The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933
Awarded on: 1933-10-20
"for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity"
Affiliations:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – Pasadena, CA, USA
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Born: 1866-09-25 in Lexington, KY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biologist (1866–1945)
Biography
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.