Life and health scientists

Norman F. Boyd

Norman F. Boyd, also cited as Norman Boyd, is a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Toronto known for establishing mammographic density as a breast cancer risk factor.

Norman Geschwind (1926–1984) was an American neurologist and Harvard professor who founded modern behavioral neurology; his 1965 papers on disconnexion syndromes and his work on brain asymmetry shaped clinical practice for two decades.

Norman Giles

Norman Giles (1915–2006) was an American geneticist, a pioneer of radiation cytology and Neurospora genetics whose quinic acid gene cluster work laid groundwork for recombinant DNA.

Norman Gregg

Sir Norman McAlister Gregg (1892–1966) was an Australian ophthalmologist in Sydney who in 1941 first linked maternal rubella to congenital defects, leading to rubella vaccination.

Norman H. Bell

Norman H. Bell is an American endocrinology researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina who studied vitamin D metabolism and bone mass in Black adults.

Norman H. Edelman

Norman H. Edelman is an American pulmonologist and breathing-control researcher, professor at Stony Brook University and former dean at Robert Wood Johnson and Stony Brook medical schools.

Norman Heatley

Norman George Heatley was a British biochemist at Oxford who devised the assay, extraction, and culture methods that made penicillin mass production possible in 1940–41.

Norman K. Hollenberg

Norman K. Hollenberg (1936–2020) was a Winnipeg-born nephrologist and hypertension researcher at Harvard whose work on the renin-angiotensin system shaped ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers.

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Norman Kretchmer

Norman Kretchmer (1923–1995) was an American physician-scientist in infant nutrition and developmental biochemistry, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and UCSF, and editor in chief of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Norman L. Letvin

Norman L. Letvin (1949–2012) was an American virologist and immunologist, a Harvard Medical School professor who discovered SIV and established the rhesus macaque model that shaped HIV vaccine testing.

Norman M. Kaplan

Norman M. Kaplan (1931–2020) was an American physician-scientist in hypertension who founded and led the hypertension program at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and wrote Kaplan's Clinical Hypertension, the field's most authoritative textbook.

Norman Myers

Norman Myers (1934–2019) was a British conservation scientist who originated the biodiversity hotspots framework and was among the first to argue a mass extinction was underway.

Norman P. Salzman

Norman P. Salzman was an American biochemist and molecular virologist who led the Laboratory of Biology of Viruses at NIH and was a founding editor of the Journal of Virology.

Norman Pirie

Norman Wingate Pirie (1907–1997) was a British biochemist who, with Frederick Bawden, showed that tobacco mosaic virus contains RNA, and later promoted leaf protein as food.

Norman R. Klinman

Norman R. Klinman (1937–2010) was an American immunologist at The Scripps Research Institute known for the splenic focus assay and studies of B cell tolerance.

Norman R. Pace

Norman R. Pace is an American molecular biologist, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for showing RNA acts as a catalyst and for sequencing-based surveys of microbial diversity.

Norman S. Talner

Norman S. Talner (1925–2017) was an American pediatric cardiologist who built the pediatric cardiology program at Yale and later taught at Duke, helping develop fetal echocardiography.

Norman Sharpe

Norman Sharpe is a New Zealand cardiologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Auckland whose 1980s trials showed ACE inhibitors prevent ventricular enlargement after heart attack.

Norman Sharpless

Norman E. Sharpless is an American oncologist and aging researcher who directed the National Cancer Institute from 2017 to 2022 and was acting FDA commissioner in 2019.

Norman Talal

Norman Talal (1934–2015) was an American physician-scientist and immunologist known for showing that Sjögren's syndrome lymphomas are monoclonal B-cell neoplasms and for a lupus DNA-binding test.

Norman Wolmark

Norman Wolmark is an American surgical oncologist who succeeded Bernard Fisher as NSABP chairman in 1994 and leads NRG Oncology, designing landmark breast and colorectal cancer trials.

Norman Zamcheck

Norman Zamcheck was an American gastroenterologist and cancer researcher at Boston City Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for his work on the CEA tumor marker.

Norton B. Gilula

Norton B. Gilula (1944–2000) was an American cell and molecular biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for work on gap junctions and connexin genes.

Norton D. Zinder

Norton D. Zinder (1928–2012) was an American molecular geneticist who discovered transduction in Salmonella and the first RNA-containing bacteriophages, spending his career at Rockefeller University.

Nosratola D. Vaziri

Nosratola D. Vaziri is an American nephrologist at UC Irvine who led its nephrology division for 34 years and studies oxidative stress and gut microbes in kidney disease.

Nouria Hernandez

Nouria Hernandez is a Swiss molecular biologist known for establishing how vertebrate snRNA genes are transcribed by two RNA polymerases and co-discovering SNAPc; she was rector of the University of Lausanne.

Nubia Muñoz

Nubia Muñoz (Nubia Muñoz Calero) is a Colombian epidemiologist whose international case-control studies established HPV as the necessary cause of cervical cancer, the basis for HPV vaccines and global prevention.

Nuha A. ElSayed

Nuha A. ElSayed, also known as Nuha El-Sayed, is an endocrinologist and diabetologist who is senior vice president of health care improvement at the American Diabetes Association and teaches at Harvard Medical School.

Nuno Faria

Nuno R. Faria is a Portuguese virus genomic epidemiologist at Imperial College London, known for genomic studies of HIV-1 and real-time Zika analysis in Brazil.