Geneticists

Anthony William Fairbank Edwards (born 1935) is a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist. He is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and retired Professor of Biometry at the University of Cambridge. A pupil of Ronald Fisher, he has written several books and numerous scientific papers. He is best known for his pioneering work, with L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, on quantitative methods of phylogenetic analysis, and for strongly advocating Fisher's concept of likelihood as the proper basis for statistical and scientific inference. He has also written extensively on the history of genetics and statistics, including an analysis of whether Mendel's results were "too good", and also on purely mathematical subjects, such as Venn diagrams. ...more on Wikipedia about "A. W. F. Edwards"

A.G. Avery was best known for his work in the field of botany/plant genetics, much of which was conducted along with plant geneticist Dr. Blakeslee. ...more on Wikipedia about "A.G. Avery"

Alan Templeton is a geneticist and statistician from the Washington University, known for his theories regarding the lack of genetic differences between humans of different races. According to Templeton's research, perceived differences in races are more related to cultural perceptions and biases trained into our eyes than any underlying genetic reality. For example, Templeton's statistical analysis of the human genome shows that much greater genetic diversity exists between populations of chimpanzees than humans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Templeton"

Professor Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS, (born in 9 January 1950 at Luton in Bedfordshire) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alec Jeffreys"

Dr Alfred G. Knudson Jr. PhD (born in Los Angeles, 1922) is a geneticist specialised in the genetics of cancer. Probably the most important one his many contributions to the field was the formulation of the Knudson hypothesis in 1971, which explains the effects of mutation on carcinogenesis (the development of cancer). ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred G. Knudson"

Alfred Henry Sturtevant ( November 21, 1891– April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist, Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1913. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Sturtevant"

Dr. Axel " Surak" Schumacher (b. 1969) is a world renowned scientist in the field of genetics and epigenetics. He received several international awards, such as the NARSAD Young Investigator award or the Michael Smith Award for schizophrenia research, which is warded annually in memory of Dr. Michael Smith, the 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. Dr. Schumacher began his research career as a student in the laboratory of Dr. Wolf Reik at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge/UK. He then moved on to the lab of Prof. Walter Doerfler at the University of Cologne/Germany to work on his diploma thesis in the field of Genomic Imprinting and DNA methylation of transgenic organisms. He earned his PhD. in Genetics for the epigenetic characterization of neurobehavioral imprinting disorders such as Prader-Willi syndrome and Angelman syndrome and for the invention of a new in vitro method to differentiate murine ES cells to neurons, which uses the alkaloid staurosporine. After the successful completion of a collaborative work with the lab of Prof. Bernhard Horsthemke in Essen/Germany regarding imprinting control elements on human chromosome15 and the completion his Ph.D. program he spent an additional year at the Centre for Molecular Medicine (ZMMK) in Cologne as a postdoc. In 2003 Dr. Schumacher went to work for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto/Can where he co-invented a high-throughput microarray technique to screen DNA methylation patterns in large chromosomal regions and complete genomes. Next to his position in Toronto he spent some time at the Rudbeck Laboratories in Uppsala/Sweden and at the University of St. Petersburg/Russia as visiting researcher. He is currently a scientist in the Krembil Epigenetics Laboratory in the Department of Neurogenetics, CAMH in Toronto/Canada. His primary research interest is in the characterization of epigenetic patterns that are associated with human disease and the potential influence of environmental factors on the human genome (e.g. space travel, radiation, diet etc..). His work is particularly focused on potential epigenetic changes in the brain of schizophrenia and bipolar patient. ...more on Wikipedia about "Axel Schumacher" Pure www.shortopedia.com. Pure Information Power.

Barbara McClintock ( June 16 1902 – September 2 1992) was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics; the field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. Her work was groundbreaking: she developed the technique to visualize maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic concepts, including genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosis—a mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for maize, linking regions of the chromosome with physical traits, and she demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important in the conservation of genetic information. She was recognized amongst the best in the field, awarded prestigious fellowships and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara McClintock"

Boris Ephrussi ( May 9 1901– May 2 1979) was a French geneticist of Russian origin. He was one of the many famous Jewish life scientists. He had published two papers in November 1966 which represented a key step in a decade of research in his laboratory. This research helped transform mammalian, and especially human, genetics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boris Ephrussi"

Professor Bryan Campbell Clarke FRS a British geneticist. He is professor emeritus of genetics at the University of Nottingham Clarke is particularly noted for his work on apostatic selection, and work with snails, much of it done during the 1960s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bryan Clarke"

Clarence Cook "C.C." Little ( October 6, 1888– December 22, 1971) was an American genetics, cancer, and tobacco researcher. ...more on Wikipedia about "C. C. Little"

Cyril Dean Darlington ( 19 December 1903 - 26 March 1981) was a British biologist, eugenicist, and geneticist who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover and noting its importance in evolution. ...more on Wikipedia about "C. D. Darlington"

Calvin Blackman Bridges ( January 11 1889 - December 27 1938) was American scientist, known for his contributions to the field of genetics. Bridges along with Alfred Sturtevant and Hermann Joseph Muller were part of the famous fly room of Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Calvin Bridges"

Carl Erich Correns ( September 10, 1864, in Munich - February 14, 1933) was a German botanist and geneticist, who is notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, and for his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject, which he achieved simultaneously but independent of the biologists Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg and Hugo de Vries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Correns"

Carole Meredith is the University of California at Davis geneticist who pionered the use of DNA typing to differentiate between vinifera grape varieties. Now retired and growing world-class Syrah in the Mount Veeder appellation of Napa Valley with her husband under the Lagier-Meredith label. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carole Meredith"

Charles Yanofsky ( 1925-) is a leading American geneticist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Yanofsky"

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born October 20, 1942 in Magdeburg) is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the ...more on Wikipedia about "Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard"

Colin Munro MacLeod ( 1909 – 1972) was a Canadian-American geneticist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Colin MacLeod"

Curt Stern ( August 30 1902 - October 23 1981) was a German- American geneticist. He made several important genetic discoveries, demonstrating chromosomal crossover in Drosophila weeks after Barbara McClintock and Harriet Creighton had done so in 1931. He demonstrated that there were multiple genes on the Drosophila Y chromosome and described the mechanism of dosage compensation. During World War II he led research for the American government on low dose radiation safety, his group concluding that there is no "safe" threshold below which radiation is not harmful. After the War his research focused on human genetics; he wrote the very successful textbook Principles of Human Genetics, and studied what is now known as gene regulation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Curt Stern"

Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt ( March 3 1883 – October 10 1971) was a prominent British educational psychologist. He was a member of the London School of Differential Psychology. Some of his work was controversial for its conclusions that genetics substantially influence mental and behavioral traits. After his death, he was famously accused of scientific fraud. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cyril Burt"

Dr. David Takayoshi Suzuki (born March 24 1936) is a Canadian geneticist who has attained prominence as a science broadcaster and an environmental activist. He is also a co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Suzuki"

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Dr Dean Hamer is a geneticist, who, as of 2005 is the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health). Born in 1951, he obtained his BA at Trinity College, CT, USA and his Ph.D from Harvard Medical School. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dean Hamer"

Ernest Brown Babcock ( July 10 1877 - December 8 1954) was an United States plant geneticist. His pioneering work on the genetics of the genus Crepis and his more than 100 published articles explaining plant evolution primarily in terms of genetics mark him as a pioneer in the application of genetics research. ...more on Wikipedia about "E. B. Babcock"

Professor Edmund Brisco "Henry" Ford, F.R.S. ( 23rd April 1901 - 2nd January 1988) was a British ecological geneticist. At a young age he became interested in lepidoptera, the group of insects which includes butterflies and moths. ...more on Wikipedia about "E.B. Ford"

Edgar Anderson ( November 9 1897 - June 18 1969) was an American botanist. His 1949 book Introgressive Hybridization was an original and important contribution to botanical genetics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edgar Anderson" This text is made on http://www.shortopedia.com

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