Thomas Hunt Morgan—The Geneticist

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...

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Regeneration: Thomas Hunt Morgan's window into development.

Early in his career Thomas Hunt Morgan was interested in embryology and dedicated his research to studying organisms that could regenerate. Widely regarded as a regeneration expert, Morgan was invited to deliver a series of lectures on the topic that he developed into a book, Regeneration (1901). In addition to presenting experimental work that he had conducted and supervised, Morgan also synth...

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...

?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...