Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan
                                    
Date of birth: September 25, 1866         
Date of death:  December 4, 1945
Birthplace: Lexington, KY
Place of death/burial: Pasadena, CA

Hometown: Lexington, KY
Life Events: son of Charlton Hunt Morgan and Ellen Key Howard Morgan; married Lilian Vaughan Sampson, June 4, 1904; four children
Education:  BS, University of Kentucky, 1886, valedctorian; Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1890

Awards:    

• Johns Hopkins awarded Morgan an honorary LL.D. and the University of Kentucky awarded him an honorary Ph.D.
• He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and made a foreign member of the Royal Society.
• In 1924 Morgan received the Darwin Medal.
• The Genetics Society of America annually awards the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, named in his honor, to one of its members who has made a significant contribution to the science of genetics.
• Thomas Hunt Morgan's discovery was illustrated on a 1989 stamp issued in Sweden, showing the discoveries of eight Nobel Prize-winning geneticists.
• Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1933

 Publications:

• The Development of the Frog's Egg: An Introduction to Experimental Embryology, 1897.
• Regeneration,Columbia University Biological Series, 1901.
• Evolution and Adaptation, 1903.
• Experimental Zoology, 1907
• Heredity and Sex, 1913. 
• The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity, with A.H. Sturtevant, H.J. Muller and C.B. Bridges, 1915..
• A Critique of the Theory of Evolution, 1916.
• Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila, with C.B. Bridges, 1916.
• The Genetic and the Operative Evidence of Relating to Secondary Sexual Characteristics, 1919.
• The Physical Basis of Heredity, Monographs on Experimental Biology, 1919.
• Contributions to the Genetics of Drosophila Melanogaster, with A.H.Sturtevant and C.B.Bridges: 1919.
• Some Possible Bearings of Genetics on Pathology, 1922.
• The Third-Chromosome Group of Mutant Characters of Drosophila melanogaster, with C.B. Bridges, 1923.
• Laboratory Directions for and Elementary Course in Genetics, with H.J. Muller, A.H. Sturtevant and C.B. Bridges, 1923.
• Human Inheritance, 1924.
• Evolution and Genetics, 1925.
• The Theory of the Gene, 1926.
• Genetics and the Physiology of Development, 1926.
• Experimental Embryology, 1927.
• What is Darwinism?, 1929.
• The Scientific Basis of Evolution, 1932.
• Embryology and Genetics, 1934.

Gender: male
Ethnicity: Caucasian