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Born September 25, 1866 • Lexington • Kentucky
Died December 4, 1945 (aged 79) • Pasadena • California
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1939) • Nobel Prize (1933)
Notable Works “The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity”
Subjects Of Study vinegar fly • chromosome • chromosome map • gene • heredity • sex-linked character

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Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist
Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Michael Rosbash
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George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
English-born American biochemist and geneticist Jack W. Szostak.
Jack W. Szostak
American biochemist and geneticist
American scientist Craig C. Mello
Craig C. Mello
American geneticist
McClintock, Barbara
Barbara McClintock
American scientist
Brown, Michael S.
Michael S. Brown
American geneticist
Joseph L. Goldstein
American geneticist
American scientist Craig C. Mello
Andrew Z. Fire
American geneticist
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
Edward L. Tatum
American biochemist
George Davis Snell
American geneticist
A.D. Hershey
American biologist

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