Life scientists

Élie Wollman

Élie Wollman (1917–2008) was a French bacterial geneticist who spent his career at the Institut Pasteur, known for zygotic induction and the first genetic map of a bacterial chromosome.

Elina Ikonen

Elina Ikonen, born 1961 in Helsinki, is a Finnish cell biologist and professor at the University of Helsinki who studies how cholesterol and other lipids move and are stored in cells.

Elior Peles

Elior Peles is an Israeli cellular and molecular neurobiologist, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot known for work on the axon–glia interface and nodes of Ranvier.

Elisa Izaurralde (1959–2018) was a Uruguayan-born biochemist and molecular biologist known for work on messenger RNA export and silencing, and director at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen from 2005 until her death.

Elisabeth A. Murray

Elisabeth A. Murray is an American cognitive neuroscientist who studies learning, memory, and decision-making in monkeys, and chief of the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Section at NIMH.

Elisabeth B. Binder

Elisabeth B. Binder, born 1971 in Vienna, is an Austrian psychiatrist and neuroscientist directing translational research in psychiatry at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich.

Elisabeth Gantt

Elisabeth Gantt is a Yugoslav-born American plant biologist and phycologist at the University of Maryland, best known for discovering phycobilisomes, the light-harvesting complexes of red algae.

Elisabeth Knust

Elisabeth Knust (born 1951) is a developmental biologist and Director Emerita at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, known for the Drosophila polarity genes crumbs, stardust, and bazooka.

Elissa L. Newport

Elissa L. Newport is an American cognitive scientist at Georgetown University known for the "less is more" hypothesis of child language learning and for helping establish statistical learning.

Elizabeth A. Campbell

Elizabeth A. Campbell is a structural biologist at Rockefeller University who studies RNA polymerases, known for the first rifampicin-bound polymerase structure and atomic structures of the SARS-CoV-2 replication machinery.

Elizabeth A. Craig

Elizabeth A. Craig is an American molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies Hsp70 molecular chaperones and J-protein co-chaperones in yeast; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.

Elizabeth A. Phelps

Elizabeth A. Phelps is a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard University who studies how emotion shapes memory and decision making, and showed fear memories can be rewritten through reconsolidation.

Elizabeth Blaber

Elizabeth Blaber is a space biologist and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who studies how spaceflight stressors affect stem cells and tissue regeneration.

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Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn, born 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania, is an Australian-born molecular biologist who determined telomere DNA composition and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Elizabeth Bugie

Elizabeth Bugie, later Elizabeth Bugie Gregory, was an American biochemist at Rutgers who co-authored the 1944 streptomycin discovery paper yet received only a 0.2 percent royalty share.

Elizabeth C. Raff

Elizabeth C. Raff, known as Beth Raff, is a cell biologist at Indiana University who used Drosophila genetics to show that tubulin isoforms determine microtubule architecture; she retired in 2019.

Elizabeth D. Getzoff

Elizabeth D. Getzoff (born 1954) is a biochemist and professor at the Scripps Research Institute known for structural work on superoxide dismutase, nitric oxide synthase, and photoactive yellow protein.

Elizabeth D. Hay

Elizabeth D. Hay (1927–2007) was an American cell biologist at Harvard who established the extracellular matrix as a determinant of cell behavior and introduced epithelial-mesenchymal transition.

Elizabeth Gould (neuroscientist)

Elizabeth Gould is a Princeton neuroscientist known for research showing that the adult mammalian brain produces new neurons, and the first to report neurogenesis in adult primates.

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

Elizabeth H. Blackburn is an Australian-American molecular biologist who discovered the molecular nature of telomeres and co-discovered telomerase, sharing the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Elizabeth J. Goldsmith

Elizabeth J. Goldsmith, also published as E. J. Goldsmith, is an American structural biologist and professor of biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who studies protein kinases.

Elizabeth J. Robertson

Elizabeth J. Robertson, also published as Liz Robertson, is a British developmental biologist and Professor at Oxford known for discovering Nodal and for early embryonic stem cell work.

Elizabeth Lacy

Elizabeth Lacy is a molecular and developmental biologist at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York since 1983, known for transgenic mouse work and co-authoring "the Mouse Bible".

Elizabeth Leslie

Elizabeth Leslie, also known as Elizabeth J. Leslie-Clarkson, is an American human geneticist and associate professor at Emory University School of Medicine, known for research on orofacial clefts and Van der Woude syndrome.

Elizabeth Loftus

Elizabeth Loftus, also Elizabeth F. Loftus, is an American cognitive psychologist at UC Irvine known for showing that suggestion can create false memories and distort eyewitness testimony.

Elizabeth M. McNally

Elizabeth M. McNally (born 1961) is an American geneticist and cardiologist who directs the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University, studying inherited heart and muscle disease.

Elizabeth S. Dennis

Elizabeth S. Dennis, also known as Elizabeth Dennis, is an Australian plant molecular biologist known for establishing the molecular and epigenetic basis of vernalization, the process by which cold promotes flowering.

Elizabeth S. Russell

Elizabeth S. Russell, known as "Tibby," was an American mammalian developmental geneticist who spent her career at The Jackson Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.

Elizabeth Simpson (immunologist)

Elizabeth Simpson, born 1939, is a British transplantation immunologist and Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for her work on the male-specific HY antigen.