biologist, life scientist - (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms

cytogeneticist - a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity

Cline, Martin Cline - Americn 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)