Quote of the day
Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Edward Tatum
Born: December 14, 1909
Died: November 5, 1975 (aged 65)
Bio: Edward Lawrie Tatum was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg.







