobel Prize-winner for the HLA system
  • Martin Dawson (1896–1945), Canadian-US researcher, confirmed and named genetic transformation
  • Margaret Dayhoff (1925–1983), US pioneer in bioinformatics of protein sequences and evolution
  • Albert de la Chapelle (born 1933), eminent Finnish medical geneticist, genetic predisposition to cancer
  • Max Delbrück (1906–1981), German-US scientist, Nobel Prize for genetic structure of viruses
  • Charles DeLisi (born 1941), US biophysicist, led the initiative that planned and launched the Human Genome Project
  • Félix d'Herelle (1873–1949), Canadian-French microbiologist, discovered phages, invented phage therapy
  • Hugo de Vries (1848–1935), Dutch botanist and one of the re-discoverers of Mendel's laws in 1900
  • Carrie Derrick (1862–1941), Canadian geneticist, Canada's first female professor
  • M. Demerec (1895–1966), Croatian-US geneticist, directed Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), noted Ukrainian-US geneticist and evolutionary biologist
  • John Doebley, (born 1952), US geneticist, studies genes that drive development and evolution of plants
  • Peter Doherty (born 1940), Australian, won Nobel Prize for immune recognition of antigens
  • Albert Dorfman (1916–1982), US biochemical geneticist, discovered cause of Hurler's syndrome
  • Gabriel Dover (1937–2018), British evolutionary geneticist
  • Dennis Drayna, (born 1952), American human geneticist most notable for discovering genetic causes of stuttering
  • NT Dubinin (1907–1998), Russian biologist and geneticist
  • Bernard Dutrillaux (born 1940), French cytogeneticist, chromosome banding, comparative cytogenetics
  • Christian de Duve (1917–2013), Belgian cytologist, Nobel Prize for cell organelles (peroxisomes, lysosomes)

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  • Richard H. Ebright (born 1959), US bacterial geneticist, molecular mechanisms of transcription and transcriptional regulation
  • A.W.F. Edwards (born 1935), British statistician, geneticist, developed methods of phylogenetic analysis
  • John Edwards (1928–2007), British medical geneticist and cytogeneticist who first described trisomy 18
  • Hans Eiberg (born 1945), Danish geneticist, discovered the mutation causing blue eyes
  • Eugene "Gene" J. Eisen (born 1938), US geneticist, experimental validation of the theory of genetic correlations; first to conduct a long-term selection experiment with transgenic mice
  • Jeff Ellis (born 1953), Australian scientist
  • R. A. Emerson (1873–1947), US plant geneticist, the main pioneer of corn genetics
  • Sterling Emerson (1900–1988), US, biochemical genetics, recombination, son of R. A. Emerson
  • Alan Emery (born 1928), British neuromuscular geneticist, Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
  • Boris Ephrussi (1901–1979), Russian-born French geneticist, created way to transplant chromosomes
  • Robert C. Elston (born 1932), British-born American biostatistical genetics and genetic epidemiologist
  • Charlie Epstein (1933–2011), US medical geneticist, editor, developed mouse model for Down syndrome, wounded by the Unabomber
  • Herbert McLean Evans (1882–1971), US anatomist, reported in 1918 humans had 48 chromosomes
  • Martin Evans (born 1941), British scientist, discovered embryonic stem cells and developed knockout mouse
  • Cassandra Extavour, Canadian American geneticist and Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University
  • Warren Ewens (born 1937), Australian-US mathematical population geneticist, Ewens's sampling formula

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  • Alexander Cyril Fabergé (1912–1988), Russian-born Anglo-American geneticist, grandson of Carl Fabergé
  • Arturo Falaschi (1933–2010), Italian geneticist, researched the origin of DNA replication
  • D. S. Falconer (1913–2004), Scottish quantitative geneticist, wrote textbook to the subject
  • Darrel R. Falk (born 1946), US biologist
  • Stanley Falkow (1934–2018), US microbial geneticist, molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis
  • Harold Falls (1909–2006), US ophthalmologic geneticist, helped found first genetics clinic in US
  • William C. Farabee (1865–1925), US anthropologist, brachydactyly is evidence of Mendelism in humans
  • Nina Fedoroff (born c. 1945), US plant geneticist, cloning of transposable elements, plant stress response
  • Malcolm Ferguson-Smith (born 1931) UK cytogeneticist, Klinefelter syndrome, chromosome flow cytometry
  • Philip J. Fialkow (1934–1996), US internist, educator, research in medical genetics and cancer genetics
  • Giorgio Filippi (1935–1996), Italian medical geneticist, researched diseases linked to X chromosome
  • J. R. S. Fincham (1926–2005), UK microbial (Neurospora) and biochemical geneticist
  • Gerald Fink (born 1941), US molecular geneticist, preeminent figure in the field of yeast genetics
  • Andrew Fire (born 1959), US geneticist, Nobel Prize with Mello for discovery of RNA interference
  • Robert L. Fischer (born 1950), US geneticist, contributed to the understanding of genomic imprinting and epigenetics
  • R. A. Fisher (1890–1962), British stellar statistician, evolutionary biologist, and geneticist
  • Ed Fischer (born 1920), Swiss-US biochemist, Nobel Prize for phosphorylation as switch activating proteins
  • Eugen Fischer (1874–1967), German physician, anthropologist, eugenicist, influenced Nazi racial hygiene
  • Ivar Asbjørn Følling (1888–1973), Norwegian biochemist and physician who discovered phenylketonuria (PKU)
  • E. B. Ford (1901–1988), British ecological geneticist, specializing in butterflies and moths
  • Charles Ford (1912–1999), British pioneer in the golden age of mammalian cytogenetics
  • Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999), German-born US biochemist who studied tobacco mosaic virus
  • Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British crystallographer whose data led to discovery of double helix
  • Clarke Fraser (1920–2014), Canada's first medical geneticist, student of congenital malformations
  • Elaine Fuchs (born c. 1951), US cell biologist, molecular mechanisms of skin diseases, reverse genetics
  • Walter Fuhrmann (1924–1995), German medical geneticist, at Giessen University
  • Douglas J. Futuyma (born 1942), US evolutionary and ecological biologist

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  • Fred Gage (born 1950), US neuroscientist, studies of neurogenesis and neuroplasticity of the adult brain
  • Joseph G. Gall (born 1928), distinguished US cell biologist, chromosomes, created in situ hybridization
  • André Gallais, French specialist in quantitative genetics and breeding methods theory
  • Francis Galton (1822–1911), British geneticist, eugenicist, statistician
  • George Gamow (1904–1968), Ukrainian-born American polymath, proposed genetic code concept
  • Eldon J. Gardner (1909–1989), US professor of genetics in Utah, described Gardner's syndrome
  • Alan Garen (born c. 1924), US, early molecular geneticist, nonsense triplets terminating transcription
  • Archibald Garrod (1857–1936), English physician, pioneered inborn errors, founded biochemical genetics
  • Stan Gartler (born 1923), US human geneticist, G6PD as X-linked marker, clonality of cancer, HeLa cells contaminating cell lines
  • Lihadh Al-Gazali (born 1948), Iraqi geneticist, research on congenital disorders in the United Arab Emirates
  • Luigi Gedda (1902–2000), Italian geneticist best known for his fascination with twin studies
  • Walter Gehring (1939–2014), Swiss, developmental genetics of Drosophila, discovered homeobox
  • Park S. Gerald (1921–1993), US medical geneticist, research on hemoglobins and chromosomes
  • James L. German, US medical geneticist and cytogeneticist, pioneer on Bloom syndrome
  • Walter Gilbert (born 1932), US biochemist and molecular biologist, Nobel Prize-winner, entrepreneur
  • H. Bentley Glass (1906–2005), US geneticist, provocative science theorizer, writer, science policy maker
  • Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch (1907–2007), German-born US co-founder of developmental genetics
  • Richard Goldschmidt (1878–1958), German-American, integrated genetics, development, and evolution
  • Joseph L. Goldstein (born 1940), US medical geneticist, Nobel Prize-winner on cholesterol
  • Richard M. Goodman (1932–1989), US-Israeli clinical geneticist, pioneered Jewish genetic diseases
  • Robert J. Gorlin (1923–2006), US oral pathologist, clinical geneticist, craniofacial syndrome expert
  • Irving I. Gottesman (1930–2016), US behavioral geneticist, used twin studies to analyze schizophrenia
  • Carol W. Greider (born 1961), US molecular biologist, Lasker Award and Nobel Prize for telomeres and telomerase
  • Frederick Griffith (1879–1941), British medical officer who found transforming principle now called DNA
  • Clifford Grobstein (1916–1998), US scientist, bridged classical embryology and developmental biology
  • Jean de Grouchy (1926–2003), French pioneer of clinical cytogenetics and karyotype–phenotype correlation
  • Hans Grüneberg (1907–1982), British mouse geneticist and blood cell biologist
  • Pierre-Henri Gouyon (born 1953), French biologist specializing in genetics and bioethics
  • Elliot S. Goldstein, US geneticist at Arizona State University

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  • Ernst Hadorn (1902–1976), Swiss pioneer in developmental genetics, mentor of Walter Gehring
  • JBS Haldane (1892–1964), brilliant British human geneticist and co-founder of population genetics
  • Ben Hall, US geneticist, DNA:RNA hybridization, yeast production of genetically engineered proteins
  • Judy Hall (born 1939), dual American and Canadian charismatic clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist
  • Dean Hamer (born 1951) US geneticist, postulated gay gene and God gene for religious experience
  • John Hamerton (1929–2006), UK-Canadian cytogeneticist, prenatal diagnostician, bioethicist
  • W. D. Hamilton (1936–2000), British evolutionary biologist and eminent evolutionary theorist
  • Phil Hanawalt (born 1931), US geneticist, discovered DNA repair replication
  • Anita Harding (1952–1995), UK neurologist, first mitochondrial DNA mutation in disease
  • G. H. Hardy (1877–1947), British mathematician, formulated basic law of population genetics
  • Henry Harpending (1944-2016), US anthropologist and human population geneticist
  • Harry Harris (1919–1994), British biochemical geneticist par excellence
  • Henry Harris (1925–2014), Australian-born cell biologist, work on cancer and human genetics
  • Lee Hartwell (born 1939), US yeast geneticist, Nobel Prize, "start" gene and checkpoints in the cell cycle
  • Mogens Hauge (1922–1988), Danish medical geneticist and twin researcher
  • Donald Hawthorne (1926–2003), US, major contributor to yeast genetics, centromere-linked gene maps
  • William Hayes (1918–1994), Australian physician, microbiologist and geneticist, bacterial conjugation
  • Robert Haynes (1931–1998), Canadian geneticist and biophysicist, work on DNA repair and mutagenesis
  • Frederick Hecht (born 1930), US clinical geneticist, cytogeneticist, coined term fragile site
  • Michael Heidelberger (1888–1991) US pioneer of modern immunology, won two Lasker Awards
  • Martin Heisenberg (born 1940), German geneticist, neurobiologist, genetic study of brain of Drosophila
  • Charles Roy Henderson, (1911–1989), US animal geneticist, basis for genetic evaluation of livestock, developed statistical methods used in animal breeding
  • Al Hershey (1908–1997), US bacterial geneticist, Nobel Prize largely for Hershey–Chase experiment
  • Ira Herskowitz (1946–2003), US phage and yeast geneticist, genetic regulatory circuits and mechanisms
  • Len Herzenberg (1931–2013), US human geneticist, immunologist, cell biologist and cell sorter
  • Avram Hershko (born 1937), Israeli biologist, Nobel Prize for ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
  • Kurt Hirschhorn (born 1926), Viennese-born American pediatrician, medical geneticist, cytogeneticist; described Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome
  • Mahlon Hoagland (1921–2009), US physician and biochemist, co-discovered tRNA with Paul Zamecnik
  • Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), British founder of protein crystallography and Nobel Prize winner
  • Robert W. Holley (1922–1993), US biochemist, structure of transfer RNA, Nobel Prize
  • Leroy Hood (born 1938), US molecular biotechnologist, created DNA and protein sequencers and synthesizers
  • Norman Horowitz (1915–2005), US geneticist, one gene-one enzyme, chemical evolution, space biology
  • H. Robert Horvitz (born 1947), US cell biologist, Nobel Prize for programmed cell death
  • David E. Housman, US molecular biologist, genetic basis of trinucleotide repeat diseases and cancer
  • Martha M. Howe, US phage geneticist, notable contributions to the study of phage Mu
  • T. C. Hsu (1917–2003), distinguished Chinese-American cell biologist, geneticist, cytogeneticist
  • Thomas J. Hudson (born 1961), Canadian genome scientist, maps of human and mouse genomes
  • David Hungerford (1927–1993), US co-discoverer of Philadelphia chromosome in CML
  • Tim Hunt (born 1943), UK biochemist, Nobel Prize for discovery of cyclins in cell cycle control
  • Charles Leonard Huskins (1897–1953), English-born Canadian cytogeneticist at McGill University and University of Wisconsin–Madison

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  • Harvey Itano (1920–2010), American biochemist and pioneer in the study of sickle cell disease

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  • Ellen Magenis (1925–2014), US medical geneticist and cytogeneticist, Smith–Magenis syndrome
  • Phyllis McAlpine (1941–1998), Canadian human geneticist and gene mapper
  • Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005), US co-discoverer that DNA is the genetic material
  • Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), US cytogeneticist, Nobel Prize for genetic transposition
  • William McGinnis, US molecular geneticist, found homeobox (Hox) genes responsible for basic body plan
  • Victor A. McKusick (1921–2008), US internist and clinical geneticist, organized human genetic knowledge
  • Colin MacLeod (1909–1972), Canadian-American co-discoverer that DNA is the genetic material
  • Tak Wah Mak (born 1946), Chinese-Canadian molecular biologist, co-discovered human T cell receptor genes
  • Gustave Malécot (1911–1998), French mathematician who influenced population genetics
  • Tom Maniatis (born 1943), US molecular biologist, gene cloning, regulation of gene expression
  • Clement Markert (1917–1999), eminent US biologist, discovered isozymes
  • Joan Marks, US social worker, principal architect of the profession of genetic counselor
  • Marco Marra (born 1966), Canadian scientist
  • Richard E. Marshall (1933-2016), US paediatrician, Greig's syndrome I, Marshall–Smith syndrome
  • John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), British evolutionary biologist and population geneticist
  • Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), leading German-born American evolutionary biologist
  • Peter Medawar (1915–1987), Brazilian-born English scientist, Nobel Prize for immunological tolerance
  • Craig C. Mello (born 1960), US geneticist, Nobel Prize for discovery of RNA interference
  • Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), Bohemian monk who discovered laws of Mendelian inheritance
  • Carole Meredith, US geneticist who pioneered DNA typing to differentiate between grape varieties
  • Matthew Meselson (born 1930), US molecular geneticist, work on DNA replication, recombination, repair
  • Peter Michaelis (1900–1975), German plant geneticist, focused on cytoplasmic inheritance
  • Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855–1935), Russian plant geneticist, scientific agricultural selection
  • Friedrich Miescher (1844–1895), Swiss biologist, found weak acid in white blood cells now called DNA
  • Margareta Mikkelsen (1923–2004), eminent German-born Danish human geneticist and cytogeneticist
  • Lois K. Miller (1945–1999), entomologist and molecular geneticist, studied insect viruses
  • O. J. Miller, US physician, human and mammalian genetics and chromosome structure and function
  • César Milstein (1927–2002), Argentine-UK, Nobel Prize for hybridomas making monoclonal antibodies
  • Aubrey Milunsky (born c. 1936), South African-US physician, medical geneticist, writer, prenatal diagnosis
  • Alfred Mirsky (1900–1974), US pioneer in molecular biology, hemoglobin structure, constancy of DNA
  • Felix Mitelman (born 1940), Swedish cancer geneticist and cytogeneticist, catalog of chromosomes in cancer
  • Jan Mohr (1921–2009), eminent Norwegian-Danish pioneer in human gene mapping
  • Jacques Monod (1910–1976), French molecular biologist, Nobel Prize-winner
  • Lilian Vaughan Morgan (1870–1952), wife of T. H. Morgan and a fine geneticist in her own right
  • T. H. Morgan (1866–1945), head of the "fly room," first geneticist to win the Nobel Prize
  • Newton E. Morton (1929–2018), population geneticist and genetic epidemiologist
  • Arno Motulsky (1923–2018), German-US hematologist who influenced medical genetics and founded pharmacogenetics
  • Arthur Mourant (1904–1994), British hematologist, first to examine worldwide blood group distributions
  • H. J. Muller (1890–1967), US Drosophila geneticist, Nobel Prize for producing mutations by X-rays
  • Hans J. Müller-Eberhard (1927–1998), German-US immunogeneticist, immunoglobulins and complement
  • Kary Mullis (1944–2019), US biochemist, Nobel Prize for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

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  • Walter E. Nance (born 1933), US internist and geneticist, research on twins and genetics of deafness
  • Daniel Nathans (1928–1999), US microbiologist, Nobel Prize for restriction endonucleases
  • James V. Neel (1915–2000), distinguished human geneticist, founded first genetics clinic in the US
  • Fred Neidhardt, US microbiologist, pioneer in molecular physiology and proteomics of E. coli
  • Oliver Nelson (1920-2001), US maize geneticist, profound impact on agriculture and basic genetics
  • Walter Nelson-Rees (1929–2009), US cytogeneticist, confirmed HeLa cells contamination of other cell lines
  • Eugene W. Nester, US microbial geneticist, genetics of Agrobacterium (crown gall formation)
  • Carl Neuberg (1877–1956), early pioneer of the study of metabolism.
  • Hans Neurath (1909–2002), Austrian-US protein chemist, helped set stage for proteomics
  • Marshall W. Nirenberg (1927–2010), US geneticist, biochemist and Nobel Prize-winner
  • Eva Nogales, Spanish biophysicist studying eukaryotic transcription and translation initiation complexes
  • Edward Novitski (1918–2006), eminent US Drosophila geneticist, pioneer in chromosome mechanics
  • Paul Nurse (born 1949), UK biochemist, Nobel Prize for work on CDK, a key regulator of the cell cycle
  • Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born 1942), German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize-winner
  • William Nyhan (born 1926), US pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, described Lesch–Nyhan syndrome

O

  • Severo Ochoa (1905–1993), Spanish-American biochemist, Nobel Prize for work on the synthesis of RNA
  • Susumu Ohno (1928–2000), Japanese-US biologist, evolutionary cytogenetics and molecular evolution
  • Tomoko Ohta (born 1933), Japanese scientist in molecular evolution, the nearly neutral theory of evolution
  • Pete Oliver (1898–1991), US geneticist, switched from Drosophila to human genetics
  • Jane M. Olson (1952–2004), US genetic epidemiologist and biostatistician
  • Maynard Olson (born 1943), US geneticist, pioneered map of yeast genome and Human Genome Project
  • John Opitz (born 1935), German-American medical geneticist, expert on dysmorphology and syndromes
  • Harry Ostrer, US medical geneticist, studies origins of Jewish peoples
  • Ray Owen (1915–2014), US geneticist, immunologist, found cattle blood groups and chimeric twin calves

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  • Svante Pääbo (born 1955), Swedish molecular anthropologist in Leipzig studying Neanderthal genome
  • David Page (born 1956), US physician and geneticist who mapped, cloned and sequenced the human Y chromosome
  • Theophilus Painter (1889–1969), US zoologist, studied fruit fly and human testis chromosomes
  • Arthur Pardee (1921–2019), US scientist who discovered restriction point in the cell cycle
  • Klaus Patau (1908–1975), German-American cytogeneticist, described trisomy 13
  • John Thomas Patterson (1878–1960), American embryologist and geneticist who studied isolating mechanisms
  • Andrew H. Paterson, US geneticist, research leader in plant genomics
  • Linus Pauling (1901–1994), eminent US chemist, won Nobel Prizes for chemical bonds and peace
  • Crodowaldo Pavan (1919–2009), Brazilian biologist, fly geneticist, and influential scientist in Brazil
  • Rose Payne (1909–1999), US transplant geneticist, key to discovery and development of HLA system
  • Raymond Pearl (1879–1940), US biologist, biostatistician, rejected eugenics
  • Karl Pearson (1857–1936), British statistician, made key contributions to genetic analysis
  • Caroline Pellew (1882–?), British geneticist
  • LS Penrose (1898–1972), British psychiatrist, human geneticist, pioneered genetics of mental retardation
  • Max Perutz (1914–2002), Austrian-British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for structure of hemoglobin
  • Massimo Pigliucci (born 1964), Italian-US plant ecological and evolutionary geneticist. Winner of the Dobzhansky Prize.
  • Alfred Ploetz (1860–1940), German physician, biologist, eugenicist, introduced racial hygiene to Germany
  • Paul Polani (1914–2006), Trieste-born UK pediatrician, major catalyst of medical genetics in Britain
  • Charles Pomerat (1905–1951), US cell biologist, pioneered the field of tissue culture
  • Guido Pontecorvo (1907–1999), Italian-born Scottish geneticist and pioneer molecular biologist
  • George R. Price (1922–1975), brilliant but troubled US population geneticist and theoretical biologist
  • Peter Propping (1942–2016), German human geneticist, studies of epilepsy
  • Mark Ptashne (born 1940), US molecular biologist, studies of genetic switch, phage lambda
  • Ted Puck (1916–2005), US physicist, work in mammalian and human cell culture, genetics, cytogenetics
  • RC Punnett (1875–1967), early English geneticist, discovered linkage with William Bateson, stimulated GH Hardy

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  • Lluis Quintana-Murci (born 1970), Spanish human population geneticist, heads part of Genographic Project

R

  • Michèle Ramsay, South African geneticist, single-gene disorders, epigenetics, complex diseases
  • Robert Race (1907–1984), British expert on blood groups, along with wife Ruth Sanger
  • Sheldon C. Reed (1910–2003), US pioneer in genetic counseling and behavioral genetics
  • G. N. Ramachandran (1922–2001) Indian biophysicist, co-discovered triple-helix structure of collagen
  • David Reich (born 1974), US, human population genetics and genomics, did humans and chimps interbreed?
  • Theodore Reich (1938–2003), Canadian-US psychiatrist, a founder of modern psychiatric genetics
  • Alexander Rich (1925–2015), US biologist, biophysicist, discovered Z-DNA and tRNA 3-dimensional structure
  • Rollin C. Richmond, US, evolutionary and pharmacogenetic studies of Drosophila, university administrator
  • Neil Risch, US human and population geneticist, studied torsion dystonia
  • Otto Renner (1883–1960), German plant geneticist, established maternal plastid inheritance
  • Marcus Rhoades (1903–1991), great maize (corn) geneticist and cytogeneticist
  • David L. Rimoin (1936–2012), Canadian–US medical geneticist, studied skeletal dysplasias
  • Richard Roberts (born 1943), British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for introns and gene-splicing
  • Arthur Robinson (1914–2000), US pediatrician, geneticist, pioneer on sex chromosome anomalies
  • Herschel L. Roman (1914–1989), US geneticist, innovated in analysis in maize and budding yeast
  • Irwin Rose (1926–2015), US biologist, Nobel Prize for ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
  • Leon Rosenberg (born 1933), US physician-geneticist, molecular basis of inherited metabolic disease
  • David S Rosenblatt, Canadian geneticist
  • Peyton Rous (1879–1970), US tumor virologist and tissue culture expert, Nobel Prize
  • Janet Rowley (1925–2013), US cancer cytogeneticist who found Ph chromosome due to translocation
  • Peter T. Rowley (1929–2006), US internist and geneticist, genetics of cancer and leukemia
  • Frank Ruddle (1929–2013), US biologist, somatic cell genetics, human gene mapping, paved way for transgenic mice
  • Ernst Rüdin (1874–1952), Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist and eugenicist who promoted racial hygiene
  • Elizabeth S. Russell (1913–2001), US mammalian geneticist, pioneering work on pigmentation, blood-forming cells, and germ cells
  • Liane B. Russell (1923–2019), Austrian-born US mouse geneticist and radiation biologist
  • William L. Russell (1910–2003), UK-US mouse geneticist, pioneered study of mutagenesis in mice

S

  • Leo Sachs (1924–2013), German-Israeli molecular cancer biologist, colony-stimulating factors, interleukins
  • Ruth Sager (1918–1997), US geneticist, pioneer of cytoplasmic genetics, tumor suppressor genes
  • Joseph Sambrook (1939–2019), British viral geneticist
  • Avery A. Sandberg (1921–2016), US internist, discovered XYY in 1961, expert on chromosomes in cancer
  • Lodewijk A. Sandkuijl (1953–2002), Dutch expert on genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics
  • Larry Sandler (1929–1987), US Drosophila geneticist, chromosome mechanics, devoted teacher
  • John C. Sanford (born 1950), US horticultural geneticist and intelligent design advocate
  • Fred Sanger (1918–2013), UK biochemist, two Nobel Prizes, sequence of insulin, DNA sequencing method
  • Ruth Sanger (1918–2001), Australian expert on blood groups, along with husband Robert Race
  • Karl Sax (1892–1973), US botanist and cytogeneticist, effects of radiation on chromosomes
  • Paul Schedl (born 1947), US molecular biologist, genetic regulation of developmental pathways in fruit fly
  • Albert Schinzel (born 1944), Austrian human geneticist, clinical genetics, karyotype-phenotype correlations
  • Werner Schmid (1930–2002), Swiss pioneer in human cytogenetics, described cat eye syndrome
  • Gertrud Schüpbach (born 1950), Swiss-US biologist, molecular and genetic mechanisms in oogenesis
  • Charles Scriver (born 1930), Canadian pediatrician, biochemical geneticist, newborn metabolic screening
  • Ernie Sears (1910–1991), Wheat Geneticist who pioneered methods of transferring desirable genes from wild relatives to cultivated wheat in order to increase wheat's resistance to various insects and diseases
  • Jay Seegmiller (1920–2006), US human biochemical geneticist, found cause of Lesch–Nyhan syndrome
  • Fred Sherman (1932–2013), US geneticist, one of the "fathers" and mentors of modern yeast genetics
  • Larry Shapiro, US pediatric geneticist, lysosomal storage disorders, X chromosome inactivation
  • Lucy Shapiro (born 1940), US molecular geneticist, gene expression during the cell cycle, bacterium Caulobacter
  • Phillip Sharp (born 1944), US geneticist and molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for co-discovery of gene splicing
  • Philip Sheppard (1921–1976), UK population geneticist, lepidopterist, human blood group researcher
  • G. H. Shull (1874–1954), US geneticist, made key discoveries including heterosis
  • Torsten Sjögren
  • Mark Skolnick (born 1946), US geneticist, developed Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLPs) for genetic mapping, and founded Myriad Genetics
  • Obaid Siddiqi (1932–2013), Indian neurogeneticist, pioneer on olfactory sense of fruit fly Drosophila
  • David Sillence (born 1944), Australian clinical geneticist, pioneered training of Australian geneticists, research in bone dysplasias, classified osteogenesis imperfecta
  • Norman Simmons (1915–2004), US, forgotten donor of pure DNA to Rosalind Franklin in double helix saga
  • Piotr Słonimski (1922–2009), Polish-Parisian yeast geneticist, pioneer of mitochondrial heredity
  • William S. Sly (born 1932), US biochemical geneticist, mucopolysaccharidosis type VII (Sly syndrome)
  • Cedric A. B. Smith (1917–2002), British statistician, made key contributions to statistical genetics
  • David W. Smith (1926–1981), US pediatrician, influential dysmorphologist, named fetal alcohol syndrome
  • Hamilton Smith (born 1931), US microbiologist, Nobel Prize for restriction endonucleases
  • Michael Smith (1932–2000), UK-born Canadian biochemist, Nobel Prize for site-directed mutagenesis
  • Oliver Smithies (1925–2017), UK/US molecular geneticist, inventor, gel electrophoresis, knockout mice
  • George Snell (1903–1996), US mouse geneticist, pioneer transplant immunologist, won Nobel Prize
  • Lawrence H. Snyder (1901–1986), US pioneer in medical genetics, studied blood groups
  • Robert R. Sokal (1925–2012), Austrian-born US biological anthropologist and biostatistician.
  • Tracy M. Sonneborn (1905–1981), protozoan biologist and geneticist
  • Ed Southern (born 1938), UK molecular biologist, invented Southern blot and DNA microarray technologies
  • Hans Spemann (1869–1941) German embryologist, Nobel Prize for discovery of embryonic induction
  • David Stadler, US geneticist, mechanisms of mutation and recombination in Neurospora
  • L. J. Stadler (1896–1954), eminent Us maize geneticist, father of David Stadler
  • Frank Stahl (born 1929), US molecular biologist, the Stahl half of the Meselson-Stahl experiment
  • David States, US geneticist and bioinformatician, computational study of human genome and proteome
  • G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000), US botanist, geneticist and evolutionary biologist
  • Michael Stebbins, US geneticist, science writer, editor and activist
  • Emmy Stein (1879–1954), German botanist and geneticist
  • Joan A. Steitz (born 1941), US molecular biologist, pioneering studies of snRNAs and snRNPs (snurps)
  • Gunther Stent (1924–2008), German-born US molecular geneticist, phage worker, philosopher of science
  • Curt Stern (1902–1981), German-born US Drosophila and human geneticist, great teacher
  • Nettie Stevens (1861–1912), US geneticist, studied chromosomal basis of sex and discovered XY basis
  • Miodrag Stojković (born 1964), Serbian geneticist, working in Europe on mammalian cloning
  • George Streisinger (1927–1984), US geneticist, work on bacterial viruses, frameshift mutations
  1. List item Leonell Strong (1894–1982), US geneticist, mouse geneticist and cancer researcher
  • Alfred Sturtevant (1891–1970), constructed first genetic map of a chromosome
  • John Sulston (1942–2018), UK molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for programmed cell death in C. elegans
  • James B. Sumner (1887–1955), US biochemist, Nobel Prize, found enzymes can be crystallized
  • Maurice Super (1936-2006), South African-born UK pediatric geneticist, studied cystic fibrosis
  • Grant Sutherland, Australian molecular cytogeneticist, pioneer on human fragile sites, human genome
  • Walter Sutton (1877–1916), US surgeon and scientist, proved chromosomes contained genes
  • David Suzuki (born 1936), Canadian Drosophila geneticist, science broadcaster and environmental activist
  • M. S. Swaminathan (born 1925), Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist, leader of Green Revolution in India
  • Bryan Sykes (born 1947), British human geneticist, discovered ways to extract DNA from fossilized bones
  • Jack Szostak (born 1952), Anglo-US geneticist, worked on recombination, artificial chromosomes, and on telomeres. He has been awarded a Nobel Prize for its work on telomeres.

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  • Jantina Tammes (1871–1947), Dutch geneticist, one of the first Dutch scientists to report on variability and evolution
  • Edward Tatum (1909–1975), showed genes control individual steps in metabolism
  • Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou (born 1932), British molecular biologist and geneticist
  • Howard Temin (1934–1994), US geneticist, Nobel Prize for discovery of reverse transcriptase
  • Alan Templeton (born c. 1948), US geneticist and biostatistician, molecular evolution, evolutionary biology
  • Joseph R. Testa (born 1947), US cancer geneticist and malignant mesothelioma biologist whose team cloned AKT genes and co-discovered the BAP1 tumor predisposition syndrome
  • Donnall Thomas (1920–2012), US physician, Nobel Prize for bone marrow transplantation for leukemia
  • Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900–1981), Russian radiation and evolution geneticist
  • Alfred Tissières (1917–2003), Swiss molecular geneticist who pioneered molecular biology in Geneva
  • Joe Hin Tjio (1919–2001), Java-born geneticist who first discovered humans have 46 chromosomes
  • Susumu Tonegawa (born 1939), Japanese molecular biologist; Nobel Prize for genetics of antibody diversity
  • Erich von Tschermak (1871–1962), Austrian agronomist and one of the re-discoverers of Mendel's laws
  • Lap-chee Tsui (born 1950), Chinese geneticist who sequenced first human gene (for cystic fibrosis) with Francis Collins
  • Raymond Turpin (1895–1988), French pediatrician, geneticist, Lejeune's co-discoverer of trisomy 21

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  • Charles Yanofsky (1925–2018), US molecular geneticist, colinearity of gene and its protein product

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