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Thomas Hunt Morgan
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American biologist (1866–1945)
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Thomas Hunt Morgan was born on September 25, 1866, and died on December 4, 1945. He was the father of four children.
Morgan received one Nobel Prize. His work is recognized in several collections, including the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Copley Medal collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1933
“for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity”
Wikidata facts
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Lexington
- Place of death
- Pasadena
- Spouse
- Lilian Vaughan Morgan
- Child
- Isabel Morgan
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Student of
- William Keith Brooks
- Field of work
- genetics
- Image
- Thomas Hunt Morgan.jpg
- Number of children
- 4
- Residence
- United States
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- 1866-09-25
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- 1945-12-04
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- Alfred Sturtevant
- manner of death
- natural causes
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- biology
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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