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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.
Charles V. Pryles
Charles V. Pryles was an American pediatrician and pediatric infectious-disease researcher best known for his studies of suprapubic bladder aspiration for diagnosing urinary tract infection in children.
Charles Vincent Taylor
Charles Vincent Taylor (1885–1946) was an American biologist at Stanford University from 1925 who combined microsurgery on protozoa with nutritional physiology and designed the micromanipulator known by his name.
Charles W. Bourque
Charles W. Bourque is a Canadian neuroscientist at McGill University who identified the cellular mechanism of osmosensory transduction and showed the brain's clock drives anticipatory thirst.
Charles W. Francis
Charles W. Francis is an American hematologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, known for the 2008 chemotherapy-associated thrombosis risk model and the 2003 EXULT A trial.
Charles W. Parker (immunologist)
Charles Ward Parker (1930–2013) was an American immunologist and allergist who founded Washington University's allergy division, identified the chemical basis of penicillin allergy, and helped classify slow reacting substance as a leukotriene.
Charles W.M. Roberts
Charles W.M. Roberts is an American cancer biologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital whose work on SWI/SNF-mutant tumors contributed to the FDA approval of tazemetostat in 2020.
Charles Walker Cathcart
Charles Walker Cathcart (1853–1932) was a Scottish surgeon at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and a rugby union forward who won three Scotland caps between 1872 and 1876.
Charles Warlow
Charles Warlow, born 1943, is a British neurologist who held Edinburgh's chair of medical neurology and led major stroke trials and the textbook Stroke: A Practical Guide to Management.
Charles Weissmann
Charles Weissmann (1931–2025) was a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist who co-founded Biogen in Geneva, first cloned human interferon, and led prion research in Zurich, London, and Florida.
Charles William Metz
Charles William Metz was an American geneticist and cytogeneticist who studied the fungus fly Sciara coprophila from 1914, describing chromosome segregation that became the first example of chromosome imprinting.
Charles Y. Chiu
Charles Y. Chiu is an American infectious-disease physician and microbiologist at the University of California, San Francisco who developed metagenomic next-generation sequencing to diagnose mystery infections.
Charles Y.C. Pak
Charles Y.C. Pak is an American physician-scientist in mineral metabolism, professor at UT Southwestern since 1972, known for kidney stone and osteoporosis research and for Citracal, Urocit-K, and THIOLA.
Charles Yanofsky
Charles Yanofsky (1925–2018) was an American molecular geneticist at Stanford University who proved that genes and proteins are colinear and discovered transcriptional attenuation in bacteria.