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David Bale
David Bale (David Charles Howard Bale, 1941-2003), English entrepreneur, environmentalist, and animal rights activist; father of actor Christian Bale and third husband of Gloria Steinem, whom he married in 2000; died of brain lymphoma.
David Baltimore
David Baltimore (1938–2025), American biologist, co-discoverer of reverse transcriptase, 1975 Nobel laureate, creator of the Baltimore virus classification, Whitehead founding director, Rockefeller and Caltech president, exonerated in the Baltimore case.
David Barford
David Barford, born 1963, is a structural biologist and group leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for structures of the kinetochore and APC/C.
David Baulcombe
Sir David Charles Baulcombe, born in 1952, is a British plant scientist who discovered small interfering RNAs, won the Lasker and Wolf Prizes, and became Biological Secretary of the Royal Society in 2024.
David Beach (cell cycle biologist)
David Beach is a British-born cell cycle biologist who trained with Paul Nurse, led a laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, and discovered the CDK inhibitors p21 and p16.
David Beerling
David J. Beerling, born 1965, is a British biogeochemist and Sorby Professor at the University of Sheffield, known for research on plant and atmosphere co-evolution.
David Bell (research forester)
David M. Bell is an American research forester at the USDA Forest Service in Corvallis, Oregon, who received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
David Bellamy
David Bellamy (1933-2019), English botanist, peatland ecologist and BBC nature broadcaster famous for Torrey Canyon coverage and the Conservation Foundation, whose climate-change skepticism ended his TV career.
David Bellwood
David R. Bellwood is an Australian marine ecologist at James Cook University in Townsville, a leading expert on the evolution and ecology of coral reef fishes.
David Bilder
David Bilder is a developmental biologist at UC Berkeley who studies how epithelial tissues are built and how they suppress tumors, using the fruit fly Drosophila.
David Blumenthal
David Blumenthal, born 1948, is an American physician and health policy researcher who served as US National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2009 to 2011.
David Bodian
David Bodian (1910–1992) was an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins whose research laid the groundwork for the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines, and who created the Bodian nerve stain.
David Boettiger
David Boettiger was an American microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who helped discover reverse transcriptase and showed that integrins transduce mechanical force into chemical signals.
David Botstein
David Botstein (1942–2026) was a Swiss-born American geneticist whose 1980 proposal for a DNA linkage map of the human genome became a foundation of the Human Genome Project.
David Bowtell
David Bowtell is an Australian cancer researcher at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne who identified molecular subtypes of ovarian cancer and led the Australian Ovarian Cancer Study.
David Braff
David L. Braff is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher at the University of California, San Diego, known for work on prepulse inhibition and neurophysiological endophenotypes of schizophrenia.
David Bruce (microbiologist)
Sir David Bruce (1855–1931) was an Australian-born British army microbiologist who identified the organism causing Malta fever (brucellosis) and proved tsetse flies transmit trypanosomes; the genera Brucella and Trypanosoma brucei honor him.
David C. Auth
David C. Auth is an American bioengineer and medical-device inventor known for the Rotablator coronary atherectomy device, who holds about 100 patents and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.
David C. Burr
David C. Burr, also known as David Burr, is an Australian and Italian vision neuroscientist, emeritus professor at the University of Florence, born in Zimbabwe in 1952.
David C. Chan
David C. Chan, also published as David Chan, is a molecular biologist at Caltech known for the HIV gp41 core structure and for showing mitochondrial fusion protects mitochondrial DNA.
David C. Christiani
David C. Christiani is a physician-scientist in molecular epidemiology at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for studies of lung cancer, ARDS, and occupational lung disease.
David C. Dale
David C. Dale is an American physician-scientist and professor of medicine at the University of Washington since 1976, known for neutropenia research and G-CSF trials.
David C. Fajgenbaum
David C. Fajgenbaum is a University of Pennsylvania physician who researches Castleman disease and cytokine storm, and discovered sirolimus, a repurposed drug that has kept him in remission since 2012.
David C. Gadsby
David C. Gadsby (1947–2019) was a British physiologist at Rockefeller University known for work on the sodium–potassium pump and CFTR, the chloride channel behind cystic fibrosis.
David C. Hooper
David C. Hooper is an infectious diseases physician and Harvard Medical School professor who led Massachusetts General Hospital's infection control unit and studies quinolone antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
David C. Klein
David C. Klein is an American neuroscientist who spent his career at NIH studying the pineal gland and melatonin, including cloning the rhythm enzyme AANAT in 1995.
David C. Linch
David C. Linch, also known as David Linch, is a British haematologist and Emeritus Professor at University College London known for leading UK trials in lymphoma and leukemia.
David C. Page
David C. Page is an American human geneticist at MIT and the Whitehead Institute known for sequencing the Y chromosome and showing it is not disappearing.
David C. Poskanzer
David C. Poskanzer was an American neurologist and epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for his 1971 paper linking DES exposure to vaginal cancer.
David C. Queller
David C. Queller is an American evolutionary biologist at Washington University in St. Louis known for work on kin selection and cooperation in social insects and social amoebas.