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Award for scientific achievement
Award
The Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal is awarded by the
Genetics Society of America (GSA) for lifetime contributions to the field of
genetics .
The medal is named after
Thomas Hunt Morgan , the 1933
Nobel Prize winner, who received this award for his work with
Drosophila and his "discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity." Morgan recognized that Drosophila, which could be bred quickly and inexpensively, had large quantities of offspring and a short life cycle, would make an excellent organism for genetic studies. His studies of the white-eye mutation and discovery of sex-linked inheritance provided the first experimental evidence that chromosomes are the carriers of genetic information. Subsequent studies in his laboratory led to the discovery of recombination and the first genetic maps.
In 1981 the GSA established the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for lifetime achievement to honor this classical geneticist who was among those who laid the foundation for modern genetics.
Laureates
Source:
Genetics Society of America
1981
Barbara McClintock (
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ) and
Marcus M. Rhoades
1982
Sewall Wright
1983
Edward B. Lewis (
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine )
1984
George Wells Beadle (
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ) and
R. Alexander Brink
1985
Herschel Roman
1986
Seymour Benzer
1987
James F. Crow
1988
Norman H. Giles
1989
Dan L. Lindsley
1990
Charles Yanofsky
1991
Armin Dale Kaiser
1992
Edward H. Coe , Jr.
[1]
1993
Ray D. Owen
1994
David D. Perkins
1995
Matthew Meselson
[2]
1996
Franklin W. Stahl
[3]
1997
Oliver E. Nelson
[4]
1998
Norman H. Horowitz
1999
Salome Waelsch
[5]
2000
Evelyn M. Witkin
[6]
2001
Yasuji Oshima
[7]
2002
Ira Herskowitz
2003
David S. Hogness
[8]
2004
Bruce N. Ames
[9]
2005
Robert L. Metzenberg
[10]
2006
Masatoshi Nei
[11]
2007
Oliver Smithies (
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine )
[12]
2008
Michael Ashburner
[13]
2009
John Roth
2010
Alexander Tzagoloff
2011
James E. Haber
2012
Kathryn V. Anderson
[14]
2013
Thomas D. Petes
[15]
2014
Frederick M. Ausubel , Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
2015
Brian Charlesworth , University of Edinburgh
2016
Nancy Kleckner , Harvard University
2017
Richard Lewontin , Harvard University
2018
Barbara J. Meyer , University of California, Berkeley
2019
Daniel Hartl , Harvard University
2020
David Botstein , Calico Labs and
Gerald Fink , Whitehead Institute, MIT
2021
Ruth Lehmann , Whitehead Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
Michael Lynch , Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution, Arizona State University
See also
References
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