Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
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)