Edward Tatum
American geneticist
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... Wikipedia
Born: December 14, 1909, Boulder, CO
Died: November 5, 1975 (age 65 years), New York, NY
Education: The University of Chicago and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Notable students: Joshua Lederberg, Aaron Shatkin, and Carolyn Slayman
Parents: Arthur Lawrie Tatum