Life and health scientists

Arthur Karlin

Arthur Karlin (1936–2024), born in Philadelphia, was an American molecular neurobiologist and Higgins Professor at Columbia University who studied the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and devised SCAM.

Arthur Kaser

Arthur Kaser, born 1973, is a gastroenterologist and immunologist holding the University Chair of Gastroenterology at Cambridge since 2011, known for work on inflammatory bowel disease mechanisms.

Arthur Keith (scientist)

Sir Arthur Keith (1866–1955) was a Scottish anatomist and physical anthropologist, conservator of the Hunterian Museum from 1908 to 1933, best known for co-describing the sino-atrial node and for studies of fossil humans.

Arthur Kelman

Arthur Kelman (1918–2009) was an American plant pathologist, a National Academy of Sciences member known for research on bacterial wilt of tobacco, tomato, and potato.

Arthur Konnerth

Arthur Konnerth (born 1953) is a German cellular neuroscientist who pioneered in vivo two-photon calcium imaging and won the 2001 Leibniz Prize and the 2015 Brain Prize.

Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007) was an American biochemist who discovered DNA polymerase, first synthesized DNA in a test tube, and shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Arthur L. Beaudet

Arthur L. Beaudet is an American human geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine who established uniparental disomy as a disease mechanism and identified UBE3A as the Angelman syndrome gene.

Arthur L. Caplan

Arthur L. Caplan is an American bioethicist, Professor Emeritus and former head of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, who helped write national organ-donation policy.

Arthur L. Haas

Arthur L. Haas is an American biochemist who co-identified APF-1 as ubiquitin in 1980, demonstrated the ubiquitin-adenylate intermediate bound to E1, and developed covalent affinity chromatography for ubiquitin-pathway enzymes.

Arthur L. Horwich

Arthur L. Horwich is a Yale physician-scientist who discovered that protein folding inside cells requires chaperonins, work honored with the 2011 Lasker Award and 2020 Breakthrough Prize.

Arthur L. Kellermann

Arthur L. Kellermann is an American emergency medicine physician whose New England Journal of Medicine studies measured the homicide and suicide risk of a gun kept in the home.

Arthur L. Reingold

Arthur L. Reingold is an American infectious disease epidemiologist, Distinguished Professor and epidemiology division head at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2003.

Arthur L. Watkins

Arthur L. Watkins, born 1909, was an American physician who led physical medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, known for progressive-resistance exercise and New England Journal reviews.

Arthur Landy

Arthur Landy is an American biochemist and molecular biologist at Brown University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 for his work on lambda site-specific recombination.

Arthur Lawrie Tatum

Arthur Lawrie Tatum (1884–1955) was an American pharmacologist who chaired the University of Wisconsin's pharmacology department from 1929 to 1954 and presided over ASPET in 1937–1938.

Arthur Liesz

Arthur Liesz is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist, Professor for Stroke-Immunology at LMU Munich since 2020, known for research on the brain-immune interplay after stroke.

Arthur Looss

Arthur Looss (1861–1923) was a German zoologist and parasitologist who discovered that hookworm larvae infect through intact skin, and was professor of parasitology in Cairo from 1896 to 1914.

Arthur M. Feldman

Arthur M. Feldman is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at Temple University known for research on the molecular basis of heart failure and for leading the COMPANION trial.

Arthur M. Mercurio

Arthur M. Mercurio, also known as Arthur Mercurio, is an American cancer biologist and professor at UMass Chan Medical School known for establishing the α6β4 integrin's role in carcinoma invasion.

Arthur P. Arnold

Arthur P. Arnold is an American neuroendocrinologist and UCLA professor since 1976, known for the Four Core Genotypes mouse model and as founding Editor-in-Chief of Biology of Sex Differences.

Arthur P. Hall

Arthur P. Hall was a rheumatologist and physician-scientist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, known for his 1958 latex agglutination paper and 1967 Framingham gout study.

Arthur Palmer (biochemist)

Arthur G. Palmer III is an American biochemist and NMR spectroscopist at Columbia University who studies protein motion and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Arthur S. Slutsky

Arthur S. Slutsky is a Canadian pulmonary and critical-care physician-scientist at the University of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital whose research on ventilator-induced lung injury changed worldwide ARDS care.

Arthur Schatzkin

Arthur Schatzkin (1948–2011) was an American nutritional epidemiologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Nutritional Epidemiology Branch and directed the Polyp Prevention Trial and the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.

Arthur Selzer

Arthur Selzer was an American cardiologist, Chief of Cardiology at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco for twenty-five years and a clinical professor at Stanford.

Arthur Simons

Arthur Simons (1877–1942) was a German neurologist in Berlin who described tonic neck reflexes and associated movements in hemiplegic patients; deported in 1942, he was murdered in Tallinn.

Arthur Stoll

Arthur Stoll (1887–1971) was a Swiss biochemist and pharmacologist who led Sandoz's pharmaceutical research in Basel and isolated the first pure ergot alkaloid, ergotamine, in 1918.

Arthur van Gehuchten

Arthur van Gehuchten (1861–1914) was a Belgian anatomist and neurologist at Louvain who helped formulate the neuron doctrine and made the earliest surviving Belgian films.

Arthur W. Allen

Arthur W. Allen was an American surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for abdominal surgery and as president of the American College of Surgeons in 1947.