1889–1938 American geneticist who pioneered the first genome project.
Keywords: genetics; Drosophila; chromosome maps; polytene chromosomes; morgan
Bridges, Calvin Blackman
EG Winchester, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, London, UK
Published online: February 2002
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003571
| Further Reading | |
| Bridges CB (1916) Non-disjunction as proof of the chromosome theory of heredity. Genetics 1: 1–52; 107–163. | |
| Bridges CB (1922) The origin of variations in sexual and sex-limited characters. American Naturalist 56: 51–62. | |
| book Bridges CB and Brehme KS (1944) The Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster. Publication No. 552. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington. | |
| book Dunn LC (1965) A Short History of Genetics. New York: McGraw-Hill. | |
| book Kohler RE (1994) Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
| Morgan TH (1940) Calvin Blackman Bridges 1889–1938. Biographical Memoirs, National Academy of Sciences 22: 31–40. | |
| Muller HJ (1939) Dr. Calvin B. Bridges. Nature 143: 191–192. | |
| Schultz J (1958) Calvin Blackman Bridges. Dictionary of American Biography 22(supplement 2): 60–62. | |
| book Sturtevant AH (1965) A History of Genetics. New York: Harper & Row. | |
