geneticist

Noun
  1. A biologist who specializes in genetics (synset 110145961)
    is a type of: biologist, life scientist - (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms
    subtypes: cytogeneticist - a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity
    specific instances:
    • cline, martin cline - American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)
    • haldane, j. b. s. haldane, john burdon sanderson haldane - Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)
    • lysenko, trofim denisovich lysenko - Soviet geneticist whose adherence to Lamarck's theory of evolution was favored by Stalin (1898-1976)
    • hermann joseph muller, muller - United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)
    • craig ventner, j. craig ventner, ventner - United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)
    • james dewey watson, james watson, watson - United States geneticist who (with Crick in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (born in 1928)
    • august friedrich leopold weismann, weismann - German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics; his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914)
    • ian wilmut, wilmut - English geneticist who succeeded in cloning a sheep from a cell from an adult ewe (born in 1944)

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