PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Prior to 1961, the Society of American Bacteriologists.

Official Website:
http://www.asm.org/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
J. Michael Bishop	Scientist	22-Feb-1936		Genetic causes of cancer
Herbert W. Boyer	Biologist	10-Jul-1936		Recombinant DNA, first synthetic insulin
Mario Capecchi	Scientist	6-Oct-1937		Knock-out mice
Ananda M. Chakrabarty	Scientist	4-Apr-1938		Oil-eating bacteria
Stanley N. Cohen	Biologist	17-Feb-1935		Recombinant DNA
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett	Biologist	c. 1955		Genomic researcher
Margaret A. Hamburg	Government	1955		FDA Commissioner
Franklyn G. Jenifer	Educator	26-Mar-1939		President of UT-Dallas, 1994-2003
Richard A. Lerner	Biologist	28-Aug-1938		Scripps Research Institute
Arnold J. Levine	Biologist	1939		Cancer researcher
Arthur D. Levinson	Business	31-Mar-1950		CEO of Genentech
Salvador Luria	Biologist	13-Aug-1912	6-Feb-1991	Natural selection in bacteria
Phillip A. Sharp	Biologist	6-Jun-1944		Eukaryotic (split) genes
Carolyn W. Slayman	Business	c. 1936		Genetics professor at Yale
Theobald Smith	Scientist	31-Jul-1859	10-Dec-1934	Infectious and parasitic diseases

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