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===Nobel Prize winners===
* [[Carol Greider]], discovered relationship between cellular aging and damage to the ends of chromosomes, called [[telomeres]], in 1992; won Nobel Prize in 2009 with [[Elizabeth Blackburn]] and [[Jack W. Szostak]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009|website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref>
* [[Barbara McClintock]], discovered [[transposons]] ("jumping genes") in 1944; received [[Nobel Prize]] in 1983.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1983/summary/|website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Barbara McClintock - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Library & Archives|url=http://library.cshl.edu/personal-collections/barbara-mcclintock|website=library.cshl.edu}}</ref><ref>[https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1983/] See the classic paper McClintock B 1951 "Chromosome Organization and Genic Expression" (''Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol'' 16: 13-47).</ref>
* [[Martha Chase]] and [[Alfred Hershey]], conducted "Waring blender [[Hershey–Chase experiment|experiments]]", confirmed DNA as the genetic material in 1952;<ref>A.D. Hershey and Martha Chase, "Independent Functions of Viral Protein and Nucleic Acid in Growth of Bacteriophage," ''[[J. General Physiology]]'' (September 20, 1952) 36:1, 39-56.</ref> Hershey was awarded the Nobel Prize with [[Salvador Luria]] and [[Max Delbrück]] in 1969<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1969/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1969|website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref>  
* [[Richard J. Roberts]] and [[Phillip A. Sharp]] shared a Nobel in 1993 for the discovery of discontinuous, or "split" genes, which revealed the [[RNA splicing]] mechanism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/uncategorized/the-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine-1993-1993|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1993|website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref>
* [[James D. Watson]], shared a Nobel Prize with [[Francis Crick]] and [[Maurice Wilkins]] in 1962 for their discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1962/summary/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962|website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref> From 1968 to 1993 Watson served as the CSHL Director.  In 2007 the CSHL suspended him for his support for [[scientific racism]] but after he issued a public apology he was allowed to retain honorary titles, though he was relieved his leadership and managerial roles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/18/nobel.apology/index.html|title=Nobel-winning biologist apologizes for remarks about blacks - CNN.com|website=CNN}}</ref> In 2019 CSHL rescinded his honorary titles after he made public remarks again suggesting IQ and race were related, comments which CSHL viewed as a reversal of the apology he gave in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cshl.edu/statement-by-cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-addressing-remarks-by-dr-james-d-watson-in-american-masters-decoding-watson/|title=Statement by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory addressing remarks by Dr. James D. Watson in "American Masters: Decoding Watson"|date=January 11, 2019|website=Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}}</ref> In 2020 the Watson School of Biological Sciences (WSBS) was renamed to delete any reference to him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cshl.edu/cshl-trustees-vote-on-future-of-graduate-school/|title=CSHL trustees vote on future of graduate school|date=July 3, 2020|website=Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}}</ref>