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Thomas Addis

Thomas Addis (1881–1949) was a Scottish-born physician and clinical researcher who spent most of his career at Stanford University, quantified the study of kidney disease, and introduced the Addis count.

Thomas B. Casale

Thomas B. Casale is an American allergist and immunologist whose trials established omalizumab for allergic asthma and chronic urticaria; he led the AAAAI from 2007 to 2008.

Thomas B. Fitzpatrick

Thomas B. Fitzpatrick (1919–2003) was an American dermatologist who led dermatology at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital from 1959, discovered the melanosome, developed PUVA photochemotherapy, and created the Fitzpatrick skin phototype scale.

Thomas B. Friedman

Thomas B. Friedman is an American human geneticist who has identified many genes causing hereditary deafness and blindness, including PCDH15, and leads a genetics laboratory at the NIH.

Thomas B. Kornberg

Thomas B. Kornberg is an American developmental geneticist and professor emeritus at UCSF who discovered E. coli DNA polymerases as a student and later cytonemes in Drosophila.

Thomas B. L. Kirkwood

Thomas B. L. Kirkwood, born 1951, is a British mathematical biologist who proposed the disposable soma theory of aging in 1977 and is Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University.

Thomas B. Nutman

Thomas B. Nutman is a physician-scientist at the NIH Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases who studies immune responses to parasitic worms and directs field research in India and Mali.

Thomas Barbour

Thomas Barbour (1884–1946) was an American herpetologist and zoologist who directed Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1927 to 1946, specializing in West Indian reptiles and amphibians.

Thomas Becker (biochemist)

Thomas Becker is a German biochemist who studies how mitochondria import and quality-control their proteins, and has been a professor at the University of Bonn since 2020.

Thomas Benzing

Thomas Benzing is a German nephrologist and physician-scientist, chairman of internal medicine at the University of Cologne since 2007, known for work on podocyte biology and glomerular disease.

Thomas Bieber

Thomas Bieber is a German dermatologist and allergologist, long a professor at the University of Bonn, known for his influential 2008 NEJM review of atopic dermatitis.

Thomas Blankenstein

Thomas Blankenstein is a German cancer immunologist at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin known for humanized mice that yield T-cell receptors for cancer therapy.

Thomas Blumenthal

Thomas Blumenthal is an American molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for discovering the first eukaryotic operons, in C. elegans.

Thomas Bodenheimer

Thomas Bodenheimer is an American general internist and health services researcher at UC San Francisco known for his New England Journal of Medicine analyses of US health care.

Thomas Boehm (German immunologist)

Thomas Boehm, born in 1956, is a German immunologist who directed the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg from 1998 to 2024.

Thomas Boller

Thomas Boller (born 1949) is a Swiss plant biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Basel, known for showing that plant chitinases inhibit fungal growth.

Thomas Braun

Thomas Braun (born 1961) is a German physician-scientist who studies muscle and heart development and regeneration at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research.

Thomas Brushfield

Thomas Brushfield (1858–1937) was an English psychiatrist in intellectual disability, remembered for Brushfield spots, the iris sign of Down syndrome, described in his 1924 paper.

Thomas C. Chalmers

Thomas C. Chalmers, also known as Thomas Chalmers, was an American physician and clinical epidemiologist who pioneered randomized controlled trials and meta-analysis in clinical medicine.

Thomas C. Kaufman

Thomas C. Kaufman is an American developmental geneticist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, known for defining the Antennapedia gene complex of the fruit fly Drosophila and helping found FlyBase.

Thomas C. Merigan

Thomas C. Merigan, born 1934, is an American physician-scientist and virologist, emeritus professor at Stanford known for introducing interferon therapy and developing antiviral drugs against HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B.

Thomas C. Quinn

Thomas C. Quinn is an American infectious-diseases physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins who was among the first to identify the AIDS epidemic and HIV in Africa.

Thomas C. Südhof

Thomas C. Südhof is a German-born American biochemist at Stanford who identified the calcium sensor for neurotransmitter release and shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Thomas C. Wright

Thomas C. Wright, Jr. is an American gynecological pathologist and Columbia professor emeritus whose trials of HPV testing and vinegar-based screening in South Africa shaped WHO cervical-cancer guidelines.

Thomas Carew

Thomas J. Carew, born in 1944, is an American neuroscientist at New York University known for showing that memory in the sea slug Aplysia has distinct short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term phases.

Thomas Cavalier‐Smith

Thomas Cavalier-Smith (1942–2021) was a British biologist who proposed new branches of the tree of life, defined the kingdom Chromista in 1981, and held the evolutionary biology chair at Oxford.

Thomas Clasen

Thomas F. Clasen is an environmental epidemiologist and Rose Salamone Gangarosa Professor of Environmental Health at Emory University, known for trials of water treatment and the HAPIN cookstove study.

Thomas D. Albright

Thomas D. Albright is an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, known for research on the neural basis of visual perception and memory.

Thomas D. Fox

Thomas D. Fox is a molecular geneticist who spent his career at Cornell University studying how nuclear genes control mitochondrial gene expression in budding yeast, and how mitochondrially coded proteins assemble into respiratory chain complexes.

Thomas D. Pollard

Thomas D. Pollard is an American cell biologist at Yale known for discovering myosin-I, capping protein, and Arp2/3 complex, and for explaining how actin filaments move cells.