American Geneticist
1. Nettie Stevens (1861)
American Geneticist
Geneticist who discovered what would become known as the XY sex-determination system. She was an associate in experimental morphology at Bryn Mawr College.
2. Harriet Creighton (1909)
American Geneticist
Botanist and geneticist who focused on cytogenetics with Barbara McClintock. She served in the U.S. Navy during WWII.
3. Spencer Wells (1969)
American Geneticist
American geneticist who served as director of the National Geographic Society's Genographic Project. He was the 2007 recipient of the Kistler Prize for human genetic and social research.
4. Ruth Sager (1918)
American Geneticist
Ruth Sager was an American geneticist. Sager enjoyed two scientific careers. Her first was in the 1950s and 1960s when she pioneered the field of cytoplasmic genetics by discovering nonchromosomal...
5. Evelyn M. Witkin (1921)
American Geneticist
Evelyn M. Witkin born Evelyn Maisel is an American geneticist who was awarded the National Medal of Science for her work on DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair.
6. Jeremy Nathans (1958)
American Geneticist
Jeremy Nathans is a professor molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University in addition to a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an investigator of the Howard...
7. Stanley Norman Cohen (1935)
American Geneticist
Stanley Norman Cohen is an American geneticist. Cohen is a graduate of Rutgers University and received his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1960. Following...
8. Robert J. Desnick (1943)
American Geneticist
Robert J. Desnick Ph. D. M. D. is a human geneticist whose research accomplishments include significant developments in disease gene discovery inherited metabolic diseases and the treatment of genetic diseases...
9. Ting Wu (1954)
American Geneticist
Chao-ting Wu is an American biologist. She is Full Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Personal Genetics Education Project. She is the daughter of...
10. Elaine Mardis (1962)
American Geneticist
Elaine R Mardis is an American Professor of Genetics with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Molecular microbiology at Washington University in St. Louis and Co-Director of The Genome...
11. Gary Ruvkun (1952)
American Geneticist
Gary Bruce Ruvkun is an American molecular biologist and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Ruvkun discovered the mechanism by which lin-4 the first microRNA discovered by...
12. Peter G. Schultz (1956)
American Geneticist
Peter G. Schultz is currently a Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute the founder and former director of GNF and the founding director of the California Institute for...
13. Frederick Bieber (1950)
American Geneticist
Robert Bieber is a Medical Geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital a member of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University and a Consultant at the Massachusetts General Hospital and...
14. Dietrich Stephan (1969)
American Geneticist
Dr. Dietrich Stephan Ph. D. is an American human geneticist and entrepreneur who works to positively disrupt the health care system so as to improve patient outcomes. Dr. Stephan...
15. Michael Stebbins (1971)
American Geneticist
Michael Stebbins is an American geneticist and serves as Assistant Director for Biotechnology Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House. He received his B. S. in biology...
16. John Roth (geneticist) (1939)
American Geneticist
John R. Roth is a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California Davis. He became known for his early studies on the structure and regulation of the...
