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10. Noble Prize |
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Physiology or Medicine (216) |
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1933 (5) |
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Male (853) |
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1866 (6) |
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Lexington (1) |
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1945 (3) |
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Thomas (10) |
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Christianity (158) |
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24. Age at Award Time |
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68 (24) |
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Biological Scientists (181) |
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| 44. Memberships |
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44. Memberships |
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Académie Nationale de Médecine (34) |
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Academy of Sciences of the USSR (80) |
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) |
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Pontifical Academy of Sciences (83) |
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Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (54) |
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Royal Society (294) |
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Russian Academy of Sciences (144) |
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| 45. Other Awards |
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45. Other Awards |
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Copley Medal (60) |
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Croonian Lecture (32) |
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Darwin Medal (2) |
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| complete name: |
Thomas Hunt Morgan |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
1933 |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/1 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933 was awarded to Thomas Hunt Morgan "for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Thomas |
| family name: |
Morgan |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
zoologist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
geneticist |
| occupation: |
evolutionary biologist |
| field of work: |
genetics |
| work location: |
Bryn Mawr College, 101 N Merion Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA, 19010, United States of America |
| description: |
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity. Morgan received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in zoology in 1890 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan began to study the genetic characteristics of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In his famous Fly Room at Columbia University, Morgan demonstrated that genes are carried on chromosomes and are the mechanical basis of heredity. These discoveries formed the basis of the modern science of genetics. During his distinguished career, Morgan wrote 22 books and 370 scientific papers. As a result of his work, Drosophila became a major model organism in contemporary genetics. The Division of Biology which he established at the California Institute of Technology has produced seven Nobel Prize winners. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1933/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1866 |
| date death: |
1945 |
| usual name: |
Thomas Morgan |
