Thomas Hunt Morgan

American biologist (1866–1945)

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Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American biologist who lived from 1866 to 1945 and conducted groundbreaking experiments with fruit flies to understand how traits are inherited. His work established the fundamental principles of genetics and showed how genes are arranged on chromosomes, laying the foundation for modern genetics.

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1913-04-04
Active to: 1983-04-30

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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 fly Drosophila melanogaster. In his famous Fly Room at Columbia University's Schermerhorn Hall, Morgan demonstrated that genes are carried on chromosomes and are the mechanical basis of heredity. These discoveries formed the basis of the modern science of genetics.