Thomas Huston Roderick, Ph.D., (1930–2013) was an American geneticist who coined the term “genomics".^[1]

Roderick earned degrees from the University of Michigan in philosophy in 1952 and zoology in 1953 and went on receive a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He then joined The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor as a geneticist. He researched behavioral genetics, the effects of radiation on genetic material, and bioinformatics. In 1973–1975 he worked at the United States Atomic Energy Commission, examining the health impacts of nuclear radiation.^[2]