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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".
Barbara McClintock
American scientist and cytogeneticist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist (1866–1945)
Carol Greider
American molecular biologist
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)

Hermann Joseph Muller
American biologist (1890–1967)

George Beadle
American geneticist (1903-1989)
Jack Szostak
American biologist
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)
Mario Capecchi
molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate
Bruce Beutler
American immunologist and geneticist

Andrew Fire
American biologist
Joshua Lederberg
American molecular biologist (1925–2008)

Alfred Hershey
American chemist (1908–1997)
Victor Ambros
American developmental biologist

Edward Tatum
US genetics scientist (1909-1975)
Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist and chronobiologist

Howard Temin
American geneticist

Edward B. Lewis
American biologist (1918–2004)
Gary Ruvkun
American geneticist
Eric F. Wieschaus
American geneticist
Phillip Sharp
American biologist

Michael Stuart Brown
American geneticist and Nobel laureate
Michael W. Young
American geneticist, chronobiologist

Joseph L. Goldstein
American biochemist

Theodosius Dobzhansky
geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1900-1975)
George Davis Snell
American geneticist
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist and chronobiologist

Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health

Craig Venter
American biotechnologist and businessman
Nettie Stevens
American geneticist (1861–1912)

Oswald Avery
Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher

Martha Chase
American geneticist

Mary-Claire King
American geneticist

Esther Lederberg
American microbiologist and pioneer of bacterial genetics (1922–2006)

Alfred Sturtevant
American biologist (1891–1970)
Maclyn McCarty
American geneticist (1911-2005)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
American sexologist
Seymour Benzer
American geneticist (1921–2007)
Janet Rowley
American human geneticist (1925–2013)
Stanley Norman Cohen
American geneticist
Edmund Beecher Wilson
American zoologist, geneticist (1856–1939)
Jerry Coyne
American biologist
Richard Goldschmidt
German-American biologist (1878-1958)
Walter Sutton
American geneticist (1877-1916)
George M. Church
geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist
Susan Lindquist
American geneticist, molecular biologist, and university teacher (1949–2016)
David E. Reich
American professor of genetics

Alfred G. Knudson
American geneticist (1922–2016)
Massimo Pigliucci
chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY-Lehman College
Nancy Wexler
American geneticist
Elizabeth F. Neufeld
American geneticist
Colin Munro MacLeod
Czech-American biologist
Edgar Anderson
American botanist (1897-1969)

Philip Leder
American geneticist (1934–2020)
David Sloan Wilson
American biologist

Cynthia Kenyon
US molecular biologist
William Ernest Castle
American geneticist (1867–1962)
Matthew Meselson
American geneticist and molecular biologist