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Born September 25, 1866 • Lexington • Kentucky
Died December 4, 1945 (aged 79) • Pasadena • California
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1939) • Nobel Prize (1933)
Notable Works “The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity”
Subjects Of Study vinegar fly • chromosome • chromosome map • gene • heredity • sex-linked character

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Thomas Hunt Morgan
Diagram illustrating sex-linked inheritance of white and red eye color in Drosophila fruit flies, showing genetic crosses between white-eyed and red-eyed males and females, with chromosomes and resulting eye color traits mapped through two generations.
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Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist
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Michael W. Young
American geneticist
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Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Élie Metchnikoff
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
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Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
English-born American biochemist and geneticist
American scientist Craig C. Mello
Craig C. Mello
American geneticist
McClintock, Barbara
Barbara McClintock
American scientist
Brown, Michael S.
Michael S. Brown
American geneticist
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Joseph L. Goldstein
American geneticist
American scientist Craig C. Mello
Andrew Z. Fire
American geneticist
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
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Edward L. Tatum
American biochemist
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George Davis Snell
American geneticist
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A.D. Hershey
American biologist

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