Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
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The Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal is a medal awarded for lifetime contributions to the field of genetics
. The medal is awarded by the Genetics Society of America
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Genetics
Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
. The medal is awarded by the Genetics Society of America
Genetics Society of America
The Genetics Society of America is a scholarly membership society of more than 4000 genetics researchers and educators, established in 1931...
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Award recipients
- 1981 Barbara McClintockBarbara McClintockBarbara McClintock , the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics...
and Marcus M. RhoadesMarcus Morton RhoadesMarcus Morton Rhoades was an American cytogeneticist. His research on maize led to important discoveries for basic genetics and the applied science of plant breeding.He was one of the first cytogenecists to document the pre-meiotic pairing of homologous chromosomes in maize, otherwise referred as... - 1982 Sewall WrightSewall WrightSewall Green Wright was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. With R. A. Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane, he was a founder of theoretical population genetics. He is the discoverer of the inbreeding coefficient and of...
- 1983 Edward B. LewisEdward B. Lewis- External links :* *...
- 1984 George W. Beadle and R. Alexander Brink
- 1985 Herschel Roman
- 1986 Seymour BenzerSeymour BenzerSeymour Benzer was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. His career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, and he eventually rose to prominence in the fields of molecular and behavioral genetics. He led a productive genetics research lab both at...
- 1987 James F. CrowJames F. CrowJames F. Crow is Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Some of his most significant peer-reviewed contributions were coauthored with Motoo Kimura. His major contribution to the field, however, is arguably his teaching...
- 1988 Norman H. Giles
- 1989 Dan L. Lindsley
- 1990 Charles YanofskyCharles Yanofsky- External links :* *...
- 1991 Armin Dale Kaiser
- 1992 Edward H. Coe, Jr.
- 1993 Ray D. Owen
- 1994 David D. PerkinsDavid Perkins (geneticist)David Dexter Perkins was an American geneticist, a member of the faculty of Stanford University for more than 58 years, from 1948 until his death in 2007. He received his PhD in Zoology in 1949 from Columbia University. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he served as President of the...
- 1995 Matthew MeselsonMatthew MeselsonMatthew Stanley Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA replicates, recombines and is repaired in cells. In his mature years, he has been an active chemical and biological weapons activist and consultant...
- 1996 Franklin W. Stahl
- 1997 Oliver E. Nelson
- 1998 Norman H. Horowitz
- 1999 Salome Waelsch
- 2000 Evelyn M. WitkinEvelyn M. WitkinEvelyn M. Witkin, born Evelyn Maisel is an American geneticist whose research has been widely influential in the areas of DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair....
- 2001 Yasuji Oshima
- 2002 Ira HerskowitzIra HerskowitzIra Herskowitz was an American geneticist. He was noted for his work on cellular differentiation.Hew was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology, and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D...
- 2003 David S. Hogness
- 2004 Bruce N. AmesBruce AmesBruce Nathan Ames is an American biochemist. He is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute...
- 2005 Robert L. MetzenbergRobert MetzenbergRobert L. Metzenberg was an American geneticist known for his work on genetic regulation and metabolism with Neurospora crassa.-References:...
- 2006 Masatoshi NeiMasatoshi Neiis Evan Pugh Professor of Biology at Pennsylvania State University and Director of the since 1990. He was born in 1931 in Miyazaki Prefecture, on Kyūshū Island, Japan...
- 2007 Oliver SmithiesOliver SmithiesOliver Smithies is a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate, credited with the invention of gel electrophoresis in 1955, and the simultaneous discovery, with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more...
- 2008 Michael AshburnerMichael AshburnerMichael Ashburner FRS is a biologist and emeritus Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. He is also the former joint-head of the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory .Born in Sussex, England, Ashburner attended High Wycombe...
- 2009 John RothJohn Roth (geneticist)John R. Roth is a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He became known for his early studies on the structure and regulation of the his operon of Salmonella, and went on to investigate regulation in systems as diverse as suppression by tRNA, NAD...
- 2010 Alexander Tzagoloff
- 2011 James E. Haber