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John D. Gearhart
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Jan 19, 2011
John D. Gearhart is a renowned American developmental geneticist best known for leading the Johns Hopkins University research team that first…
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Lap-Chee Tsui (1950-)
By: Kristina Winikates
| Published: Nov 10, 2011
Lap-Chee Tsui is a geneticist who discovered the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene, and his research team sequenced human chromosome 7. As the location of…
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Edward B. Lewis (1918-2004)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Edward B. Lewis studied embryonic development in Drosophila, including the discovery of the cis-trans test for recessive genes, and the…
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Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945)
By: Mary E. Sunderland
| Published: Sep 25, 2007
Although best known for his work with the fruit fly, for which he earned a Nobel Prize and the title "The Father of Genetics," Thomas Hunt Morgan's…
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Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren (1927-2007)
By: Aroob Khokhar
| Published: Jun 23, 2010
Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren was a developmental biologist known for her work with embryology in the twentieth century. McLaren was the first…
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Andrew Zachary Fire (1959- )
By: May Catherine
| Published: Nov 28, 2011
Andrew Zachary Fire is a professor at Stanford University and Nobel Laureate. Fire worked at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of…
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Francis Galton (1822-1911)
By: Cera R. Lawrence
| Published: Apr 06, 2011
Sir Francis Galton was a British science writer and amateur researcher of the late nineteenth century. He contributed greatly to the fields of…
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Beatrice Mintz (1922–2022)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Jan 21, 2009
Beatrice Mintz is a brilliant researcher who has developed techniques essential for many aspects of research on mouse development. She produced the…
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Theodor Heinrich Boveri (1862-1915)
By: Inbar Maayan
| Published: Mar 03, 2011
Theodor Boveri investigated the mechanisms of heredity. He developed the chromosomal theory of inheritance and the idea of chromosomal individuality…
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Frank Rattray Lillie (1870-1947)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jul 22, 2009
Frank R. Lillie was born in Toronto, Canada, on 27 June 1870. His mother was Emily Ann Rattray and his father was George Waddell Little, an…
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