Thomas Hunt Morgan : pioneer of genetics / Ian Shine and Sylvia Wrobel ; foreword by George W. Beadle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shine, Ian, author.

Wrobel, Sylvia, author.

Beadle, George W., author of introduction, etc.

Series:

The Kentucky Bicentennial bookshelf Thomas Hunt Morgan, pioneer of genetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geneticists--United States--Biography.

Geneticists.

Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 1866-1945.

Morgan, Thomas Hunt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1976.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For most of his fellow Kentuckians, the accomplishments of Thomas Hunt Morgan have been overshadowed by the Civil War exploits of his uncle, the Confederate raider. Thomas Hunt Morgan: Pioneer of Genetics shows that feats performed on the frontiers of science can be as exciting as battlefield heroics, and that the ""other Morgan"" was as colorful a man as the general.Thomas Hunt Morgan's most noted work, done between 1910 and 1920 at Columbia University, revealed many of the secrets if genetics. Studying hundreds of generations of the fruit fly Drosophilia melanogaster, he and the other scie

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Lexington; 2 Hopkins; 3 Bryn Mawr; 4 Theories, Facts-and Factors; 5 Columbia; 6 The Fly Room; 7 At the Morgans'; Illustrations; 8 Caltech; 9 Conclusion; Chronology; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-5058-2

OCLC:

610488055