Thomas Hunt Morgan is remembered in science for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Thomas Hunt Morgan as American biologist (1866–1945).
Thomas Hunt Morgan was born in 1866. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Johns Hopkins University and University of Kentucky.
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Thomas Hunt Morgan is described as evolutionary biologist, geneticist and zoologist.
His affiliations include California Institute of Technology and Columbia University.
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Formal recognition came in the shape of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1933) and Copley Medal (1939).
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1945, at 79. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1933
- Copley Medal — 1939
- Affiliated with California Institute of Technology and Columbia University
- Educated at Johns Hopkins University, University of Kentucky and Columbia University
- Worked as evolutionary biologist, geneticist and zoologist
