Historical Profiles
Each article in this series of Timeline pieces - which have appeared in Nature Reviews Genetics from 2001 - depicts a historical figure (or figures) in genetics and how their ideas fit into a modern context. As well as revise our views of these scientists' contributions, the articles in this series also serve to acquaint our younger readers to the scientists who have shaped their field.
Index
2008
March 2008 Vol9 No 3
Theodor and Marcella Boveri: chromosomes and cytoplasm in heredity and development
Helga Satzinger
doi:10.1038/nrg2311
2006
November 2006 Vol7 No 11
Gavin Rylands de Beer: how embryology foreshadowed the dilemmas of the genome
Tim J. Horder
p829 | doi:10.1038/nrg1918
May 2006 Vol7 No 5
D'Arcy Thompson and the theory of transformations
Wallace Arthur
p401 | doi:10.1038/nrg1835
2005
December 2005 Vol6 No 12
Hermann Joseph Muller, Evolutionist
James F. Crow
p941 | doi:10.1038/nrg1728
January 2005 Vol6 No 1
Cyril Dean Darlington: the man who 'invented' the chromosome
Oren S. Harman
p79 | doi:10.1038/nrg1506
2004
December 2004 Vol5 No 12
George Beadle: from genes to proteins
Maxine Singer & Paul Berg
p949 | doi:10.1038/nrg1494
February 2004 Vol5 No 2
National traditions and the emergence of genetics: the French example
Jean Gayon
p305 | doi:10.1038/nrg1274
2003
January 2003 Vol4 No 1
Richard Goldschmidt: hopeful monsters and other 'heresies'
Michael R. Dietrich
p68 | doi:10.1038/nrg979
2002
November 2002 Vol3 No 11
Conrad Hal Waddington: the last Renaissance biologist?
Jonathan M. W. Slack
p889 | doi:10.1038/nrg933
2001
June 2001 Vol2 No 6
T. H. Morgan's resistance to the chromosome theory
Keith R. Benson
p469 | doi:10.1038/35076532