
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and embryologist. In 1933, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the role of chromosomes in heredity. Morgan received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in zoology in 1890 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan began to study the genetic characteristics of the fruit
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Seven decades after their deaths, genetics pioneer Thomas Hunt Morgan and Lilian Morgan are finally buried - EurekAlert!
The Return of Thomas Hunt Morgan and Lilian Morgan: A Legacy Reunited in Woods Hole
Regeneration. By Thomas Hunt Morgan, Ph.D., Professor of Biology in Bryn Mawr College. Columbia University Biological Series, Vol. VII. New York, The Macmillan Company. 1901. Pp. xii+316; 67 text figures. Price, $3.
Genetics Society of America awards 2019 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal to Daniel Hartl - EurekAlert!