The 2008 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal

The 2006 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal. Masatoshi Nei.

The Genetics Society of America annually honors members who have made outstanding contributions to genetics. The Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal recognizes a lifetime contribution to the science of genetics. The Genetics Society of America Medal recognizes particularly outstanding contributions to the science of genetics within the past 15 years. The George W. Beadle Medal recognizes distinguished ser...

Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945)

The son of Ellen Key and Charles Hunt Morgan, T. H. Morgan was born on 25 September 1866 into a prominent family in Lexington, Kentucky. Morgan grew up exploring the environment around his childhood home and developed a special interest in fossils. As a young man, he spent a summer employed doing geological and biological fieldwork in the Kentucky mountains. He received his BS degree from the U...

?Sex Limited Inheritance in Drosophila? (1910), by Thomas Hunt Morgan

In 1910, Thomas Hunt Morgan [4] performed an experiment at Columbia University [5], in New York City, New York, that helped identify the role chromosomes play in heredity. That year, Morgan was breeding Drosophila [6], or fruit flies. After observing thousands of fruit fly offspring with red eyes, he obtained one that had white eyes. Morgan began breeding the white-eyed mutant fly and found tha...

Thomas Hunt Morgan at the marine biological laboratory: naturalist and experimentalist.

IN the early 1910s, researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, might have wondered why a colleague, Thomas Hunt Morgan (Figure 1), began shipping fruit flies from his Columbia University lab to the MBL each summer. After all, the Woods Hole currents supplied the MBL with a rich variety of marine organisms and Morgan, an avid practitioner of experimental ...

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