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Reflections on T.H. Morgan

by John M. Rawls (Morgan School Director, 1989-95)

Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945) is a truly legendary figure in biology. He was an internationally respected developmental biologist before his famous role in establishing the field of genetics and he was the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1933. As a Lexington native and recipient of both Bachelor of Science (1886) and Master of Science (1888) degrees from the State College of Kentucky (now U.K.), it was fitting that the School of Biological Sciences was dedicated to the memory of this outstanding scholar.

Among his many scientific achievements, Morgan's work with the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, is the most widely known. Introduced into his lab at Columbia University in 1908, over the following ten years this species emerged as the premier system for genetic studies through the work of Morgan and the exceptional group of students and associates that he assembled in the famous "fly room", that included Alfred

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Although best known for his work with the fruit fly, for which he earned a Nobel Prize and the title “The Father of Genetics,” Thomas Hunt Morgan’s contributions to biology reach far beyond genetics. His research explored questions in embryology, regeneration, evolution, and heredity, using a variety of approaches.

The son of Ellen Key and Charles Hunt Morgan, T. H. Morgan was born on 25 September 1866 into a prominent family in Lexington, Kentucky. Morgan grew up exploring the environment around his childhood home and developed a special interest in fossils. As a young man, he spent a summer employed doing geological and biological fieldwork in the Kentucky mountains. He received his BS degree from the University of Kentucky and went on to pursue graduate work at Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins, William Keith Brooks supervised Morgan’s dissertation research, which examined the embryology of sea spiders. Morgan was also influenced by his professors Henry Newell Martin and William Henry Howell, both of whom encouraged a physi

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

American biologist (1866–1945)

For other people named Thomas Morgan, see Thomas Morgan (disambiguation).

Thomas Hunt Morgan (September 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945)^[2] 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.^[3]

Morgan received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in zoology in 1890 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan began to study the genetic characteristics of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In his famous Fly Room at Columbia University's Schermerhorn Hall, Morgan demonstrated that genes are carried on chromosomes and are the mechanical basis of heredity. These discoveries formed the basis of the modern science of genetics.

During his distinguished career, Morgan wrote 22 books and 370 scientific papers.^[2] As a result of his work, Drosophila be