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Frederic Geissmann

Frédéric Geissmann is a French immunologist and Professor of Immunology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2015, known for showing tissue macrophages arise from yolk-sac progenitors.

Frédéric H.‐T. Allain

Frédéric H.-T. Allain is a Swiss structural biologist and full professor at ETH Zurich who uses NMR spectroscopy to determine how proteins recognize RNA in splicing and RNA editing.

Frederic M. Richards

Frederic M. Richards (1925–2009) was an American structural biologist and biophysicist at Yale, known for the 1958 RNase S reconstitution experiment and the solvent-accessible surface area concept.

Frédéric Rieux‐Laucat

Frédéric Rieux-Laucat is a French immunologist and Inserm research director at the Imagine Institute in Paris, known for identifying the first genetic cause of human autoimmunity.

Frédéric Saudou

Frédéric Saudou is a French cellular and molecular neuroscientist known for defining how the huntingtin protein controls intracellular transport and neuronal survival in Huntington's disease.

Frederic Vester

Frederic Vester (1925–2003) was a German biochemist turned biocybernetician, called the father of networked thinking, who founded a Munich research institute in 1970 and wrote 17 books including bestsellers translated into 11 languages.

Frederick Banting

Frederick Grant Banting (1891–1941), Canadian physician who co-discovered insulin at the University of Toronto in 1921 with Best, Macleod, and Collip; won the 1923 Nobel Prize, shared its money with Best, and died in a 1941 plane crash.

Frederick Blackman

Frederick Frost Blackman (1866–1947) was a British botanist at Cambridge who founded quantitative plant physiology in England and formulated the principle of limiting factors in 1905.

Frederick C. Battaglia

Frederick C. Battaglia is an American perinatal physiologist at the University of Colorado, known for measuring how the placenta delivers amino acids and oxygen to the fetus.

Frederick C. Robbins

Frederick C. Robbins, also known as Frederick Chapman Robbins, was an American pediatrician and virologist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize for growing poliovirus in tissue culture.

Frederick Charles Bawden

Frederick Charles Bawden (1908–1972) was a British plant pathologist and virologist who, with Norman Pirie, established that plant viruses contain RNA, and directed Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1958 until his death.

Frederick George Novy

Frederick George Novy (1864–1957) was an American bacteriologist and physiological chemist at the University of Michigan, a pioneer of laboratory teaching in bacteriology and discoverer of Clostridium novyi.

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist at Cambridge who shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Christiaan Eijkman for the discovery of vitamins.

Frederick Grinnell

Frederick Grinnell (born 1945) is an American cell biologist, the Robert McLemore Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, known for fibronectin research and wound contraction studies.

Frederick Gugenheim Gregory

Frederick Gugenheim Gregory, born Fritz Gugenheim, was a British plant physiologist who spent his career at Imperial College London and introduced "net assimilation rate" in 1926.

Frederick J. Sigworth

Frederick J. Sigworth is an American biophysicist, Professor Emeritus of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale, who helped develop patch-clamp recording of single ion channels.

Frederick M. Ausubel

Frederick M. Ausubel is an American molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital known for studies of host-microbe interactions and innate immunity.

Frederick M. Hughson

Frederick M. Hughson is a Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University who determines the structures of protein complexes that cells use to move cargo between compartments.

Frederick Orpen Bower

Frederick Orpen Bower (1855–1948) was a British botanist and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow, known for his study of primitive land plants.

Frederick P. Roth

Frederick P. Roth is an American computational biologist, chair of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, known for network biology and causal gene selection.

Frederick P. Siegal

Frederick P. Siegal (F. P. Siegal) is an American clinical immunologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, known for describing some of the first AIDS cases in 1981.

Frederick Parker Gay

Frederick Parker Gay (1874–1939) was an American bacteriologist and immunologist who held Columbia's bacteriology chair from 1923 and defined immunology as a distinct scientific discipline in 1911.

Frederick R. Blattner

Frederick R. Blattner is a geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who led the sequencing of the first complete Escherichia coli genome, published in 1997.

Frederick R. Cross

Frederick R. Cross is a cell biologist at The Rockefeller University in New York who studies how cyclins and CDKs drive the cell cycle in budding yeast.

Frederick R. Maxfield

Frederick R. Maxfield is a biochemist and the Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine since 1995, known for work on endocytosis and intracellular cholesterol transport.

Frederick S. Kaplan

Frederick S. Kaplan is an American physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, codiscovered its causative gene in 2006, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2009.

Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger (1918–2013) was a British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 for determining insulin's structure and in 1980 for DNA sequencing.

Frederick W. Alt

Frederick W. Alt is an American immunologist, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator since 1987, and Harvard professor known for work on V(D)J recombination and genome stability.

Frederick W. Dahlquist

Frederick W. Dahlquist is a biochemist and biophysicist, Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara since 2004, known for using NMR to study protein structure and bacterial chemotaxis signaling.

Frederik L. Hisaw

Frederik L. Hisaw, also known as Frederick Lee Hisaw, was an American endocrinologist and professor of zoology at Harvard University, best known for discovering the hormone relaxin, which widens the pelvis during pregnancy.