HJ Power, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: March 2004
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002362
1903–1989 US geneticist who, with Edward L. Tatum, demonstrated the genetic control of enzyme synthesis whereby the production of each enzyme is controlled by a different gene: the ‘one gene–one enzyme’ theory.
Keywords: genetics; one gene–one enzyme; tatum; neurospora crassa; drosophila
| Further Reading | |
| Beadle GW (1945) Biochemical genetics. The Chemical Review 37: 15–96. | |
| proceedings Beadle GW and Tatum EL (1941) Genetic control of biochemical reactions in Neurospora. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 27: 499–506. | |
| book Beadle GW and Beadle M (1966) The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics. New York: Doubleday. | |
| Horowitz NH (1990) George Wells Beadle. Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 59: 27–52. | |
| book Morange M (1998) "The one gene–one enzyme hypothesis". A History of Molecular Biology, pp. 21–29. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. | |
| book Olby R (1974) The Path to the Double Helix. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan. | |
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