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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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.