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Ernst Haeckel was born in Potsdam, Germany.
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He completed high school at Cathedral High School.
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Ernst Haeckel travelled to Italy where he painted, and considered art as a career.
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Studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, Vienna and the University of Würzburg, Berlin where he obtained his doctorate of medicine.
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At The University of Jena he completed a dissertation in zoology and became privatdozent.
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In 1862 he was appointed extraordinary professor of zoology at the University of Jena.
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From 1865 to 1909 he carried out his major work and wrote his General Morphology of Organisms.
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Born in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Married his wife Agnes Huschke.
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His son, Walter, was born.
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His daughter, Elizabth, was born.
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His daughter, Emma, was born.
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Educated at the University of Kentucky and got his Bachelor Science Degree.
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Obtained his Ph.D. at John Hopkins University.
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Awarded the Adam Bruce Fellowship award.
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He married his wife Lilian Vaughan Sampson, they had 2 children together.
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At Columbia University he studied the difference in Fruit Flies through a microscope. He preformed a breeding analysis to figure out why traits of the fruit fly were inherited the way they were.
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His evolutionism laid the foundation for German militarism that contributed to World War I. It was said that he He became one of Germany’s major ideologists for racism, nationalism, and imperialism
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Morgan was made a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London.
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Awarded the Darwin Medal.
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He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discoveries about the chromosome in heredity.
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Awarded The Copley Medal of the Society.
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Thomas Morgan was alive during World War II. It began in 1939, and ended in 1945; the year of Thomas Morgans death. There is no evidence that the war directly affected his personal life.
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Thomas Morgan died of a heart attack.
