Thomas Morgan

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  • Born in Lexington Kuntucky

    Born in Lexington Kuntucky

  • Period: to

    First Boer War

  • Graduated from the State College of Kentucky

    recived his degree in zoology

  • Graduated From John Hopkins University

    Recived his Ph.D.
  • Accepting a teaching post at Bryn Mawr College

    Accepting a teaching post at Bryn Mawr College

  • Period: to

    Second Boer War

  • Got Married

    Got Married

    Lillian V. Sampson, a cytologist and embryologist of considerable skill
  • Became professor of experimental zoology at Columbia University

    Became professor of experimental zoology at Columbia University

  • Began breeding Drosophila

    Began breeding Drosophila

    The main subject for his theroy of how changes occur for evolution to take place
  • Discovered variation known as white-eye

    Discovered variation known as white-eye

    This trait only showed up in male flies it was sex linked and recessive

  • He adopted the term gene

    Concluded that genes were possibly arranged in a linear fashion on chromosomes
  • Period: to

    World War One

  • Published Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity

    Early phases of his work was published by Morgan along with Sturtevant and Bridges (his students)
  • Received the Darwin Medal

    Received the Darwin Medal

  • Organize the division of biology of the California Institute of Technology

  • Nobel Prize for his discovery of “hereditary transmission mechanisms in Drosophila

    Nobel Prize for his discovery of “hereditary transmission mechanisms in Drosophila

  • Awarded the Copley Medal

  • Period: to

    World War Two

  • Died Pasadena, California