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A. W. F. Edwards

Anthony William Fairbank Edwards (born 1935) is a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist, sometimes called Fisher's Edwards in the context of 20th century genetics.

Alan Guttmacher

Alan Edward Guttmacher (born 1949), pediatrician, geneticist, & research administrator

BioLogos Foundation

The BioLogos Foundation is a Christian advocacy group established by Francis Collins in 2007.

Blond Eskimos

In 2003, two Icelandic scientists, the geneticist and anthropologists Agnar Helgason and Gísli Pálsson announced the results of their research comparing DNA from 100 Cambridge Bay Inuit with DNA from Icelanders, and concluded that there was no match.

Brett Abrahams

Brett Abrahams, PhD (born March 3, 1973) is a geneticist and neuroscientist involved in the identification and subsequent functional characterization of the autism-related gene CNTNAP2 with Dan Geschwind at UCLA.

Buchwald

Manuel Buchwald (born 1940), Peruvian-Canadian geneticist and academic

Cheetah reintroduction in India

Stephen J O'Brien, world's leading conservation geneticist and Chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA, has clarified that there is no significant genetic difference between the African and the Iran's Asiatic cheetah, as per genetic research carried out by him African and Indian cheetahs were only separated just some 5,000 years ago which is not enough for a sub-species level differentiation.

Clara D. Bloomfield

Dr. Bloomfield is married to Dr. Albert de la Chapelle, a geneticist and professor in the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics at The Ohio State University and discoverer of XX male syndrome.

Demographics of France

According to a 2008 study by Dutch geneticist Manfred Kayser, French people based on a sample from Lyon, showed genetic similarities to all Europeans especially the Swiss, Germans, Austrians, Italians, and Spaniards.

Demography of the United Kingdom

However, the geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer carried out an extensive research of the British Isles, finding that the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon influx had little effect, with the majority of British ethnicity tracing back from an ancient Palaeolithic Iberian migration, now represented by the Basques so that 75% of the modern British population could (in theory) trace their ancestry back 15,000 years.

Diethard Tautz

Diethard Tautz (born 17 August 1957 in Glonn) is a German biologist and geneticist, who is primarily concerned with the molecular basis of the evolution of mammals.

Dorothea Bennett

Dorothea Bennett (December 27, 1929, Honolulu - August 16, 1990, Houston) was a geneticist, known for the genetics of early mammalian development and for research into mammalian sperm surface structures and their role in fertilization and spermatogenesis.

Douglas Falconer

Douglas Scott Falconer (1913–2004), British geneticist who discovered Falconer's formula

Edward East

Edward Murray East (1879–1938), American plant geneticist and botanist

Heat shock protein

In 1962, Italian geneticist Ferruccio Ritossa reported that heat and the metabolic uncoupler 2,4-dinitrophenol induced a characteristic pattern of puffing in the chromosomes of Drosophila.

Heisenberg

Martin Heisenberg (born 1940), German neurobiologist and geneticist

Hugh Iltis

His father, Hugo Iltis, was a teacher at the Brno Gymnasium, a botanist and geneticist, and a vocal opponent of Nazi eugenics.

Human genetic clustering

In the late 1990s Harvard evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin stated that “no justification can be offered for continuing the biological concept of race.

Imre Festetics

Count Imre Festetics de Tolna (Simaság, 1764 – Kőszeg, 1847) was a noble landowner and geneticist.

Jacob Soll

His parents are David Soll, a molecular geneticist, and Beth Soll, née Bronfenbrenner, a modern dance choreographer.

Jason Moore

Jason H. Moore, American computational geneticist and translational bioinformatician

Julia Bodmer

As well as being a distinguished scientist in her own right, she collaborated throughout her career with her husband, the human and cancer geneticist Sir Walter Bodmer.

Lawrence Eron

While at Harvard Medical School, he worked on a research team with the American geneticist Jonathan Beckwith, and in 1969, the team successfully isolated a single group of genes from a bacterial chromosome.

Leonard Doncaster

Early Mendelian geneticist who discovered sex linkage, while writing up the results of the Reverend G.H. Raynor on the magpie moth Abraxas grossulariata.

Linanthus parryae

For many decades a long line of geneticists and botanists, including Sewall Wright, Carl Epling, and T. G. Dobzhansky, have studied populations of this flower to determine the factors that influence this polymorphism.

Marcus Pembrey

This article is about the living geneticist, not physiologist Marcus Seymour Pembrey

Margaret Heitland

She was sister of the geneticist William Bateson, his son was the anthropologist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, and sister of Mary Bateson (historian).

Mayana

Mayana Zatz (b. 1947), Brazilian molecular biologist and geneticist

Meiosis

In 1911 the American geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan observed crossover in Drosophila melanogaster meiosis and provided the first genetic evidence that genes are transmitted on chromosomes.

Mere Christianity

Charles Colson's conversion to Christianity resulted from his reading this book, as did the conversions of Francis Collins, Josh Caterer and the philosopher C. E. M. Joad.

Metafemale

American geneticist Calvin Bridges, who discovered the genic balance sex-determination system in Drosophila in 1921, used the terms "superfemale" and "supermale".

Michael Murphy Andregg

Andregg earned a Ph.D. in behavior genetics (1977) from the University of California, Davis after completing a triple-major B.S. in genetics, zoology and physical anthropology (1973), studying under the tutelage of Theodosius Dobzhansky a prominent geneticist, evolutionary biologist and National Medal of Science recipient.

Nancy Wexler

Wexler's father, Dr. Milton Wexler, was a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist, and her mother was a geneticist who taught biology before her children were born.

Nikolai Koltsov

US geneticist Richard Goldschmidt wrote about him: "There was the brilliant Nikolai Koltsov, probably the best Russian zoologist of the last generation, an enviable, unbelievably cultured, clear-thinking scholar, admired by everybody who knew him".

Pendleton County, Kentucky

Other schools in the county are Sharp Middle School, named for Phillip Allen Sharp, American geneticist and molecular biologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1993) and National Medal of Science (2004), located between Falmouth and Butler, Northern Elementary in Butler, and Southern Elementary in Falmouth.

Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation

There are also awards for early career scientists: International Astronomical Union Fellowships, Society for Neuroscience Fellowships, the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award to a young woman geneticist given in cooperation with the Genetics Society of America and the American Society for Human Genetics, and the Peter and Patricia Gruber Awards at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel for scientists there.

Peter Carstens

Peter Carstens (September 13, 1903 in Brunsbüttel – January 1945 in Poznań) was a German geneticist and animal breeder and SS-Oberführer for the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

Pleiotropy

The term "pleiotropie" was coined in a 1910 Festschrift written by the German geneticist Ludwig Plate, a former student of Ernst Haeckel.

Ram Moav

Ram Moav (1930 - 1984) was an Israeli geneticist and science fiction writer.

Richard E. McCarty

McCarty is the son of Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist who found that the genetic material of living cells is composed of DNA.

Rozellida

Additional members of the group were isolated in 2011 by a team led by Thomas Richards, from the Natural History Museum in London, and also an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Exeter, UK.

St Tudy

Notable people from St Tudy include: William Bligh, naval officer; Eddie George, former governor of the Bank of England; Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist at Iowa State University; and Richard Lower, early experimenter in blood transfusion.

Station House Opera

Julian Maynard Smith (son of the evolutionary geneticist John Maynard Smith) and Miranda Payne founded the company in 1980, and Maynard Smith remains its artistic director.

Sune Bergström

Sune Bergström was the father of the evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo and of the businessman Rurik Bergström (both born 1955).

Sweet pea

The sweet pea is thus a model organism being used in early experimentations in genetics, particularly by the pioneer geneticist Reginald Punnett.

The American Chestnut Foundation

TACF was founded in 1983 by a group of prominent plant scientists, including Nobel Prize-winning plant breeder Norman Borlaug; Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden; independent chestnut researcher Philip Rutter; and the late Charles Burnham, a Minnesota corn geneticist.

Tsui Lap-chee

Prior to his appointment as the Vice-Chancellor, he was Geneticist-in-Chief and Head of the Genetics and Genomic Biology Program of the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children and co-founder (with Dr. Steve Scherer) of The Centre for Applied Genomics.

William F. Anderson

William French Anderson, American physician, geneticist and molecular biologist


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