Life scientists

Alexandra Zhernakova

Alexandra Zhernakova (Александра Жернакова) is a Dutch-based microbiome and immunology researcher, full professor at University Medical Center Groningen since 2020, known for her 2016 Science study of 1,135 gut microbiomes.

Alexei Matveyevich Olovnikov

Alexei Matveyevich Olovnikov (1936–2022) was a Russian theoretical biologist and gerontologist who in 1971 and 1973 proposed that chromosome end shortening limits cell division, work later confirmed and credited by the Nobel Committee.

Alexey Amunts

Alexey Amunts is a structural biologist known for determining the structures of the mitochondrial ribosome and photosystem I, leading a research group at Stockholm University.

Alexey Khodjakov

Alexey Khodjakov is a cell biologist at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York, who studies the mitotic apparatus and is known for live-cell imaging of centrosomes.

Alexey Nesvizhskii

Alexey Nesvizhskii (Алексей Несвижский) is a bioinformatician and Godfrey Dorr Stobbe Professor at the University of Michigan, known for the MSFragger search engine and FragPipe proteomics platform.

Alexey S. Kondrashov

Alexey S. Kondrashov (Алексей Кондрашов), born 1957, is an evolutionary geneticist and University of Michigan professor emeritus whose 1988 deterministic mutation hypothesis links sex to high deleterious mutation rates.

Alexis Carrel

Alexis Carrel was a French-born surgeon and biologist at the Rockefeller Institute in New York who won the 1912 Nobel Prize for vascular suture and organ transplantation.

Alfonso Martínez Arias

Alfonso Martínez Arias is a Spanish developmental biologist who spent 37 years at the University of Cambridge and is now an ICREA Research Professor in Barcelona, known for gastruloids, stem-cell models of mammalian gastrulation.

Alfonso Mondragón

Alfonso Mondragón is a structural biologist and Ethel & John Lindgren Professor at Northwestern University, known for crystal structures of DNA topoisomerases, RNase P, and spectrin.

Alfonso Valencia

Alfonso Valencia is a Spanish computational biologist who directs the Life Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and leads the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute.

Alfred A. Antson

Alfred A. Antson, known as Fred Antson, is a structural biologist and Professor in Chemistry at the University of York who studies protein–nucleic acid interactions.

Alfred D. Hershey

Alfred D. Hershey, also known as Alfred Hershey, was an American geneticist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries about virus replication and structure.

Alfred E. Emerson

Alfred E. Emerson (1896–1976) was an American entomologist and ecologist who was the world's leading authority on termites and a professor of zoology at the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1962.

Alfred G. Knudson

Alfred G. Knudson (1922–2016) was an American medical geneticist at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia who proposed the two-hit hypothesis of cancer in 1971, predicting tumor suppressor genes.

Alfred G. Redfield

Alfred G. Redfield (1929–2019) was an American biophysicist who founded the standard theory of NMR relaxation and applied magnetic resonance to biological molecules at IBM and Brandeis University.

Alfred Gierer

Alfred Gierer, born 1929 in Berlin, is a German biophysicist who co-authored the 1972 Gierer–Meinhardt model of biological pattern formation and directed research at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen.

Alfred Goldsborough Mayor

Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, born Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, was an American marine zoologist who classified jellyfish and coral reefs and founded the Tortugas Laboratory, the first tropical marine laboratory in the Western Hemisphere.

Alfred J. Lewy

Alfred J. Lewy is an American physician-scientist in psychiatry who spent his career at Oregon Health & Science University studying the human circadian clock, showing that light suppresses melatonin.

Alfred Jost

Alfred Jost (1916–1991) was a French endocrinologist who discovered anti-Müllerian hormone through fetal rabbit experiments showing maleness is imposed by the testis, and later taught at the Collège de France.

Alfred Kohn

Alfred Kohn (1867–1959) was a Czech histologist who headed the Institute of Histology at the German University in Prague and first established the parathyroids as an independent endocrine organ.

Alfred Kühn

Alfred Kühn (1885–1968) was a German zoologist and geneticist who built the first experimentally traced reaction chain from gene to phenotype, working on the flour moth Ephestia kühniella.

Alfred L. Goldberg

Alfred L. Goldberg, known as Fred Goldberg, was an American cell biologist and biochemist at Harvard Medical School who discovered and named the proteasome and died in 2023.

Alfred Mathieu Giard

Alfred Mathieu Giard (1846–1908) was a French zoologist who defined parasitic castration, founded the marine laboratory at Wimereux, held the Sorbonne's evolution chair from 1892, and led French neo-Lamarckism.

Alfred Mirsky

Alfred Mirsky (1900–1974) was an American biochemist who spent his career at the Rockefeller Institute, demonstrating DNA constancy and proposing histone modification as a gene-regulation mechanism.

Alfred Newton

Alfred Newton (1829–1907) was an English zoologist and ornithologist, the first Professor of Zoology at Cambridge, who studied extinct birds and drove early British bird protection laws.

Alfred Nordheim

Alfred Nordheim is a German molecular and cell biologist known for Z-DNA research and the transcription factor SRF, holding the molecular biology chair at the University of Tübingen from 1996 to 2020.

Alfred Singer

Alfred Singer is an immunologist and Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, known for his work on T cell development and thymic selection.

Alfred Sturtevant

Alfred Sturtevant (1891–1970) was an American geneticist who, as a Columbia undergraduate in 1913, constructed the first genetic linkage map of a chromosome, working in Thomas Hunt Morgan's fruit fly laboratory and later at Caltech.