Skip to content

Category Archives: Genetics Scientists

Genetics Scientists in our world

James Dewey Watson - Genetics and Medicine Scientist

27-Nov-08

James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information [...]

Also filed in Famous Scientists | Tagged , , , | Comments (1) »

George Wells Beadle - Genetics Scientist

23-Nov-08

American geneticist who studied the Neurospora red bread mold. By subjecting the mold to X-rays, he caused it to mutate. He then observed that some mold lost the ability to produce a particular organic compound in needed to survive. By adding different but similar compounds and seeing if the mold used it, he could unravel [...]

Also filed in Famous Scientists | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0) »

Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky - Rusian Genetics Scientist

23-Nov-08

Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky, also known as T. G. Dobzhansky, and sometimes Anglicized to Theodore Dobzhansky (Ukrainian — Теодосій Григорович Добжанський; January 25, 1900 - December 18, 1975) was a noted geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis. Dobzhansky [...]

Also filed in Foreign Scientists | Tagged , , | Comments (0) »

Oswald Theodore Avery - Physician and medical scientist

22-Nov-08

Canadian-American physician who obtained his medical degree from Columbia University in 1904 and joined the Rockefeller Institute in 1913. Avery studied a curious phenomenon that had been observed in pneumococci (pneumonia-causing bacteria) with a smooth coat (S) and those with a rough coat (R). It seemed that the R strain lacked an enzyme  [...]

Also filed in Famous Scientists, Foreign Scientists, Science Experiments | Tagged , , | Comments (0) »