Genetics
Gregor Mendel
- Born: Heinzendorf,Austria
- Occupation: Botanist,Scientist
- Birth Date: July 22, 1822
- Death Date: January 6, 1884
- Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments in his garden. Mendel's observations became the foundation of modern genetics and the study of heredity, and he is widely considered a pioneer in the field of genetics. Mendel was sent to University of Vienna monastery's expense, to continue his studies in the sciences, while there Mendel studied mathematics and physics under Christian Doppler after whom the Doppler effect of wave frequency was named. He also studied botany under Franz Unger, who had begun using a microscope in his studies, and who was proponent of a Darwinian version of evolutionary theory.
Alfred Day Hershey
- Born: Owosso,MI
- Died: May 22, 1997
- Education: Michigan State University
- Birth Date: December 4, 1908
- Alfred Hershey is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of arts and sciences. Hershey is Recipient of the Kimber Genetics Award of the National Academy of Sciences, 1965, Michigan State University honored him with an M.D.h.c. in 1970. In 1950 he became a Staff Member, at the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor, New York. In 1962 he was appointed Director of the Genetics Research unit of the same institution.
Barbara McClintock
- Born: Hartford,CT
- Died:September 2,1992, Huntington,NY
- Fields: Cytogenetics
- Birth Date:June 16,1902
- Barbara McClintock was a woman who rejected a woman's life for herself. She began to do it as a small child and never deviated. Her childhood was not a happy one, and perhaps this provided the force, the moral tension that was so strong in her and so necessary for the live she lived.
Barbara was a scientist and a cytogenetics who was awarded in 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.