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Theodor Heinrich Boveri (1862-1915)
By: Inbar Maayan
| Published: Mar 03, 2011
Theodor Boveri investigated the mechanisms of heredity. He developed the chromosomal theory of inheritance and the idea of chromosomal individuality…
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Nettie Maria Stevens (1861-1912)
By: Kaitlin Smith
| Published: Jun 20, 2010
Multiple theories about what determines sex were tested at the turn of the twentieth century. By experimenting on germ cells, cytologist Nettie Maria…
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Lap-Chee Tsui (1950-)
By: Kristina Winikates
| Published: Nov 10, 2011
Lap-Chee Tsui is a geneticist who discovered the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene, and his research team sequenced human chromosome 7. As the location of…
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Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925-2013)
By: Samuel Philbrick
| Published: Jun 20, 2011
Robert Geoffrey Edwards worked with Patrick Christopher Steptoe to develop in-vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques during the 1960s and 1970s in the…
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Wilhelm August Oscar Hertwig (1849-1922)
By: Benjamin Garcia, Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 01, 2007
Wilhelm August Oscar Hertwig contributed to embryology through his studies of cells in development and his discovery that only one spermatozoon is…
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Robert William Briggs (1911-1983)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
Robert William Briggs was a prolific developmental biologist. However, he is most identified with the first successful cloning of a frog by nuclear…
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Leonard Hayflick (1928- )
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Jul 20, 2014
Leonard Hayflick studied the processes by which cells age during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. In 1961 at the Wistar…
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John D. Gearhart
By: Ke Wu
| Published: Jan 19, 2011
John D. Gearhart is a renowned American developmental geneticist best known for leading the Johns Hopkins University research team that first…
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Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958)
By: Lindsey O'Connell
| Published: Nov 17, 2013
Rosalind Elsie Franklin worked with X-ray crystallography at King's College London, UK, and she helped determine the helical structure of DNA in the…
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Beatrice Mintz (1922–2022)
By: Adam R. Navis
| Published: Jan 21, 2009
Beatrice Mintz is a brilliant researcher who has developed techniques essential for many aspects of research on mouse development. She produced the…
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