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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787380603321

Autore

Shine Ian

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©1976

ISBN

0-8131-5058-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

The Kentucky Bicentennial bookshelf Thomas Hunt Morgan, pioneer of genetics

Disciplina

575.1/092/4

Soggetti

Geneticists - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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