| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Christian Anfinsen |
Chemist |
26-Mar-1916 |
14-May-1995 |
Protein structure and folding |
| Daniel I. Arnon |
Biologist |
14-Nov-1910 |
20-Dec-1994 |
Photophosphorylation |
| Julius Axelrod |
Chemist |
30-May-1912 |
29-Dec-2004 |
Research of neurotransmitters |
| David Baltimore |
Biologist |
7-Mar-1938 |
|
Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase |
| Françoise Barré-Sinoussi |
Scientist |
30-Jul-1947 |
|
Co-Discoverer of HIV |
| Baruj Benacerraf |
Scientist |
29-Oct-1920 |
2-Aug-2011 |
Gene control of HLA antigens |
| Paul Berg |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1926 |
|
Pioneer in recombinant DNA |
| Richard Bloch |
Business |
15-Feb-1926 |
21-Jul-2004 |
H&R Block, cancer activist |
| Michael S. Brown |
Biologist |
13-Apr-1941 |
|
Metabolism of cholesterol |
| Robert N. Butler |
Doctor |
21-Jan-1927 |
4-Jul-2010 |
Expert on aging |
| Ananda M. Chakrabarty |
Scientist |
4-Apr-1938 |
|
Oil-eating bacteria |
| Stanley N. Cohen |
Biologist |
17-Feb-1935 |
|
Recombinant DNA |
| Francis Collins |
Scientist |
14-Apr-1950 |
|
Human Genome Project |
| Michael DeBakey |
Doctor |
7-Sep-1908 |
11-Jul-2008 |
Father of cardiovascular surgery |
| Naomi C. Earp |
Government |
c. 1950 |
|
Chairman of the EEOC, 2006-08 |
| Donald M. Engelman |
Biologist |
c. 1941 |
|
Biochemistry Professor at Yale |
| Joseph L. Goldstein |
Scientist |
18-Apr-1940 |
|
Hypercholesterolemia and cell metabolism |
| Carol W. Greider |
Scientist |
15-Apr-1961 |
|
Co-Discoverer of telomerase |
| Margaret A. Hamburg |
Government |
1955 |
|
FDA Commissioner |
| Bernadine P. Healy |
Doctor |
4-Aug-1944 |
6-Aug-2011 |
President, American Red Cross, 1999-2001 |
| Susan Hockfield |
Educator |
24-Mar-1951 |
|
President of MIT |
| Jules A. Hoffmann |
Biologist |
2-Aug-1941 |
|
Innate immunity |
| Johannes Holtfreter |
Zoologist |
9-Jan-1901 |
13-Nov-1992 |
Chemotaxis |
| Michael M. E. Johns |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Chancellor, Emory University |
| Albert Lasker |
Business |
1-May-1880 |
30-May-1952 |
Advertising executive and medical research patron |
| Mary Lasker |
Activist |
30-Nov-1900 |
21-Feb-1994 |
Health care advocate |
| Vernon R. Loucks, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
CEO of Baxter International, 1980-99 |
| Roderick MacKinnon |
Biologist |
19-Feb-1956 |
|
Ion channels of cell membranes |
| John Mendelsohn |
Biologist |
31-Aug-1936 |
|
Cancer researcher |
| Mario J. Molina |
Chemist |
19-Mar-1943 |
|
Ozone depletion |
| Antonia C. Novello |
Doctor |
23-Aug-1944 |
|
US Surgeon General, 1990-93 |
| Cecil B. Pickett |
Biologist |
5-Oct-1945 |
|
Ezetrol, Singulair, and Vioxx |
| Albert Sabin |
Biologist |
26-Aug-1906 |
3-Mar-1993 |
Developed oral polio vaccine |
| K. Barry Sharpless |
Chemist |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Wendell M. Stanley |
Chemist |
16-Aug-1904 |
15-Jun-1971 |
First to crystallize a virus |
| William H. Stein |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1911 |
2-Feb-1980 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| Leo Szilard |
Physicist |
11-Feb-1898 |
30-May-1964 |
Nuclear chain reaction |
| Jack W. Szostak |
Scientist |
9-Nov-1952 |
|
First artificial chromosome |
| Harold E. Varmus |
Scientist |
18-Dec-1939 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| Craig Venter |
Biologist |
14-Oct-1946 |
|
Engineered the first man-made bacterial cell |
| James Watson |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1928 |
|
Co-Discoverer of DNA |
| Ada E. Yonath |
Scientist |
22-Jun-1939 |
|
Cryocrystallography |
