List of geneticists

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This is a list of people who have made notable contributions to genetics. The growth and development of genetics represents the work of many people. This list of geneticists is therefore by no means complete. Contributors of great distinction to genetics are not yet on the list.


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Aa–Al

Am–Ax

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Ba–Be

Bi–Bo

Br–Bu

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Ca

Ce–Ch

Ci–Cu

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Da–De

Do–Du

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Ga–Gi

Gl–Gu

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He–Hi

Ho–Hu

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Ma–Mc

  • Ellen Magenis (1925–2014), US medical geneticist and cytogeneticist, Smith–Magenis syndrome
  • Colin MacLeod (1909–1972), Canadian-American co-discoverer that DNA is the genetic material
  • T cell receptor
    genes
  • Gustave Malécot (1911–1998), French mathematician who influenced population genetics
  • Tom Maniatis (born 1943), US molecular biologist, gene cloning, regulation of gene expression
  • isoenzymes
  • genetic counselor
  • Marco Marra (born 1966), Canadian geneticist known for demonstrating the role of genomics in human health and disease research.
  • Richard E. Marshall (1933–2016), US paediatrician, Greig's syndrome I, Marshall–Smith syndrome
  • John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), British evolutionary biologist and population geneticist
  • Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), German-born American evolutionary biologist
  • gene mapper
  • Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005), US co-discoverer that DNA is the genetic material
  • transposition
  • William McGinnis (20th–21st century), US molecular geneticist, found homeobox (Hox) genes responsible for basic body plan
  • internist
    and clinical geneticist, organized human genetic knowledge

Me–Mi

  • Craig C. Mello (born 1960), US geneticist, Nobel Prize for discovery of RNA interference
  • Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), Bohemian monk who discovered laws of Mendelian inheritance
  • Carole Meredith (20th century), US geneticist who pioneered DNA typing to differentiate between grape varieties
  • Matthew Meselson (born 1930), US molecular geneticist, work on DNA replication, recombination, repair
  • Peter Michaelis (1900–1975), German plant geneticist, focused on cytoplasmic inheritance
  • Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin
    (1855–1935), Russian plant geneticist, scientific agricultural selection
  • Friedrich Miescher (1844–1895), Swiss biologist, found weak acid in white blood cells now called DNA
  • Margareta Mikkelsen (1923–2004), German-born Danish human geneticist and cytogeneticist
  • entomologist
    and molecular geneticist, studied insect viruses
  • O. J. Miller, US physician, human and mammalian genetics and chromosome structure and function
  • prenatal diagnosis
  • Alfred Mirsky (1900–1974), US pioneer in molecular biology, hemoglobin structure, constancy of DNA
  • Herschel K. Mitchell (1913 -2000), US Research on Drosophila (fruit flies), in particular the genetics and biochemistry of the heat shock response.
  • Felix Mitelman (born 1940), Swedish cancer geneticist and cytogeneticist, catalog of chromosomes in cancer

Mo–Mu

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O

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Pa–Pi

Pl–Pu

  • Alfred Ploetz (1860–1940), German physician, biologist, eugenicist, introduced racial hygiene to Germany
  • Robert Plomin (born 1948), American/British psychologist and geneticist known for his work in twin studies
  • Paul Polani (1914–2006), Trieste-born UK pediatrician, major catalyst of medical genetics in Britain
  • Charles Pomerat (1905–1951), US cell biologist, pioneered the field of tissue culture
  • Guido Pontecorvo (1907–1999), Italian-born Scottish geneticist and pioneer molecular biologist
  • Alkes Price (Ph.D. 1997), American geneticist known for statistical methods to draw inference from genetic data, including genomic ancestry quantification and heritability estimation
  • George R. Price (1922–1975), brilliant but troubled US population geneticist and theoretical biologist
  • Peter Propping (1942–2016), German human geneticist, studies of epilepsy
  • phage
    lambda
  • Ted Puck (1916–2005), US physicist, work in mammalian and human cell culture, genetics, cytogenetics
  • RC Punnett (1875–1967), early English geneticist, discovered linkage with William Bateson, stimulated G. H. Hardy
  • PLINK
    genetic program

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  • Lluis Quintana-Murci
    (born 1970), French-Spanish human population geneticist, human evolutionary genetics, evolution of immunity

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Ra–Ri

  • G. N. Ramachandran (1922–2001) Indian biophysicist, co-discovered triple-helix structure of collagen
  • Michèle Ramsay (21st century), South African geneticist, single-gene disorders, epigenetics, complex diseases
  • Robert Race (1907–1984), British expert on blood groups, along with wife Ruth Sanger
  • Reece Roberts South African geneticist, single-gene disorders, epigenetics, complex diseases studied at Stellenbosch University
  • behavioral genetics
  • David Reich (born 1974), US, human population genetics and genomics, did humans and chimps interbreed?
  • Theodore Reich (1938–2003), Canadian-US psychiatrist, a founder of modern psychiatric genetics
  • Otto Renner (1883–1960), German plant geneticist, established maternal plastid inheritance
  • cytogeneticist
  • tRNA
    3-dimensional structure
  • Rollin C. Richmond, US, evolutionary and pharmacogenetic studies of Drosophila, university administrator
  • David L. Rimoin (1936–2012), Canadian–US medical geneticist, studied skeletal dysplasias
  • Neil Risch (Ph.D. 1979), US human and population geneticist, studied torsion dystonia

Ro–Ru

  • Richard Roberts (born 1943), British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for introns and gene-splicing
  • Arthur Robinson (1914–2000), US pediatrician, geneticist, pioneer on sex chromosome anomalies
  • budding yeast
  • protein degradation
  • Leon Rosenberg (1933–2022), US physician-geneticist, molecular basis of inherited metabolic disease
  • David S Rosenblatt (20th–21st century), Canadian geneticist concerned inborn errors of folate and vitamin B12 metabolism
  • Peyton Rous (1879–1970), US tumor virologist and tissue culture expert, Nobel Prize
  • Peter T. Rowley (1929–2006), US internist and geneticist, genetics of cancer and leukemia
  • Frank Ruddle (1929–2013), US biologist, somatic cell genetics, human gene mapping, paved way for transgenic mice
  • Ernst Rüdin (1874–1952), Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist and eugenicist who promoted racial hygiene
  • Elizabeth S. Russell (1913–2001), US mammalian geneticist, pioneering work on pigmentation, blood-forming cells, and germ cells
  • Liane B. Russell
    (1923–2019), Austrian-born US mouse geneticist and radiation biologist
  • William L. Russell (1910–2003), UK-US mouse geneticist, pioneered study of mutagenesis in mice

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Sa–Sc

Se–Sh

  • Ernest Robert Sears (1910–1991), US wheat geneticist who pioneered methods of transferring desirable genes from wild relatives to cultivated wheat in order to increase wheat's resistance to various insects and diseases
  • Jay Seegmiller (1920–2006), US human biochemical geneticist, found cause of Lesch–Nyhan syndrome
  • Fred Sherman (1932–2013), US geneticist, one of the "fathers" and mentors of modern yeast genetics
  • Pak Sham (20th–21st century), geneticist known for his work in psychiatric genomics
  • X chromosome inactivation
  • Lucy Shapiro (born 1940), US molecular geneticist, gene expression during the cell cycle, bacterium Caulobacter
  • Phillip Sharp (born 1944), US geneticist and molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for co-discovery of gene splicing
  • lepidopterist, human blood group
    researcher
  • George Harrison Shull (1874–1954), US geneticist, made key discoveries including heterosis

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U

  • Herceptin
  • Irene Ayako Uchida (1917–2013), one of the first Canadian geneticists and cytogeneticists. Down syndrome

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Wa–We

Wh–Wi

Wo–Wr

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  • Jian Yang (20th–21st century), Chinese geneticist, known for his work on the missing heritability of complex traits
  • Charles Yanofsky (1925–2018), US molecular geneticist, colinearity of gene and its protein product

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See also