Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist and professor from Kentucky
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- 1866–1945
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Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, and embryologist. In 1933, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the role of chromosomes in heredity.
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