Life scientists

C. Stacy French

C. Stacy French, born Charles Stacy French, was an American plant physiologist and biophysicist who directed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology at Stanford from 1947 to 1973.

Sep 20, 2026

C. Thomas Caskey

C. Thomas Caskey (1938–2022) was an American physician-scientist in human genetics who identified the genetic basis of 25 inherited diseases at Baylor College of Medicine.

C.M.T. Spahn

Christian M. T. Spahn is a German biochemist and structural biologist at Charité in Berlin who uses cryo-electron microscopy to determine the structures of eukaryotic ribosomes.

Sep 20, 2026

Caetano Reis e Sousa

Caetano Reis e Sousa is a Portuguese-born immunologist who leads the Immunobiology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, best known for discovering the dendritic cell receptor DNGR-1.

Cagla Eroglu

Çağla Eroğlu is a molecular and cellular neuroscientist at Duke University whose research established that astrocytes actively build and remodel synaptic circuits in the mammalian brain.

Calvin Bridges

Calvin Bridges was an American geneticist in Morgan's Drosophila laboratory who gave decisive proof that genes lie on chromosomes and made the first physical maps of the fly genome.

Sep 20, 2026

Calvin J. Kuo

Calvin J. Kuo is an American physician-scientist and the Maureen Lyles D'Ambrogio Professor of Medicine at Stanford, known for organoid cultures and Wnt signaling research.

Cam Patterson

Cam Patterson is an American cardiologist who identified the protein CHIP and was chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences from 2018 to 2025.

Cameron R. Currie is a microbiologist and Ira L. Baldwin Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for discovering that fungus-growing ants cultivate antibiotic-producing bacteria.

Cameron S. Carter

Cameron S. Carter is a psychiatrist and cognitive neuroscientist, Distinguished Professor and psychiatry chair at UC Irvine since 2023, known for fMRI studies of cognitive control and schizophrenia.

Camilla Arndal Andersen

Camilla Arndal Andersen is a Danish sensory neuroscientist known for EEG experiments showing the brain registers small taste differences and that fat may be a sixth basic taste.

Camilla Forsberg

Camilla Forsberg is an American stem cell biologist, professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, and director of its Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells; she received a PECASE award.

Camillo Golgi

Camillo Golgi (1843–1926) was an Italian physician at the University of Pavia who devised the black reaction silver stain, discovered the Golgi apparatus, and shared the 1906 Nobel Prize.

Carin Bondar

Carin Bondar is a Canadian biologist, author, and science communicator known for her work on animal sexual behavior, including the Wild Sex web series and books.

Carl Blobel

Carl Blobel is a cell biologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York known for research on ADAM metalloproteases and their regulators, iRhom1 and iRhom2.

Carl C.H. Petersen

Carl C.H. Petersen is a Swiss-based neuroscientist who studies how the mammalian cortex processes touch, as Full Professor at EPFL and head of its Laboratory of Sensory Processing.

Carl Correns

Carl Correns (1864–1933) was a German botanist and geneticist who rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900, first reported gene linkage, and first demonstrated cytoplasmic inheritance in plants.

Carl E. Bauer

Carl Eugene Bauer is an American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University Bloomington known for identifying the AppA blue-light photoreceptor and mapping the RegB-RegA and CrtJ systems that control photosynthesis genes.

Carl F. Ware

Carl F. Ware, also known as Carl Ware, is an American immunologist who defined TNF receptor signaling pathways, discovering LIGHT and the HVEM–BTLA checkpoint, with therapeutics entering clinical trials.

Carl Frieden

Carl Frieden is an American biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, known for enzyme kinetics, hysteretic enzymes, and protein folding.

Carl G. Hartman

Carl G. Hartman, also known as Carl Gottfried Hartman, was an American reproductive biologist whose ovulation research became the scientific basis of the rhythm method.

Carl Gegenbaur

Carl Gegenbaur (1826–1903) was a German comparative anatomist and zoologist, professor at Jena and then Heidelberg, who turned homology into a tool for reconstructing evolutionary history.

Carl Gottfried Hartman

Carl Gottfried Hartman (1879–1968) was an American reproductive biologist who received the first PhD from the University of Texas in 1915 and timed ovulation in rhesus monkeys, founding the rhythm method's scientific basis.

Carl H. Eigenmann

Carl H. Eigenmann (1863–1927) was a German-born American ichthyologist who spent his career at Indiana University, studying South American fishes, blind cave vertebrates, and the surfperch Cymatogaster.

Carl Hirschie Johnson

Carl Hirschie Johnson, also published as Carl H. Johnson, is an American chronobiologist and professor at Vanderbilt University whose research established cyanobacteria as a model for circadian biology.

Carl John Wiggers

Carl John Wiggers was an American cardiovascular physiologist, called the dean of cardiovascular physiologists, who created the Wiggers diagram and won the 1955 Lasker Award.

Carl Kingsford

Carl Kingsford is a computer scientist and Herbert A. Simon Professor at Carnegie Mellon University who develops algorithms for DNA and RNA sequencing data, including Salmon.

Carl L. Schildkraut

Carl L. Schildkraut is a molecular biologist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, known for studying DNA replication timing and telomeres.

Carl Leavitt Hubbs

Carl Leavitt Hubbs (1894–1979) was an American ichthyologist who grew the University of Michigan fish collection from 5,000 to nearly 2 million specimens before moving to Scripps.