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Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon was an American mathematician whose pioneering work established information theory in the 20th century. H...

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Barbara McClintock

Barbara McClintock was a 20th-century American geneticist whose research fundamentally reshaped our understanding of her...

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8.6 Excellent

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American geneticist whose meticulous research on *Drosophila* (fruit flies) fundamentally resh...

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Theodosius Dobzhansky

Theodosius Dobzhansky was a Ukrainian-born American geneticist whose work profoundly shaped evolutionary biology. He cha...

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Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis was a pioneering American biologist whose research fundamentally altered our view of cell origins. She pro...

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Sydney Brenner

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Selman Waksman

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David Baltimore

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Arthur Kornberg

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Joshua Lederberg

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Walter Gilbert

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Howard Temin

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George Beadle

George Beadle was a pioneering American biologist whose work fundamentally reshaped our understanding of genetics. He de...

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Stanley Cohen

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7.4 Very Good

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Hugo de Vries

Hugo de Vries was a Dutch botanist whose research significantly advanced genetics in the early 20th century. He independ...

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Casimir Funk

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Walter Sutton

Walter Sutton was a pioneering American geneticist whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of heredity. He dev...

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Elmer McCollum

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