geneticist

American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)

Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)

Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976)

United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)

United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)

United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)

German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics; his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914)

English geneticist who succeeded in cloning a sheep from a cell from an adult ewe (born in 1944)