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William A. Prinz
William A. Prinz is an American cell biologist known for work on membrane contact sites and nonvesicular lipid trafficking, and chair of cell biology at UT Southwestern.
William Albert Setchell
William Albert Setchell (1864–1943) was an American botanist and marine phycologist who led botany at Berkeley from 1895 to 1934, known for Phycotheca Boreali-Americana and Algae of Northwestern America.
William Astbury
William Thomas Astbury (1898–1961) was a British physicist and pioneer of X-ray fiber diffraction who, working at the University of Leeds from 1928, studied wool, hair, and DNA and popularized the term "molecular biology".
William B. Guggino
William B. Guggino is a physiologist who became Chair of Physiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for research on the CFTR chloride channel in cystic fibrosis.
William B. Jakoby
William B. Jakoby was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, known for defining, purifying, and naming the glutathione S-transferases.
William B. Mair
William B. Mair is an aging researcher who studies how nutrition and metabolism set the rate of aging, and Professor of Molecular Metabolism at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
William B. Pratt
William B. Pratt is a biochemist at the University of Michigan Medical School whose laboratory showed from 1985 to 2004 how the hsp90 chaperone machinery regulates steroid hormone receptors.
William B. Swann
William B. Swann Jr. is an American social psychologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, known for self-verification theory and identity fusion theory.
William B. Wood
William B. Wood (1938–2024) was an American developmental biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for his studies of embryonic asymmetry, sex determination, and aging in C. elegans.
William Bate Hardy
William Bate Hardy (1864–1934) was a British biologist and food scientist who founded the study of boundary lubrication, organized Britain's food preservation and fisheries research, and was knighted in 1925.
William Bateson
William Bateson (1861–1926) was a British biologist who founded and named the science of genetics, coined terms including allele and zygote, and became Mendel's most vigorous promoter in England.
William Bayliss
Sir William Maddock Bayliss was a British physiologist who, with his brother-in-law Ernest Starling, discovered secretin in 1902, the first hormone ever identified, founding endocrinology.
William Bialek
William Bialek, born 1960, is a theoretical physicist and the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor at Princeton University, known for applying statistical physics to neural coding and embryonic development.
William Bowers
William Bowers (William Sigmond Bowers) was an American chemical ecologist and insect endocrinologist who identified the aphid alarm pheromone and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994.
William C Lemon
William C Lemon is a Senior Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, known for computational reconstruction of embryonic cell lineages and fluorescent probes for imaging.
William C. Dement
William C. Dement, also known as William Dement, was an American psychiatrist and sleep researcher at Stanford who coined the term REM sleep and built sleep medicine into a clinical discipline.
William C. Earnshaw
William C. Earnshaw is an American cell biologist at the University of Edinburgh who identified the first centromere proteins and discovered the chromosomal passenger complex.
William C. Summers
William C. Summers is an American virologist and historian of science, a Yale professor from 1968 to 2017 known for discovering the T7 RNA polymerase.
William Catterall
William Catterall (1946–2024) was an American pharmacologist and neurobiologist at the University of Washington who discovered the voltage-gated sodium and calcium channel proteins and chaired its pharmacology department from 1984 to 2016.
William Chia
William Chia is a developmental biologist known for work on asymmetric cell division in Drosophila neural stem cells, and is a Professor at King's College London.
William D. Foulkes
William D. Foulkes is a clinician-scientist in cancer genetics at McGill University in Montreal, known for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer and the DICER1 tumour predisposition syndrome.
William D. McElroy
William D. McElroy was an American biochemist known for showing that firefly bioluminescence requires ATP, and who served as chancellor of UCSD from 1972 to 1980.
William D. Richardson
William D. Richardson is a developmental neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor of Biology at University College London, a Fellow of the Royal Society known for work on oligodendrocyte development and myelin.
William D. Snider
William D. Snider is an American physician-scientist known for research on neurotrophin growth factors in neural development, and founding director of the UNC Neuroscience Center.
William DeBello
William DeBello is an American neuroscientist and Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis, who studies how learning physically rewires the brain using barn owls.
William Dowhan
William Dowhan is an American biochemist known for his work on phospholipids and cardiolipin in mitochondrial membranes, who spent fifty years at the University of Texas Medical School before retiring in 2022.
William E. Balch
William E. Balch is a cell biologist and professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, since 1988, known for work on protein transport and folding.
William E. Bentley
William E. Bentley, born 1960 in Syracuse, New York, is an American bioengineer at the University of Maryland known for using electrodes and redox molecules to switch bacterial genes on.
William E. Bunney
William E. Bunney is an American psychiatrist and Della Martin Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine, known for research establishing lithium for bipolar disorder and dopamine studies of mania.
William E. Hahn
William E. Hahn is a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado known for showing that the mouse brain expresses a far larger and more varied set of messenger RNAs than other organs.