1. Charles Davenport (1866)

American Biologist

American eugenicist and biologist who was known as one of the leaders of the American eugenics movement.

2. Irwin Rose (1926)

American Biologist

American biologist who received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. He was a professor at Yale School of Medicine's department of biochemistry from...

3. Lynn Margulis (1938)

American Biologist

Biologist who discovered the origins of eukaryotic organelles and showed that animals, plants, and fungi all originated from Protists. Her first husband was legendary astronomer Carl Sagan.

4. Anita Roberts (1942)

American Biologist

American scientist known for her work on the protein TGF-β (transforming growth factor beta), which heals wounds and fractures and also affects certain cancers. She is also a blogger who...

5. PZ Myers (1957)

American Biologist

Biologist who is best recognized for his work as the founder and writer for the science blog Pharyngula. He is also known for his work at the University of Minnesota Morris where...

6. Anne Wojcicki (1973)

American Biologist

Biologist and businesswoman who co-founded the DNA profiling company 23andMe.

7. Beatrice Mintz (1921)

American Biologist

Beatrice Mintz is an American embryologist who has contributed to the understanding of genetic modification cellular differentiation and cancer particularly melanoma. Mintz was a pioneer of genetic engineering techniques and...

8. Bruce C. Kone (1958)

American Biologist

Bruce C. Kone is an American professor nephrologist administrator and molecular biologist. He is currently professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

9. Ryuzo Yanagimachi (1928)

American Biologist

Ryuzo Yanagimachi has made seminal contributions toward understanding the process and mechanism of mammalian fertilization. He is a pioneer of assisted fertilization technologies such as in vitro fertilization and direct...

10. James E. Darnell (1930)

American Biologist

James Edwin Darnell Jr. is an American biologist who made significant contributions to RNA processing and cytokine signaling and is author of the cell biology textbook Molecular Cell Biology....

11. Roger Payne (1935)

American Biologist

Roger Searle Payne is a biologist and environmentalist famous for the 1967 discovery of whale song among humpback whales. Payne later became an important figure in the worldwide campaign to...

12. J. Michael Bishop (1936)

American Biologist

John Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus and was co-winner of 1984 Alfred P....

13. Daniel H. Janzen (Unknow)

American Biologist

Daniel Hunt Janzen is an evolutionary ecologist biologist and conservationist and the son of a previous Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

14. Alice S. Huang (1939)

American Biologist

Alice S. Huang is an American biologist specialized in microbiology and virology. She is Senior Faculty Associate in Biology at the California Institute of Technology and served as President of...

15. Harvey Lodish (1941)

American Biologist

Harvey F. Lodish is a molecular and cell biologist professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and lead author of the...

16. Robert G. Roeder (1942)

American Biologist

Robert G. Roeder is an American biologist. He is known as a pioneer in eukaryotic transcription. He is the recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2000 and the...

17. Tom Maniatis (1943)

American Biologist

Tom Maniatis is an American professor of molecular and cellular biology. Maniatis is a graduate of the University of Colorado and one of the founders of modern molecular cloning. He...

18. C. Richard Tracy (1943)

American Biologist

C. Richard Tracy is an American biologist a professor of biology at the University of Nevada Reno. Tracy earned bachelors and masters degrees in biology at California State University Northridge...

19. Vincent Racaniello (1953)

American Biologist

Vincent R. Racaniello is a Higgins Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is one of four virologists who has...

20. Ali al-Tamimi (1975)

American Biologist

Ali Al-Tamimi is a former Fairfax County resident biologist and Islamic teacher. Once regarded as a person of interest in the 2001 Anthrax scare he was subsequently convicted of inciting...

21. Victor Ambros (1953)

American Biologist

Victor Ambros is an American developmental biologist who discovered the first known microRNA. He is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester Massachusetts.

22. James L. Gould (1945)

American Biologist

James L. Gould is an American ethologist evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. He has served as a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University since receiving his...

23. Donal T. Manahan (1953)

American Biologist

Donal Thomas Manahan is an Irish-born American marine scientist and comparative physiologist known for Antarctic and deep oceanic research on the physiology and ecology of marine invertebrates and their larvae...

24. Ronald M. Evans (1949)

American Biologist

Ronald Mark Evans is an American professor and biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla California and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His research focuses...

25. Beth Shapiro (1976)

American Biologist

Beth A. Shapiro is an American evolutionary molecular biologist. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of California Santa Cruz. Shapiro's...

26. Gloria M. Coruzzi (1954)

American Biologist

Gloria M. Coruzzi is an American molecular biologist specializing in plant systems biology and evolutionary genomics. As Carroll & Milton Petrie Professor of Biology at New York University’s Center for...

27. Scott D. Emr (1954)

American Biologist

Scott D. Emr is a cell biologist and molecular geneticist who is serving as the Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of '56 Director of the Weill Institute for Cell and...

28. Marc Hauser (1959)

American Biologist

Marc D. Hauser is an American evolutionary biologist and a researcher in primate behavior animal cognition and human behavior. Hauser was a Harvard University professor from 1992 to 2011 regarded...

29. James Rothman (1950)

American Biologist

James Edward Rothman is the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Yale University the Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine and the...

30. Maria Ragland Davis (1959)

American Biologist

Maria Ragland Davis was an American biologist and educator. She was associate professor of Biology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where she studied molecular biology and plant genetics.

31. Andrew Fire (1959)

American Biologist

Andrew Zachary Fire is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology...

32. Sandra Steingraber (Unknow)

American Biologist

Sandra Steingraber is an American biologist author and cancer survivor in the tradition of Rachel Carson. Steingraber writes and lectures on the environmental factors that contribute to reproductive health problems...

33. Elliot Meyerowitz (1951)

American Biologist

Elliot Meyerowitz is an American biologist. He is George W.

34. Paul Falkowski (1951)

American Biologist

Paul G. Falkowski is an American biological oceanographer in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick New Jersey. His research work focuses on phytoplankton...

35. Jack W. Szostak (1952)

American Biologist

Jack William Szostak is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital Boston....

36. Gretchen Daily (1964)

American Biologist

Gretchen C. Daily is the Bing Professor of Environmental Science at Stanford University the director of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Stanford...

37. Cristián Samper (1965)

American Biologist

Cristián T. Samper Kutschbach is a Colombian-American biologist and president and chief executive officer of the Wildlife Conservation Society. He was acting secretary of the Smithsonian from 2007 to 2008...

38. Carl Safina (Unknow)

American Biologist

Carl Safina is author of six books and many other writings about how the ocean is changing including the award winning Song for the Blue Ocean and Eye of the...

39. Eugene Koonin (1956)

American Biologist

Eugene V. Koonin is an Russian-American biologist and Senior Investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA. He is...

40. Anton Lang (biologist) (Unknow)

American Biologist

Anton Lang was a Russian-born American biologist and a plant physiologist. Lang was notable among other things for a discovery of a new method of forcing a bloom in flowers....

41. Donald E. Ingber (1956)

American Biologist

Donald E. Ingber is an American cell biologist and bioengineer Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology...

42. Lawrence S.B. Goldstein (1956)

American Biologist

Lawrence S. B. Goldstein is a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at University of California San Diego and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He receives grant funding...

43. Sean B. Carroll (1960)

American Biologist

Sean B. Carroll is a professor of molecular biology genetics and medical genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He studies the evolution of cis-regulation in the context of biological development...

44. Kenneth R. Miller (1948)

American Biologist

Kenneth Raymond Miller is an American cell biologist and molecular biologist who is currently Professor of Biology and Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence at Brown University. Miller's primary research...

45. Craig Mello (1960)

American Biologist

Craig Cameron Mello is an American biologist and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester Massachusetts. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for...

46. Charles Zuker (Unknow)

American Biologist

Charles S. Zuker is an American molecular geneticist and neurobiologist of Chilean descent. His lab has contributed to our understanding of mammalian taste in collaboration with Nicholas Ryba's laboratory at...

47. Steven Frank (biologist) (Unknow)

American Biologist

Steven A. Frank is a professor of biology at the University of California Irvine. His areas of expertise are evolutionary genetics host-parasite interactions and social evolution. He earned a Ph....

48. G. K. Podila (1957)

American Biologist

Gopi K. Podila was an Indian American biologist noted academician and faculty member at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He was one of three faculty members killed in...

49. Shawn Heflick (1969)

American Biologist

Shawn Heflick is an explorer adventurer biologist and current TV host for Python Hunters on National Geographic Wild.

50. Hendrik Poinar (1969)

American Biologist

Hendrik Nicholas Poinar is an evolutionary biologist specializing in ancient DNA. Poinar first became known for extracting DNA sequences from ground sloth coprolites. He is currently director of the Ancient...