Thomas Hunt Morgan
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933
“for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity”
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist and geneticist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity. His work helped establish the chromosome theory of inheritance.
- Field
- Biology · Genetics
- Lifespan
- 1866–1945