Thomas Hunt Morgan
Johns Hopkins Born (1866-09-25)September 25, 1866
Lexington, Kentucky
Died December 4, 1945(1945-12-04) (aged 79)
Pasadena, California
Nationality United States
Fields Geneticist
Embryologist
Institutions Bryn Mawr College
Columbia University
California Institute of Technology
Alma mater University of Kentucky (B.S.),
Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.)
Doctoral students Nettie Maria Stevens
John Howard Northrop
Hermann Joseph Muller
Calvin Bridges
Alfred Sturtevant
Known for Drosophila melanogaster
Linked genes
Notable awards Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (1933)
Copley Medal (1939