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Born April 16, 1890 • Hutchinson • Kansas
Died June 19, 1963 (aged 73) • Hamden • Connecticut
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Edward Murray East
American scientist
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George Harrison Shull
American botanist
McClintock, Barbara
Barbara McClintock
American scientist
Burbank, Luther
Luther Burbank
American plant breeder
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John Lorain
American agriculturalist
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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
British geneticist and statistician
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Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist and geneticist
Vavilov inspecting citrus trees at Maykop, Russian S.F.S.R., in 1935
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian geneticist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
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Bruce Ames
American biochemist and geneticist
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
Venter, J. Craig
J. Craig Venter
American geneticist, biochemist, and businessman
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Fred H. Gage
American geneticist
Francis Collins
Francis Collins
American geneticist
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Stephen J. Elledge
American geneticist
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Evelyn M. Witkin
American geneticist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
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Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
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Bert Vogelstein
American oncologist
Gary Ruvkun reacts after learning that he is a winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Gary Ruvkun
American molecular biologist and geneticist

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