Figures in contemporary science Flashcards
who: strong inference
John R. Platt
who: important nuclear reactor designs
Alvin Weinberg
who: discovered the structure of DNA
James Watson and Francis Crick, togther with Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin
who: discovered nucleic acid hybridization
Alexander Rich
who: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity
Thomas Hunt Morgan
who: 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for making significant contributions to work on the genetic code and devleopmental biology
Sydney Brenner
who: 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering bacterial conjugation
Joshua Lederberg
who: 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the regulation of transcription by enzymes
François Jacob and Jacques Monod
who: conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933
Leo Szilard
who: fist hydrogen bomb design
Richard Garwin
who: discovered the principles of color vision
W. A. H. Rushton
who: Theory of evolution
Charles Darwin, also Wallace
who: Darwin’s bulldog
Thomas Henry Huxley
who: father of microbiology; fermentation; pausterization; vaccines
Louis Pasteur
who: “Inheritability of acquired characters”
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
who: Dolly
Sir Ian Wilmut
who: sociobiology and ants; island biogeography
E.O. Wilson
who: island biogeography
E.O. Wilson and Robert MacArthur
who: miscrocpe; observation on bacteria and protozoa
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
who: microscopic anatomy
Marcello Malpighi
who: father of modern anatomy
Andreas Vesalius
who: father of modern animal ecology
Charles Elton
who: faher of (general) ecology
Eugene Odum
who: evolutionary geneticist; “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution”
Theodosius Dobzhansky
who: germ plasm theory (only gonadic cells trasnfer heritable information)
August Weismann
who: early pioneer in the study of social insect behaviour
Charles Henry Turner
who: mitochondria were once cells
Lynn Margulis
who: Nobel prize for piece for green revolution (increase in food production with fertilizers, varieties, and controlled irrigation)
Norman Borlaug
who: population growth outpaces agricultural production, causing famine or war
Thomas Malthus
who: 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine the dendritic cell (a type of immune cell) and its role in adaptive immunity
Ralph M. Steinman (Canadian) and Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffman
who: discovery of molecualar receptors
Robert J. Lefkowitz
who: discovered protein folding
Susan L. Lindquist
who: PCR
Kary Mullis
who: genetic sequencing
Frederick Sanger
who: eletrophoresis
Arne Tiselius
who: bioinformatics
Paulien Hogeweg and Ben Hesper
who: pitfall traps
Dahl
who: canola
Stefansson and R.K. Downey
who: increased plant diversity begets increased herbivore diversity, and in turn begets increased predator diversity.
Darwin
who: DNA barcoding
Paul Hebert
