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Thomas Hunt Morgan

1866 - 1945

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Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945) 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's Schermerhorn Hall, Morgan demonstrated that genes are carried on chromosomes and are the mechanical basis of heredity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Hunt Morgan is the 21st most popular biologist (down from 16th in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from United States (down from 219th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Biologist.

Thomas Hunt Morgan is most famous for his work with Drosophila, a type of fruit fly.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Thomas Hunt Morgan ranks 21 out of 1,097. Before him are Georges Cuvier, George Beadle, Alfred Russel Wallace, Macfarlane Burnet, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and Élie Metchnikoff. After him are Jules Bordet, Edward Tatum, Yoshinori Ohsumi, John Boyd Orr, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, and Thomas Henry Huxley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Thomas Hunt Morgan ranks 7. Before him are H. G. Wells, Wassily Kandinsky, Romain Rolland, Sun Yat-sen, Erik Satie, and George Gurdjieff. After him are Alfred Werner, Charles Nicolle, Benedetto Croce, Jacinto Benavente, Giovanni Agnelli, and Beatrix Potter. Among people deceased in 1945, Thomas Hunt Morgan ranks 13. Before him are Eva Braun, Béla Bartók, Martin Bormann, Anton Webern, Fedor von Bock, and Walter Model. After him are Vidkun Quisling, Magda Goebbels, Subhas Chandra Bose, Francis William Aston, Wilhelm Canaris, and George S. Patton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Thomas Hunt Morgan ranks 257 out of 20,380. Before him are Olympias (-375), Barry White (1944), Charlton Heston (1923), Eli Whitney (1765), Sigourney Weaver (1949), and Joseph Heller (1923). After him are John Holmes (1944), Ben Affleck (1972), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Lee de Forest (1873), Johnny Depp (1963), and John Quincy Adams (1767).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Thomas Hunt Morgan ranks 3. Before him are James Watson (1928), and George Beadle (1903). After him are Edward Tatum (1909), George Smith (1941), Barbara McClintock (1902), Rachel Carson (1907), Irwin Rose (1926), Linda B. Buck (1947), Dian Fossey (1932), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), and Alfred Hershey (1908).

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