Figures in contemporary science Flashcards
(40 cards)
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
