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1903 - 1989 
George Beadle George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist who earned his doctorate from Cornell University and was co-winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in physiology for discovery of the role of genes in intracellular processes. |
1870 - 1958 
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William Cannon William Austin Cannon was an American plant physiologist, plant ecologist, plant geneticist/cytogeneticist and plant anatomist who was one of the first scientists (in 1902) to suggest the role of chromosomes in heredity, although credit is given to two contemporary animal geneticists. His early work was on the nature of hybrids. He was the first investigator at the Carnegie Institute's Desert Laboratory, where he studied roots systems and the ecology of desert plants. His classification of root systems is still in use. |
1892 - 1971 
Ralph Cleland Ralph Cleland Erskine was an American botanist, an expert on Oenothera (evening primrose), and credited with the discovery of chromosomal ring formation at meiosis. |
1872 - 1938 
Guy N. Collins Guy N. Collins was an American plant geneticist and plant collector who became Principal Botanist for USDA Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases. |
1909 - 2004 
Harriet Creighton Harriet Creighton was an American cytologist and geneticist who, with Barbara McClintock at Cornell University, determined that chromosomes carried and exchanged genetic material, producing heritable traits. |
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1879 - 1938 
Edward East Edward Murray East was a noted plant geneticist and agronomist who worked extensively on maize, and made important contributions in explaining heredity and endosperm in corn. Unfortunately, he was also known as a eugenecist and, based on his explicit statements in his published works, was clearly an unapologetic racist, particularly in his opposition to interracial marriage. |
1873 - 1947 
Rollins Emerson Rollins A. Emerson was an American plant breeder and geneticist on the faculty of Cornell University, where he established that institution as a center for maize genetics. |
1882 - 1962 
Reginald Gates Reginald Ruggles Gates was a Canadian plant geneticist and cytogeneticist who worked extensively on the genus Oenothera (Onagraceae). He was briefly married to the infamous paleobotanist Marie Stopes and, like her, had been directly associated with the eugenics movement. |
1890 - 1963 
Donald Jones Donald Forsha Jones was an American maize geneticist and corn breeder who invented the method of double-cross fertilization to give high-yield hybrids, thus launching the hybrid corn industry. |
1939 - 2015 
Robert R. Kowal Robert R. Kowal was an American botanist who earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University, and served on the faculty of University of Wisconsin for most of his professional career. He was widely recognized for employing biomathematics in population genetics studies. |
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1902 - 1992 
Barbara McClintock Barbara McClintock was an American cytogeneticist whose work with Zea mays led to her discovery of genetic transposition, for which she was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1983. |
1822 - 1884 
Gregor Mendel Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk from what is today the Czech Republic, is most well-known for his work on the genetics of pea plants. His discovery was later the basis for what we now call Mendelian Genetics. After Darwin, Mendel is arguably the most famous botanist in history. |
1924 - 1987 
Margaret Menzel Margaret Young Menzel was an American geneticist best known for her work with Gossypium and Hibiscus. |
1916 - 1992 
Malcolm A. Nobs Malcolm A. Nobs was an American plant geneticist on the research staff of the Carnegie Institution of Plant Biology at Stanford University. |
1894 - 1980 
Lowell Randolph Lowell Fitz Randolph was a professor of Botany at Cornell University who was known for his work in plant genetics, particularly with chromosomal research in irises, orchids, and corn. |
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1915 - 2002 
Charles Rick Charles M. Rick was an American botanist and plant geneticist on the faculty of University of California, Davis, and regarded as an expert on the origins and biology of the tomato. |
1879 - 1975 
Sophia Satina Sophia Satina was a Russian cytologist and assistant professor of botany at the Women's University in Moscow until she emigrated to the U.S., where she did research on the genus Datura as an assistant professor at Smith College and the Genetics Experiment Station there. |
1874 - 1954 
George Shull George Shull was a noted plant geneticist who was influential in the early promotion of ideas about evolution, including Mendelian genetics. |
1914 - 2007
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Arnold Wellwood Arnold Wellwood was a Canadian plant geneticist who earned his Ph.D. under L.F. Randolph at Cornell University. He developed a high-yield maize during a research stint in Nigeria, and served on the faculty of Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. |
1947 - 2001 
Charles R. Werth Charles R. Werth was a Korean-born American plant systematist, geneticist, and pteridologist who notably used isozyme analysis to infer the relationships in hybrid species complexes. |
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1919 - 1999 
Harry Wheeler Harry Ernest Wheeler was an American plant geneticist (mycological geneticist) and plant pathologist in the mid 20th Century. He developed a quantitative genetic approach to the study of plant disease. |