Thomas Hunt Morgan
American evolutionary biologist and geneticist
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity. Wikipedia
Born: September 25, 1866, Lexington, KY
Died: December 4, 1945 (age 79 years), Pasadena, CA
Education: Johns Hopkins University (1886–1890) and University of Kentucky (1883–1886)
Awards: Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1909), Fellow of the Royal Society (1919), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1933), and more
Children: Isabel Morgan
Parents: Ellen Key Howard Morgan and Charlton Hunt Morgan
Spouse: Lilian Vaughan Morgan (m. 1904–1945)