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Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
James Watson
James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
American medical physicist (1921-2011)
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist
Ivar Giæver
Norwegian-American physicist
Jared Diamond
American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937)
Max Delbrück
biophysicist (1906–1981)
Allan McLeod Cormack
American physicist (1924-1998)
Hermann Joseph Muller
American biologist (1890–1967)
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist (1916–1995)
Brian Kobilka
American physiologist
Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist (1939-2022)
Michael Levitt
biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
Thomas A. Steitz
American biochemist (1940–2018)
Paul Lauterbur
American chemist (1929–2007)
Roderick MacKinnon
American neuroscientist
John Hopfield
American scientist (born 1933)
Martin Karplus
Austrian-born American theoretical chemist (1930–2024)
Arieh Warshel
chemist, biochemist and biophysicist
Mária Telkes
Hungarian–American scientist and inventor (1900–1995)
Thomas Gold
Austrian astrophysicist (1920-2004)
Alfred J. Lotka
American mathematician (1880–1949)
Isabella Karle
American physical chemist (1921–2017)
Bruce Alberts
American biochemist
Stuart Kauffman
American biophysicist
Britton Chance
American biochemist and Olympic sailor (1913–2010)
Pamela J. Bjorkman
American biochemist
Cynthia Kenyon
US molecular biologist
Jane Shelby Richardson
American biophysicist
John Stapp
American career U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon, physician, and biophysicist (1910–1999)
Hugh Herr
American bioengineer
Detlev Bronk
American biophysicist (1897–1975)
Xiaowei Zhuang
Chinese American biophysicist
Anita Goel
Indian-American biophysicist
Alexander Rich
American biologist (1924–2015)
Mary Ruwart
American scientist and libertarian activist
Nicolas Rashevsky
American scientist (1899–1972)
Otto Schmitt
American scientist (1913–1998)
Michael Rossmann
German-American physicist and microbiologist
Helen M. Berman
American chemist
Robert Ledley
American Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Professor of Radiology (1926–2012)
Kenneth Stewart Cole
American biophysicist (1900-1984)
Robert B. Corey
American biochemist (1897–1971)
Jo Zayner
American biohacker, artist, and scientist (1981-)
John O. Dabiri
Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology
Hal Anger
American electrical engineer/inventor - Anger camera (1920-2005)
Watt W. Webb
American physicist (1927–2020)
Howard C. Berg
American scientist (1934–2021)
Frederic M. Richards
Biochemist, biophysicist, crystallographer, and sailor; founder and chair of Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University (1925-2009)
Harry F. Noller
American biochemist
Stephen Quake
American scientist, inventor and entrepreneur
Hans Frauenfelder
Swiss American physicist (1922–2022)
Lee Spetner
American creationist author (1927–2024)
William A. Eaton
American biophysicist
Ruby Puryear Hearn
African-American biophysicist
Walter Kauzmann
American chemist (1916–2009)
Karolin Luger
Austrian-American biochemist, biophysicist, and professor
Richard W. Aldrich
neuroscientist
David Eisenberg
American biophysicist
Robley Cook Williams
American biophysicist (1908–1995)