Edward Lawrie Tatum
1909-1975
American geneticist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle and Joshua Lederberg for their work showing genetic transmission in b...
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Edward Lawrie Tatum
1909-1975
American microbiologist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize with George Beadle and Joshua Lederberg for discoveries that demonstrated the relationship between genes and the p...
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One Gene-One Enzyme
In 1941, American scientists George Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum proposed the one gene-one enzyme theory. The four main tenets of this theory (as modified by Tatum in 1959) were:...
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Edward Lawrie Tatum's experiments with simple organisms demonstrated that cell processes can be studied as chemical reactions and that such reactions are governed by genes. With George Beadle, he offe...
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Edward Lawrie Tatum's experiments with simple organisms demonstrated that cell processes can be studied as chemical reactions and that such reactions are governed by genes. With George Beadle, he offe...
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Edward Lawrie Tatum's experiments with simple organisms demonstrated that cell processes can be studied as chemical reactions and that such reactions are governed by genes. With George Beadle, he offe...
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Edward Lawrie Tatum's experiments with simple organisms demonstrated that cell processes can be studied as chemical reactions and that such reactions are governed by genes. With George Beadle, he offe...
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Edward Lawrie Tatum's experiments with simple organisms demonstrated that cell processes can be studied as chemical reactions and that such reactions are governed by genes. With George Beadle, he offe...
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Beadle, Tatum, and Lederberg are best known for their ground-breaking work linking genes and biochemistry. Together they shared the 1958 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine.Beadle, born in Wahoo, ...
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