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Charles R. Schuster
Charles R. "Bob" Schuster (1930–2011) was an American behavioral pharmacologist who showed that animals voluntarily self-administer drugs humans abuse, and directed the National Institute on Drug Abuse from 1986 to 1992.
Charles R. Scriver
Charles R. Scriver was a Canadian physician and biochemical geneticist at McGill University and the Montreal Children's Hospital, called the father of biochemical genetics in Canada.
Charles Rawlinson Park
Charles Rawlinson Park, known as Rollo Park (1916–2016), was an American physician and physiologist at Vanderbilt University who studied how insulin controls glucose entry into cells.
Charles Richard Taylor
Charles Richard Taylor (1939–1995), known as C. Richard Taylor, was a comparative physiologist and Harvard professor who studied the energetics and efficiency of animal locomotion.
Charles Richet
Charles Robert Richet (1850–1935) was a French physiologist, professor of physiology in Paris from 1887 to 1927, awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize for discovering anaphylaxis with Paul Portier.
Charles Richet (1882–1966)
Charles Richet (1882–1966) was a French physician and nutrition specialist, professor at the Faculté de médecine de Paris, and son of the Nobel laureate physiologist Charles Richet.
Charles Rotimi
Charles Rotimi (born 1957) is a Nigerian-born genetic epidemiologist and scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute since 2021, known for research on ancestry, disease, and African genomics.
Charles Rupert Stockard
Charles Rupert Stockard (1879–1939) was an American anatomist and zoologist who led anatomy at Cornell University Medical College and showed alcohol and other agents deform developing embryos.
Charles S. Abrams
Charles S. Abrams is an American hematologist and physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who researches platelet activation and bleeding disorders and led the American Society of Hematology.
Charles S. Carver
Charles S. Carver, also known as Charles Carver, was an American personality and health psychologist at the University of Miami, best known for the COPE inventory and BIS/BAS scales.
Charles S. Craik
Charles S. Craik is a biochemist and molecular biologist, a UCSF professor since 1985 whose protease research contributed to HIV protease inhibitors and founded biotech companies.
Charles S. Davidson
Charles S. Davidson (1910–2000) was an American hepatologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital who founded the first American clinical research unit for liver disease.
Charles S. Fuchs
Charles S. Fuchs is an American medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers who directed the Yale Cancer Center and led the REGARD gastric cancer trial.
Charles S. Hollander
Charles S. Hollander was an American endocrinologist and thyroid researcher at Harvard, the University of Rochester, and New York University who named T3 toxicosis and developed a radioimmunoassay for serum triiodothyronine.
Charles S. Levings
Charles S. Levings III, known as Sam Levings, was an American plant geneticist at North Carolina State University who identified the mitochondrial gene behind Texas cytoplasmic male sterility in maize.
Charles S. Lieber
Charles S. Lieber (1931–2009) was a Belgian-born American physician-scientist who showed that alcohol directly damages the liver, independent of diet, working at Mount Sinai and the Bronx VA.
Charles S. McHenry
Charles S. McHenry is an American biochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for working out the enzymology of bacterial DNA replication.
Charles S. Zuker
Charles S. Zuker is a Chilean-born American neuroscientist at Columbia University and an HHMI Investigator, known for identifying the receptors for sweet, bitter, and umami taste.
Charles Sandford Levings III
Charles Sandford Levings III, known as Sam Levings, was an American plant geneticist at North Carolina State University who identified the maize mitochondrial gene URF13.
Charles Sawyers
Charles L. Sawyers is an American physician-scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who developed dasatinib for imatinib-resistant leukemia and the prostate cancer drugs enzalutamide and apalutamide.
Charles Scott Sherrington
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952) was an English physiologist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize for discoveries about neurons, coined "synapse", and wrote The Integrative Action of the Nervous System.
Charles Sedgwick Minot
Charles Sedgwick Minot was an American anatomist and embryologist at Harvard Medical School, born in 1852, who invented the automatic rotary microtome and built a large collection of vertebrate embryos.
Charles Sibley
Charles Sibley (1917–1998) was an American ornithologist and molecular biologist who pioneered DNA-DNA hybridization, measuring the genetic similarity of about 1700 bird species to remake their classification.
Charles Sprague Sargent
Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927) was an American botanist and dendrologist who directed Harvard's Arnold Arboretum for over 54 years and wrote the fourteen-volume Silva of North America.
Charles Sutherland Elton
Charles Sutherland Elton (1900–1991) was a British zoologist who founded modern animal ecology, introduced the ecological niche and pyramid of numbers, and wrote Animal Ecology in 1927.
Charles Swanton
Charles Swanton is a British clinician scientist and medical oncologist at the Francis Crick Institute and University College London, known for intratumour heterogeneity and the TRACERx lung cancer study.
Charles T. Esmon
Charles T. Esmon was an Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist who identified endothelial proteins regulating the protein C anticoagulant pathway and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Charles Tanford
Charles Tanford (1921–2009) was a German-born American biochemist at Duke University who built the first hydrophobicity scale and argued that the hydrophobic effect assembles cell membranes.
Charles Thibault
Charles Thibault (1919–2003) was a French reproductive biologist who obtained the first in vitro fertilization in a mammal, the rabbit, in 1954, and later presided over the CNRS.
Charles Thom
Charles Thom (1872–1956), American USDA mycologist; monographer of Aspergillus and Penicillium, describer of P. roqueforti and P. camemberti, identified Fleming's mold as P. notatum, aided WWII penicillin production.