Quote of the day
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Born: September 25, 1866
Died: December 4, 1945 (aged 79)
Bio: Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.
Known for:
- The mechanism of Mendelian heredity (1915)
- The theory of the gene (1926)
- The Physical Basis of Heredity (1919)
- Embryology And Genetics (1934)
- Heredity and sex (1913)