Edward Tatum
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 48 years ago |
Date of birth | December 14,1909 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | Boulder |
Colorado | |
United States | |
Date of died | November 5,1975 |
Died | New York |
New York | |
United States | |
Nationality | American |
Field | Genetics |
Job | Geneticist |
Education | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
The University of Chicago | |
Notable student | Joshua Lederberg |
Aaron Shatkin | |
Carolyn Slayman | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
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ID | 547114 |
Edward Tatum Life story
Edward Lawrie Tatum was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg.