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George E. Palade
George E. Palade was a Romanian-born American cell biologist, widely called the founder of modern cell biology, who discovered ribosomes and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
George Engelmann
George Engelmann (1809–1884) was a German-born American physician and botanist in St. Louis, Missouri, known for monographs on the cacti, conifers, oaks, and grape vines of western North America.
George F. Sprague
George Frederick Sprague was an American corn geneticist who spent 48 years with the USDA at Ames, Iowa, creating the Iowa Stiff Stalk Synthetic germplasm.
George Francis Atkinson
George Francis Atkinson (1854–1918) was an American mycologist and botanist who led Cornell University's botany department from 1896, described almost 300 fungal taxa, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1918.
George H. Elder
George H. Elder is an Emeritus Professor of Medical Biochemistry at Cardiff University whose research defined the biochemistry and management of the porphyrias, inherited disorders of haem biosynthesis.
George H. Lorimer
George H. Lorimer is a biochemist who worked out the reaction mechanism of Rubisco, the enzyme that fixes carbon dioxide in photosynthesis, and helped discover GroE chaperonin protein folding.
George H. McCracken
George H. McCracken Jr. was a pediatric infectious diseases researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who shaped the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of childhood meningitis.
George Hajishengallis
George Hajishengallis (Georgios Hajishengallis) is an immunologist and periodontal researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the keystone pathogen hypothesis and for linking periodontitis to systemic inflammatory disease.
George Hirst
George Hirst (1909–1994) was an American virologist who discovered in 1941 that influenza virus clumps red blood cells, giving a quantitative measure of the virus.
George Howard Parker
George Howard Parker was an American zoologist and comparative physiologist at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1913, known for his work on animal color change and neurohumors.
George J. Todaro
George J. Todaro (born 1937) is an American virologist and cancer researcher who established the NIH 3T3 cell line and proposed the 1969 oncogene hypothesis at the National Cancer Institute.
George Joseph Popják
George Joseph Popják (1914–1998) was a Hungarian-born biochemist who, with John W. Cornforth, worked out the reactions forming squalene, the precursor of cholesterol, and pioneered radioisotopic studies of metabolism in Britain.
George K. Aghajanian
George K. Aghajanian (1932–2023) was an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist at Yale who made the first recordings of serotonin and dopamine neurons in the living brain.
George K. Davis
George Kelso Davis (1910–2004) was an American animal and nutritional scientist at the University of Florida, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
George Khoury (molecular biologist)
George Khoury (1943–1987) was an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute who produced the first transcription map of an animal virus and identified genetic enhancers.
George Koob
George F. Koob is an American neuroscientist known for establishing the neurobiology of drug and alcohol addiction and for directing the NIAAA at NIH since 2014.
George Ledyard Stebbins
George Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000) was an American botanist and geneticist who extended the modern evolutionary synthesis to plants through his 1950 book Variation and Evolution in Plants.
George Lincoln Goodale
George Lincoln Goodale (1839–1923) was an American botanist and Harvard professor known for Physiological Botany (1885) and for building Harvard's botanical museum around the Blaschka glass models of plants.
George Linius Streeter
George Linius Streeter (1873–1948) was an American embryologist who directed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology from 1917 to 1940 and devised the developmental horizons for staging early human embryos.
George M. Church
George M. Church is an American geneticist and Harvard Medical School professor whose lab's methods underlie next-generation sequencing and whose 2013 work helped establish CRISPR-Cas9 in human cells.
George M. Shaw
George M. Shaw is an American virologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the first molecular clones of HIV-1 and its quasispecies structure.
George M. Weinstock
George M. Weinstock is an American geneticist who co-led the Human Genome Project at Baylor College of Medicine and later directed microbial genomics at the Jackson Laboratory.
George Melchers
George Melchers (Johann Georg Friedrich Melchers, 1906–1997) was a German plant biologist who spent about 30 years at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen and pioneered protoplast fusion.
George N. Pavlakis
George N. Pavlakis is a virologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Human Retrovirus Section until 2021, known for mammalian-cell hormone production and codon/RNA optimization used in vaccines.
George Oster
George Oster, also known as George F. Oster, was an American mathematical biologist and biophysicist at UC Berkeley who modeled cells as mechanochemical machines and the ATP synthase motor.
George P. Hess
George P. Hess (1922–2015) was an American biochemist who spent 60 years at Cornell University developing rapid chemical-kinetic techniques that made neurotransmitter receptors measurable on millisecond time scales.
George Perkins Clinton
George Perkins Clinton (1867–1937) was an American botanist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station from 1902 to 1937, known for his monographs on the smut fungi of North America and Connecticut.
George Q. Daley
George Q. Daley, also known as George Daley, is an American physician-scientist and dean of Harvard Medical School known for stem cell science and cancer biology.
George R. Fraser
George R. Fraser, also known as George Robert Fraser, is a human geneticist born in 1932 who delineated Fraser syndrome and studied deafness and blindness in childhood.
George R. Minot
George R. Minot, also known as George Richards Minot, was an American Harvard physician whose liver diet reversed pernicious anemia, earning the 1934 Nobel Prize.