George Wells Beadle ( born George Wells Beadle ; October 22, 1903 ; Wahoo , Nebraska - June 9, 1989 ) is an American geneticist, the author of the hypothesis "one gene - one enzyme" [6] .
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| Scientific field | genetics |
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| Alma mater | University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cornell University |
| Awards and prizes |  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1958) |
The Nobel Prize in medicine (1958) together with E. Tatem and J. Lederberg for research on the genetics of microorganisms.
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Biography
In 1926 he graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , and then Cornell . In 1931-1936, an employee of the California Institute of Technology . In 1937-1946 he was a professor at Stanford University . In 1946-1961, professor, head of the Department of Biology at the California Institute of Technology .
In 1961-1968, President of the University of Chicago . In 1968-1982, Director of the Institute of Biomedical Research of the American Medical Association .
The author of works on cytology and genetics , as well as research in the field of genetic control of metabolism , physical and chemical bases of heredity . Comprehensively investigated (in experiments with maize , Drosophila fly and neurospore fungus ) the nature and function of genes , established the ability of bacteria to reconnect foreign genetic substances with their own.
Awards, Distinctions, Recognition
- Sillimanov lecture (1945, 1947)
- Albert Lasker Prize for Basic Medical Research (1950)
- Mendel Medal , (1958, first awarded)
- Nobel Prize in Medicine (1958, together with E. Tatem and J. Lederberg )
- William Procter Award for Scientific Achievements (1981)
- Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (1984)
In his honor was named the awarded by the .
Compositions
- Genetical and cytological studies of Mendelian asynapsis in Zea mays, NY, 1930;
- An introduction to genetics ..., Phil. - L., 1939 (shared with A; H. Sturtevant);
- Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora, Proc. NAS 1941 (shared with EL Tatum);
- Genetic control of metabolism, [Wash., 1952];
- Genes and chemical reactions in Neurospora, in the book: Les prix Nobel en 1958, Stockh., 1959.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Internet Speculative Fiction Database - 1995.
- ↑ Beadle George Wells // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ 1 2 3 George Wells Beadle (1903-1989) - 2011.
- ↑ Beadle GW, Tatum EL Genetic Control of Biochemical Reactions in Neurospora (Eng.) // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America : journal. - 1941 .-- November 15 ( vol. 27 , no. 11 ). - P. 499-506 . - DOI : 10.1073 / pnas . 27.11.499 . - PMID 16588492 . [one]