Life and health scientists

Frederic D. Bushman

Frederic D. Bushman is an American molecular biologist at the University of Pennsylvania known for mapping where HIV integrates into the human genome and for microbiome research.

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.

Frédéric J. Baud

Frédéric J. Baud (F. Baud) is a French clinical toxicologist and intensive care professor whose NEJM papers established antidotes and treatments for severe drug poisoning.

Frederic J. de Sauvage is a Belgian molecular oncologist who co-cloned thrombopoietin in 1994, advanced Hedgehog pathway cancer research at Genentech, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Frederic Lewy

Frederic Lewy, born Fritz Heinrich Jakob Lewy (1885–1950), was a German-American neurologist who in 1912 described the brain-cell inclusions in Parkinson's disease that other researchers named Lewy bodies after him.

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 Martinon

Frédéric Martinon is a French immunology researcher whose 1993 paper was the first use of in vitro-transcribed mRNA as a vaccine, tested against influenza in mice.

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. Goetz

Frederick C. Goetz (1922–2012) was an American diabetologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School who directed the UGDP diabetes trial clinic and helped bring kidney and pancreas transplantation to diabetic patients.

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 E. Dewey

Frederick E. Dewey is a cardiologist and human geneticist who trained at Stanford and led translational genetics at the Regeneron Genetics Center, studying rare gene variants as drug targets.

Frederick Forchheimer

Frederick Forchheimer (1853–1913) was a Cincinnati physician who became a founder of American pediatrics, described Forchheimer spots in German measles in 1898, and edited the four-volume Therapeusis of Internal Diseases.

Frederick G. Hayden

Frederick G. Hayden is an American clinical virologist and emeritus professor at the University of Virginia who helped develop seven approved influenza antiviral drugs and co-edits Clinical Virology.

Frederick G. Zak

Frederick G. Zak, born Friedrich Zak, was an Austrian-born American pathologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, known for tumor pathology and the paraganglionic chemoreceptor system.

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 Griffith

Frederick Griffith (died 1941) was a British bacteriologist at the Ministry of Health's London laboratory who in 1928 reported bacterial transformation, the heritable change whose agent, identified as DNA in 1944, began molecular genetics.

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 H. Bormann

Frederick H. Bormann, also published as F. Herbert Bormann, was an American forest ecologist at Yale who co-founded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study and co-discovered North American acid rain.

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 K. Goodwin

Frederick K. Goodwin (1936–2020) was an American psychiatrist and psychopharmacology researcher who coauthored the standard textbook Manic-Depressive Illness, led NIMH, and championed lithium for bipolar disorder.