Thomas H. Morgan Ph.D.
Thomas H. Morgan Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933
Name: Thomas Hunt Morgan
Birth: 25 September 1866, Lexington, KY, USA
Death: 4 December 1945, Pasadena, CA, USA
Institution: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA
Award: “for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity”
Subject: Genetics
Portion of Cash: 1/1
Education: B.S. University of Kentucky, 1886.
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1890. Mentors: William Keith Brooks – Embryology, Marine organisms; H. Newell Martin and W. H. Howell – Physiology. Thesis: Embriology of Pycnogonida (sea spiders)
Didn’t attend Nobel award ceremony, because in Caltech, busy establishing new physiology group and with future of biochemistry, genetics.
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- Thomas Hunt Morgan Pioneer of Genetics by Ian Shine; Sylvia Wrobel. Published by Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 2015. Summary: For most of his fellow Kentuckians, the accomplishments of Thomas Hunt Morgan have been overshadowed by the Civil War exploits of his uncle, the Confederate raider. Thomas Hunt Morgan: Pioneer of Genetics shows that feats performed on the frontiers of science can be as exciting as battlefield heroics, and that the “”other Morgan”” was as colorful a man as the general. Thomas Hunt Morgan’s most noted work, done between 1910 and 1920 at Columbia University, revealed many of the secrets if genetics. Studying hundreds of generations of the fruit fly Drosophilia melanogaster, he and the other scientists …
- Thomas Hunt Morgan: the man and his science by Garland E Allen. Published in 1978. Pages: 447.
- The theory of the gene by homas Hunt Morgan. Publisher: New York, Garland Pub., 1988
- The sex problem: Thomas Hunt Morgan, Richard Goldschmidt, and the question of sex and gender in the twentieth century by Christopher Scott Whiston Koehler. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Florida 1998.
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