List of geneticists

This is a list of people who have made notable contributions to genetics. The growth and development of genetics represents the work of many people. This list of geneticists is therefore by no means complete. Contributors of great distinction to genetics are not yet on the list.

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  • Svante Pääbo (born 1955), Swedish molecular anthropologist in Leipzig studying Neanderthal genome
  • David Page (born 1956), US physician and geneticist who mapped, cloned and sequenced the human Y chromosome
  • Theophilus Painter (1889–1969), US zoologist, studied fruit fly and human testis chromosomes
  • Arthur Pardee (1921–2019), US scientist who discovered restriction point in the cell cycle
  • Klaus Patau (1908–1975), German-American cytogeneticist, described trisomy 13
  • John Thomas Patterson (1878–1960), American embryologist and geneticist who studied isolating mechanisms
  • Andrew H. Paterson, US geneticist, research leader in plant genomics
  • Linus Pauling (1901–1994), eminent US chemist, won Nobel Prizes for chemical bonds and peace
  • Crodowaldo Pavan (1919–2009), Brazilian biologist, fly geneticist, and influential scientist in Brazil
  • Rose Payne (1909–1999), US transplant geneticist, key to discovery and development of HLA system
  • Raymond Pearl (1879–1940), US biologist, biostatistician, rejected eugenics
  • Karl Pearson (1857–1936), British statistician, made key contributions to genetic analysis
  • Caroline Pellew (1882–?), British geneticist
  • LS Penrose (1898–1972), British psychiatrist, human geneticist, pioneered genetics of mental retardation
  • Max Perutz (1914–2002), Austrian-British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for structure of hemoglobin
  • Massimo Pigliucci (born 1964), Italian-US plant ecological and evolutionary geneticist. Winner of the Dobzhansky Prize.
  • Alfred Ploetz (1860–1940), German physician, biologist, eugenicist, introduced racial hygiene to Germany
  • Paul Polani (1914–2006), Trieste-born UK pediatrician, major catalyst of medical genetics in Britain
  • Charles Pomerat (1905–1951), US cell biologist, pioneered the field of tissue culture
  • Guido Pontecorvo (1907–1999), Italian-born Scottish geneticist and pioneer molecular biologist
  • George R. Price (1922–1975), brilliant but troubled US population geneticist and theoretical biologist
  • Peter Propping (1942–2016), German human geneticist, studies of epilepsy
  • Mark Ptashne (born 1940), US molecular biologist, studies of genetic switch, phage lambda
  • Ted Puck (1916–2005), US physicist, work in mammalian and human cell culture, genetics, cytogenetics
  • RC Punnett (1875–1967), early English geneticist, discovered linkage with William Bateson, stimulated GH Hardy

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  • Michèle Ramsay, South African geneticist, single-gene disorders, epigenetics, complex diseases
  • Robert Race (1907–1984), British expert on blood groups, along with wife Ruth Sanger
  • Sheldon C. Reed (1910–2003), US pioneer in genetic counseling and behavioral genetics
  • G. N. Ramachandran (1922–2001) Indian biophysicist, co-discovered triple-helix structure of collagen
  • David Reich (born 1974), US, human population genetics and genomics, did humans and chimps interbreed?
  • Theodore Reich (1938–2003), Canadian-US psychiatrist, a founder of modern psychiatric genetics
  • Alexander Rich (1925–2015), US biologist, biophysicist, discovered Z-DNA and tRNA 3-dimensional structure
  • Rollin C. Richmond, US, evolutionary and pharmacogenetic studies of Drosophila, university administrator
  • Neil Risch, US human and population geneticist, studied torsion dystonia
  • Otto Renner (1883–1960), German plant geneticist, established maternal plastid inheritance
  • Marcus Rhoades (1903–1991), great maize (corn) geneticist and cytogeneticist
  • David L. Rimoin (1936–2012), Canadian–US medical geneticist, studied skeletal dysplasias
  • Richard Roberts (born 1943), British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize for introns and gene-splicing
  • Arthur Robinson (1914–2000), US pediatrician, geneticist, pioneer on sex chromosome anomalies
  • Herschel L. Roman (1914–1989), US geneticist, innovated in analysis in maize and budding yeast
  • Irwin Rose (1926–2015), US biologist, Nobel Prize for ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
  • Leon Rosenberg (born 1933), US physician-geneticist, molecular basis of inherited metabolic disease
  • David S Rosenblatt, Canadian geneticist
  • Peyton Rous (1879–1970), US tumor virologist and tissue culture expert, Nobel Prize
  • Janet Rowley (1925–2013), US cancer cytogeneticist who found Ph chromosome due to translocation
  • Peter T. Rowley (1929–2006), US internist and geneticist, genetics of cancer and leukemia
  • Frank Ruddle (1929–2013), US biologist, somatic cell genetics, human gene mapping, paved way for transgenic mice
  • Ernst Rüdin (1874–1952), Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist and eugenicist who promoted racial hygiene
  • Elizabeth S. Russell (1913–2001), US mammalian geneticist, pioneering work on pigmentation, blood-forming cells, and germ cells
  • Liane B. Russell (1923–2019), Austrian-born US mouse geneticist and radiation biologist
  • William L. Russell (1910–2003), UK-US mouse geneticist, pioneered study of mutagenesis in mice

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  1. List item Leonell Strong (1894–1982), US geneticist, mouse geneticist and cancer researcher

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  • Charles Yanofsky (1925–2018), US molecular geneticist, colinearity of gene and its protein product

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Fictional geneticists

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