American Microbiologist
1. Carl Woese (1928)
American Microbiologist
Microbiologist famous for defining and classifying the domain known as the Archaea kingdom. He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis, which proposes that self-replicating ribonucleic acid (RNA)...
2. Daniel Nathans (1928)
American Microbiologist
An American microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978 for his discovery of restriction enzymes. He was also the President of Johns Hopkins University in...
3. Rita R. Colwell (1934)
American Microbiologist
Rita R. Colwell is an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator. From 1998 to 2004 she was the 11th Director of the United States National Science Foundation.
4. Jo Handelsman (1959)
American Microbiologist
Jo Handelsman is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor of molecular cellular and developmental biology at Yale University. She is editor-in-chief of the academic journal DNA and Cell Biology and...
5. René Dubos (1901)
American Microbiologist
René Jules Dubos was a French-born American microbiologist experimental pathologist environmentalist humanist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal.