Alfred Sturtevant
1891
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1970
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Columbia University
occupation: botanist, geneticist, university teacher
award received: National Medal of Science, Kimber Genetics Award, John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
student of: Thomas Hunt Morgan
Alfred Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891 – April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. On February 13, 1968, Sturtevant received the 1967 National Medal of Science from President Lyndon B. Johnson. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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