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Thomas Morgan's Birth
Thomas Hunt Morgan was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in the USA. -
Morgan's Education
Thomas Morgan studied and did research at United States Fish Commission at Woods Hole. -
Morgan's Ph.D and Award
Morgan earned his Ph.D from John Hopkin's University. The same year he was awarded the Adam Bruce Fellowship. He used this Fellowship to travel to different places to conduct research, mainly the Marine Zoological Laboratory in Naples, Europe. -
Morgan's Studies
Thomas Morgan spent the summer at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Wood's Hole. He came here two summers studying athropods. He found they were more closely related to spiders than crustaceans. -
Bryn Mawr College for Women
Morgan got hired as an Associate Proffesor at Bryn Mawr College. He worked here for 13 years until 1904. He even included his own research in his lessons. -
"Evolution and Adaptation"
In 1903 Thomas Morgan published a book on Evolution. He didn't believe in Darwin's theory of "Natural Selection", but he did notice certain similarities in similar species that could prove biological evolution. -
Experimental Zoology at Columbia University
Morgan moved from Bryn Mawr College to be a professor of experimental zoology in New York at Columbia University. He got more interestered in Heredity and Evolution. -
Morgan's Marriage
Thomas Morgan married Lilian Sampson. They had four kids together. -
Research with Fruit Flies
Morgan started researching fruit flies in 1908 to look for hereditable mutations. In 1909 Morgan discovered some mutations that displayed Mendelian Inheritance Patterns. In 1911, he published an article saying some traits were sex-linked, and genes were located on chromosomes together. His fruit fly research gave him the idea of genetic linkage and the idea of crossing over. Morgan also proposed the chance of genes crossing over is indicated by how far apart the genes are on a chromosome. -
Darwin Medal
In 1924, Thomas Morgan was awarded the "Darwin Medal" -
Nobel Prize
In 1933 Thomas Hunt Morgan was awarded a Nobel Prize for discovering "Hereditary Transmission Mechanisms in Drosophila", which was his work with fruit flies. -
Copley Medal
Morgan was awarded the Copley Medal from the Royal Society of London. He was given it for his research in heredity and evolution. -
Thomas Morgan's Death
Thomas Morgan died in Pasadena, USA. He had a severe heart attack.