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Charles Clayton Dennie
Charles Clayton Dennie (1883–1971) was an American dermatologist and syphilologist in Kansas City, Missouri, who founded one of the first free clinics for congenital syphilis and gave his name to the Dennie-Morgan fold and Dennie-Marfan syndrome.
Charles D. Gilbert
Charles D. Gilbert is an American neuroscientist at The Rockefeller University, known for showing that the adult visual cortex reorganizes through experience and perceptual learning.
Charles D. Laird
Charles D. Laird, also published as Charles Laird, is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington known for linking fragile X syndrome to delayed replication of the FMR1 gene.
Charles D. Michener
Charles D. Michener (1918–2015) was an American entomologist at the University of Kansas who became the leading authority on the systematics and social evolution of bees.
Charles D. Scher
Charles D. Scher is a cancer researcher and pediatric hematologist-oncologist known for work on Abelson murine leukemia virus and platelet-derived growth factor, and now practices in New Orleans.
Charles D. Stiles
Charles D. Stiles is an American molecular biologist and neurobiologist who joined Harvard and Dana-Farber in 1976, known for cloning PDGF-regulated genes and Olig transcription factor work.
Charles D. Surh
Charles D. Surh (1961–2017) was a Korean-born American immunologist known for work on T cell homeostasis and immune tolerance, with a long career at The Scripps Research Institute.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist, co-discovered evolution by natural selection with Alfred Russel Wallace, announced jointly in 1858, and published On the Origin of Species in 1859 after the HMS Beagle voyage.
Charles David Allis
Charles David Allis, known professionally as C. David Allis, was an American molecular biologist at Rockefeller University who purified the first histone acetyltransferase in 1996.
Charles DeLisi
Charles DeLisi is an American biomedical scientist and physicist who, as a Department of Energy director, obtained the 1987 budget line item that launched the Human Genome Project.
Charles Dettie Aaron
Charles Dettie Aaron (1866–1951) was an American gastroenterologist in Detroit, known for Aaron's sign in chronic appendicitis, a leading textbook on digestive diseases, and helping found what became the American Gastroenterological Association.
Charles Dodds
Sir Edward Charles Dodds, known as Charles Dodds (1899–1973), was a British biochemist who co-discovered the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol in 1938 and directed the Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry at the Middlesex Hospital for nearly four decades.
Charles E. Alpers
Charles E. Alpers is an American physician-scientist and nephropathologist at the University of Washington, known for research on kidney injury, diabetic kidney disease, and glomerular disease classification.
Charles E. Geyer
Charles E. Geyer is an American oncologist, Chief Scientific Officer of the NSABP Foundation and chief of medical oncology at UPMC Hillman, known for the KATHERINE and OlympiA breast cancer trials.
Charles E. Lewis
Charles E. Lewis (1928–2010) was an American physician and health-services researcher who showed wide regional variation in surgery rates in 1969 and founded UCLA's Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research.
Charles E. Putman
Charles E. Putman was an American thoracic radiologist who chaired Duke University's radiology department from 1977 and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1987.
Charles E. Rupprecht
Charles E. Rupprecht is an American virologist and veterinarian who served nearly 20 years as Chief of the CDC Rabies Program and helped develop the oral wildlife rabies vaccine.
Charles Edward Beevor
Charles Edward Beevor (1854–1908) was an English neurologist and anatomist at the National Hospital, Queen Square, who mapped cerebral arterial territories and gave his name to Beevor's sign.
Charles Elmer Allen
Charles Elmer Allen (1872–1954) was an American botanist and cytologist at the University of Wisconsin, best known for the first discovery of sex chromosomes among plants.
Charles Ernest Overton
Charles Ernest Overton (1865–1933) was a British-born, Swedish-based physiologist and pharmacologist at Lund University who founded quantitative membrane permeability research and the Meyer-Overton theory of general anesthesia.
Charles F. Aquadro
Charles F. Aquadro, known as Chip Aquadro, is a molecular population geneticist who spent his career at Cornell University, studying genetic variation in Drosophila fruit flies.
Charles F. Code
Charles F. Code (1910–1997) was a Canadian-born American physiologist and gastroenterologist who spent most of his career at the Mayo Clinic and was known internationally as the "father of gastrointestinal motility."
Charles F. Gilks
Charles F. Gilks is a British-trained infectious disease physician and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland, known for leading the DART trial and WHO's public-health approach to HIV treatment.
Charles F. Reynolds
Charles F. Reynolds III is an American geriatric psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh whose research focuses on mood, grief, and sleep disorders in older adults.
Charles F. Stevens
Charles F. Stevens, also known as C. F. Stevens, was an American neuroscientist at the Salk Institute who worked on ion channels, synaptic transmission, and the design principles of the brain.
Charles F. Wurster
Charles F. Wurster (1930–2023) was an American environmental toxicologist and Stony Brook professor who co-founded the Environmental Defense Fund, whose litigation helped ban DDT in 1972.
Charles F. Zorumski
Charles F. Zorumski is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2012.
Charles ffrench‐Constant
Charles ffrench-Constant, born 1954, is a British clinician scientist in myelin biology and multiple sclerosis, known for identifying the adult glial progenitor cell that determines remyelination of the central nervous system.
Charles Fletcher (physician)
Charles Montague Fletcher (1911–1995) was a British physician and epidemiologist who gave the first injection of penicillin to a patient and drafted the Royal College of Physicians' 1962 report on smoking.
Charles Franklin Hoover
Charles Franklin Hoover was an American physician and professor at Western Reserve in Cleveland who described Hoover's sign, a bedside test for malingering and for diaphragm weakness.