Alfred Sturtevant
Geneticist, Academic
1891 – 1970
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Who was Alfred Sturtevant?
Alfred Henry Sturtevant was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1913. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. In 1967, Sturtevant received the National Medal of Science.
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- Born
- Nov 21, 1891
Jacksonville - Also known as
- A. H. Sturtevant
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- Died
- Apr 5, 1970
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on July 23, 2013
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