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Richard Goldschmidt
Richard Benedict Goldschmidt (1878–1958) was a German-born American geneticist who worked on sex determination, proposed the "hopeful monster" concept, and dissented from classical gene theory.
Ruth Geyer Shaw
Ruth Geyer Shaw is an American evolutionary geneticist and University of Minnesota professor who studies adaptation in wild prairie plants, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Sebastian Bonhoeffer
Sebastian Bonhoeffer is a German-born theoretical biologist who has been professor of theoretical biology at ETH Zurich since 2005 and directs the Collegium Helveticum, modeling infectious disease dynamics.
Sewall Wright
Sewall Wright was an American geneticist who laid the mathematical foundations of population genetics and is credited with the inbreeding coefficient, F-statistics, and the shifting balance theory of evolution.
Simon Myers
Simon R. Myers is a University of Oxford professor of mathematical genomics known for mapping recombination hotspots in the human genome and dating admixture from modern DNA.
Tan Jiazhen
Tan Jiazhen (谈家桢), known internationally as C. C. Tan, was a Chinese geneticist and founding figure of modern genetics who trained under Thomas Hunt Morgan at Caltech and built China's first genetics programs at Fudan University.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) was a Ukrainian-born American geneticist whose fieldwork on wild fruit flies reconciled natural selection with genetics, and whose 1937 book launched the modern evolutionary synthesis.
Tomoko Ohta
Tomoko Ohta (太田朋子) is a Japanese population geneticist at the National Institute of Genetics, the main advocate of the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution.
Warren Ewens
Warren John Ewens is an Australian mathematical population geneticist, best known for the 1972 Ewens sampling formula and for co-creating the transmission disequilibrium test for disease genes.
William Ernest Castle
William Ernest Castle (1867–1962) was an American geneticist at Harvard's Bussey Institution who championed Mendelism in America, extended Mendelian heredity to mammals, and trained geneticists including Sewall Wright.
Wyatt Anderson
Wyatt Anderson (1939–2023) was an American population geneticist who founded the University of Georgia's genetics department, served as Franklin College dean, and studied natural selection in Drosophila.