Life and health scientists

Carl Cori

Carl Ferdinand Cori was an Austrian-born American biochemist who shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with his wife Gerty for discovering how the body converts glycogen.

Carl Correns (1864–1933) was a German botanist and geneticist who rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900, first reported gene linkage, and first demonstrated cytoplasmic inheritance in plants.

Carl E. Bauer

Carl Eugene Bauer is an American molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University Bloomington known for identifying the AppA blue-light photoreceptor and mapping the RegB-RegA and CrtJ systems that control photosynthesis genes.

Carl E. Taylor

Carl E. Taylor (1916–2010) was an American physician and epidemiologist, founder of international health as a discipline and first director of Johns Hopkins' Department of International Health.

Carl Eisdorfer

Carl Eisdorfer is an American psychiatrist and gerontologist who led the University of Miami's psychiatry department and Center on Aging, and co-founded the Alzheimer's Association.

Carl Erik Mogensen

Carl Erik Mogensen (C. E. Mogensen), born in 1938, is a Danish nephrologist and professor emeritus at Aarhus University known for establishing microalbuminuria as a predictor of diabetic kidney disease.

Carl F. Ware

Carl F. Ware, also known as Carl Ware, is an American immunologist who defined TNF receptor signaling pathways, discovering LIGHT and the HVEM–BTLA checkpoint, with therapeutics entering clinical trials.

Carl Figdor

Carl Figdor is a Dutch tumor immunologist at Radboud University Medical Center, known for dendritic cell cancer therapy and discovering the DC-SIGN receptor in 2000.

Carl Flügge

Carl Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Flügge (1847–1923) was a German bacteriologist and hygienist whose cough-droplet experiments established droplet infection, especially for tuberculosis, and who co-founded the journal Zeitschrift für Hygiene.

Carl Folke

Carl Folke, born 1955 in Stockholm, is a Swedish sustainability scientist known for social-ecological systems and resilience thinking, and winner of the 2022 Heineken Prize.

Carl Frederic Schmidt

Carl Frederic Schmidt (1893–1988) was an American pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania who, with Seymour Kety, developed the nitrous oxide technique for measuring human brain blood flow.

Carl Friderichsen

Carl Friderichsen was a Danish pediatrician and chief physician of the children's department at Sundby Hospital in Copenhagen from 1931 to 1956, known for Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome.

Carl Frieden

Carl Frieden is an American biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, known for enzyme kinetics, hysteretic enzymes, and protein folding.

Carl G. Hartman

Carl G. Hartman, also known as Carl Gottfried Hartman, was an American reproductive biologist whose ovulation research became the scientific basis of the rhythm method.

Carl Gegenbaur

Carl Gegenbaur (1826–1903) was a German comparative anatomist and zoologist, professor at Jena and then Heidelberg, who turned homology into a tool for reconstructing evolutionary history.

Carl Gottfried Hartman

Carl Gottfried Hartman (1879–1968) was an American reproductive biologist who received the first PhD from the University of Texas in 1915 and timed ovulation in rhesus monkeys, founding the rhythm method's scientific basis.

Carl H. Eigenmann

Carl H. Eigenmann (1863–1927) was a German-born American ichthyologist who spent his career at Indiana University, studying South American fishes, blind cave vertebrates, and the surfperch Cymatogaster.

Carl Hart

Carl Hart, born 1966 in Miami, Florida, is an American neuroscientist and Columbia psychology professor whose human-laboratory drug research argues most drug harm flows from illegality.

Carl Hirschie Johnson

Carl Hirschie Johnson, also published as Carl H. Johnson, is an American chronobiologist and professor at Vanderbilt University whose research established cyanobacteria as a model for circadian biology.

Carl J. Pepine

Carl J. Pepine is an American cardiologist at the University of Florida known for coronary disease research and for leading the INVEST blood pressure trial.

Carl John Wiggers

Carl John Wiggers was an American cardiovascular physiologist, called the dean of cardiovascular physiologists, who created the Wiggers diagram and won the 1955 Lasker Award.

Carl Kingsford

Carl Kingsford is a computer scientist and Herbert A. Simon Professor at Carnegie Mellon University who develops algorithms for DNA and RNA sequencing data, including Salmon.

Carl L. Schildkraut

Carl L. Schildkraut is a molecular biologist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, known for studying DNA replication timing and telomeres.

Carl Leavitt Hubbs

Carl Leavitt Hubbs (1894–1979) was an American ichthyologist who grew the University of Michigan fish collection from 5,000 to nearly 2 million specimens before moving to Scripps.

Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné (1707–1778), was a Swedish botanist and professor of medicine at Uppsala whose binomial system of naming species became the foundation of modern taxonomy.

Carl Ludwig

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig was a German physiologist and professor at Leipzig remembered for the kymograph, his 1842 renal filtration theory, and an institute that trained more than 200 physiologists.

Carl Moore

Carl Vernon Moore (1908–1972) was an American hematologist who headed medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and showed that blood plasma transports iron.

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Carl Nathan

Carl F. Nathan is an American immunologist and microbiologist at Weill Cornell Medical College whose work defined how macrophages are activated to kill microbes, including tuberculosis research.

Carl Neuberg

Carl Neuberg (1877–1956) was a German biochemist called a founder of modern biochemistry; he built the first chemical scheme of alcoholic fermentation and directed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry in Berlin.