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Max Essex
Max Essex, born Myron Essex in 1939, is an American virologist at Harvard who helped establish HIV as the cause of AIDS and chairs the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute.
Max F. Perutz
Max F. Perutz (1914–2002) was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist and crystallographer who determined the structure of hemoglobin and shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Kendrew.
Max Harry Weil
Max Harry Weil, also known as Max H. Weil, was a Swiss-born American physician regarded as a father of critical care medicine, coining the specialty's name.
Max Hartmann
Max Hartmann (1876–1962) was a German zoologist and protistologist who directed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin-Dahlem and proposed the law of relative sexuality.
Max Kleiber
Max Kleiber (1893–1976) was a Swiss-born agricultural chemist and animal physiologist at UC Davis who showed in 1932 that mammal metabolic rate scales with body weight to the 3/4 power, known as Kleiber's law.
Max L. Birnstiel
Max L. Birnstiel (1933–2014) was a Brazilian-born, Swiss-based molecular biologist who purified the first single genes by physical methods and founded the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.
Max M. Burger
Max M. Burger (1933–2019) was a Swiss biochemist and cell biologist known for showing that cancer cell surfaces differ in lectin binding, and director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel from 1987 to 2000.
Max Neuburger
Max Neuburger (1868–1955) was an Austrian physician and historian of medicine who founded one of the world's first institutes for the history of medicine, in Vienna.
Max Nieuwdorp
Max Nieuwdorp (born 1977) is a Dutch internist-endocrinologist and professor at Amsterdam UMC whose research links the gut microbiome to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease.
Max Nonne
Max Nonne (1861–1959) was a German neurologist in Hamburg who built the Eppendorf neurological university clinic, introduced the Nonne-Apelt cerebrospinal-fluid test, and dominated the World War I debate on war neuroses.
Max Rubner
Max Rubner (1854–1932) was a German physiologist and hygienist, founder of scientific nutrition physiology, who determined the metabolizable energy of nutrients and formulated the law of surface area.
Max S. Wicha
Max S. Wicha is an American oncologist and cancer biologist at the University of Michigan whose lab was part of the team that first identified breast cancer stem cells.
Max Theiler
Max Theiler was a South African-born virologist at the Rockefeller Foundation who developed the 17D yellow fever vaccine, winning the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Max Verworn
Max Verworn (1863–1921) was a German physiologist who helped establish general physiology, held chairs at Jena, Göttingen, and Bonn, and proposed the controversial Biogen hypothesis of life.
Max von Gruber
Max von Gruber (1853–1927) was an Austrian bacteriologist and hygienist who co-discovered bacterial agglutination in 1896, founding serology and the Gruber–Widal test for typhoid fever, and later championed race hygiene.
Maxence V. Nachury
Maxence V. Nachury is a French-trained cell biologist and professor of Ophthalmology at UCSF since 2017, known for discovering the BBSome, a protein complex linked to Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
Maxime Dougados
Maxime Dougados is a French rheumatologist, professor at Université Paris Cité, who led rheumatology at Hôpital Cochin from 1995 to 2018 and served as EULAR president.
Maxime Schwartz
Maxime Schwartz, born in 1940, is a French molecular biologist who researched positive transcriptional regulation in bacteria and directed the Institut Pasteur from 1988 to 1999.
Maxime Seligmann
Maxime Seligmann (1927–2010) was a French physician-immunologist at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, known for describing heavy chain disease, defining B-cell and T-cell markers in lymphoid malignancies, and organizing French AIDS research.
Maximilian J. Telford
Maximilian J. Telford, known as Max Telford, is an evolutionary biologist who holds the Jodrell Professorship of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College London; his 2006 Nature paper established the phylum Xenoturbellida.
Maximilian Muenke
Maximilian Muenke is a German-born American medical geneticist who identified genetic causes of craniosynostosis and holoprosencephaly, and led the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics from 2019.
Maximilian Nierenstein
Maximilian Nierenstein, born Moses Nierenstein, was a Baltic German-born tannin chemist and biochemist at the University of Bristol, known for the 1915 Nierenstein reaction and for proposing the name Vitamine.
Maxine L. Linial
Maxine L. Linial is an American virologist and Professor Emeritus at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, known for her work on retroviral RNA packaging and foamy viruses.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer (1931–2024) was an American molecular biologist who worked on the genetic code at NIH, co-organized the 1975 Asilomar conference, and led the Carnegie Institution.
Maxwell Finland
Maxwell Finland (1902–1987) was an American infectious disease specialist at Harvard and Boston City Hospital and the first president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Maxwell Wintrobe
Maxwell Wintrobe (1901–1986) was a Canadian-trained American hematologist who devised the hematocrit method and red cell indices, wrote Clinical Hematology, and founded the University of Utah's department of medicine.
May Mellanby
May Mellanby, born May Tweedy, was a British medical physiologist whose 1920s and 1930s feeding trials showed that vitamin D-rich, cereal-poor diets reduce cavities in children.
May R. Berenbaum
May R. Berenbaum is an American entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for work on chemical coevolution of plants and insects and for honey bee health research.
May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser, born 1963 in Fosnavåg, Norway, is a neuroscientist at NTNU in Trondheim known for the discovery of grid cells and a 2014 Nobel Prize.
Maya Saleh
Maya Saleh is a Canadian immunologist who studies innate immunity, inflammasomes, and cell death, and has been a Full Professor at INRS Armand-Frappier in Laval, Québec since 2023.