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William J. Moss
William J. Moss is an American physician and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, known for research on measles, HIV, and malaria in Zambia.
William J. Muller
William J. Muller is a molecular biologist at McGill University who builds genetically engineered mouse models of breast cancer and studies mammary tumor progression and metastasis.
William J. Murphy
William J. Murphy is an American evolutionary geneticist at Texas A&M University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024 for his work on mammalian comparative genomics.
William J. Penhale
William J. Penhale is an immunologist whose rat experiments, inducing autoimmune thyroiditis by thymectomy and irradiation in 1973 and preventing it with lymphocytes in 1976, are cited in the 2025 Nobel Prize background.
William J. Sandborn
William J. Sandborn is an American gastroenterologist specializing in inflammatory bowel disease at UC San Diego, where he led gastroenterology after 17 years at the Mayo Clinic.
William J. Schwartz
William J. Schwartz (born 1950) is an American neurologist and circadian biologist, a professor at UT Austin known for nearly four decades of NIH-funded research on biological clocks.
William J. Snape
William J. Snape, also published as W. J. Snape, is an American gastroenterologist known for his 1978 recordings of colonic electrical activity in irritable bowel syndrome and later gastroparesis research.
William J. Snell
William J. Snell is an American cell biologist at the University of Maryland who studies gamete cell-cell fusion and ciliary signaling in the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
William J. Triggs
William J. Triggs (W. J. Triggs) is a neurologist and neuromuscular medicine specialist at the University of Florida, on its faculty since 1992, known for transcranial magnetic stimulation research.
William Jacob Robbins
William Jacob Robbins (1890–1978) was an American botanist who pioneered plant tissue culture in the United States and directed the New York Botanical Garden from 1937 to 1958.
William James Greenleaf
William James Greenleaf, also published as William J. Greenleaf, is a Stanford professor of genetics whose interdisciplinary research studies how the physical state of the genome controls gene regulation.
William Jeffcoate
William Jeffcoate is a retired British endocrinologist in Nottingham known for his work on the diabetic foot, including the 2003 Lancet review Diabetic foot ulcers.
William Jefferson Darby
William Jefferson Darby (1913–2001) was an American physician, biochemist, and nutrition scientist at Vanderbilt University who researched folic acid, dietary sodium and blood pressure, and food-additive policy.
William John Adie
William John Adie (1886–1935) was a British neurologist, born in Geelong, Australia, known for describing Adie's syndrome of tonic pupils with absent tendon reflexes in 1932.
William Julius Wilson
William Julius Wilson, born in 1935, is an American sociologist at Harvard whose books on race and urban poverty, including The Truly Disadvantaged, shaped public policy.
William K. Holloman
William K. Holloman is an American molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at Weill Cornell Medical College, known for his 1982 discovery of a homologous DNA-pairing protein in Ustilago maydis.
William Keith Brooks
William Keith Brooks (1848–1908) was an American zoologist and embryologist at Johns Hopkins University who trained T. H. Morgan and E. B. Wilson and founded the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory.
William Kermack
William Ogilvy Kermack (1898–1970) was a Scottish chemist blinded at 26 by a laboratory explosion who, with A. G. McKendrick, co-authored the 1927 paper founding mathematical epidemic theory.
William King Gregory
William King Gregory (1876–1970) was an American vertebrate paleontologist and comparative anatomist who spent his career at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
William Krivit
William Krivit was an American pediatric hematologist at the University of Minnesota who pioneered bone marrow transplantation for inherited metabolic diseases and leukodystrophies, winning the ASPHO Distinguished Career Award in 2003.
William Küster
William Küster (1863–1929) was a German chemist at Stuttgart who proposed the correct structural formula of the blood pigment haemin in 1912 and studied porphyrins and bile pigments.
William L. Brown (geneticist)
William L. Brown (1913–1991) was an American geneticist who led the seed company Pioneer Hi-Bred and became a leading advocate for conserving crop genetic diversity.
William L. Carrier
William Louis Carrier (1929–2016) was an American biochemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who, with Richard Setlow, showed in 1964 that UV-damaged DNA is repaired by excision, founding nucleotide excision repair.
William L. Farrar
William L. Farrar is a cancer researcher at the National Cancer Institute-Frederick in Maryland, known for immune-cell signal transduction work in the 1980s and zinc-finger targeting against breast cancer.
William L. Haskell
William L. Haskell (born 1937) is an American exercise physiologist and preventive-cardiology researcher, emeritus professor at Stanford, who chaired the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee.
William L. Henrich
William L. Henrich was an American nephrologist and dialysis researcher who served as president of UT Health San Antonio from 2009 to 2024 and led the CORAL trial.
William L. Holzemer
William L. Holzemer is an American nurse scientist, dean emeritus of the Rutgers School of Nursing, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2003.
William L. Nyhan
William L. Nyhan (1926–2026) was an American pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at UC San Diego, known for Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and Sakati-Nyhan-Tisdale syndrome.
William L. Pak
William L. Pak (1932–2023) was a Korean-born American neurogeneticist at Purdue University who spent forty years isolating the genes of fruit fly vision, including trp.
William L. Russell
William L. Russell (1910–2003) was a British-born American mammalian geneticist and radiation biologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory whose mouse specific-locus test provided the basis for estimating radiation hazards to humans.