Wilmut (born 1944), UK reproductive biologist who first cloned a mammal (lamb named Dolly) Allan Wilson (1934–1991), New Zealand-US innovator in molecular study of human evolution David Sloan Wilson (born 1949), US evolutionary biologist and geneticist Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856–1939), US zoologist, geneticist, discovered XY and XX sex chromosomes Øjvind Winge (1886–1964), Danish biologist and pioneer in yeast genetics Chester B. Whitley (born 1950), US geneticist, pioneered treatment of lysosomal diseases Carl Woese (1928–2012), US biologist, defined Archaea as new domain of life, rRNA phylogenetic tool Ulrich Wolf (1933–2017), German cytogeneticist, found chromosome 4p deletion in Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome Melaku Worede (born 1936), Ethiopian conservationist and geneticist Naomi Wray, Australian geneticist known for her work on genetics of complex traits Sewall Wright (1889–1988), eminent US geneticist who, with Ronald Fisher, united genetics & evolution Y Jian Yang, Chinese geneticist, known for his work on the missing heritability of complex traits Charles Yanofsky (1925–2018), US molecular geneticist, colinearity of gene and its protein product Z Floyd Zaiger (1926–2020), fruit geneticist and entrepreneur Hans Zellweger (1909–1990) Swiss-US pediatrician and clinical geneticist, described Zellweger syndrome Norton Zinder (1928–2012), US biologist and phage worker who discovered genetic transduction Rolf M. Zinkernagel (born 1944), Swiss scientist, won Nobel Prize for immune recognition of antigen Fictional geneticists Curt Connors in the Spider-Man comics Moira MacTaggert in the X-Men comics Andrew Wells in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Dr. Henry Wu in the movie Jurassic World See also List of biochemists Lists of biologists G