George Wells Beadle - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1958
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George Wells Beadle

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1958
for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events
Together with: Edward Lawrie Tatum , Joshua Lederberg
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
10/22/1903
place of birth
Wahoo
date of death
6/9/1989
place of death
Pomona
Lived
85 years

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educated at
  • Cornell University
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1931
  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln
member of
  • Japan Academy
    • start time: 11/12/1966
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 4/28/1960
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1945
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1944
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
employer
  • Harvard University
  • Stanford University
  • Wesleyan University
  • University of Chicago
  • California Institute of Technology
  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln
field of work
  • genetics
occupation
  • university teacher
  • geneticist
  • biologist
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