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, and embryologist. In 1933, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the role of chromosomes in heredity.