Bartram, the family name of two American scientists, father and son. See more »

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 »

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 See more »

Ames, Adelbert, Jr. (1880-1955) was a visual physiologist who studied optics and perception. See more »

Claude, Albert (1899-1983), a Belgian American cell biologist, helped establish modern cell biology and developed methods to analyze cell structures. See more »

Wetmore, Alexander (1886-1978), a United States museum official and authority on birds. See more »

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 »

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 »

Sturtevant, Alfred H. (1891-1970) was an American geneticist and the first to discover the procedure for gene mapping. See more »

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 »