• Dagfinn Aarskog (1928- ), Norwegian pediatrician and geneticist, described Aarskog-Scott syndrome
• Jon Aase (1936- ), US dysmorphologist, described Aase syndrome, expert on fetal alcohol syndrome
• John Abelson (c.1939- ), US biochemist, studies of machinery and mechanism of RNA splicing
• Susan L. Ackerman, US neurogeneticist, genes controlling brain development and neuron survival
• Jerry Adams (1940- ), US molecular biologist in Australia, hematopoietic genetics and cancer
• Bruce Alberts (1938- ), US biochemist, phage worker, studied DNA replication and cell division
• William Allan (1881-1943), US country doctor, pioneered human genetics
• C. David Allis (1951- ), US biologist with a fascination for chromatin
• Carl-Henry Alström (1907-1993), Swedish psychiatrist, described genetic disease: Alstrom syndrome
• Sidney Altman (1939- ), Canadian-US biophysicist who won Nobel Prize for catalytic functions of RNA
• Cecil A. Alport (1880-1959),UK internist, identified Alport syndrome (hereditary nephritis and deafness)
• David Altshuler (c.1965- ), US endocrinologist and geneticist, the genetics of type 2 diabetes
• Bruce Ames (1928- ), US molecular geneticist, created Ames test to screen chemicals for mutagenicity
• D. Bernard Amos (1923-2003), UK-US immunologist who studied the genetics of individuality
• Edgar Anderson (1897-1969), eminent US botanical geneticist
• E.G. (“Andy”) Anderson, US Drosophila and maize geneticist
• William French Anderson (1936- ), US worker in gene therapy
• Corino Andrade (1906-2005), Portuguese neurologist and clinical geneticist
• Tim Anson (1901-1968), US molecular biologist, proposed protein folding a reversible two-state reaction
• Stylianos E. Antonarakis (1951- ), US-Greek medical geneticist, genotypic and phenotypic variation
• Werner Arber (1929- ), Swiss microbiologist, Nobel Prize for discovery of restriction endonucleases
• Michael Ashburner (1942- ), British Drosophila geneticist and polymath
• William Astbury (1898-1961), UK molecular biologist, X-ray crystallography of proteins and DNA
• Giuseppe Attardi, Italian-US molecular biologist, genetics of human mitochondrial function
• Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994), German-born British pioneer in mutagenesis
• Oswald Avery (1877–1955), Canadian-born US co-discoverer that DNA is the genetic material
• Richard Axel (1946- ) US physician-scientist, Nobel Prize for genetic analysis of olfactory system

• E. B. Babcock (1877-1954), US plant geneticist, pioneered genetic analysis of genus Crepis
• E-G Balbiani (1823-1899), French embryologist who found chromosome puffs now called Balbiani rings
• David Baltimore (1938- ), US biologist, Nobel Prize for the discovery of reverse transcriptase
• Murray Barr (1908–1995), Canadian scientist, first saw Barr body in cells due to inactive X chromosome
• Cornelia Bargmann, 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, US microbiologist and geneticist, isolated first gene from a bacterial chromosome
• Peter Beighton (1934- ) UK/South Africa medical geneticist, first warned of economy class syndrome
• 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- ), Venezuelan-US immunologist who won Nobel Prize for HLA system
• Kurt Benirschke (1924- ), German-US pathologist, comparative cytogenetics, twinning in armadillos
• Seymour Benzer (1921- ), US molecular biologist and pioneer of neurogenetics
• Paul Berg (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 (1936- ), US microbial immunogeneticist, Nobel Prize-winner for oncogenes
• Elizabeth Blackburn (1948-), Australo-US biologist, Lasker Award on telomeres and telomerase
• Günter Blobel (1936- ), 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- ), 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 (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 (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 (1936- ), US, created transgenic bacteria inserting human insulin gene into E. coli
• Paul D. Boyer (1918- ), US biochemist and Nobel Prize-winner
• Jean Brachet (1909-1998), Belgian biochemist, made key contributions to fathoming roles of RNA
• Roscoe Brady US physician-scientist at NIH, studies of genetic neurological metabolic disorders
• Sydney Brenner (1927- ), 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- ) US molecular and evolutionary biologist, discovered and studied junk DNA
• John Brookfield Drosophila population geneticist.
• Michael Stuart Brown (1941- ) US geneticist and Nobel Prize-winner on cholesterol metabolism
• Manuel Buchwald (1940- ), Peruvian-born Canadian medical geneticist and molecular geneticist
• Linda Buck (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

• John Cairns (1922- ), UK physician-scientist, showed bacterial DNA one molecule with replicating fork
• Allan Campbell, US microbiologist and geneticist, pioneering work on phage lambda
• Howard Cann, US pediatrician and geneticist, human population genetics at Stanford and CEPH in Paris
• Antonio Cao (1929- ), Italian pediatrician and medical geneticist, expert on the thalassemias
• Mario Capecchi (1937- ), Italian-born US molecular geneticist, co-invented the knock-out mouse
• Elof Axel Carlson, US geneticist and eminent historian of science
• Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Indian population geneticist.
• Hampton Carson (1914-2004), US population geneticist, studied cytogenetics and evolution of Drosophila
• Tom Caskey (c.1938- ), US internist, human geneticist and entrepreneur; biochemical diseases
• Torbjörn Caspersson (1910-1997), Swedish cytogeneticist, revealed human chromosome banding
• William B. Castle (1897-1990), US hematologist, work on hereditary spherocytosis, sickle cell anemia
• William E. Castle (1867-1962), US geneticist, inspired T.H. Morgan, father of William B. Castle
• David Catcheside (1907-1994) UK plant geneticist, expert on genetic recombination, active in Australia
• Bruce Cattanach (1932- ), eminent UK mouse geneticist, X-inactivation and sex determination in mice
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (1922- ), distinguished Italian population geneticist at Stanford University
• Thomas Cech (1947- ), US biochemist who won Nobel Prize for catalytic functions of RNA
• Aravinda Chakravarti (1954- ), Indian-born bioinformatician studying genetic factors in common diseases
• Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936- ), French molecular neurobiologist, studied allosteric proteins
• Erwin Chargaff (1905-2002), Austrian-born US biochemist, Chargaff’s rules led to the double helix
• Brian Charlesworth (1945- ), British evolutionary biologist, husband of Deborah Charlesworth
• Deborah Charlesworth, British evolutionary biologist, wife of Brian Charlesworth
• Martha Chase (1927-2003), US biologist, with Hersey proved genetic material is DNA, not protein
• Sergei Chetverikov (1880-1959), Russian population geneticist
• Barton Childs (1916- ), US pediatrician, biochemical geneticist, philosopher of medical genetics
• George Church (1954- ), US molecular geneticist, did first direct genomic sequencing with Gilbert
• Aaron Ciechanover (1947- ), Israeli biologist, won Nobel Prize for ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
• Bryan Clarke (1932- ), British population geneticist, studied apostatic selection and molecular evolution
• Cyril Clarke (1907-2000), British medical geneticist, discovered how to prevent Rh disease in newborns
• Jens Clausen (1891-1969), Danish-US botanist, geneticist, and ecologist
• Edward H. Coe, Jr. (1926- ), influential US maize (corn) geneticist
• Stanley Cohen (1922- ), US neurobiologist, Nobel Prize for cell growth factors
• Francis Collins (1950- ), US medical geneticist, gene cloner, director of Human Genome Institute
• Robert Corey (1897-1971), US biochemist, α-helix, β-sheet and atomic models for proteins
• Carl Correns (1864-1933), German botanist and geneticist, one of the re-discoverers of Mendel in 1900
• Lewis L. Coriell (1911-2001), US pioneer in culturing human cells
• Diane W. Cox, Canadian medical geneticist and expert on Wilson disease
• Harriet Creighton (1909-2004), US botanist who with McClintock first saw chromosomal crossover
• Francis Crick (1916-2004), English molecular biologist, neuroscientist, co-discoverer of the double helix
• James F. Crow (1916- ), US population geneticist and renowned teacher of genetics
• Lucien Cuenot (1886-1901), French biologist, proved Mendel‘s rules apply to animals as well as plants
• A. Jamie Cuticchia (1966- ), US geneticist, into human genome informatics

• 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 Origin of the Species
• Kay Davies, English geneticist, expert on muscular dystrophy
• Jean Dausset (1916- ) 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 (1933- ), eminent Finnish medical geneticist, genetic predisposition to cancer
• Max Delbruck (1906-1981), German-US scientist, Nobel Prize for genetic structure of viruses
• Charles DeLisi, 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
• 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, US geneticist, studies genes that drive development and evolution of plants
• Peter Doherty (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, British evolutionary geneticist
• NT Dubinin (1907-1998), Russian biologist and geneticist
• Bernard Dutrillaux (1940- ), French cytogeneticist, chromosome banding, comparative cytogenetics
• Christian de Duve (1917- ), Belgian cytologist, Nobel Prize for cell organelles (peroxisomes, lysosomes)

• A.W.F. Edwards (1935-), British statistician, geneticist, developed methods of phylogenetic analysis
• John Edwards (1928-), British medical geneticist and cytogeneticist who first described trisomy 18
• R. A. Emerson (1873–1947), American plant geneticist, the main pioneer of corn genetics
• Sterling Emerson (1900-1988), American, biochemical genetics, recombination, son of R. A. Emerson
• Alan Emery (1928- ), British neuromuscular geneticist, Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
• Boris Ephrussi (1901–1979), Russian-born French geneticist, created way to transplant chromosomes
• Robert C. Elston (1932- ), British-born American biostatistical genetics and genetic epidemiologist
• Charlie Epstein, American medical geneticist, mouse model, editor, wounded by the Unabomber
• Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971), US anatomist, reported in 1918 humans had 48 chromosomes
• Martin Evans, British scientist, discovered embryonic stem cells and developed knockout mouse
• Warren Ewens, Australian-US mathematical population geneticist, Ewens’s sampling formula

• Alexander Cyril Fabergé (1912-1988), Russian-born Anglo-American geneticist, grandson of Carl Fabergé
• D. S. Falconer (1913-2004), Scottish quantitative geneticist, wrote textbook to the subject
• Stanley Falkow, 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 (c. 1945- ), US plant geneticist, cloning of transposable elements, plant stress response
• Malcolm Ferguson-Smith (1931- ) UK cytogeneticist, Klinefelter’s 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), British microbial (Neurospora) and biochemical geneticist
• Gerald Fink (1941- ), US molecular geneticist, preeminent figure in the field of yeast genetics
• Andrew Fire (1959- ), US geneticist, Nobel Prize with Mello for discovery of RNA interference
• Robert L. Fischer (1950- ), A 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 (1920- ), Swiss-US biochemist, Nobel Prize for phosphorylation as switch activating proteins
• Eugen Fischer (1874-1967), German physician, anthropologist, eugenicist, influenced Nazi racial hygiene
• Asbjorn Folling (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- ), Canada’s first medical geneticist, student of congenital malformations
• Elaine Fuchs (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 (1942- ), US evolutionary and ecological biologist

• Fred Gage, US neuroscientist, studies of neurogenesis and neuroplasticity of the adult brain
• Joseph G. Gall (1932- ), distinguished US cell biologist, chromosomes, created in situ hybridization
• 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 (c.1924- ), US, early molecular geneticist, nonsense triplets terminating transcription
• Archibald Garrod (1857-1936), English physician, pioneered inborn errors, founded biochemical genetics
• Stan Gartler (1923-), US human geneticist, G6PD as X-linked marker, HeLa cells contaminating cell lines
• Luigi Gedda (1902-2000), Italian geneticist best known for his fascination with twin studies
• Walter Gehring (1939- ), 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 & cytogeneticist, pioneer on Bloom syndrome
• Walter Gilbert (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- ), German-born US co-founder of developmental genetics
• Richard Goldschmidt (1878-1958),German-American, integrated genetics, development, & evolution
• Joseph L. Goldstein (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
• Carol W. Greider (1961- ), US molecular biologist, Lasker Award 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 & karyotype–phenotype correlation
• Hans Gruneberg (1907-1982), British mouse geneticist and blood cell biologist
• Pierre-Henri Gouyon (1953 – ), French biologist specializing in genetics and bioethics
• Elliot S. Goldstein American geneticist at Arizona State University

• 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 (1939- ), dual American and Canadian charismatic clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist
• Dean Hamer (1951-) US geneticist, postulated gay gene and God gene for religious experience
• John Hamerton (1929-2006), Anglo-Canadian cytogeneticist, prenatal diagnostician, bioethicist
• W.D. Hamilton (1936-2000), British evolutionary biologist and eminent evolutionary theorist
• Phil Hanawalt, US geneticist, discovered DNA repair replication
• Anita Harding (1952-1995), UK neurologist, first mitochondrial DNA mutation in disease
• GH Hardy (1877-1947), British mathematician, formulated basic law of population genetics
• Henry Harpending (1944- ), US anthropologist and human population geneticist
• Harry Harris (1919-94), British biochemical geneticist par excellence
• Henry Harris (1925- ), Australo-British cell biologist, work on cancer and human genetics
• Lee Hartwell (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 & geneticist, bacterial conjugation
• Robert Haynes (1931-1998), Canadian geneticist and biophysicist, work on DNA repair and mutagenesis
• Frederick Hecht (1930- ), US clinical geneticist, cytogeneticist, coined term fragile site
• Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991) US pioneer of modern immunology, won two Lasker Awards
• Martin Heisenberg (1940- ), German geneticist,neurobiologist, genetic study of brain of Drosophila
• Charles Roy Henderson, (1911-1989), US animal geneticist, basis for genetic evaluation of livestock
• Al Hershey (1908-1997), US bacterial geneticist, Nobel Prize largely for Hershey-Chase experiment
• Ira Herskowitz (1946–2003), US phage & yeast geneticist, genetic regulatory circuits & mechanisms
• Len Herzenberg (1931-), US human geneticist, immunologist, cell biologist and cell sorter
• Avram Hershko (1937-), Israeli biologist, Nobel Prize for ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
• Kurt Hirschhorn (1926- ), Viennese-born American pediatrician, medical geneticist, cytogeneticist
• Mahlon Hoagland (1921- ), 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 (1938- ), US molecular biotechnologist, created DNA & protein sequencers & synthesizers
• Norman Horowitz (1915-2005), US geneticist, one gene-one enzyme, chemical evolution, space biology
• H. Robert Horvitz (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 (1961- ), Canadian genome scientist, maps of human and mouse genomes
• David Hungerford (1927–1993), US co-discoverer of Philadelphia chromosome in CML
• Tim Hunt (1943- ), UK biochemist, Nobel Prize for discovery of cyclins in cell cycle control
• Charles Leonard Huskins (1897-1953), English-born Canadian cytogeneticist at McGill and Wisconsin

• Harvey Itano (1925- ), American biochemist and pioneer in the study of sickle cell disease

• François Jacob (1920 – ), French biologist, won Nobel Prize for bacterial gene control
• Patricia A. Jacobs (1934- ), Scottish human geneticist and cytogeneticist
• Albert Jacquard (1925- ), French geneticist, essayist, humanist, activist
• Rudolf Jaenisch (1942- ), German cell biologist, created transgenic mice, leader in therapeutic cloning
• Richard Jefferson (1956- ) US molecular plant biologist in Australia, reporter gene system GUS
• Alec Jeffreys (1950- ), British geneticist, developed DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling techniques
• Niels K. Jerne (1911-1994), Danish, greatest theoretician in modern immunology, Nobel Prize
• Wilhelm Johannsen (1857-1927), Danish botanist who in 1909 coined the word “gene”
• Jonathan D.G. Jones, British plant molecular biologist
• Christian Jung (1956- ), German plant geneticist and molecular biologist

• Elvin Kabat (1914–2000) US immunochemist, a founder of modern immunology, antibody-combining sites
• Henrik Kacser (1918-1995), Romanian-born UK biochemist and geneticist, worked on metabolic control
• Axel Kahn (1944- ), French scientist and geneticist, known for work on genetically modified plants
• Franz Josef Kallmann (1897-1965), German-US psychiatrist, pioneer in genetics of psychiatric diseases
• Gopinath Kartha (1927-1984), Indian biophysicist, co-discovered triple-helix structure of collagen
• Berwind P. Kaufmann (1897-1975), US botanist, did research in basic plant and animal cytogenetics
• John Kendrew (1917-1997), UK crystallographer, won Nobel Prize for structure of myoglobin
• Cynthia Kenyon (c. 1955- ), US molecular biologist, genetics of aging in the worm C. elegans
• Warwick Estevam Kerr (1922- ) Brazilian expert in the genetics and sex determination of bees
• Bernard Kettlewell (1907-1979), UK physician, lepidopterist, ecological geneticist, peppered moth
• Seymour Kety (1915-2000), US neuroscientist, essential involvement of genetic factors in schizophrenia
• Gobind Khorana (1922-), Indian-US molecular biologist, synthesized nucleic acids, Nobel Prize
• Motoo Kimura (1924-1994), influential Japanese mathematical biologist in theoretical population genetics
• Mary-Claire King (1946- ), US human geneticist and social activist, identified breast cancer genes
• David Klein, (1908-1993), Swiss ophthalmologist and human geneticist
• Harold Klinger (1929-2004), US pioneer on human chromosomes, founded journal Cytogenetics
• Aaron Klug (1926- ), Lithuania/S Africa/UK, Nobel Prize for developing electron crystallography
• Al Knudson (1922- ), US pediatric oncologist, geneticist, formulated two hit hypothesis of cancer
• Georges J. F. Köhler (1946-1995), German, Nobel Prize for hybridomas making monoclonal antibodies
• Arthur Kornberg (1918- ), US biochemist, Nobel Prize on DNA synthesis, father of Roger Kornberg
• Roger Kornberg (1947- ), US biologist, Nobel Prize on eukaryotic transcription
• Hans Kornberg (1928- ), German-UK biologist, studies of carbohydrate transport
• Ed Krebs (1918- ), US biochemist, Nobel Prize for phosphorylation as switch activating proteins
• Eric Kremer, US molecular biologist, found trinucleotide repeat in fragile X, research now in gene therapy
• Henry Kunkel (1916–1983), US immunologist, created starch gel electrophoresis to separate proteins

• Bruce Lahn (1969- ), Chinese-born geneticist specializing in evolutionary changes of the human brain
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), French naturalist, evolutionist, “inheritance of acquired traits”
• Eric Lander (1957- ), American molecular geneticist, major contributor to Human Genome Project
• Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943), Austrian-American pathologist, won Nobel Prize for blood group discoveries
• André Langaney, French evolutionary geneticist
• Derald Langham (1913-1991), American agricultural geneticist, the “father of sesame”
• Sam Latt (1938-1988), US pioneer in molecular cytogenetics, fluorescent DNA chromosome probes
• Philip Leder (1934- ), US geneticist, method to decode genetic code, transgenic animals to study cancer
• Esther Lederberg (1922-2006), US microbiologist and bacterial genetics pioneer
• Joshua Lederberg (1925- ), US molecular biologist, Nobel Prize, headed Rockefeller University
• Jerome Lejeune (1926-1994), French pediatrician, geneticist, discovered trisomy 21 in Down syndrome
• Richard Lenski (1956-), US biologist and phage worker, did long-term E. coli evolution experiment
• Fritz Lenz (1887-1976), German geneticist and eugenicist, ideas influenced Nazi racial hygiene policies
• Widukind Lenz (1919-1995), eminent German medical geneticist who recognized thalidomide syndrome
• Leonard Lerman, US molecular biologist, phage worker, mentor of Nobel Prize-winner Sidney Altman
• Michael Lerner (1910-1977), Russian-US contributor to population, quantitative & evolutionary genetics
• Albert Levan (1905-1998), Swedist geneticist, co-authored report that humans have 46 chromosomes
• Cyrus Levinthal (1922-1990), US molecular geneticist, DNA replication, mRNA, molecular graphics
• Edward B. Lewis (1918-2004), American founder of developmental genetics and Nobel Prize-winner
• Richard Lewontin (1929- ), American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator
• C. C. Li (1912-2003), eminent Chinese American population geneticist and human geneticist
• Wen-Hsiung Li (1942- ), Taiwanese-American, molecular evolution, population genetics, genomics
• David Linder (1923-1999), US pathologist and geneticist, used G6PD as X-linked clonal tumor marker
• Susan Lindquist, US molecular biologist studying effects of protein folding and heat-shock proteins
• Jan Lindsten (1935- ), eminent Swedish medical geneticist, secretary general of the Nobel Assembly
• Fritz Lipmann (1899-1986), German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize for co-discovery of coenzyme A
• C. C. Little (1888–1971), US pioneer mouse geneticist, founded Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor
• Richard Losick, US molecular biologist, RNA polymerase, gene transcription, bacterial development
• Herbert Lubs (c.1928- ), US internist, medical geneticist, described “marker X” (fragile X chromosome)
• Salvador Luria (1912-1991), Italian-American molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for bacteriophage genetics
• Jay Lush (1896-1982), American animal geneticist who pioneered modern scientific animal breeding
• Michael Lynch, US quantitative geneticist studying evolution, population genetics, and genomics
• Mary F. Lyon (1925-), English mouse geneticist, noted X-inactivation and proposed Lyon hypothesis
• David T. Lykken (1928-2006), American psychologist and behavioral geneticist known for twin studies
• Trofim Lysenko (1898–1976), Soviet scientist, led vicious political campaign against genetics in USSR

• Ellen Magenis (1925- ), US medical geneticist and cytogeneticist, Smith-Magenis syndrome
• Phyllis McAlpine (1941-1998), Canadian human geneticist and gene mapper
• Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005), American co-discoverer that DNA is the genetic material
• Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), American cytogeneticist, Nobel Prize for genetic transposition
• W. McGinnis, US molecular geneticist, found homeobox (Hox) genes responsible for basic body plan
• Victor A. McKusick (1921- ), 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 (1946- ), Chinese-Canadian molecular biologist, co-discovered human T cell receptor genes
• Gustave Malécot (1911-1998), French mathematician who influenced population genetics
• Tom Maniatis (1943- ), US molecular biologist, gene cloning, regulation of gene expression
• Clement Markert (1917–1999), eminent US biologist, discovered isozymes
• Joan Marks, American social worker, principal architect of the profession of genetic counselor
• 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 (1960- ), American geneticist, Nobel Prize for discovery of RNA interference
• Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), Bohemian monk who discovered laws of Mendelian inheritance
• Carole Meredith, American geneticist who pioneered DNA typing to differentiate between grape varieties
• Matthew Meselson (1930- ), US molecular geneticist, work on DNA replication, recombination, repair
• Peter Michaelis, German plant geneticist, focused on cytoplasmic inheritance
• Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855-1935), Russian plant geneticist, scientific agricultural selection
• Friedrich Mieschler (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 (d. 2006, age 54), 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 (c.1936- ), S. African-US physician, medical geneticist, writer, prenatal diagnosis
• Alfred Mirsky (1900—1974), US pioneer in molecular biology, hemoglobin structure, constancy of DNA
• Felix Mitelman, Swedish cancer geneticist and cytogeneticist, catalog of chromosomes in cancer
• Jan Mohr (1921- ), eminent Norwegian-Danish pioneer in human gene mapping
• Jacques Monod (1910-1976), French molecular biologist, Nobel Prize-winner
• Lilian Vaughn 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
• Arno G. Motulsky, German-US hematologist who influenced the evolution of medical genetics
• Arthur Mourant (1904-1994), British hematologist, first to examine worldwide blood group distributions
• H.J. Muller (1890-1967) American Drosophila geneticist, Nobel Prize for producing mutations by X-rays
• Hans J. Müller-Eberhard (1927-1998), German-US immunogeneticist, immunoglobulins & complement
• Kary Mullis (1944- ), American biochemist, Nobel Prize for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

• Walter E. Nance (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- ), US maize geneticist, profound impact on agriculture and basic genetics
• Walter Nelson-Rees, US cytogeneticist, confirmed HeLa cells contamination of other cell lines
• Eugene W. Nester, US microbial geneticist, genetics of Agrobacterium (crown gall formation)
• Carl Neuberg, early pioneer of the study of metabolism.
• Hans Neurath (1909-2002), Austrian-US protein chemist, helped set stage for proteomics
• Marshall W. Nirenberg (1927- ), 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 (1949- ), UK biochemist, Nobel Prize for work on CDK, a key regulator of the cell cycle
• Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942- ), German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize-winner
• William Nyhan (1926- ), US pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, described Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

• 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, Japanese scientist in molecular evolution, the nearly neutral theory of evolution
• Pete Oliver (1898–1991), American geneticist, switched from Drosophila to human genetics
• Jane M. Olson (1952-2004), American genetic epidemiologist and biostatistician
• Maynard Olson, American geneticist, pioneered map of yeast genome and Human Genome Project
• John Opitz (1935- ), German-American medical geneticist, expert on dysmorphology and syndromes
• Harry Ostrer, American medical geneticist, studies origins of Jewish peoples
• Ray Owen (1915- ), US geneticist, immunologist, found cattle blood groups and chimeric twin calves

• Svante Pääbo (1955- ), Swedish molecular anthropologist in Leipzig studying Neanderthal genome
• David Page, 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- ), American scientist who discovered restriction point in the cell cycle
• Klaus Patau (1908–1975), German-American cytogeneticist, described trisomy 13
• Linus Pauling (1901-1994), eminent American chemist, won Nobel Prizes for chemical bonds and peace
• Crodowaldo Pavan (1919- ), 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), American biologist, biostatistician, rejected eugenics
• Karl Pearson (1857–1936), British statistician, made key contributions to genetic analysis
• 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 (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), Triese-born UK pediatrician, major catalyst of medical genetics in Britain
• Charles Pomerat (1905–1951), American 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-), German human geneticist, studies of epilepsy
• Mark Ptashne (c.1940- ), US molecular biologist, studies of genetic switch, phage lambda
• Ted Puck (1916–2005), US physicist, work in mammalian & human cell culture, genetics, cytogenetics
• RC Punnett (1875-1967), early English geneticist, discovered linkage with Bateson, stimulated GH Hardy

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

• Robert Race (1907-1984), British expert on blood groups, along with wife Ruth Sanger
• Venki Ramakrishnan (c. 1950- ), Indian structural biologist, studies of chromatin and ribosome
• Sheldon C. Reed (1910-2003), American pioneer in genetic counseling and behavioral genetics
• G.N. Ramachandran (1922-2001) Indian biophysicist, co-discovered triple-helix structure of collagen
• David Reich, US, human population genetics and genomics, did humans and chimps interbreed?
• Theodore Reich (1938-2003), Canadian-American psychiatrist, a founder of modern psychiatric genetics
• Alexander Rich (1925- ), 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, American 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- ), Canadian-US pediatric geneticist, focus on particularly skeletal dysplasias
• Richard Roberts (1943- ), British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for introns and gene-splicing
• Arthur Robinson (1914-2000), American pediatrician, geneticist, pioneer on sex chromosome anomalies
• Herschel L. Roman (1914-1989), American geneticist, innovated in analysis in maize and budding yeast
• Irwin Rose (1926- ), American biologist, Nobel Prize for ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
• Leon Rosenberg (c.1932- ), US physician-geneticist, molecular basis of inherited metabolic disease
• Peyton Rous (1879–1970), American tumor virologist and tissue culture expert, Nobel Prize
• Janet Rowley (1925- ), American cancer cytogeneticist who found Ph chromosome due to translocation
• Peter T. Rowley (1929–2006), American internist and geneticist, genetics of cancer and leukemia
• Frank Ruddle, 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 (l913-2001), US mammalian geneticist, pioneering work on pigmentation, blood-forming cells, and germ cells
• Liane B. Russell (c. 1923- ), Austrian-born US mouse geneticist and radiation biologist
• William L. Russell (1910-2003), UK-US mouse geneticist, pioneered study of mutagenesis in mice

• Leo Sachs (1924- ), 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- ), British viral geneticist
• Avery A. Sandberg, 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 (1950- ), American horticultural geneticist and intelligent design advocate
• Fred Sanger (1918- ), 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), American botanist and cytogeneticist, effects of radiation on chromosomes
• Paul Schedl (1947- ), US molecular biologist, genetic regulation of developmental pathways in fruit fly
• Albert Schinzel (1944- ), Austrian human geneticist, clinical genetics, karyotype–phenotype correlations
• Werner Schmid (1930-2002), Swiss pioneer in human cytogenetics, described cat-eye syndrome
• Gertrud Schüpbach, Swiss-American biologist, molecular and genetic mechanisms in oogenesis
• Charles Scriver (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 (c. 1933- ), 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, US molecular geneticist, gene expression during the cell cycle, bacterium Caulobacter
• Phillip Sharp (1944- ), US geneticist and molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for co-discovery of gene splicing
• Philip Sheppard (1921–1976), British population geneticist, lepidopterist, human blood group researcher
• G. H. Shull (1874-1954), American geneticist, made key discoveries including heterosis
• Obaid Siddiqui (1932- ), Indian neurogeneticist, pioneer on olfactory sense of fruit fly Drosophila
• Norman Simmons (1915-2004), US, forgotten donor of pure DNA to Rosalind Franklin in double helix saga
• Piotr Slonimski (1922- ), Polish-Parisian yeast geneticist, pioneer of mitochondrial heredity
• William S. Sly (c. 1931- ), US biochemical geneticist, mucopolysaccharidosis type VII (Sly syndrome)
• David W. Smith (1926-1981), US pediatrician, influential dysmorphologist, named fetal alcohol syndrome
• Hamilton Smith (1931- ), American microbiologist, Nobel Prize for restriction endonucleases
• Michael Smith (1932-2000), UK-born Canadian biochemist, Nobel Prize for site-directed mutagenesis
• Oliver Smithies (1925- ), UK/US molecular geneticist, inventor, gel electrophoresis, knock-out mice
• George Snell (1903-1996), US mouse geneticist, pioneer transplant immunologist, won Nobel Prize
• Lawrence H. Snyder (1901-1986), American pioneer in medical genetics, studied blood groups
• Tracy M. Sonneborn (1905–1981), protozoan biologist and geneticist
• Ed Southern (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, American geneticist, mechanisms of mutation and recombination in Neurospora
• L.J. Stadler (1896-1954), eminent American maize geneticist, father of David Stadler
• Frank Stahl (1929- ), American molecular biologist, the Stahl half of the Meselson-Stahl experiment
• David States, US geneticist & bioinformatician, computational study of human genome & proteome
• G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000), American botanist, geneticist and evolutionary biologist
• Michael Stebbins, American geneticist, science writer, editor and activist
• Emmy Stein (1879-1954), German botanist and geneticist
• Joan A. Steitz (c.1942- ), US molecular biologist, pioneering studies of snRNAs and snRNPs (snurps)
• Gunther Stent (1924- ), 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 (1964- ), Serbian geneticist, working in Europe on mammalian cloning
• George Streisinger (1927-1984), American geneticist, work on bacterial viruses, frameshift mutations
• Alfred Sturtevant (1891–1970), constructed first genetic map of a chromosome
• John Sulston (1942- ), British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for programmed cell death in C. elegans
• James Sumner (1887-1955), American biochemist, Nobel Prize, found enzymes can be crystallized
• Maurice Super (d. 2006, age 69), S. 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 (1936-), Canadian Drosophila geneticist, science broadcaster and environmental activist
• M.S. Swaminathan (1925- ), Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist, leader of Green Revolution in India
• Bryan Sykes, British human geneticist, discovered ways to extract DNA from fossilized bones
• Jack Szostak (1952- ), Anglo-US geneticist, work on telomeres, recombination, artificial chromosomes

• Edward Tatum (1909-1975), showed genes control individual steps in metabolism
• Howard Temin (1934-1994), US geneticist, Nobel Prize for discovery of reverse transcriptase
• Alan Templeton (c.1948- ), US geneticist & biostatistician, molecular evolution, evolutionary biology
• Donnall Thomas (1920- ) US physician, Nobel Prize for bone marrow transplantation for leukemia
• Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovsky (1900-1981), Russian radiation and evolution geneticist
• Alfred Tissières (1917-2003), Swiss molecular geneticist, pioneered molecular biology in Geneva
• Joe Hin Tjio (1919-2001), Java-born geneticist who first discovered humans have 46 chromosomes
• Susumu Tonegawa (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, Chinese geneticist, sequenced first human gene (for cystic fibrosis) with Collins
• Raymond Turpin (1895-1988), French pediatrician, geneticist, Lejeune’s co-discoverer of trisomy 21

• Axel Ullrich (1943- ), German molecular biologist, signal transduction, discovered oncogene, Herceptin
• Irene Ayako Uchida (1917- ), Canadian geneticist and cytogeneticist. One of the first in Canada. Down syndrome

• Harold Varmus (1939- ), American Nobel Prize-winner for oncogenes, head of NIH
• Nikolai Vavilov (1887-1943), eminent Russian botanist and geneticist, anti-Lysenko, died in prison
• Craig Venter (1946- ), American molecular biologist and entrepreneur, raced to sequence the genome
• Jerome Vinograd (1913-1976), US, leader in biochemistry and molecular biology of nucleic acids
• Friedrich Vogel, German, leader in human genetics, coined term “pharmacogenetics“
• Bert Vogelstein (1949- ), US pediatrician and cancer geneticist, series of mutations in colorectal cancer
• Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870-1949), Finnish internist who found commonest bleeding disorder

• Petrus Johannes Waardenburg (1886-1979), Dutch ophthalmologist, geneticist, Waardenburg syndrome
• C. H. Waddington (1905-1975), British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist
• Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), Welsh, proposed natural selection theory independent of Darwin
• Douglas Wallace, US mitochondrial geneticist, pioneered human mtDNA as a molecular marker
• Peter Walter, German-US molecular biologist studying protein folding and protein targeting
• Richard H. Ward (1943-2003), English-born New Zealand human and anthropological geneticist
• James D. Watson (1928- ), US molecular geneticist, Nobel Prize for discovery of the double helix
• David Weatherall, distinguished UK physician, geneticist, pioneer in hemoglobin and molecular medicine
• Robert Weinberg, US, discovered first human oncogene and first tumor suppressor gene
• Wilhelm Weinberg (1862-1937),German physician, formulated basic law of population genetics
• Spencer Wells (1969- ), US genetic anthropologist, head of Genographic Project to map past migrations
• Susan R. Wessler (1953- ), US plant molecular geneticist, transposable elements re genetic diversity
• Raymond White, US cancer geneticist, cloned APC colon cancer gene & neurofibromatosis gene
• Glayde Whitney (1939–2002) US behavioral geneticist, accused of supporting scientific racism
• Reed Wickner (c. 1940- ) US molecular geneticist, yeast phenotypes due to prion forms of native proteins
• Alexander S. Wiener (1907-1976), U.S. immunologist, discovered Rh blood groups with Landsteiner
• Eric F. Wieschaus (1947- ), American developmental biologist and Nobel Prize-winner
• Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004), New Zealand-born British Nobel Prize-winner with Watson and Crick
• Huntington Willard (c.1953- ), US human geneticist, X chromosome inactivation, gene silencing
• Robley Williams (1908-1995), US virologist, recreated tobacco mosaic virus from its RNA + protein coat
• Ian Wilmut (1944- ) UK reproductive biologist who first cloned a mammal (lamb named Dolly)
• Allan Wilson (1934-1991) New Zealand-US innovator in molecular study of human evolution
• David Sloan Wilson (1949- ), US evolutionary biologist and geneticist
• Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856-1939), US zoologist, geneticist, discovered XY & XX sex chromosomes
• Øjvind Winge (1886-1964), Danish biologist and pioneer in yeast genetics
• Chester B. Whitley (1950- ), US geneticist, pioneered treatment of lysosomal diseases
• Carl Woese (1928- ), US biologist, defined Archaea as new domain of life, rRNA phylogenetic tool
• Ulrich Wolf (1933- ), German cytogeneticist, found chromosome 4p deletion in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
• Melaku Worede (1936-), Ethiopian conservationist and geneticist
• Sewall Wright (1889–1988), eminent US geneticist who, with Fisher, united genetics & evolution

• Charles Yanofsky (1925- ), American molecular geneticist, colinearity of gene and its protein product

• Floyd Zaiger (1926- ), fruit geneticist and entrepreneur
• Hans Zellweger (1909-1990) Swiss-US pediatrician and clinical geneticist, described Zellweger syndrome
• Norton Zinder (1928-) American biologist and phage worker who discovered genetic transduction
• Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944- ), Swiss scientist, won Nobel Prize for immune recognition of antigen

See also: List of biochemists

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