Nicholas Gordon Martin (born 14 February 1950) is an Australian behavior geneticist who has published over 1300 peer-reviewed articles on topics including the heritability of religion and intelligence and medical disorders such as endometriosis.
[1] Martin is among the most cited medical scientists in the Southern Hemisphere, with a number of citation classics including "Genes, culture and personality: An empirical approach"[2] that he co-authored with Lindon Eaves and Hans Eysenck, "Analysis of the p16 gene (CDKN2) as a candidate for the chromosome 9p melanoma susceptibility locus" (Nature, and "Genetic and environmental contributions to alcohol dependence risk in a national twin sample".
[4] Martin moved to the United Kingdom to complete a PhD in 1977 under Lindon Eaves at the University of Birmingham.
[6] Martin has twice won the Fulker Award for best paper in Behavior Genetics (1999 & 2003),[citation needed] the Dobzhansky Award for Outstanding Contributions to Behavior Genetics (2005),[7] and the James Shields Award of the International Society of Twin Studies for outstanding contributions to twin research (1986),[citation needed] and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences.
He was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS) in 2015.