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Biographies include Ian Shine and Sylvia Wrobel, Thomas Hunt Morgan: Pioneer of Genetics (1976); and Garland E. Allen, Thomas Hunt Morgan: The Man and His Science (1978). Discussions of Morgan’s work and the work of the “Morgan school” of Drosophila geneticists may be found in A.H. Sturtevant, A History of Genetics (1965); Elof Axel Carlson, The Gene: A Critical History (1966, reprinted 1989); and Jane Maienschein, Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880–1915 (1991).
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| Anniversary information added. | Nov 30, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Sep 21, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 27, 2024 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: Nobelprize.org - Biography of Thomas H. Morgan. | Jan 06, 2017 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - Biography of Thomas Hunt Morgan. | Feb 09, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 31, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Biography of Thomas Hunt Morgan. | Nov 28, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Nobelprize.org - Biography of Thomas H. Morgan. | Nov 28, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 12, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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