MORGAN, Thomas Hunt (1866 – 1945)
1866 – 1945
6 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1897 CE
#514
The development of the frog's egg; an introduction to experimental embryology.
First work in English on experimental embryology.
1910 CE
#245.2
Sex-limited inheritance in Drosophila.
Morgan demonstrated sex-limited inheritance. In 1933 Morgan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physology or Medicine "for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity." See also Nos. 245.3, 246, …
1911 CE
#245.3
Random segregation versus coupling in Mendelian inheritance.
Morgan proposed that what he called Mendelian factors (genes) are arranged in a linear series on chromosomes and that the degree of linkage between two genes on the same chromosome depends upon the distance between th…
1915 CE
#246
The mechanism of Mendelian heredity.
Summarizes the major early findings of Morgan’s Drosophila research group, which based its research on the rapidly reproducing small vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster, often called the fruit fly. This epoch-m…
1919 CE
#13915
The physical basis of heredity.
In this book Morgan first used the word gene. Previously he had used the term "Mendelian unit" or "factor." On the basis of genetic analysis Morgan presented a number of characteristics of genes: 1. A gene could have …
1926 CE
#251