Molecular biologists Molecular biologists Alexander Sergeevich Spirin (born September 4, 1931) is Soviet/ Russian biochemist, professor of Moscow State University, and director of Protein Research Institute ( Puschino, Moscow Oblast). His primary scientific interests reside in the field of biochemistry of nucleic acids, and protein biosynthesis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Sergeevich Spirin"
Alfred Ezra Mirsky ( October 17, 1900— June 19, 1974) was a pioneer in molecular biology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Mirsky"
Cyrus Levinthal ( May 2 1922 – November 4 1990) was an American molecular biologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cyrus Levinthal"
Sir Edwin Southern (born 1938) is a 2005 Lasker Award-winning molecular biologist. His award is from the invention of the Southern blot, now a common laboratory procedure. The Southern blot is used for DNA analysis. The northern blot is a similar procedure for RNA, playing off the Southern name. The western blot is a further pun on the Southern blot, but is an important research tool in protein detection. Professor Southern is a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edwin Southern"
Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn (born on November 26, 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia) is a molecular biologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elizabeth Helen Blackburn"
Elwood V. Jensen, PhD, is the John and Gladys Strauss Professor of Cancer Research at University of Cincinnati Medical Center's Vontz Center for Molecular Studies. In 2004 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for his research on estrogen receptors. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elwood V. Jensen"
Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS ( 8 June, 1916 – 28 July, 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. He, James D. Watson, and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material . ...more on Wikipedia about "Francis Crick"
François Jacob ( June 17, 1920 Nancy, France -- ) is a French biologist, who together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells happens through feedback on transcription. ...more on Wikipedia about "François Jacob"
Dr. Franklin William Stahl (born October 8, 1929) is an American molecular biologist. With Matthew Meselson, Stahl conducted the famous Meselson-Stahl experiment showing that DNA is replicated by a semiconservative mechanism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Franklin Stahl"
Dr. Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith (1931) is an organic chemist and molecular biologist at Glasgow University, most famous for his controversial 1985 book, Seven Clues to the Origins of Life. The book popularized a theory he had developed since the mid-1960s, that a simple intermediate step between dormant matter and organic life might be provided by the self-replication of clay crystals in solution. ...more on Wikipedia about "Graham Cairns-Smith"
Israel Hanukoglu - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Former Science and Technology Adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel (1996-1999). Founder of Israel Science and Technology Homepage . ...more on Wikipedia about "Israel Hanukoglu"
James Dewey Watson KBE (born April 6, 1928) is one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material . ...more on Wikipedia about "James D. Watson"
John Cowdery Kendrew ( March 24, 1917 – August 23, 1997) was a English molecular biologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Kendrew"
Luca Turin ( 1953 - ) is a biophysicist with a long-standing interest in scent, fragrance and the perfume industry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Luca Turin"
Maclyn McCarty ( June 9, 1911– January 2, 2005) was an American geneticist. In 1944 he, Oswald Avery and Collin Macleod followed up on Griffith's experiment. Their experimental results showed that the genetic material of living cells is composed of DNA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maclyn McCarty"
Martha Cowles Chase ( 1927 – 2003) was a young laboratory assistant in the early 1950s when she participated in one of the most famous experiments in 20th century biology. Devised by American bacteriophage expert Alfred Hershey at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory New York, the famous experiment demonstrated the genomic properties of DNA over proteins. By marking bacteriophages with radioactive isotopes, Hershey and Chase were able to trace protein and DNA to determine which is the molecule of heredity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Martha Chase"
Canadian researcher Martin Henry Dawson was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, 6 August, 1896 and was educated at Dalhousie University and McGill University. Dawson made many important contributions in the fields of infectious diseases. Among these were studies on the transmutation of strains of pneumococci, and on the biological variants of the streptococcus and other microorganisms. His studies on the nature and treatment of arthritis made him a recognized authority in this disorder. He was a pioneer in penicillin therapy, and was the first in Canada to prepare it and use it in human disease. This included the successful treatment of bacterial endocarditis with penicillin, and the use of gold salts in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Martin Henry Dawson"
Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM ( May 19 1914 – February 6 2002) was an Austrian- British molecular biologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Max Perutz"
Oswald Avery ( 1877- 1955) was a physician, medical researcher and early molecular biologist. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but the major part of his career was spent in the United States at the Rockefeller Institute Hospital, New York City. Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and was a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for his discovery in 1944 with his co-worker Maclyn McCarty that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made. Previously, the information of inheritance (the gene) was thought to occur in cells as protein. (Before McCarty he had worked on this topic with Collin Macleod.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Oswald Avery"
Peter V. Coveney is currently (April 2005) Professor in Physical Chemistry and Director, Centre for Computational Science (CCS) at University College London (UCL). ...more on Wikipedia about "Peter Coveney"
Rosalind Elsie Franklin ( 25 July, 1920 - 16 April, 1958) was a British physical chemist and crystallographer who made very important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of coal and graphite, DNA and viruses. Franklin is best known for her contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953, while working at King's College London under the direction of physicist John Randall. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rosalind Franklin"
Dr. Saba Valadkhan is an Iranian-born Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University. In 2005, she was awarded the GE / Science Magazine Young Scientist Award for her breakthrough in understanding the mechanism of spliceosomes - "akin to finding the Holy Grail of the splicing catalysis field" ** - a critical area of research, given that "20 percent or 30 percent of all human genetic diseases are caused by mistakes that the spliceosome makes" ** . Valadkhan qualified as a medical doctor in Iran, before moving to the United States to pursue postgrad study at Columbia University in New York. ...more on Wikipedia about "Saba Valadkhan"
Susan Lindquist is a well-known molecular biologist studying (among other things) the effects of protein folding and heat-shock proteins. ...more on Wikipedia about "Susan Lindquist"
Susumu Tonegawa (利根川 進 Tonegawa Susumu, born September 6, 1939) is a Japanese scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for "his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity." Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, Tonegawa is a molecular biologist by training. In his later years, he has turned his attention to the molecular and cellular basis of memory formation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Susumu Tonegawa"
Tak Wah Mak (麥德華; pinyin: Mài Déhuá) (born October 4, 1946) is a Canadian immunologist, molecular biologist, and academic. He is the co-discover of the t-cell receptor, a key component of the immune system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tak Wah Mak"
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