1866–1945 American zoologist and embryologist who established the chromosome theory of heredity.
Keywords: embryology; genetics; cytology; Drosophila
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
EG Winchester, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: May 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002419
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Figure 1. Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945).
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| Further Reading | |
| Morgan TH (1911) Random segregation versus coupling in Mendelian inheritance. Science 34: 384. | |
| book Morgan TH, Sturtevant AH, Muller HJ and Bridges CB (1915) The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity. New York: Holt. | |
| book Morgan TH (1919) The Physical Basis of Heredity. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott. | |
| book Allen GE (1978) Thomas Hunt Morgan: The Man and His Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press. | |
| Horowitz NH (1988) TH Morgan at Caltech: a reminiscence. Genetics 149: 1629–1632. | |
| book Kohler RE (1994) Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. | |
| Lederman M (1989) Genes on chromosomes: the conversion of Thomas Hunt Morgan. Journal of the History of Biology 22: 163–176. | |
| Oppenheimer J (1983) Thomas Hunt Morgan as an embryologist: the view from Bryn Mawr. American Zoologist 23: 845–854. | |
| book Shine I and Wrobel S (1976) Thomas Hunt Morgan: Pioneer of Genetics. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. | |
| Sturtevant AH (1959) Thomas Hunt Morgan. Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Science 33: 282–325. | |
