Life scientists

Fredrik Bäckhed

Fredrik Bäckhed is a Swedish microbiome researcher and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Gothenburg, known for showing how gut bacteria affect fat storage and insulin signaling.

Fredrik Höök is a biophysicist and professor of nano and biophysics at Chalmers University of Technology, known for developing QCM-D, nanoplasmonic sensing, and two-dimensional flow nanometry of biological nanoparticles.

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Fredrik Leeb-Lundberg

L. M. Fredrik Leeb-Lundberg is a pharmacologist and professor emeritus of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University, known for his work on G protein-coupled receptors in cancer.

Friedhelm Hildebrandt

Friedhelm Hildebrandt, M.D., is a pediatric nephrologist and geneticist who is chief of nephrology at Boston Children's Hospital and a Harvard professor, known for identifying single-gene causes of inherited childhood kidney disease.

Friedrich Bonhoeffer

Friedrich Bonhoeffer (1932–2021) was a German developmental neuroscientist, trained as a nuclear physicist, who showed how retinal axons find their targets and led a Max Planck institute in Tübingen.

Friedrich Grummt

Friedrich Grummt was a German molecular biologist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Würzburg who showed that purine nucleotide pools control ribosomal RNA synthesis.

Friedrich Reinitzer

Friedrich Reinitzer (1857–1927) was an Austrian botanist and chemist in Prague and Graz whose 1888 observation of cholesteryl benzoate's double melting point founded the field of liquid crystals.

Friedrich Sigmund Merkel

Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (1845–1919) was a German anatomist and histopathologist who in 1875 first described the touch cells of the skin, now called Merkel cells; the skin cancer Merkel cell carcinoma also bears his name.

Fritiof Holmgren

Fritiof Holmgren (Alarik Frithiof Holmgren) was a Swedish physiologist at Uppsala University who in 1866 reported electrical changes in the eye and invented a wool-skein test for color blindness.

Fritjof Helmchen

Fritjof Helmchen is a German systems neuroscientist, Professor of Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Brain Research Institute at the University of Zurich, known for two-photon imaging of the living brain.

Frits Warmolt Went

Frits Warmolt Went (1903–1990) was a Dutch-American plant physiologist whose 1926 oat coleoptile experiment first demonstrated auxin, and who built the first phytotron at Caltech.

Fritz Baltzer

Fritz Baltzer (1884–1974) was a Swiss zoologist and embryologist, professor at Bern, known for newt and salamander hybrid merogone experiments on how nucleus and cytoplasm direct development.

Fritz J. Sedlazeck

Fritz J. Sedlazeck is a computational genomicist and Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center, known for the open-source long-read tools NGMLR and Sniffles.

Fritz Lipmann

Fritz Lipmann (Fritz Albert Lipmann) was a German-born American biochemist who discovered coenzyme A in 1945 and shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, later teaching at Harvard and Rockefeller.

Fritz Melchers

Fritz Melchers (Georg Friedrich Melchers, 1936–2025) was a German immunologist who directed the Basel Institute for Immunology from 1980 to 2001 and discovered the surrogate light chain in B cell development.

Fritz Rottman

Fritz Rottman is an American molecular biologist who discovered the m6A modification of messenger RNA in 1974 and chaired a department at Case Western Reserve University.

Fritz Schaudinn

Fritz Schaudinn was a German zoologist who identified the cause of syphilis in 1905, proved an amoeba causes human dysentery, and named the malaria parasite's stages, dying at 34 from his own self-infection experiments.

Fritz Schønheyder

Fritz Schønheyder was a Danish physician and biochemist who, working with Henrik Dam, helped discover vitamin K in 1934 and later held the biochemistry chair at Aarhus University.

Fritz Thoma

Fritz Thoma is a molecular biologist known for decades of work on chromatin structure, nucleosome positioning, and DNA repair in yeast at ETH Zurich, including landmark papers in Cell.

Fuller W. Bazer

Fuller W. Bazer is an American animal scientist and reproductive biologist at Texas A&M who identified the pregnancy recognition signals in pigs and ruminants, winning the 2003 Wolf Prize.

Fumio Hanaoka

Fumio Hanaoka (花岡文雄) is a Japanese molecular biologist whose 1999 identification of DNA polymerase η explained how cells bypass ultraviolet DNA damage, after professorships at Osaka University and RIKEN.

Fumio Imamoto

Fumio Imamoto (今本文男) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for work on the tryptophan operon, messenger RNA degradation, and transcription-translation coupling in E. coli.

Fuyuki Ishikawa

Fuyuki Ishikawa is a Japanese physician-scientist with an M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, known for identifying the mammalian telomerase protein component TLP1 in 1997 and for telomere research in fission yeast.

Fyodor Kondrashov

Fyodor A. Kondrashov (Фёдор Кондрашов, born 1979) is an evolutionary and synthetic biologist, professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, known for work on fitness landscapes and epistasis.

G. Arthur Cooper

G. Arthur Cooper (Gustav Arthur Cooper, 1902–2000) was an American paleobiologist who spent 57 years at the Smithsonian building the world's greatest brachiopod collection and coauthoring Permian Brachiopods of West Texas.

G. Balakrish Nair

G. Balakrish Nair, born 1954, is an Indian microbiologist who discovered the cholera serogroup Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal and received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1998.

G. Charles Dismukes

G. Charles Dismukes is a chemist in bioinorganic chemistry and solar fuels who joined Rutgers University as a Distinguished Professor in 2009, known for work on photosynthetic water oxidation.

G. Marius Clore

G. Marius Clore, also known as Marius Clore, is a London-born biophysicist at the NIH known for pioneering 3D protein structure determination by solution NMR spectroscopy.

G. Paolo Dotto

Gian Paolo Dotto is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Lausanne, known for work on Notch signaling and field cancerization.