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Scientists whose most historically significant work is in genetics: heredity, genes, and the variation of living organisms, including classical, molecular and population genetics. Does not include biologists whose work touches inheritance only in passing to a broader biological question; it does include a biologist whose own most significant discovery was itself a genetic one.

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1905 1
All Genetics
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Adriana Briscoe

Genetics

Alfred Hershey

Genetics

Alfred Sturtevant

Genetics

Allan C. Spradling

Genetics

Allan S. Jacobson

Genetics

Andrew Fire

Genetics

Barbara McClintock

Genetics

Bert Vogelstein

Genetics

Bonnie Bassler

Genetics

C. David Allis

Genetics

Charles Yanofsky

Genetics

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Genetics

Craig Mello

Genetics

Craig Venter

Genetics

Daniel Nathans

Genetics

David Baulcombe

Genetics

David Botstein

Genetics

Douglas C. Wallace

Genetics

Edward B. Lewis

Genetics

Edward Tatum

Genetics

Elizabeth Anionwu

Genetics

Elliot Meyerowitz

Genetics

Eric Wieschaus

Genetics

Francis Crick

Genetics

Francisco J. Ayala

Genetics

Franklin Stahl

Genetics

Frederick Griffith

Genetics

George Beadle

Genetics

Gerald Fink

Genetics

Geraldine Seydoux

Genetics

Gregor Mendel

Genetics

Hamilton O. Smith

Genetics

Haseena Khan

Genetics

Herbert Boyer

Genetics

Hermann Joseph Muller

Genetics

Hugo de Vries

Genetics

Hugo J. Bellen

Genetics

Ian Wilmut

Genetics

James Priess

Genetics

James Watson

Genetics

Janet Rowley

Genetics

Joanne Chory

Genetics

Joe Hin Tjio

Genetics

John Gurdon

Genetics

Keith Campbell

Genetics

Lynne E. Maquat

Genetics

Mario Capecchi

Genetics

Martha Chase

Genetics

Mary Lyon

Genetics

Mary-Claire King

Genetics

Matthew Meselson

Genetics

Maurice Wilkins

Genetics

Max Delbruck

Genetics

Maynard Olson

Genetics

Michael Grunstein

Genetics

Nettie Stevens

Genetics

Oswald Avery

Genetics

Paul Berg

Genetics

Robert Waterston

Genetics

Ronald Fisher

Genetics

Ronald W. Davis

Genetics

Rotem Sorek

Genetics

Rudolf Jaenisch

Genetics

Ruth Lehmann

Genetics

Salvador Luria

Genetics

Sewall Wright

Genetics

Seymour Benzer

Genetics

Shinya Yamanaka

Genetics

Stanley N. Cohen

Genetics

Stephen J. Elledge

Genetics

Stuart Orkin

Genetics

Susumu Ohno

Genetics

Susumu Tonegawa

Genetics

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Genetics

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Genetics

Victor McKusick

Genetics

Walter Gilbert

Genetics

Walter Sutton

Genetics

Werner Arber

Genetics
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Genetics
WikipediaGenetics, History section, Bateson paragraph
Quote, Genetics, History section, Bateson paragraph
William Bateson, a proponent of Mendel's work, coined the word genetics in 1905.
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