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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.
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Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1858–1954), a United States botanist and horticulturist. He pioneered in establishing college extension courses for farmers and wrote authoritative works on horticulture. See more »
John Franklin Enders
Enders, John Franklin (1897-1985) was an American research bacteriologist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with American virologist Thomas Huckle Weller and bacteriogist Frederick Chapman Robbins.
See more »Joseph Erlanger
Erlanger, Joseph (1874–1965), a United States physiologist. For work on the functions of the nerve threads, Erlanger shared with Herbert Spencer Gasser the 1944 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.
See more »Joshua Lederberg
Lederberg, Joshua (1925-) is an American geneticist and pioneer in the field of bacterial genetics.
See more »Karl Landsteiner
Landsteiner, Karl (1868–1943), an Austrian-American pathologist. He was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery and classification of the four primary types of human blood.
See more »Kary Banks Mullis
Mullis, Kary Banks (1944-), an American biochemist, shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Michael Smith of Canada for inventing polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which allowed duplication of a single gene fragment.
See more »Leland Harrison Hartwell
Hartwell, Leland Harrison (1939-), an American geneticist, advanced understanding of the fundamental principles that govern cell division through his studies of yeast-cell replication.
See more »Lewis John Stadler
Stadler, Lewis John (1896-1954) was an American geneticist who did pioneering research on the effects of X rays upon mutation in plants.
See more »Liberty Hyde Bailey
Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1858–1954), a United States botanist and horticulturist. He pioneered in establishing college extension courses for farmers and wrote authoritative works on horticulture.
See more »Luther Burbank
Burbank, Luther (1849-1926), a United States horticulturist. He developed more than 200 varieties of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and grasses, including the Burbank potato, the plumcot (a cross between a plum and an apricot), and the Shasta daisy.
See more »Lynn Margulis
Margulis, Lynn Alexander (1938-), an American biologist, helped advance the study of the origins of cells.
See more »Margaret Morse Nice
Nice, Margaret Morse (1883-1974), an American ornithologist, became one of the world's foremost bird behaviorists by adapting the techniques of psychology to the study of bird behavior.
See more »Marshall Warren Nirenberg
Nirenberg, Marshall Warren (1927-), an American biochemist, shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his role in deciphering the genetic code.
See more »Martin Rodbell
Rodbell, Martin (1925-1998) was an American biochemist. He won the 1994 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his research into signaling mechanisms in cells.
See more »Matthew Stanley Meselson
Meselson, Matthew Stanley (1930-), an American molecular biologist, is best known for his experimental confirmation, in collaboration with Franklin William Stahl, of the Watson-Crick theory of DNA replication.
See more »Maxine Singer
Singer, Maxine (1931-) is an American biochemist and geneticist who has been a leading voice in the debate over the issues and ethics surrounding the development of recombinant DNA techniques, which combine DNA fragments from different types of cells or transplant them from one form of life to other forms.
See more »Otto Fritz Meyerhof
Meyerhof, Otto Fritz (1884-1951), a German-born American biochemist, shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his research into oxygen consumption by muscles, and the relationship of oxygen consumption and the metabolism of lactic acid (a chemical produced in the body by muscular activity) and carbohydrates within the muscle.
See more »Paul Berg
Berg, Paul (1926-), an American biochemist and molecular biologist, has been at the forefront of genetic engineering, both as an inventor of a pioneering procedure and as an advocate concerned about the risks of genetic research.
See more »Paul Bigelow Sears
Sears, Paul Bigelow (1891-1990) was an American botanist, a scientist who studies plants.
See more »Paul Greengard
Greengard, Paul (1925-) shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of how dopamine and a number of other transmitters in the brain exert their action in the nervous system.
See more »Peter Brian Medawar
Medawar, Peter Brian (1815-1987), was a British zoologist who shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Sir Macfarlane Burnet of Australia for their work on the body's rejection of tissue transplants.
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