Edward L. Tatum Ph.D.
Edward L. Tatum Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958
Co-Nobelists George Beadle, Joshua Lederberg
Name: Edward Lawrie Tatum
Birth: 14 December 1909, Boulder, CO, US
Death: 5 November 1975, New York, NY, USA
Institution: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, USA
Award: “for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events”
Subject: genetics
Portion of cash: 1/3
M.S.: Microbiology, 1932
Ph.D.: Biochemistry, 1934
Ph.D. Mentors: Edwin Broun Fred, William Harold Peterson
Ph.D. Thesis: Nutrition and Metabolism of bacteria
Collaborator Co-Nobelist: George Wells Beadle
Mentee, Nobelist, 1958: Joshua Lederberg
“Ability to balance critical scientific objectivity, personal ambition, interdependence on others-some scientists take lifetime to learn-was ingrained in Tatum from beginning.” – Mentee, Biographer Joshua Lederberg.
Biography
Edward Tatum, Biographical memoir by Joshua Lederberg, National Academy of Sciences, biography 25 pages, 32 pages total.