Thomas Hunt Morgan

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Thomas Hunt Morgan


Born
in Lexington, Kentucky, The United States
September 25, 1866

Died
December 04, 1945

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Thomas Hunt Morgan Ph.D. (Zoology, Johns Hopkins University, 1890) was an evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity.

Morgan researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr College, the sister school of his alma mater. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan's research moved to the study of mutation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In his famous Fly Room at Columbia University, Morgan was able to demonstrate that genes are carried on chromosomes and are the mechanical basis of heredity. These discoveries formed the basis of the modern science of genetic
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A Critique of the Theory of...

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The Mechanism of Mendelian ...

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Theory Of The Gene

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Evolution and adaptation

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The Development of the Frog...

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Embryology and genetics

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Regeneration

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The Physical Basis of Heredity

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“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically.”
Thomas Hunt Morgan