Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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)