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Louis Lapicque
Louis Lapicque (1866–1952) was a French physiologist who made nerve and muscle excitability quantitative, defining the chronaxie and proposing in 1907 the strength–duration equation underlying the integrate-and-fire neuron model.
Louis M. Kunkel
Louis M. Kunkel is an American human geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital best known for identifying the gene altered in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Louis M. Luttrell
Louis M. Luttrell is an American physician-scientist and endocrinologist at the Medical University of South Carolina whose work showed β-arrestins organize their own GPCR signaling pathways.
Louis Otto Kunkel
Louis Otto Kunkel (1884–1960) was an American botanist and plant pathologist who led the Rockefeller Institute's plant pathology division from 1932 and was known for his work on leafhopper-carried yellows diseases.
Louis Scheffer
Louis Scheffer is an electrical engineer turned neurobiologist and Principal Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, best known as lead author of the 2020 fruit fly brain connectome.
Louis Siminovitch
Louis Siminovitch (1920–2021) was a Canadian molecular biologist and geneticist, called the father of genetic research in Canada, who helped discover bacteriophage lysogeny and stem cell self-renewal.
Louis Wilson (plant biochemist)
Louis Wilson (Louis F.L. Wilson) is a British plant biochemist and HHMI postdoctoral scientist at the University of Virginia who studied plant cell wall polysaccharides.
Louis-Antoine Ranvier
Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835–1922) was a French physician and histologist who held the chair of general anatomy at the Collège de France from 1875 and gave his name to the node of Ranvier.
Louise Johnson
Dame Louise Napier Johnson (1940–2012) was a British biophysicist who pioneered X-ray protein crystallography of enzymes, studying lysozyme, glycogen phosphorylase, and cell-cycle protein kinases at Oxford.
Louise O. Fresco
Louise O. Fresco (born 1952) is a Dutch agronomist and food-system scholar who led the FAO's agriculture department and was president of Wageningen University & Research from 2014 to 2022.
Louise Prakash
Louise Prakash is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, known for discovering DNA polymerase eta's role in bypassing UV damage.
Louise T. Chow
Louise T. Chow (周芷) is a Taiwanese-American biochemist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham known for codiscovering RNA splicing in adenoviruses in 1977 and for her research on human papillomaviruses.
Love Dalén
Love Dalén is a Swedish evolutionary geneticist and professor at Stockholm University's Centre for Palaeogenetics who led the sequencing of the first complete woolly mammoth genome.
Lowell P. Hager
Lowell P. Hager (1926–2014) was an American enzymologist and protein chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995.
Lubert Stryer
Lubert Stryer (1938-2024), American biochemist at Stanford, proved FRET as a spectroscopic ruler, discovered transducin amplification in vision, founded Affymax/Affymetrix science, and wrote the classic textbook Biochemistry (1975).
Luc Brunsveld
Luc Brunsveld is a full professor of chemical biology at TU Eindhoven, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy, and scientific co-founder of Ambagon Therapeutics, known for supramolecular chemistry applied to proteins.
Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier (Jean Luc Montagnier) was a French virologist who co-discovered HIV at the Pasteur Institute in 1983, winning a share of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Luc Perrin
Luc Perrin, who published as L. H. Perrin, was a Swiss physician-scientist in virology at Geneva known for early HIV diagnosis, a 1995 zidovudine trial, and a 2002 HIV superinfection report.
Luc Teyton
Luc Teyton is a French-trained physician-scientist and professor of immunology at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, who has studied the autoimmune destruction of beta cells in type 1 diabetes for over 25 years.
Luc Van Kaer
Luc Van Kaer is a Belgian-born immunologist at Vanderbilt University since 1993, known for TAP1 and H2-M mutant mouse studies of antigen presentation and NKT cell work.
Luca Comai
Luca Comai is an Italian-born American plant geneticist at UC Davis who co-developed the TILLING mutation-discovery method and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Luca Gattinoni
Luca Gattinoni is an Italian immuno-oncologist known for identifying stem cell memory T cells, who spent 16 years at the US National Cancer Institute before leading the Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy in Regensburg.
Luca Jovine
Luca Jovine is an Italian structural biologist and professor at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden who determines the structures of egg coat proteins to study fertilization, infertility, and non-hormonal contraception.
Luca Turin
Luca Turin, born 1953 in Lebanon to Italian parents, is a biophysicist best known for the vibrational theory of olfaction, and the subject of Chandler Burr's The Emperor of Scent.
Lucas Pelkmans
Lucas Pelkmans (born 1975) is a Dutch molecular cell biologist, a full professor at the University of Zurich known for work on endocytosis and cell-to-cell variability.
Lucia B. Rothman‐Denes
Lucia B. Rothman-Denes is an Argentine-born molecular biologist at the University of Chicago, on the faculty since 1975, known for her studies of bacteriophage N4.
Lucia Banci
Lucia Banci, born 1954, is an Italian structural biologist at the University of Florence known for developing in-cell NMR to study proteins in living cells.
Luciano Marraffini
Luciano Marraffini is an Argentine-born microbiologist, the Kayden Family Professor at Rockefeller University and an HHMI Investigator, known for showing that CRISPR-Cas systems target DNA rather than RNA.
Lucille Shapiro
Lucille (Lucy) Shapiro is an American molecular biologist at Stanford who established Caulobacter crescentus as a model for cell differentiation and won the 2011 National Medal of Science.
Lucy Shapiro
Lucy Shapiro is an American developmental biologist at Stanford University School of Medicine who studies the bacterial cell cycle in Caulobacter crescentus and received the 2025 Lasker~Koshland Award.