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American biologists have contributed some of biology's greatest findings. With the increasing importance of genetics, conservation and microbiology, American biologists may yet discover some of nature's most amazing secrets.
Featured Article: Robert Bruce Merrifield
Merrifield, Robert Bruce (1921-) is an American biochemist who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his method of producing peptides and proteins. See more »
Adelbert Ames
Ames, Adelbert, Jr. (1880-1955) was a visual physiologist who studied optics and perception.
See more »Albert Claude
Claude, Albert (1899-1983), a Belgian American cell biologist, helped establish modern cell biology and developed methods to analyze cell structures.
See more »Alexander Wetmore
Wetmore, Alexander (1886–1978), a United States museum official and authority on birds.
See more »Alfred Charles Kinsey
Kinsey, Alfred Charles (1894–1956), a United States zoologist. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) were the result of many years of research by Kinsey and his associates.
See more »Alfred Day Hershey
Hershey, Alfred Day (1908-1997) was an American biologist. He shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with the German-born American biologist Max Delbrück and the Italian-born American biologist Salvador Edward Luria for their work on bacteriophages, viruses that attack bacteria.
See more »Alfred H. Sturtevant
Sturtevant, Alfred H. (1891-1970) was an American geneticist and the first to discover the procedure for gene mapping.
See more »Andrew Victor Schally
Schally, Andrew Victor (1926-) is a Polish-born American biochemist. He won the 1977 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his research concerning the role of certain hormones (useful chemical substances) in the chemistry of the body.
See more »Arthur Kornberg
Kornberg, Arthur (1918-), an American physician and biochemist, was the first to discover how molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) duplicate within bacterial cells and also the first to devise a method for synthesizing this process in a laboratory setting.
See more »Asa Gray
Gray, Asa (1810–1888), a United States botanist. Gray made important improvements in the system used to classify plants.
See more »Barbara McClintock
McClintock, Barbara (1902-1992), a United States geneticist. She won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1983 for her discovery that certain genes in corn can move from one position to another along the length of a chromosome, causing genetic mutations.
See more »Barry Commoner
Commoner, Barry (1917-) is an American biologist and educator who has become known as a leading environmental activist.
See more »Calvin Blackman Bridges
Bridges, Calvin Blackman (1889-1938) was an early geneticist whose pioneering work helped formulate important basic concepts.
See more »Charles Edwin Bessey
Bessey, Charles Edwin (1845-1915), an American botanist and administrator, developed world-class botanical programs in the United States.
See more »Clinton Hart Merriam
Merriam, Clinton Hart (1855-1942), was an American physician and zoologist. His expeditions for wildlife study in the western United States led to a compilation of data that helped to define the geographic distribution of animals and plants throughout the country.
See more »Daniel Nathans
Nathans, Daniel (1928-1999), an American microbiologist, shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with his colleague Hamilton Othanel Smith and with Werner Arber of Switzerland.
See more »David Baltimore
Baltimore, David (1938-), an American microbiologist, is one of the most influential and controversial biologists of his time and a pioneer in DNA recombinant techniques.
See more »David Grandison Fairchild
Fairchild, David (Grandison) (1869–1954), a United States horticulturist. In 1898 Fairchild began a long career as an agricultural explorer for the U.S.
See more »David Hunter Hubel
Hubel, David Hunter (1926-) is a Canadian-born American neurobiologist and neurophysiologist.
See more »Dian Fossey
Fossey, Dian (1932-1985) was an American zoologist who studied the mountain gorilla of the Virunga Mountains in east-central Africa.
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