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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
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Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
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Bruce Ames
American biochemist and geneticist
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Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
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Fred H. Gage
American geneticist
Venter, J. Craig
J. Craig Venter
American geneticist, biochemist, and businessman
Weismann, August
August Weismann
German biologist
Francis Collins
Francis Collins
American geneticist
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Stephen J. Elledge
American geneticist
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Alexander Gordon Bearn
British-born American physician and geneticist
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Evelyn M. Witkin
American geneticist
“Father of the green revolution” in India
M.S. Swaminathan
Indian scientist
Hwang Woo Suk and Gerald Schatten
Hwang Woo-Suk
South Korean scientist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
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Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
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Edith Rebecca Saunders
British botanist and geneticist
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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Svante Pääbo
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