Life scientists

Thomas D. Fox

Thomas D. Fox is a molecular geneticist who spent his career at Cornell University studying how nuclear genes control mitochondrial gene expression in budding yeast, and how mitochondrially coded proteins assemble into respiratory chain complexes.

Thomas D. Pollard

Thomas D. Pollard is an American cell biologist at Yale known for discovering myosin-I, capping protein, and Arp2/3 complex, and for explaining how actin filaments move cells.

Thomas Dever

Thomas E. Dever is an American biochemist who has headed the Section on Protein Biosynthesis at NIH's NICHD in Bethesda, Maryland, since 1994, studying translation initiation factors eIF2 and eIF5B.

Thomas E. Kreis

Thomas E. Kreis (1952–1998) was a cell biologist who discovered CLIP-170, the first protein shown to track growing microtubule ends, and died in the 1998 Swissair 111 crash.

Thomas E. Lovejoy

Thomas E. Lovejoy was an American conservation biologist known as the "godfather of biodiversity" who coined the term biological diversity and worked in the Brazilian Amazon from 1965.

Thomas E. Scammell

Thomas E. Scammell is an American sleep neurologist and neuroscientist, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for research on narcolepsy and orexin neurons.

Thomas E. Spencer

Thomas E. Spencer is an American reproductive and developmental biologist at the University of Missouri known for showing that uterine glands are essential for fertility.

Thomas E. Wellems

Thomas E. Wellems is an American malaria geneticist who leads the Malaria Genetics Section at NIH's NIAID and discovered the gene responsible for chloroquine resistance.

Thomas E. Willnow

Thomas E. Willnow is a molecular biologist who studies endocytic receptors in metabolism and neurodegeneration, leading research at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin and Aarhus University.

Thomas Edward Spencer

Thomas Edward Spencer is an American reproductive and developmental biologist known for his work on the uterus and placenta, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Thomas Eisner

Thomas Eisner (1929–2011) was a German-born American entomologist at Cornell University, widely regarded as the father of chemical ecology and a winner of the 1994 National Medal of Science.

Thomas F. Anderson

Thomas F. Anderson (1911–1991) was an American biophysical chemist and geneticist who pioneered electron microscope studies of viruses and bacteria, devising the critical point drying method.

Thomas F. Boat

Thomas F. Boat is an American pediatric pulmonologist and cystic fibrosis researcher who is dean emeritus of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Thomas F. Donahue

Thomas F. Donahue is a yeast molecular geneticist and Professor Emeritus of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, known for genetic analysis of translation initiation in budding yeast.

Thomas F. Meyer

Thomas F. Meyer, born 1952 in Mannheim, is a German infection biologist known for work on how bacterial pathogens vary surface antigens and evade immunity.

Thomas F. Westbrook

Thomas F. Westbrook, known as Trey Westbrook, is an American cancer biologist and professor at Baylor College of Medicine known for genome-scale screens finding vulnerabilities in breast cancer.

Thomas F.J. Martin

Thomas F.J. Martin is an emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for establishing the ATP-dependent priming stage of hormone and neurotransmitter release.

Thomas G. Bernhardt

Thomas G. Bernhardt is an American microbiologist and professor at Harvard Medical School who studies bacterial cell wall synthesis and division, mainly in E. coli.

Thomas G. Spiro

Thomas G. Spiro (born 1935) is an American bioinorganic chemist known for pioneering resonance Raman spectroscopy of metalloproteins, on the Princeton faculty from 1963 to 2007 and at the University of Washington since.

Thomas Gelehrter

Thomas D. Gelehrter is an American human geneticist and physician known for research on steroid hormone gene regulation and PAI-1, and for chairing human genetics at Michigan.

Thomas Gilovich

Thomas Gilovich is an American psychologist at Cornell University who studies how people judge everyday evidence; his work spans regret, experiential purchases, and the hot hand in basketball.

Thomas Graf (Austrian molecular biologist)

Thomas Graf, born 1944 in Vienna, is an Austrian molecular biologist and Emeritus Group Leader at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, known for oncogene cooperativity.

Thomas Gregor

Thomas Gregor is a German biophysicist, professor of physics at Princeton University and head of the Physics of Biological Function unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

Thomas Gridley

Thomas Gridley is an American developmental geneticist and Tufts professor based at MaineHealth Institute for Research, known for work on the Notch signaling pathway and Snail genes.

Thomas H. Eickbush

Thomas H. Eickbush is an American molecular biologist and University of Rochester professor known for his work on the R2 retrotransposon of the silkmoth and for establishing target-primed reverse transcription.

Thomas H. Morgan

Thomas H. Morgan, or Thomas Hunt Morgan, was an American biologist who established the chromosome theory of heredity through fruit fly experiments, winning the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Thomas H. Weller

Thomas H. Weller, also known as Thomas Huckle Weller, was an American virologist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize for growing poliovirus in tissue culture.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) was an English biologist and comparative anatomist, called "Darwin's bulldog" for defending Darwin's theory of evolution, who coined the word "agnostic".

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American biologist who established the chromosome theory of heredity through experiments on fruit flies, winning the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.