american biologists library
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: Elmer Verner McCollum
McCollum, Elmer Verner (1879-1967), a United States physiological chemist. McCollum was one of the discoverers of vitamins A, B, and D, between the years 1912 and 1922. See more »
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Morgan, Thomas Hunt (1866–1945), a United States geneticist. During 1909–15, Morgan and his assistants discovered three essential principles of genetics—sex linkage, linkage and crossing over, and sex determination.
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Du Vigneaud, d$uY vēn'yō, Vincent (1901-1978), a United States biochemist. He received the 1955 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his isolation and synthesis of oxytocin, a hormone important in childbirth, and vasopressin, a hormone that regulates blood pressure.
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Gilbert, Walter (1932- ), an American molecular biologist, shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Frederick Sanger of the United Kingdom for their contribution to the determination of base sequences in the nucleic acids DNA (deoxyribonu-cleic
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