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Also Known As Richard Benedict Goldschmidt
Born April 12, 1878 • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Died April 24, 1958 (aged 80) • Berkeley • California
Subjects Of Study intersex • population genetics • variation

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Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Sewall Wright, 1965
Sewall Wright
American geneticist
Walter Sutton
American geneticist
Calvin Blackman Bridges
American geneticist
Herbert Spencer Jennings
American zoologist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American biologist
Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.
Max Delbrück
American biologist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
J.B.S. Haldane.
J.B.S. Haldane
British geneticist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Bruce Ames
American biochemist and geneticist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
Fred H. Gage
American geneticist
Venter, J. Craig
J. Craig Venter
American geneticist, biochemist, and businessman
Weismann, August
August Weismann
German biologist
Francis Collins
Francis Collins
American geneticist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Stephen J. Elledge
American geneticist

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