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This category list links to material on the lives and work of those scientists who have made significant contributions and discovery in the field of genetics.

Subcategories

• Avery, Oswald Theodore
• Chargaff, Erwin
• Crick, Francis
• Franklin, Rosalind
• Garrod, Archibald
• Hershey, Alfred Day
• Lederberg, Joshua
• McClintock, Barbara
• Mendel, Gregor
• Morgan, Thomas Hunt
• Nirenberg, Marshall W
• Sturtevant, Alfred Henry
• Sutton, Walter S.
• Von Tschermak, Erich
• Vries, Hugo de
• Watson, James Dewey

Resources in This Category

• BBC Desert Island Discs: Professor Hugh Montgomery

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/290d90b8#b03vzhnz
  Kirsty Young talks to intensive care specialist Prof Hugh Montgomery.

• Beadle, Tatum, and Lederberg

  http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1958/index.html
  Provides details of the Nobel prize awarded in 1958 for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events. Includes lectures and biography.

• Chargaff's Legacy

  http://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/bioinfo2.htm
  Article discusses the four rules on DNA base composition now shown to be fundamental to the understanding of the structure and function of DNA.

• Colin Munroe MacLeod

  http://www.profiles.nlm.nih.gov/CC/A/A/P/I/_/ccaapi.pdf
  Full text facsimile of Biographical Memoirs by Walsh McDermott. Requires Adobe Acrobat to view.

• Crick, Watson, and Wilson

  http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1962/
  Provides biographies and transcripts of the Nobel lectures given when awarded the prize for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids.

• Fred Griffith: Genetic Transformation: a Retrospective Appreciation

  http://www.profiles.nlm.nih.gov/CC/A/A/I/K/_/ccaaik.pdf
  Facsimile of the first memorial lecture given by W.Hayes. Requires Adobe Acrobat to view.

• George Wells Beadle

  http://www.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/caltech/beadle
  Guide to the collection of papers held at the California Institute of Technology . Includes descriptive summary, collection history, and biography.

• Hamid Bolouri

  http://www.its.caltech.edu/%7Ehbolouri/
  Visiting associate faculty in the division of biology at Caltech. Provides details of publications which include the book: Computational Modeling of Gene Regulatory Networks: A Primer.

• Hermann Joseph Muller

  http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1946/
  Provides information on the Nobel prize awarded in 1946 for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation. Includes lecture and biography.

• Holley, Khorana, and Nirenberg.

  http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1968/index.html
  Provides details of the 1968 Nobel prize awarded for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. Includes lectures and biography.

• Maurice Wilkins - DNA Enabler

  http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/wilkins.html
  Illustrated article describes his life and achievements.

• Nettie Maria Stevens

  http://vector.cshl.org/dnaftb/concept_9/con9bio.html
  Short biography, portrait, and related links.

• Ochoa and Kornberg

  http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1959/
  Details the Nobel prize awarded in 1959 for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid. Includes lectures and biography.

• Sutton and Boveri

  http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47571999000200022&lng=en&nrm=iso
  Study which attempts to elucidate the meaning of the chromosome hypothesis based on the original scientific works, taking into account the scientific context of that time. Text available for download in pdf format.

 

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