The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958
Awarded on: 1958-10-30
"for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events"
Affiliations:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – Pasadena, CA, USA
George Wells Beadle
Born: 1903-10-22 in Wahoo, NE, USA
Gender: male
Field: American geneticist (1903–1989)
Biography
George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. He served as the 7th president of the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1968.