Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist (1866–1945)
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He proved genes live on chromosomes by breeding thousands of fruit flies in a cluttered lab at Columbia. That single insight — drawn from mutant eye color in Drosophila — rewrote how we understand inheritance and earned him the 1933 Nobel Prize.
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Thomas Hunt Morgan earned his Ph.D. in zoology from Johns Hopkins in 1890 and spent his early years studying embryology at Bryn Mawr. After Mendelian inheritance was rediscovered in 1900, he turned to the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, setting up his Fly Room at Columbia's Schermerhorn Hall. There, through meticulous breeding experiments, he demonstrated that genes are carried on chromosomes and form the mechanical basis of heredity — founding modern genetics. Over his career he published 22 books and 370 scientific papers, and the fly became biology's workhorse. The Division of Biology he…
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