The 2007 George W. Beadle Medal

The 2007 George W. Beadle Medal. Robert K. Herman.

George Wells Beadle (1903-1989)

George Wells Beadle [3] studied corn, fruit flies, and funguses in the US during the twentieth century. These studies helped Beadle earn the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [4]. Beadle shared the prize with Edward Tatum for their discovery that genes [5] help regulate chemical processes in and between cells. This finding, initially termed the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, helped sc...

"Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora" (1941), by George W. Beadle and Edward L. Tatum

George Wells Beadle [7] and Edward Lawrie Tatum's 1941 article "Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora [8]" detailed their experiments on how genes [9] regulated chemical reactions, and how the chemical reactions in turn affected development in the organism. Beadle and Tatum experimented on Neurospora, a type of bread mold, and they concluded that mutations to genes [9] affected...

Alfred Sturtevant and George Beadle Untangle Inversions.

Great articles often begin with an intriguing paradox, describe an elegant experimental approach, provide lasting and important data, and change the course of their discipline. Sturtevant and Beadle (1936) meets all of those criteria and stands as a paradigm for the genetic analysis of chromosome behavior in Drosophila. It began with two paradoxes, both ofwhichwere vexing but not obviously conn...

James F . Crow and William F . Dove A Centennial : George W . Beadle , 1903 – 1989

GEORGE BEADLE was a quadruple-threat man— Keim, stayed on for several additional months. At that time he was interested in ecology, and his first publicascientist, teacher, administrator, and public citizen. He excelled in each. Furthermore, he did what tion dealt with pasture grasses (Beadle 1927). He loved the rural life and originally expected to be a farmer. He very few geneticists did in h...