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Charles S. Carver
Charles S. Carver, also known as Charles Carver, was an American personality and health psychologist at the University of Miami, best known for the COPE inventory and BIS/BAS scales.
Charles S. Craik
Charles S. Craik is a biochemist and molecular biologist, a UCSF professor since 1985 whose protease research contributed to HIV protease inhibitors and founded biotech companies.
Charles S. Levings
Charles S. Levings III, known as Sam Levings, was an American plant geneticist at North Carolina State University who identified the mitochondrial gene behind Texas cytoplasmic male sterility in maize.
Charles S. McHenry
Charles S. McHenry is an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for working out the enzymology of bacterial DNA replication.
Charles S. Zuker
Charles S. Zuker is a Chilean-born American neuroscientist at Columbia University and an HHMI Investigator, known for identifying the receptors for sweet, bitter, and umami taste.
Charles Sandford Levings III
Charles Sandford Levings III, known as Sam Levings, was an American plant geneticist at North Carolina State University who identified the maize mitochondrial gene URF13.
Charles Scott Sherrington
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952) was an English physiologist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize for discoveries about neurons, coined "synapse", and wrote The Integrative Action of the Nervous System.
Charles Sedgwick Minot
Charles Sedgwick Minot was an American anatomist and embryologist at Harvard Medical School, born in 1852, who invented the automatic rotary microtome and built a large collection of vertebrate embryos.
Charles Sprague Sargent
Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927) was an American botanist and dendrologist who directed Harvard's Arnold Arboretum for over 54 years and wrote the fourteen-volume Silva of North America.
Charles Swanton
Charles Swanton is a British clinician scientist and medical oncologist at the Francis Crick Institute and University College London, known for intratumour heterogeneity and the TRACERx lung cancer study.
Charles Tanford
Charles Tanford (1921–2009) was a German-born American biochemist at Duke University who built the first hydrophobicity scale and argued that the hydrophobic effect assembles cell membranes.
Charles Thibault
Charles Thibault (1919–2003) was a French reproductive biologist who obtained the first in vitro fertilization in a mammal, the rabbit, in 1954, and later presided over the CNRS.
Charles Thom
Charles Thom (1872–1956), American USDA mycologist; monographer of Aspergillus and Penicillium, describer of P. roqueforti and P. camemberti, identified Fleming's mold as P. notatum, aided WWII penicillin production.
Charles Vincent Taylor
Charles Vincent Taylor (1885–1946) was an American biologist at Stanford University from 1925 who combined microsurgery on protozoa with nutritional physiology and designed the micromanipulator known by his name.
Charles W. Bourque
Charles W. Bourque is a Canadian neuroscientist at McGill University who identified the cellular mechanism of osmosensory transduction and showed the brain's clock drives anticipatory thirst.
Charles W.M. Roberts
Charles W.M. Roberts is an American cancer biologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital whose work on SWI/SNF-mutant tumors contributed to the FDA approval of tazemetostat in 2020.
Charles Weissmann
Charles Weissmann (1931–2025) was a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist who co-founded Biogen in Geneva, first cloned human interferon, and led prion research in Zurich, London, and Florida.
Charles William Metz
Charles William Metz was an American geneticist and cytogeneticist who studied the fungus fly Sciara coprophila from 1914, describing chromosome segregation that became the first example of chromosome imprinting.
Charles Yanofsky
Charles Yanofsky (1925–2018) was an American molecular geneticist at Stanford University who proved that genes and proteins are colinear and discovered transcriptional attenuation in bacteria.
Charlotte Auerbach
Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994) was a German-born British geneticist at the University of Edinburgh who discovered in 1941 that mustard gas chemically induces gene mutations in fruit flies.
Charlotte Deane
Charlotte M. Deane is a computational structural biologist and Professor of Structural Bioinformatics at Oxford, leading the Oxford Protein Informatics Group and chairing EPSRC since 2024.
Charlotte Friend
Charlotte Friend (1921–1987) was an American virologist who discovered the Friend leukemia virus in 1956 and showed leukemia cells could differentiate into normal blood cells.
Chen Dong (immunologist)
Chen Dong (董晨) is a Chinese immunologist, Vice President and Dean of Medicine at Westlake University, known for co-discovering the Th17 and Tfh cell subsets.
Chen-Lu Tsou
Chen-Lu Tsou (邹承鲁) was a Chinese biochemist, a founder of modern biochemistry in China, known for the Tsou plot, the 1965 insulin synthesis, and enzyme active-site flexibility.
Chen‐Ming Fan
Chen-Ming Fan is a molecular and developmental biologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Baltimore, known for work on somite patterning and muscle stem cells.
Chen‐Pei D. Tu
Chen-Pei D. Tu, also published as Chen-Pei David Tu, is a molecular biochemist and professor emeritus at Penn State known for studies of transposon insertion specificity and ligninase.
Cheng Chi Lee
Cheng Chi Lee is a neuroscientist who worked on the mammalian circadian clock at Baylor College of Medicine, isolating clock genes and showing Period2 acts as a tumor suppressor.
Cheng‐Feng Qin
Cheng-Feng Qin (秦成峰) is a Chinese virologist at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing, known for Zika virus research and the ARCoV mRNA vaccine.
Cheng‐Ming Chuong
Cheng-Ming Chuong (钟正明) is a developmental biologist at the Keck School of Medicine of USC who uses the feather as a model organ to study how skin appendages form and regenerate.
Chenghua Gu
Chenghua Gu is a Chinese-born American neurobiologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Harvard Medical School, known for identifying Mfsd2a as critical to the blood–brain barrier and for studying neurovascular coupling.