Life and health scientists

Frank Winkler

Frank Winkler is a German neurologist and neuroscientist at Heidelberg University who helped establish cancer neuroscience through discoveries about brain tumor networks, winning the 2025 Brain Prize.

Franklin H. Epstein

Franklin H. Epstein, also known as F H Epstein, was an American nephrologist at Harvard and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, called one of the fathers of nephrology.

Franklin P. Mall

Franklin P. Mall (1862–1917) was an American anatomist and embryologist who founded human embryology in the United States and was Johns Hopkins' first professor of anatomy.

Franklin Stahl

Franklin Stahl (1929–2025) was an American molecular geneticist at the University of Oregon, known for the 1958 Meselson–Stahl experiment showing DNA replicates semiconservatively, and for decades of work on genetic recombination.

Frans Van de Werf

Frans Van de Werf is a Belgian cardiologist, emeritus professor at the University of Leuven, who pioneered thrombolytic therapy for heart attacks and led major international trials.

Frans Β. Μ. de Waal

Frans B. M. de Waal (1948–2024) was a Dutch-born primatologist at Emory University, known for Chimpanzee Politics and for showing that reconciliation, consolation, and fairness reach deep into primate evolution.

František Karel Studnička

František Karel Studnička (1870–1955) was a Czech physician, anatomist, and histologist who developed the exoplasm theory and became a founding professor of Masaryk University's medical faculty in Brno.

Franz Eilhard Schulze

Franz Eilhard Schulze (1840–1921) was a German zoologist who specialized in glass sponges, described Euplectella from Challenger material, and discovered Trichoplax adhaerens, the simplest known multicellular animal.

Franz H. Messerli

Franz H. Messerli, born 1942, is a Swiss-born cardiologist and hypertension researcher who led hypertension programs in New Orleans and New York and argued against beta-blockers as first-line therapy.

Franz Hofmann

Franz Hofmann (born 1942) is a German pharmacologist known for work on cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinases and voltage-gated calcium channels, and professor at TU Munich from 1990 to 2008.

Franz J. Ingelfinger

Franz J. Ingelfinger (1910–1980) was a German-born American gastroenterologist at Boston University who edited the New England Journal of Medicine and created the Ingelfinger rule in 1969.

Franz J. Weissing

Franz J. Weissing is a Dutch theoretical biologist and professor at the University of Groningen who uses mathematical models to study animal personalities, evolutionary game theory, and biodiversity.

Franz Josef Kallmann

Franz Josef Kallmann (1897–1965) was a German-American psychiatrist who fled Germany in 1936, led psychiatric genetics research in New York, proposed a recessive-gene model of schizophrenia, and described Kallmann syndrome.

Franz Klein (Austrian molecular biologist)

Franz Klein is an Austrian molecular biologist and retired professor at the University of Vienna whose laboratory discovered the meiotic cohesin subunit Rec8 and studies meiotic recombination in budding yeast.

Franz König

Franz König (1832–1910) was a German surgeon who held chairs of surgery at Rostock, Göttingen, and the Charité in Berlin, edited the Centralblatt für Chirurgie for thirty years, and named osteochondritis dissecans.

Franz Nissl

Franz Nissl (1860–1919) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who, as a medical student in 1884, invented the Nissl stain, revealing Nissl bodies and underpinning Brodmann's cortical map.

Franz Oesch

Franz Oesch, born 1938 in Zurich, is a Swiss pharmacologist and toxicologist known for his work on epoxide hydrolases, enzymes that handle reactive metabolites of chemical carcinogens.

Franz Schaefer

Franz Schaefer, born 1961 in Aschaffenburg, Germany, is a pediatric nephrologist who heads the pediatric nephrology division at Heidelberg University Hospital and led the ESCAPE Trial.

Franz Schrader

Franz Schrader (1891–1962) was a German-born American cytologist at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1951, known for work on chromosomes and mitosis.

Franz Volhard

Franz Volhard (1872–1950) was a German internist regarded as a father of modern nephrology and hypertension research, who replaced Bright's disease with a three-part classification of kidney disease and introduced salt restriction.

Franz von Leydig

Franz von Leydig (1821–1908) was a German zoologist and comparative anatomist, born in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, who discovered the testosterone-producing Leydig cells of the testis in 1850.

Franz–Josef Bormann

F. Herbert Bormann (Frederick Herbert Bormann) was an American ecosystem ecologist at Yale who co-founded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, whose 1974 paper documented acid rain in the northeastern United States.

Franz–Josef Neumann

Franz–Josef Neumann is a German interventional cardiologist who directed cardiology at the Heart Centre Bad Krozingen from 2001 to 2022 and chaired the 2018 ESC/EACTS revascularization guidelines.

Franziska Michor

Franziska Michor is an Austrian-born computational biologist who earned a Harvard PhD at 22, holds the Charles A. Dana Chair in Human Cancer Genetics at Dana-Farber, and models cancer evolution and drug resistance.

Frauke Melchior

Frauke Melchior is a German biochemist and molecular cell biologist who became Rector of Heidelberg University in 2023, known for work placing SUMO protein modification at the nuclear pore.

Frauke Zipp

Frauke Zipp is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist, professor and director of neurology at University Medical Center Mainz since 2009, known for multiple sclerosis research.

Fred Chang

Fred Chang is an American cell biologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on cytokinesis and cell shape in fission yeast.

Fred Dyda

Fred Dyda is a structural biologist who leads the Structural Biochemistry Section at NIH's NIDDK in Bethesda, Maryland, and determined the first structure of HIV integrase in 1994.