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Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and embryologist. In 1933, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the role of chromosomes in heredity.
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science · American biologist (1866–1945) · evolutionary biologist · geneticist · zoologist · physician · university teacher · physiologist · biologist · also Thomas Hunt Morgan, Thomas H. Morgan, T. H. Morgan, Thomas Morgan, Morgan
Born 25 September 1866 · Died 4 December 1945 · Q177681
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The family of Thomas Hunt Morgan and his wife Lilian Vaughan Morgan transferred their cremains from the Mountain View Mausoleum in Altadena, California to the Woods Hole Community Cemetery in Woods Hole, Massachusetts
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Published “Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 21,037 times.
Died 1945-12-04.
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At age 79, he experienced a severe heart attack and died from a ruptured artery
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Becoming a professor and chairman emeritus
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Won Copley Medal (1939).
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Was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1935).
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The Relation of Genetics to Physiology and Medicine
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1933).
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Morgan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; he had been nominated in 1919 and 1930 for the same work
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Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the role of chromosomes in heredity
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Was the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and in 1932 he chaired the Sixth International Congress of Genetics in Ithaca, New York
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Morgan joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology where he remained until his retirement 14 years later in 1942
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After 25 years at Columbia, and nearing the age of retirement, he received an offer from George Ellery Hale to establish a school of biology in California
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Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1924).
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Won Darwin Medal (1924).
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Won Croonian Medal and Lecture (1922).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1919).
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In 1924 Morgan received the Darwin Medal
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Morgan, Sturtevant, Calvin Bridges and H
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Concluded that (1) some traits were sex-linked, (2) the trait was probably carried on one of the sex chromosomes, and (3) other genes were probably carried on specific chromosomes as well
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A series of heritable mutants appeared, some of which displayed Mendelian inheritance patterns; in 1910 Morgan noticed a white-eyed mutant male among the red-eyed wild types
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Morgan married Lillian Vaughan Sampson (1870–1952), who had entered graduate school in biology at Bryn Mawr the same year Morgan joined the faculty; she put aside her scientific work for 16 years of their marriage when t
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His friend, Jofi Joseph died of tuberculosis, and he felt he ought to mourn her, though E
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Published his research as Regeneration
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Morgan started working on the problem of sex determination, which he had previously dismissed when Nettie Stevens discovered the impact of the Y chromosome on sex
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Morgan began to study the genetic characteristics of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster
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Three scientists, Carl Correns, Erich von Tschermak and Hugo de Vries, had rediscovered the work of Gregor Mendel, and with it the foundation of genetics
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Morgan was granted a year's absence to conduct research in the laboratories of Stazione Zoologica in Naples, where Wilson had worked two years earlier
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Studied at Johns Hopkins University (1886–1890).
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Morgan was appointed associate professor (and head of the biology department) at Johns Hopkins' sister school Bryn Mawr College, replacing his colleague Edmund Beecher Wilson
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And was also awarded the Bruce Fellowship in Research
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And researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr
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Studied at University of Kentucky (1883–1886).
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Born 1866-09-25.
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