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Fritz H. Schroder

Fritz H. Schröder is a German-born urologist who chaired urology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and initiated the European Randomized study of Screening for Prostate Cancer.

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 Juliusberg

Fritz Juliusberg (1872–1939) was a German dermatologist born in Breslau who first described pityriasis lichenoides chronica in 1899; he lost his license under the Nazis and died in Berlin in 1939.

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 Mietzsch

Fritz Mietzsch was a German chemist at IG Farben's Elberfeld works, later a Direktor at Bayer, who co-synthesized Prontosil in 1932 and helped prepare Atabrine, a quinine substitute.

Fritz R. Bühler

Fritz R. Bühler (1940–2017) was a Swiss cardiologist and hypertension researcher who built the hypertension division at University Hospital Basel and helped match blood-pressure drugs to patients.

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.

Fritz Vollrath

Fritz Vollrath is an evolutionary biologist and Emeritus Professor of zoology at the University of Oxford, known for research on spider webs and silks and for co-founding Oxford Biomaterials.

Fuller Albright

Fuller Albright (1900–1969) was an American endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who built the modern clinical study of calcium metabolism and metabolic bone disease, coining postmenopausal osteoporosis.

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.

Fumiaki Marumo

Fumiaki Marumo (丸茂 文昭) is a Japanese nephrologist at Tokyo Medical and Dental University known for showing that urinary aquaporin-2 excretion indexes vasopressin action on the kidney.

Fumimaro Takaku

Fumimaro Takaku (髙久 史麿) was a Japanese physician-scientist in hematology known for colony-stimulating factor trials and oncogene studies in myelodysplastic syndrome; he died in 2022.

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.

Funda Meric-Bernstam

Funda Meric-Bernstam is a physician-scientist and surgical oncologist who chairs Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, MD Anderson's Phase I program, known for antibody-drug conjugate trials and precision oncology.

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. Denman Hammond

G. Denman Hammond was an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at USC and Children's Hospital Los Angeles whose leadership of the Children's Cancer Group from 1968 to 1992 improved childhood leukemia survival.

G. Di Chiara

Gaetano Di Chiara, born in Cagliari in 1951, is an Italian pharmacologist and neuroscientist known for research on dopamine and the neurobiology of drug addiction.

G. Evelyn Hutchinson

G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903–1991) was an English-born American ecologist at Yale University, known for niche theory, limnology, and being called the father of modern ecology.

G. Frederick Wooten

G. Frederick Wooten is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, a Parkinson's disease researcher who chaired its neurology department from 1989 to 2007.

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. Michael Felker

G. Michael Felker is an American cardiologist at Duke University who leads clinical trials in heart failure and served as President of the Heart Failure Society of America.