Thomas Hunt Morgan - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1933
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Thomas Hunt Morgan

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1933
for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
9/25/1866
place of birth
Lexington
date of death
12/4/1945
place of death
Pasadena
Lived
79 years
educated at
  • University of Kentucky
    • end time: 1886
    • start time: 1883
  • Johns Hopkins University
    • start time: 1886
    • end time: 1890
  • Columbia University
employer
  • Bryn Mawr College
    • start time: 1891
    • end time: 1904
  • Columbia University
    • start time: 1904
    • end time: 1927
  • California Institute of Technology
    • start time: 1928
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1909
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1915
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 12/1/1923
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 6/26/1919
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 12/12/1929
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Lwów Scientific Society
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Académie Nationale de Médecine
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
doctoral student
  • Chester Ittner Bliss
    • end time: 1926
  • John Howard Northrop
  • Fernandus Payne
  • Hermann Joseph Muller
occupation
  • zoologist
  • biologist
  • physiologist
  • university teacher
  • geneticist
  • evolutionary biologist
  • physician
field of work
  • genetics
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